Musical Interlude: Summer Heat

Billie, Ella, and Nina

Summer is a very subjective experience.

Around where I am, we tend to appreciate the warm weather.

In the deep south, the heat takes on a persona of its own.

I thought looking at how summer manifests itself in song could be a somewhat different way of marking the Solstice.

While all of these are about summer, they represent three different experiences, or aspects, of it.

It comes out in the sultriness of the voices of these three ‘divas’ and their Jazz accompaniment.

And social commentary was usually just below the surface; here in a rather melancholy way.

All three: a perfect blend of improvisation and tightness. Musically, that is a way of reconciling the subjective and the objective.

Or, we could just go listen to Taylor Swift I suppose.

Either way, stay cool and happy solstice!