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What's the saddest song in the history of jazz?

downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
edited August 2012 in Strut Central
SSIA...I want the tears to flow. That's how sad I'm talking.

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  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    Lyrics-wise or plaintive atmospherics wise?
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Strange Fruit
    Lush Life
  • downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
    No lyrics!
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    "Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you. Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?"

  • SunfadeSunfade 799 Posts
    You Go To My Head by Joe Farrell on Skateboard Park always got me teary in drunken stupors.
  • MeepMeep 320 Posts
    Blue in Green. No contest.
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    downtownrobbrown said:
    No lyrics!

    F that.

    Charles Earland - Murilley
    That woman done did him wrong

    Eddie Jefferson - Jeanine
    Ditto, and all because he didn't have enough poppy.

    So, so sad.

    ::whycry::
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Okay, no lyrics...

  • neil_somethingneil_something 993 Posts
  • gazgaz 232 Posts
  • downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
    I'd like to do a sad song with lyrics thread separately. Then I'd nominate George Jones.
  • asstroasstro 1,754 Posts
    Any of the recordings that Charlie Parker made for Dial records during the notorious "Lover Man" session. Parker was so strung out and drunk that he could barely play, he had to be physically supported to record this track. He misses his intro and barely makes it through. That same night he set fire to his hotel room and ended up spending 6 months at Camarillo State Hospital's psychiatric ward.

    Painful to listen to, even as his genius still comes thru:

  • parallaxparallax no-style-having mf'er 1,266 Posts
    Louis Armstrong - St. James Infirmary (lyrics, deal)
    It's the saddest song I can think of in the genre.

    Lionel Hampton - Where Were You When I Needed You (very sparse lyrics). It's jazzfunk rather than straight ahead jazz, and it's actually uptempo as well, but manages to keep a kind of sad feeling throughout via Hampton's amazing play on the vibes.

    Kindly,
    parallax
  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Jim Pepper-Witchi Tai To
  • hogginthefogghogginthefogg 6,098 Posts
    I don't know why "Kathleen's Theme" is so sad to me, but it gets me every time:
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts




    either of these. With ot without vocals.
  • KineticKinetic 3,739 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    Strange Fruit
    Lush Life

    Strange Fruit is the first thing that came to my mind.
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    Toot toot, I could always be sadder.
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,180 Posts
    top 5
  • soulcitizensoulcitizen 304 Posts
    co-sign on 'alabama'.

    'my favorite things' sad? opposite end of the spectrum for me
  • EkiMEkiM 40 Posts
    HarveyCanal said:
    Okay, no lyrics...




    I'd say that's about right.
  • doisndoisn baleadas&pupuzas 303 Posts
    surely not the saddest, but highly appropriate to me when feeling down...

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