http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFfl_PVXD30
Jazz is an echo chamber. Come here and be alone with your thoughts; get them moving, get them changing, pick up another idea or two. Settle in and listen and ponder; get up and dance; change and change and change.
The Lamp Is Low is from the 1930s; apparently there are lyrics? It came to me ass-backwards; through Nujabes's sample of the Laurindo Almeida rendition, but the above 1967 rendition is the one that tickles me the best. Explore on WhoSampled; do research; trace your own path backwards in time through the history of this Jazz standard. Listen for it in old movies; let it pop into your head during tests; lose yourself in its tone and rhythm. This is what music is for.
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