one of the greatest #jazz #songs I know...

Elizabeth Shepherd Trio - "Start to Move"

Start to Move

Gotta be the next Herbie in virtuosity
Make that fill with Bill Evans' musicality
Simplify like Miles Davis in note frugality
Move a crowd like Dave Brubeck and force them to their feet
Feel the song like Sarah Vaughn dee bee dee and swingin'
Ground the sound like Clifford Brown blowin' from his heart within
Try to match that call with half the soul of Cannonball
Is it me, or does this order seem too tall?

I can't live up
Should I give up
This mad love affair with music

No, you really shouldn't try so hard
Cause no one's forcing you to play their part
If you stick with what is in your heart
Well maybe then you would see things start to move

Don't have to be a jazz diva by age twenty three
There's no decree that's claiming fame's what defines if I succeed
To simply be and let my soul speak freely as it needs
Is all it takes for me to make this music thing complete

Start to live up
Just can't give up
This mad love affair with music

You know, you really shouldn't try so hard
Cause no one's forcing you to play their part
If you stick with what is in your heart
Well maybe then you would see things start to move

here's a live version of this wonderful lady in Saskatoon

#ElizabethShepherd #jazz #music