There's No More Blue Time (vocal) – Tadd Dameron & Georgie Fame
The vocal version of A Blue Time, an advanced and sophisticated blues to sing. It's been recorded twice by Georgie Fame, who wrote the lyrics, and also by Mark Murphy.
- Recording: Per Husby - If You Could See Me Now
- Recorded on: November 14-15, 1995
- Label: Gemini (GMCD 89)
- Concert Key: F
- Vocal Range: Tenor, B-flat3 to B-flat4
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Vocals - Georgie Fame
- Trumpet - Earl Gardner, Michael Leonhart
- French Horn - Peter Gordon
- Trombone - Jim Pugh
- Tuba - Howard Johnson
- Alto Sax - Jerome Richardson, Chris Potter
- Tenor Sax, Flute - Frank Wess
- Baritone Sax - Scott Robinson
- Guitar - Bucky Pizzarelli
- Piano - Ted Rosenthal
- Bass - Jay Leonhart
- Drums - Grady Tate
Taken at a faster tempo than the instrumental version A Blue Time, this vocal version brings out a different side of the song that may not be obvious in a slower instrumental setting. The original Blue Mitchell version of A Blue Time, arranged by Tadd, is stately and dramatic; Georgie Fame's lyrics make it hip and subtly sophisticated. It's not the kind of blues that has a classic "blues feeling," but a major-key song that just happens to be based on blues changes.
Lyric Description: Like Never Been In Love, the lyric looks at love from two sides; before, when the blues were all-encompassing, and after, when love has conquered and the blues are vanquished.
If another key would be better for you, send the key you'd like to Don and we'll post the transposition on the website for purchase. If you're not sure which key is best, send us your range and we'll work with you to figure out the best key.
This arrangement presents There's No More Blue Time as part of a blues medley. Georgie Fame sings the melody in unison with the low brass on the first chorus, then with the saxes the second time and on the out head. Accordingly, he follows the melody as written without varying the rhythm—this is particularly noticeable on the fifth measure the first and second times. This medley also includes Taddd's Just Plain Talkin' and a Gigi Gryce shout chorus used in Batland.
Lyric Description: Like Never Been In Love, the lyric looks at love from two sides; before, when the blues were all-encompassing, and after, when love has conquered and the blues are vanquished.
If another key would be better for you, send the key you'd like to Don and we'll post the transposition on the website for purchase. If you're not sure which key is best, send us your range and we'll work with you to figure out the best key.
This arrangement presents There's No More Blue Time as part of a blues medley. Georgie Fame sings the melody in unison with the low brass on the first chorus, then with the saxes the second time and on the out head. Accordingly, he follows the melody as written without varying the rhythm—this is particularly noticeable on the fifth measure the first and second times. This medley also includes Taddd's Just Plain Talkin' and a Gigi Gryce shout chorus used in Batland.
This album is a sequel to "Dedications", a 1985 album with the same small big band instrumentation. Both feature vocalists Georgie Fame and Karin Krog with arrangements by Norwegian pianist Per Husby.
Shortly after writing the lyric, George Fame called the Second Floor Music/Twenty-Eighth Street Music office in New York to get our approval and arrange for a lyricist contract before recording the song.
Shortly after writing the lyric, George Fame called the Second Floor Music/Twenty-Eighth Street Music office in New York to get our approval and arrange for a lyricist contract before recording the song.
- Recording: Mark Murphy - Some Time Ago
- Recorded on: December 27-28, 1999
- Label: HighNote (HCD 7048)
- Concert Key: F
- Vocal Range: Tenor, B-flat3 to B-flat4
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Vocals - Mark Murphy
- Alto Sax - Allen Mezquida
- Piano - Lee Musiker
- Bass - Steve LaSpina
- Drums - Winard Harper
Vocalist Mark Murphy takes this song at a slightly faster tempo than the first Georgie Fame version. He takes more liberties with the melodic rhythm, for example in the fifth measure of the first verse. Here the B♭ that was on the "and" of beat 3 is moved to the "and" of 1, so the word "position" in the lyric is phrased more naturally.
You can also find the title song, Sometime Ago, from this Mark Murphy album on jazzleadsheets.com. Both Sometime Ago and There's No More Blue Time are in our print publication available in our Sing JAZZ! songbook, a collection of stunning, lesser-known vocal selections from the Second Floor Music repertoire (Sing JAZZ! contents). It also contains two other songs Mark recorded on the album, Life's Mosaic (Cedar Walton/John & Paula Hackett) and You're My Alter Ego (James Williams/Pamela Baskin-Watson).
Our own Don Sickler produced this Mark Murphy session
Our own Don Sickler produced this Mark Murphy session
- Recording: Georgie Fame - Lost In A Lover's Dream
- Recorded on: January 31, 2012
- Label: Three Line Whip (TLW 009)
- Concert Key: F
- Vocal Range: Tenor, B-flat3 to B-flat4
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Vocals - Georgie Fame
- Guitar - Primoz Grasic
- Bass - Mario Mavrin
In this trio setting, it's particularly interesting to hear Georgie Fame interpret the melody nearly as straight as he does with the big band arrangement (click on leftmost album cover). It is again part of a medley with Breezin' All The Way, another bebop blues that was also in the earlier big band medley. This latter head he interprets freely, focusing more on the lyrics than the melody.
Seventeen years after he wrote and recorded the lyric, Georgie Fame recorded There's No More Blue Time again, this time accompanied by guitar and bass only.
Tadd Dameron
February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965
A giant of the bebop era, Dameron had a wonderful melodic and harmonic imagination which he brought to compositions and arrangements for both small and big bands. Writing first for Harlan Leonard, Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie and Billy Eckstine, in the late '40s Dameron started composing and arranging for Dizzy Gillespie's big band. He also recorded his own superb sextet for Blue Note Records in 1947 which featured trumpet great Fats Navarro. Read more...
Georgie Fame
born on June 26, 1943
English vocalist and pianist Georgie Fame has had a busy career in both the jazz and R&B scenes. Born Clive Powell, he was renamed at age 16 by the impresario Larry Parnes. He gained early recognition in the '60s with his R&B band Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames; one of their biggest hits was Yeh, Yeh by Rodgers Grant . Read more...