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YOU CAN PLAY ALONG IN THE SAME KEY AS THE RECORDING in GCEA tuning, if you put your capo on the 2nd fret, but I've shortened it for BUG. Thanks to Matt and Shana Anderson for introducing this song to BUG!
Pianist Monty Alexander released his album, Love Notes in August 2022, fulfilling a decades-long desire to record his first vocal album. The iconic jazz musician has released 75 recordings as a bandleader over the course of his illustrious career spanning more than 60 years.
“My desire was emboldened ever since one of our great jazz vocalists, Carmen McRae, heard me sing a tune at the end of a concert and told me, ‘Don’t stop singing!,’ admonishing me like a loving aunt would,” Alexander recalls. “That was back in the 1970s, so it took me 50 years … but I am glad to finally introduce Monty the vocalist and this collection of love songs.”
The 11 tracks on Monty Alexander's Love Notes are new arrangements of some of Alexander’s favourite songs ever since he was a child in Jamaica; the exception is one original composition, These Love Notes, a previously instrumental fan favourite that’s been newly re-recorded here with lyrics by Brian Jobson. (courtesy of Jazz.FM)