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Come Rain Or Come Shine

Here’s a one. It’s a bank holiday so I’m short on time and long on duties. According to the rules of the Weekend Song, I can’t post up the same song twice by the same artist, so I’m exploiting a triple loophole here.

Firstly, this is not a Weekend Song, so I can post up something else by Gerry Mulligan.

Secondly, it’s Gerry Mulligan on baritone sax and Zoot Sims on tenor AND a fourteen piece band.

Thirdly, it has been raining and shining all weekend and the arrangement of this live recording has a majestic inevitability that makes you feel lonely and lovely in equal measure, money or not, funny or sad, rain or shine.

Listen: Come Rain Or Come Shine

 

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One Response to “Come Rain Or Come Shine”

  1. Sam Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    I see what you mean in that last paragraph. It’s a Bank Holiday song, it stirs the soul and then you realise it uses fish heads and other such nonsense, leave it to settle. I do like it, though. It rouses to a crashing languor.

    Does make me want to be somewhere else, though.

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