Time Out Ten
Rockin' Chair
The Morning Call Jazz Band
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
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But perhaps this item should come with a warning? Maybe it is better not to take those ten minutes directly after lunch or the chair might claim you for the rest of the afternoon? Unless, of course, you have finished your jobs, your rushing around, in which case a snooze might not be such a bad idea.
Old rockin' chair's got me, my cane by my side
Fetch me that gin, son, 'fore I tan your hide
Can't get from this cabin, goin' nowhere
Just set me here grabbin' at the flies round this rockin' chair
The Morning Call Jazz Band are French jazz musicians; their line up has changed slightly over the past few years with Mathieu Najean (saxophones) and Timothé le Maire (trombone) as continuing members - on this video from 2018 they are joined by Pauline Leblond (trumpet) Matteo Carola (guitar) and Cedric Raymond (double bass).
Hoagy Carmichael's Rockin' Chair was first recorded on February 19, 1929 by Hoagy as a test for Victor Records, but not released at the time. Hoagy Carmichael and his Orchestra recorded a new version on May 21, 1930 featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. This second version is with two vocalists (Carmichael and Irving Brodsky) and has been recorded several times as a "call and response" song between an ageing father and his son (lyrics here).
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