Code's eclectic music pick of the day is:
One warm summer night long ago, after a late college course, I was driving home and listening to an obscure station in South Texas. A song came on and it was so captivating to me that I had to pull over to give it my full attention. I sat, mesmerized, until the song ended, and then waited almost 40 minutes for the announcer to finally come back on and reveal the song name and artist. As a young jazz aficionado, I had to know. (cont'd in thread)
It was a Horace Silver song, as arranged by Daryl Dragon, otherwise known as The Captain. I was so moved by this arrangement that I did a lot of research, tracking down his contact information to tell him how much his recording had meant to me that night. We became friends because of our mutual love of music, and conversed for some time via letters, phone and later email, until he became too sick to respond any longer. I wish he was still with us.
@Bliss Same here, although I had not previously heard that song because it didn't normally get any airplay.
Now it's mostly about nostalgia, but I'll still put some of their stuff on when I am feeling blue or lonely. Cheers me up! 🙂
Their music always put me in a happy place. I was so fascinated by the music - it always made me happy - that I too read up just a bit about him to learn of his musical background. But in the pre-internet days his early work was hard to come by. So I just enjoyed the "happy music"I could get my hands on.
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Thank you for sharing this piece & your story.
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Wow! What a wonderful and inspirational story! I loved their music growing up.