A date. Spoken by that same gravelly voice.
Then, at 4:47, something happened that made the hair on my arms stand up. -RMU 1787 - Grant Green - Idle Moments 1963 .rar-
Because in idle moments, time doesn’t move forward. A date
Every jazz fan knew Idle Moments . The 1964 Blue Note album was a pillow of a record—slow, blue, suspended in amber. The title track, all eleven minutes of it, was a masterpiece of hesitant melody. But the lore said something was missing. The session ran long. They cut multiple takes. The released album was a collage of the best parts. The real take, the one where Grant Green’s guitar drifted into some other, sadder galaxy, was rumored to have been erased. Because in idle moments, time doesn’t move forward
“Again. From the top. And this time, don’t think about the funeral.”
But two things stopped me from deleting it.