Following on from yesterday’s “music”, Steely Dan also covered a Duke Ellington/Bubber Miley number which last time posted did not move our chaps all that much … of course, I might be entirely wrong. 😎
I might also have this quite wrong (😎) but judging by comments over some years, our chaps are not so crazy for the slower numbers … sorry me, here’s a slower number…
Let’s speed things up a bit to finish today’s offerings …
By the way, our Toodles has been on Beale Street. Think they were there for the dining.
Not moved by no.1 but 2 and 3 are just the job to lift this coffee-sipping listener above the grey gloom of a dreary afternoon. Mrs H just handed me an extra bit of dark chocolate too.
May have used this quote before –
“For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the “Beale Street Blues” while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust. At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby