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| 1. | A Child is Born
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| 2. | Invocation
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| 3. | People Get Ready
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| 4. | Morning Star-Evening
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| 5. | Star Eyes
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| 6. | Shine
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| 7. | Balm in Gilead
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| 8. | Foresight
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| 9. | The Water is Wide
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| 10. | Family
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| 11. | Lullaby
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| 12. | Shower the People
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| 13. | Another Time
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| 14. | Peace
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Jazz
Darrell Grant piano, vocals, words, snaps, claps, & slaps
paul leim-drums
craig nelson-bass
david hungate-guitar
lari white-vocals
Liner Notes:
A Child is Born
Of all the songs about birth, this one has always seemed to me to capture the innocence & tenderness of those first moment.
Invocation
To the ancestors who have gone before upon the rock of their wisdom we build our lives To our families and friends, whose love sustains us in these troubled times To the children with whose futures we kindle this flame And to the one, the all in all, the beginning and the end of all things Amen and ashay
People Get Ready
This song has always hit a resonant note for me. Its message is a anchor of hope. Its groove, a sure cure for the blues. Props to B. McFerrin & Take Six for the percussive inspiration.
Morning Star-Evening Rose
Oh ComeEmmanuel/Erev Shel Shoshonim
Two beautiful songs of joy and longing. My thanks to Harry Belafonte for his version of Erev Shel Shoshonim, which has soothed me since I first heard it at age eight.
Star Eyes
This always struck me as more than a love song. More like the murmur of a celestial river, Ever hopeful. Inspired by the improvisations of Liz Story
Shine
Chorus:Shine will you shine/ Shine will you shine -
By this starlight wandering/ I have roamed far from home/
Riding out this stormy sea all around me/ Hope has found me/
Here my soul for wonder weeps/ at shadows on the stars/
Chorus/Now the birds have taken wing/summer's flown seeds are sown/Now this faith in crowns and kings fails to flower/Come darkest hours/Still the moon so brightly sings/ Of shadows on the stars/Chorus/
In the heart of Winter deep/Saints will pray/vigils keep/
Pointing to a mystery/Seasons turning/we are learning/
In her arms a child sleeps/ Dreams shadows on the stars./Chorus
A clear night. The marvel of a starry sky. The knowledge that we are not alone. My everlasting gratitude to Samuel Barber for composing "Sure on this Shining Night", which made it all real.
Balm in Gilead
A song that has sustained a people through 400 years of slavery and oppression. still comforts me today. It seemed to flow naturally into the slow mvt from Brahms F minor piano sonata, which is a piece of music I have literally never been able to hear without crying.
Foresight
In rare moments, unexpectedly, our futures become clear, and we glimpse what our lives can be.
The Water is Wide
There are some songs that in their simplicity speak truly and deeply. They become vessels for those things we cannot otherwise express. This song has always embodied to me the aching sweetness and beauty of life.
10. Family
Though I cross the world in my travels/Secrets and wonders that I see/
Still inside my heart is a yearning/Deep is the place for family/
All my fame and all of my fortune/Everything that I've achieved/
I will bring it here to the hearthstone/All of it gift for family - Chorus:
We are carrying the day/Shining on each other's way/
Gallantly we stand/This home and family - Sons and fathers, mothers and daughters/Each in the other's eyes will see/Visions of the road we will travel/
Leaves on the tree of family/ Hand to hand throughout generations/Tenderly passing on our dreams/Whispered in the ears of the babies/These are the songs our children sing.• Chorus:They are carrying the day/Shining on each other's way/
keeping hope in hand/for home and family - When the world has cast me to bottom/dashed on the rocks, and lost at sea/When my life is stretched to the breaking/I will remember family/Little babe I hold in my arms now/Thanks for the wondrous gifts you bring/Listen I will tell you the story/Tell you about this family/
Chorus
I wrote this song as a Christmas gift for my extended family. I send it out with all my love & hope for the newest of our clan: Elijah, Natasha and Alex.
Lullaby
One of my mentors, saxophonist Frank Morgan, used to begin and end every set with this piece. May it soothe you as it has me over the years.
Shower the People
James Taylor, storyteller, poet, troubadour, author of so much beauty, so much honesty, and oh that voice…
Another Time
I would have held you to me another time/If I had known there would not be another time/I would buy today to bring back yesterday/Before it slipped away/
If we could walk hand in hand another time/And never come upon this land of left behind/Not this day that innocence departed, no warning./
Not this place where all the broken-hearted are carried away/
To see the smile on your face another time/I would create another place another time/I would cry for peace/I would make war to cease/
if it would bring release./To find you waiting for me another time/
And to be certain I would hold your hand in mine /I would pray on every star in heaven/ and weeping/I would dream myself awake from sleeping/
And cherish the day./And so tomorrow will be another time/
And it is not the will of fate to change her mind /We may only have today to savor this treasure/ Every hour is precious beyond measure/ give it to love.
Since 9/11/01 it has become ever more clear that there is no time to waste. For all those for whom there will not be another time, and for those of us who have been given that gift. Give it to love.
Peace
If I had one dream, it would be a world without rich or poor. If I had one wish, it would be for a better life for the children. If I had one hope, it would be to measure up to the courage of my forefathers. If I had one prayer, it would be always for peace, always.
Produced & arranged by Darrell Grant
Executive Producer: Craig Berkman
Recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley,CA &The Holler, Nashville TN
Engineered by Mike Cogan, except * engineered by Eric Legg.
Assistant engineer Kenny Fairris
Additional engineering by Dean Baskerville
Mixed by Eric Legg at The Mixbox, Nashville, TN
Mastered by Ryan Foster at Freq Mastering, Portland, OR
Art Design & Photography by Darcy Dziedzic |
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