Time Out Ten
Close Your Eyes
Milt Jackson and Coleman Hawkins
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.
At the risk of sending you off to sleep in this month's ten minute break, here are Milt Jackson (vibes) and Coleman Hawkins (sax) from the 1958 album Bean Bags - nicely titled from the two musicians' nick names. This is intentionally an audio track - if you have your eyes closed a video, presumably, would not be appropriate
Close your eyes
Let's pretend that we're both counting sheep
Close your eyes
Close Your Eyes was composed by American songwriter Bernice Petkere - dubbed 'The Queen Of Tin Pan Alley' by Irving Berlin. Of course it has been recorded countless times, but this version by 'Bags' and 'Bean' with Tommy Flanagan (piano); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Eddie Jones (bass) and Connie Kay (drums) will hopefully help to 're-charge your batteries'.
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