bigbadbob

BroCli is a fun thought. How about if Curtis Fuller had used his name in similar fashion for a composition (ahem).

Thought you might like to know that I have written a lyric line to the exact melody of Jordu (saalikjazz's comment in the organissimo jazz forum, which I only just discovered). In places it's a bit tricky to sing - the sixteenth-note triplets above all - but the words do precisely fit the melody (the word 'individual' has to be regarded as four syllables: in-di-vid-yal). YOU WANNA PLAY A SONG THAT'S CALLED JORDU YOU BETTER GROOVE IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT TOO THERE'S NO USE MOANIN' THAT YOU ONCE KNEW HOW GET IT RIGHT ON DOWN NOW YOUNG CLIFFORD WAILED IT WHEN THE SONG WAS NEW IF SATCH HAD KNOWN IT HE'D HAVE BLOWN IT TOO DUKE JORDAN'S MELODY BRINGS MUSIC JOY PLAY IT ON YOUR HORN BOY THAT BRIDGE FLYIN' ALL AROUND HAS ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL SOUND WITH THE BASS DOWN UPON THE GROUND AND THEN THE NOTES SEEM TO BE THE SAME BUT THE CHORDS PLAY A LITTLE GAME TAKIN' YOU RIGHT BACK TO THE POINT WHEN YOU WANNA PLAY A SONG THAT'S CALLED JORDU YOU BETTER GROOVE IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT TOO THERE'S NO USE MOANIN' THAT YOU ONCE KNEW HOW GET IT RIGHT ON DOWN NOW GET IT RIGHT ON DOWN NOW GET IT RIGHT ON DOWN NOW JUST SING IT OUT YEAH JORDU If anyone wants to use this (or adapt it) please feel free, but I would appreciate being informed and credited if appropriate. I've also written lyrics for 'Yardbird Suite', 'Donna Lee' (yes, really!) and several alternative lyrics that will never be made public because of copyright and other (ahem) problems. Just in case you don't know the album, one of the best lyric lines written to a jazz solo is Med Flory's version of the Parker solo on 'Ko Ko' (Supersax and L.A. Voices album). Mind-blowing!