Time Out Ten
My Favourite Things
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
This month, here is a choice of music, partly depending on what you fancy, what mood you are in, how long you can take time out, or perhaps you could listen to a version each day? My Favourite Things from The Sound Of Music lends itself to many jazz interpretations.
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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favourite things
Cream-coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favourite things
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John Coltrane took the song as a title for one of his albums. There is a video of him playing the tune here but at 21 minutes it is far longer than our ten minutes time out.
Violinist Regina Carter dropped in to Emmet Cohen's place to play the tune with him in 2021 for just under ten minutes here.
Trumpeter Chris Botti and cellist Yo Yo Ma covered it in 4 minutes here.
Al Jarreau had an interesting nine and a half minutes in concert with it here.
But let's take the middle ground of time today, just under five minutes, close your eyes and listen to Anastacia Orlova singing with Natalia Titova (flute); Andrey Bataleev (saxophone) and Arseny Vladimirov (piano):
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favourite things
And then I don't feel so bad
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