JSngry Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Never mind the desert island, which may or may not happen to you in your lifetime. This is something that will happen to you in your lifetime, it will end. But here's the hypothetical - let's say you get a courtesy call from Death, hey babe, it's time, ten minutes. No exceptions, dig? So of course you go through all the stages and goodbyes, but, you know, music matters, so you got to hear one thing before you leave this phase and take it to the next (whatever that is or isn't). So what's it gonna be, what will death come into the room to? Spiritual as well as Secular selections allowed, because, again, not a desert island. Death, final curtain, point of no return. Ten minutes, baby, ten minutes. A guaranteed eventuality with a 100% predictable outcome. Make it real, because it will be. Inspired by for some reason remembering Albert Lion playing Am I Blue to his wife while she slowly checked out. That is one of the most profound non-performing musical acts I've ever heard about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Sonny, Blue 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Off the cuff, I'd say I'd blast the hell out of Joe McPhee - "Old Eyes" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'd have to go full-bore retrospective and put this on (LP version, the folks' Glenn Miller Story soundtrack LP on decca) because it's the only thing I can think of that I've heard for literally as long as I can remember, had the record for even before I could remember, and about the only thing that meets those criteria that I can still run into with full embraces, always have always will. Besides, by the time that thing's over and I've done danced it out, hey, fuck it, we're good for anything now, let's go. Born/Adopted into a Glenn Miller world, surreptitiously & permanently abducted by that funny little man in the white coat, onward through the fog into the light, often looking back but never moving back, always home/never home, what becomes of the broken-headed? How 'bout Billy Kyle and that 9th chord at the very end, how's that for ending by taking the next step up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) Maybe this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCepSR4pUMY Or this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3vpiTgG59A Or this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvxURJb1jBg Or... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrqb0373cVs Or... Hell, it would be nerve-wracking. Edited November 22, 2014 by Noj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Garrett Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 http://youtu.be/6y8Xl7-oUpY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) My choice : Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come" everything is in there - like a 3.11 movie of someone`s life - rather by chance one of the final scenes in Spike Lee`s (in)famous Malcolm X movie (aka Denzel Washington`s face during his cabdrive to Malcom`s final destination) deepened this view, as these pictures come to my mind regurarly.... Edited November 22, 2014 by soulpope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) Astral Weeks. Hoping that the ten minutes stretched as long as possible Edited November 22, 2014 by mjazzg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Well ten minutes is time for two songs, if you pick carefully, so I'm going with Gene Harris, "Blues for Ste Chapelle," one of my favorites of Gene's "happy" blues originals. To be followed by Maria Muldaur, He Don't Have The Blues Anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwLDp8cPjm4 It will run a bit past ten minutes, so Death can come back and hear that I'm ready to go as Maria takes me out: He's not worried about his rent You know his money's all been spent He don't care if they repossess his car He no longer is afraid You know his debts have all been paid No, he don't have the blues anymore He's got a smile on his face that cannot be erased No, he don't have to worry like before. Lord, he's finally settled down Stopped all that running 'round No, he don't have the blues anymore One by one he's said goodbye to the trouble and all the strife Now he's headed where he's never been before He no longer feels alone He's finally found a happy home Oh, he don't have the blues anymore All his friends were glad to see that he's finally been set free And they took him and they laid him in the ground He's finally got it made He's just resting in the shade Oh, he don't have the blues anymore Now he's gone beyond the sky with the angels up on high and he's headed right for Heaven's open door He's been pardoned and released Finally filled with a heavenly peace Oh, he don't have the blues anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 As much of "Power to Love" and "Message of Love" as I could get in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Give me twenty: Side one of Tago Mago Or: Ella Guru, Moonlight in Vermont, Well, Orange Claw Hammer, Veteran's Day Poppy and then back to track two: The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 My choice : Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come" everything is in there - like a 3.11 movie of someone`s life - rather by chance one of the final scenes in Spike Lee`s (in)famous Malcolm X movie (aka Denzel Washington`s face during his cabdrive to Malcom`s