- Bill
Clothes must play a part
To light an eye, to win a heart;
They say a gown can almost speak,
If it is chic.
Should you select the right effect,
You cannot miss,
You may be sure,
He will tell you this.
- C Jam blues
«Благодаря нему я научился играть блюз на фортепиано с рифами (небольшие ритмические фигуры, часто служащие сопровождением к сольной импровизации – прим. переводчика). Питерсон был лучшим».
- Carioca
Say, have you seen a Carioca?
It's not a foxtrot or a polka
It has a little bit of new rhythm, a blue rhythm that sighs
It has a meter that is tricky
A bit of wicked wacky-wicky
But when you dance it with a new love, there's a true love in her eye
- Dancing on the Ceiling
The world is lyrical
Because a miracle
Has brought my lover to me
Though he's some other place, his face I see
At night I creep in bed
And never sleep in bed
But look above in the air
- Goodbye
There is no great big ending, no sunset in the sky
There is no string ensemble, and she doesn't even cry
And just as I begin to say that we should make another try
She reaches out across the table looks at me and quietly says good-bye
There is no big explosion, no tempest in the tea
The world does not stop turning round, there's no big tragedy
Sitting in a coffee shop with cheesecake and some apple pie
She reaches out across the table looks at me and quietly says good-bye
- I Was Doing All Right
I was doing all right
Nothing but rainbows in my sky
I was doing all right
Till you came by
Had no cause to complain
Life was as sweet as apple pie
Never noticed the rain
- Ill Wind
Blow, ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)
Go, ill wind, go away
Skies are oh-so gray
Around my neighborhood, and that's no good
- Oscar's Blues
Melancholy mood forever haunts me
Steals upon me in the night, forever taunts me
Oh, what a lonely soul am I, stranded high and dry
By a melancholy mood
Gone is every joy and inspiration
Tears are all I have to show, no consolation
All I can see is grief and gloom, till the crack of doom
- Pick Yourself Up
Please teacher, teach me something,
Nice teacher, teach me something.
I'm as awkward as a camel, that's not the worst,
My two feet haven't met yet,
But I'll be teacher's pet yet,
'Cause I'm gonna learn to dance or burst.
Nothing's impossible I have found,
- Sally's Tomato
Исполнитель: Oscar Peterson
Альбом: Motions & Emotions
Год выхода: 1969
Жанр: Jazz, Instrumental, Piano, Bebop
Страна: Canada
Состав:
Oscar Peterson - Piano
- Samba De Orfeu
A day in the life of a fool
A sad and a long, lonely day
I walk the avenue hoping I'll run into
The lovely sight of you coming my way
I stop right across from your door
But you don't see me anymore
So back to my room I go with a gloom
- So Near, Yet so Far
My dear, I've a feeling you are
So near and yet so far
You appear like a radiant star
First so near, then again so far
I just start getting you keen
On flinches galore with me
When fate steps in on the scene
And mops up the floor with me
- Stormy Weather
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time
Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poorself together,
- These Foolish Things
A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places,
A fairgrounds painted swings,
These foolish things remind me of you.
A tinkling piano in the next apartment,
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,
And still my heart has wings.