ItÆs Easy to Remember (A Jazz Story Memory)-Kurt Elling

[ti:It's Easy to Remember] [ar:Kurt Elling] [al:Dedicated to You - Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman (Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]ItÆs Easy to Remember (A Jazz Story Memory) - Kurt Elling (库特·艾灵)
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:08.67]That sweet expression the smile you gave me
你甜美的表情你给我的微笑 [00:17.51]It's easy to remember or is it
很好记还是说 [00:22.89] [00:25.83]A poetic jazz memory
如诗一般的爵士乐回忆 [00:28.03] [00:30.32]It's March of 1963 in mid-morning New Jersey
1963年3月的清晨 [00:35.53]Two musicians drive through the snow-bound suburban landscape
两位音乐家开车穿过被雪包围的郊区景色 [00:37.82]On their way to a recording session
在去录音室的路上 [00:42.09]One an intensely dedicated musical explorer
一个是全情投入的音乐探索者 [00:46.78]Has of late been studying the way singers breathe
最近一直在研究歌手的呼吸方式 [00:51.29]And hopes he will hear Frank Sinatra on the radio
希望他能在收音机里听到FrankSinatra的歌 [00:53.83]So he can consider one more notion before the session
所以他可以在会议开始前再考虑一个想法 [01:00.24]The other an experienced song stylist wonders
另一个是经验丰富的歌曲造型师很困惑 [01:05.19]Whether he'll ever hear his own voice over the airwaves
他能否在广播里听到自己的声音 [01:09.86] [01:12.93]The two men met only last week
这两个人上周才见过面 [01:15.89]And have only played a few pieces together
只演奏了几首曲子 [01:17.97]The singer sitting in informally at a club in Manhattan
这位歌手在曼哈顿的一家俱乐部临时坐在那里 [01:23.12]The singer is a little concerned that the band was gonna break
歌手有点担心乐队会解散 [01:26.06]Into some of the "wild stuff" he's heard them play
沉浸在他听过的音乐里 [01:31.09]But the band leader a gentle and positive man
但乐队的领队是个温和积极的人 [01:34.97]Will be going for something altogether different on this occasion
这一次会有截然不同的追求 [01:39.15]Something wholely sympathetic to the sound the singer has
对歌手的声音充满共鸣 [01:44.28]The two are joking and smoking and
两个人开着玩笑抽烟 [01:48.44]Talking about the songs they will record today
谈论着他们今天要录的歌 [01:52.20]They carry no charts and have made no formal musical arrangements
他们没有发行排行榜也没有正式的音乐编排 [01:56.45]Or even had a real rehearsal
甚至没有一次真正的彩排 [02:01.68]Everyone at the session will know the tunes already
每个人都知道这首歌的曲调 [02:03.79]Each man having performed them in a hundred different contexts
每个人都在一百种不同的情况下表演过 [02:06.87]No one at the session will need to be told what to do or what to play
没有人需要被告知要做什么或玩什么 [02:13.18]The band is so well acquainted that any mood
这个乐队太熟悉了 [02:16.32]That needs to be established will come naturally
需要建立的一切都会水到渠成 [02:21.09]As the cats in the car talk about what is to come
车里的猫谈论着即将发生的事 [02:23.50]Over the car's radio comes Nat Cole singing Lush Life
车里的收音机里播放着NatCole的歌《LushLife》 [02:27.55]Though he doesn't know all the words
虽然他不知道所有的话语 [02:29.09]Out of fun the singer joins in anyway
出于乐趣歌手也加入其中 [02:31.91]And the two add one more tune to the set list
两个人的音乐又多了一首歌 [02:36.52]When they get to the studio
当他们来到录音室 [02:37.62]They end up recording it in one take
他们一次就录下来了 [02:40.06]In fact they do everything in one take
事实上他们一气呵成 [02:44.71]Almost the entire record
几乎是整张唱片 [02:46.47]Except You Are Too Beautiful
除了你太美 [02:49.05]Where they do a second take because of a dropped drumstick
因为一根鼓槌掉在地上他们只能再拍一次 [02:51.54]In three or four hours they're done
三四个小时之后他们就完蛋了 [02:57.81]Laughter handshakes a long drive home
欢声笑语握手长途驱车回家 [03:03.79]Just a year or so later
一年之后 [03:07.50]John Coltrane will go on to the highest artistic peaks
JohnColtrane将会登上艺术的顶峰 [03:11.27]Leading the same band in the creation of
带领同一个乐队创作 [03:13.51]Crescent and A Love Supreme
新月和至高无上的爱 [03:16.95]Arguably the defining works of his career
可以说是他职业生涯中定义性的作品 [03:19.55]And among the most beloved and respected in the history of recorded music
在唱片史上最受人喜爱和尊敬的人之一 [03:22.65]Although Johnny Hartman will go on to make some great ballad records after this one
虽然JohnnyHartman在这一次之后会继续制作一些优秀的民谣唱片 [03:28.93]Including some attempting to echo the magic of the one he makes with Trane
包括一些试图重现他和Trane制作的那首歌的魔力 [03:35.13]Most go unnoticed upon their release
大多数人一被释放就悄无声息 [03:39.08]Broad fame will elude Hartman until well after his death
哈特曼在死后很久才会名声大噪 [03:44.69]But we remember them both
但我们都记得 [03:50.71]We're jazz people and for us it's easy
我们是玩爵士乐的人对我们来说易如反掌