Seamus Blake
Seamus Blake (born 8 December 1970) is a Canadian tenor saxophonist.
Life and career
Born in London, England, Blake was brought up in Vancouver, Canada. His mother introduced him to jazz when he was a child and he later attended Berklee School of Music in Boston. Upon graduation moved to New York. In February 2002 he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. He currently plays with his own quintet (featuring David Kikoski, Lage Lund, Bill Stewart, and Matt Clohesy) and has been a regular with the Mingus Big Band as well as many other New York musicians.
Blake plays a mouthpiece by Fred Rast.
Discography
With Dave Douglas
Podcasts:
Seamus Blake Quintet
ALBUMS
- The Call released: 1994
Seamus Blake
ALBUMS
- For All We Know released: 2014
- Reeds Ramble released: 2014
- Jazz Side of the Moon: The Music of Pink Floyd released: 2008
- Stranger Things Have Happened released: 1999
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by Shawn Mullins
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by Sarah Vaughan
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by Julie Andrews
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by Lady in the Dark Soundtrack
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by Nancy Wilson
MY SHIP
by: Shawn MullinsMy ship up here is sinkin'
But this is what I am
And I'd tell you what I'm thinkin'
If I thought you'd give a damn
And I don't know a single one of you
But you feel like a winter's rain
Tell me would listen to the words I speak
If I knew you all by name
It's niether here nor there
Cause I still wake up in my hotel room
With this smokey barroom in my clothes and hair
Every night is different
Every night's the same
Ain't if funny how each of us
Has his own way to kill the pain
Makes me think of my friend jimmy
Who never could behave
He bought a gator skateboard
With the money that he saved
He rode that 4 wheeled sufrin' board around
Till he was old enough to shave
Then it was replaced by a '69 lasabre
He'd putter off to schol
As fast as that thing would get
And all the kids would say
Here comes jimmy in that beat up piece of shit
He used to take up 2 whole spaces
In the senior parking lot
Yea now jimmy's doin' seven years
For stickin' up a subway sandwhich shop
So crawl beneath your words
Say what's on your mind
Tell it like it is
Don't get stuck behind
Cause it's the truth you know,
That gets you by
It's not who or what you know,
It's why
So straddle that old fencepost
And fade it down to nothing
And you'll see
You might see
That my ship up here is sinkin'
But this is what I am
And I'd tell you waht I'm thinkin'
If I thought you gave a damn
So take this in or don't
I don't really care
You will or you won't