final destination) deepened this view, as these pictures come to me mind regurarly.... The single version or the later album version with the restored verse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Coltrane, "Giant Steps" -seems thematically fitting. Handel, "Sarabande," as performed for the movie, Barry Lyndon. Sufficiently melancholy yet bracing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'd want to say goodbye to people I love and care about. Screw music. I've listened to enough in my lifetime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Maria Muldaur, He Don't Have The Blues Anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwLDp8cPjm4 He's not worried about his rent You know his money's all been spent He don't care if they repossess his car He no longer is afraid You know his debts have all been paid No, he don't have the blues anymore He's got a smile on his face that cannot be erased No, he don't have to worry like before. Lord, he's finally settled down Stopped all that running 'round No, he don't have the blues anymore One by one he's said goodbye to the trouble and all the strife Now he's headed where he's never been before He no longer feels alone He's finally found a happy home Oh, he don't have the blues anymore All his friends were glad to see that he's finally been set free And they took him and they laid him in the ground He's finally got it made He's just resting in the shade Oh, he don't have the blues anymore Now he's gone beyond the sky with the angels up on high and he's headed right for Heaven's open door He's been pardoned and released Finally filled with a heavenly peace Oh, he don't have the blues anymore Wow - that is perfect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 My choice : Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come" everything is in there - like a 3.11 movie of someone`s life - rather by chance one of the final scenes in Spike Lee`s (in)famous Malcolm X movie (aka Denzel Washington`s face during his cabdrive to Malcom`s final destination) deepened this view, as these pictures come to me mind regurarly.... The single version or the later album version with the restored verse? Paul, as it`s being the voice of Sam Cooke providing this intense feeling of consolation, freedom and light......it would not make a difference... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John Tapscott Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Would seem appropriate to the moment: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Lady Be Good - Lester Young and Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I would want to get my money's worth, so I checked my iTunes library for every track I have that clocks out exactly at 10:00. The list... Light And Lovely - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb - Very Saxy - Prestige Soul People - Sonny Stitt - Soul People - Prestige Lady Be Good - Kenny Burrell - At The Five Spot Cafe - Blue Note Willow Weep For Me - Stanley Turrentine & The Three Sounds - Blue Hour - Blue Note Medley: I Have Dreamed / The Puzzlement / Something Wonderful - The Mastersounds - The King And I - World Pacific Those Were The Days - Dexter Gordon - Those Were The Days - Moon The Shadow Of Your Smile - Dexter Gordon - The Shadow Of Your Smile - Steeplechase (Winner, although my first instinct was to choose something more upbeat, like "Okie Dokie Stomp") Totem Pole (Alternate Take) (WTF? I'm not settling for an alternate take in a situation like this!) - Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder - Blue Note On Green Dolphin Street - Miles Davis - Jazz Track - Columbia Blue N' Boogie - Curtis Fuller - Jazz Conference Abroad - Smash Lucka Duce - Frank Strozier - Fantastic Frank Strozier - Vee Jay Night And Day - Pete Jolly - Strike Up the Band - Pete Jolly & His West Coast Friends - Atlas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'd probably pull a piece of 17th century harpsichord music - Johann Jacob Froberger's "Méditation sur ma mort future" which he wrote after having survived an attack by a group of robbers on his way to London. But Lester Young's 1940's recording of I Can't Get Started would be nice, too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'd want to say goodbye to people I love and care about. Screw music. I've listened to enough in my lifetime. That's the right answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I'd want to say goodbye to people I love and care about. Screw music. I've listened to enough in my lifetime. That's the right answer. Yes it is, but to a different question than the one that was posed here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 There are no wrong answers, this is not an examination, there are only personal choices, although Steve, you don't get twenty minutes, Death said ten, Death means ten. A lot of us might in fact be living on borrowed time, but in this scenario, time's up, debt due, Doug E. Fresh got six minutes, we get ten, count your blessings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Reynolds Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Give me the three poems/spoken words and Veteran's Day Poppy which might clock in right under ten - if not I'll die during the great fade out of track 28 from Trout Mask Replica A great way to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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