Ghodrat’s father had a small land in their village beside the river, and they cropped watermelons and tomatoes all year…

Ghodrat’s father had a small land in their village beside the river, and they cropped watermelons and tomatoes all year…

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Oh listen to the rhythm of ragtime and blues
swaying to a hypnotic potion of storytelling vibes
from horns, drums, pianos, and guitars to vocals
strumming to a magical brew of jazz musicians and singers.
There’s Ellington, Coltrane, Fitzgerald, and Gillespie
Armstrong, Basie, Morton, and Simone too
it wasn’t merely a sound but a cultural persuasion
improvisations and harmonies on the set of the Jazz Invasion.
©2019 Kym Gordon Moore
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and this music genre is classical and timeless. Originating in the African American communities in New Orleans, jazz is a storyteller, a musical griot. Pull out your favorite jazz album, or grab your favorite instrument and groove to the hypnotic sounds that have a language and style of their own. Jazz is a class act. Do you have a favorite Jazz artist or band?
Poetry originally posted on From Behind the Pen 2019
Source: Jazz Appreciation Month, Pure Poetry in Music 🎶 | From Behind the Pen
“We may say prayers when we are trying to solve the problems we face, but it is up to us to put an end to violence and bring about peace. Creating peace is our responsibility. To pray for peace while still engaging in the causes that give rise to violence is contradictory.”
His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama
Source: Creating peace is our responsibility – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

In 1967, Mike D’Abo wrote the song ‘Handbags and Gladrags’, trying to get over the point that fashionable clothes and designer labels are not the way to find happiness. That same year it was recorded by Chris Farlowe, a British singer with a powerful voice who is almost forgotten now. I bought that single, aged fifteen. Two years later, Rod Stewart recorded his version of the song. Although I still liked Chris’s original, I liked the actual song enough to buy Rod’s album too.
Then much later, in 2001, the Welsh band The Sterophonics released their version of the song, which was also used as the theme song for the TV series ‘The Office’. I liked their version a lot, and bought a copy. Then I decided that I really much preferred their more soulful-voiced and orchestrated version to both of the others.
So for a change, I am presenting all three versions, in time order. I still enjoy them all, for different reasons.
Chris Farlowe. (The date on the video is wrong, it was 1967)
Rod Stewart.
The Stereophonics.
Source: Songs I Like (28) | beetleypete

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