Just...lovely

Hello again!

I've spent a disproportionate amount of time looking at the careers of the big, big names in Jazz this weekend. Jazz and Blues are quite difficult genres for me in that it's very hard to pick an artist you like and just...buy their albums. All the huge Jazz artists cross over and work with one another at some point and I don't even want to try and total how many albums some of these guys have made.

No, when it comes to Jazz, I just have to find a song a like and find which album that song appears on. It's always nice to find out that another huge name appears on a track by a different huge name and below is one such example.

This is Miles Davis's lovely rendition of Someday My Prince Will come, featuring John Coltrane. This song has become a Jazz standard since it's first appearance when it was performed by The Ghetto Swingers in a German concentration camp during World War II. (Which, while not at all pleasant, is a fascinating fact.) Since then it's been recorded by many famous Jazz musicians, including Herbie Hancock.
I can't pretend to be any kind of expert on Jazz (More a clueless but appreciative amateur) and break the song down for you, I can only say that it keeps it's recognisable tune from Disney's Snow White but it's extended, differently paced and just...lovely.
Soundtrack to: Dancing hand in hand.