standard number ：Don't Explain/ドント・エクスプレイン を紹介

フィラデルフィアで生まれる。
アメリカ合衆国・メリーランド州・ボルチモア出身。
アメリカ合衆国の黒人女性ジャズ歌手。。
「レディ・デイ」の呼称で知られる。サラ・ヴォーンやエラ・フィッツジェラルドと並んで、女性ジャズ・ヴォーカリスト御三家の1人に数えられる[1]。人種差別や、麻薬・アルコール依存症との闘いなど壮絶な人生を送った彼女は、多くの人々を魅了したその声も晩年にはかれ、音域も極端に狭くなっていた。しかし、なお情感豊かな唄声は他に並ぶ者がないほどの高い評価を与えられ、ジャニス・ジョプリンをはじめとする多くのミュージシャンに影響を与えた。
彼女の生涯に於いて代表的なレパートリーであったStrange Fruit （奇妙な果実） やGod Bless' the Child （神よめぐみを）、I Love You, Porgy 、Fine and Mellow は、後年、多くのミュージシャンに取り上げられるジャズ・ヴォーカルの古典となった。

(上記プロフィールはWikipediaより掲載させていただきました。)

ニューヨークに生まれる。
アメリカのシンガーソングライター。
ビリー・ホリデイの友人で、彼女に幾つかの曲を書いた。
代表作は Don't Explain　God Bless the Child

(上記プロフィールはWikipediaより掲載させていただきました。)
(上記画像はindianapublicmediaより掲載させていただきました。)

Helen Merrill - Don't Explain

Carmen McRae - Don't Explain

・・・・・・・・・・・・akemiメモ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

Don't Explain（言い訳しないで）って言われる場合・・・・
ここに紹介した動画で一番強く堪えるのは誰でしょう・・・・！
私はCarmen McRaeのDon't Explain　が一番恐いなぁ・・・・。
そして、Don't Explainと言われて側の
男のズルさのような雰囲気を醸しだしているのが、
Dexter Gordonのsaxのように聞こえます！
大人の世界を醸しだしていますね！！

♪新版 スタンダードジャズのすべて 1 ベスト401 (楽譜) 高島 慶司
歌モノの「赤本」

楽譜詳細はこちらのページを参照

歌詞に加えて、イントロはもちろん、大概の曲集では割愛されてしまうバース部や、曲の初出一覧まで掲載されている。また、『Birdland』などの有名どころのフュージョンナンバーが加えられているのも嬉しい。

Jazz Standards: Melody Line, Chords and Lyrics for Keyboard, Guitar, Vocal (Paperback Songs)

楽譜詳細はこちらのサイトを参照

Caravan Composed by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol, F Minor
Come Rain Or Come Shine Composed by Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, F Major
Cry Me A River Composed by Arthur Hamilton, C Minor
Dearly Beloved Composed by Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, C Major
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Composed by Eddie Delange, Louis Alter, C Major
Don't Explain Composed by Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, F Major
Don't Get Around Much Anymore Composed by Duke Ellington, Bob Russell, C Major
The End Of A Love Affair Composed by Edward C. Redding, F Major
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Composed by Cole Porter, Eb Major
Fine And Mellow Composed by Billie Holiday, F Major Minor・・・ほか

♪Live at Birdland [Import, from UK]
ビリー・ホリディ Billie Holiday

ディスク：1
1. Lost My Man Blues
2. Theme: Moten Swing
3. Announcer Introduction
4. Swing Brother Swing
5. Announcer Introduction
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
7. I Cried For You
8. Fine And Mellow
9. Announcer Introduction
10. I'll Get By
11. Billie's Blues
12. Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me
13. Danny Kaye Introduces Jerome Kern, Who Presents Billie With Her Award
14. I Cover the Waterfront
15. Fine And Mellow
16. All Of Me
17. Endy Gets Caught Playing Piano
18. Endy Goes To Storyville
19. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
20. Satchmo Talks
21. Farewell To Storyville
22. Farewell To Storyville: Studio Version
23. The Blues Are Brewin': Studio Version
24. The Man I Love
25. Miss Brown To You
26. Lover Man
27. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
28. Billie's Blues
29. No More
30. Good Morning Heartache
ディスク：2
1. You're Driving Me Crazy
2. Maybe You'll Be There
3. Introduction By Donald Wood
4. You'd Better Go Now
5. Them There Eyes
6. Lady Day And Eddie Condon Speak
7. Keeps On Rainin'
8. Lady Day And Eddie Condon Speak
9. Lover Man (Incomplete)
10. I Cover the Waterfront
11. All Of Me
12. Narration/Early History
13. Fine And Mellow
14. Porgy
15. Jam Session Introduction
16. All Of Me
17. You're My Thrill
18. Lover Come Back To Me
19. Ain't Nobody's Business
20. You're Driving Me Crazy
21. He's Funny That Way
22. Miss Brown To You
23. Lover Man
24. Them There Eyes
25. My Man
26. I Cover the Waterfront
27. Crazy He Calls Me
28. Detour Ahead
29. Strange Fruit
30. Ain't Nobody's Business
31. All Of Me
ディスク：3
1. Porgy
2. My Man
3. Tenderly
4. God Bless the Child
5. My Man
6. Them There Eyes
7. Lover Man
8. Willow Weep For Me
9. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. My Man
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12. Jon McCloughland: Introduction
13. I Cover the Waterfront
14. Too Marvelous For Words
15. Porgy
16. Them There Eyes
17. Willow Weep For Me
18. I Only Have Eyes For You
19. You Go To My Head
20. Stormy Weather
21. Ghost Of a Chance
22. Nice Work If You Can Get It
23. God Bless the Child
24. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
25. Don't Explain
26. Porgy
ディスク：4
1. Fine And Mellow
2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3. Foolin' Myself
4. Easy To Remember
5. Moanin' Low
6. Don't Explain
7. When Your Lover Has Gone
8. Mort Saul: Introduction
9. Ain't Nobody's Business
10. Willow Weep For Me
11. When Your Lover Has Gone
12. God Bless the Child
13. I Only Have Eyes For You
14. Good Morning Heartache
15. Them There Eyes
16. Billie's Blues
17. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
18. Travelin' Light
19. Lover Come Back To Me
ディスク：5
1. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
2. Lady Day Speaks: Early History
3. Just Friends
4. Lady Day Speaks: The Number 13
5. Ghost Of a Chance
6. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: 1
7. Everything Happens To Me
8. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: 2
9. I Don't To Cry Anymore
10. Prelude To a Kiss
11. Jeepers Creepers
12. My Yiddishe Mama
13. Hey! Lady's Here
14. God Bless the Child
15. Introduction
16. Nice Work If You Can Get It
17. Willow Weep For Me
18. When Your Lover Has Gone
19. Billie's Blues
20. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
21. God Bless the Child
22. Now Or Never
23. Untitled Track

♪The Feeling Is Mutual [Import] [from UK]

ヘレン・メリル

曲目リスト
1. You're My Thrill
2. It Don't Mean a Thing
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. Baltimore Oriole
5. Don't Explain
6. What Is This Thing Called Love?
7. The Winter of My Discontent
8. Day Dream
9. Deep in a Dream

Personnel:
Helen Merrill(vo),
Thad Jones(cor),
Jim Hall(g),
Ron Carter(b),
Dick Karz(p),
Pete Laroca(ds),
Arnie Wise(ds)

ヘレン・メリル; ライブ・レポート ２００4年１2月4日 ＴｏｋｙｏＴＵＣ

Jim Hall (guitars)RON CARTER(bass) ライブ・レポもよかったら見てください！ JIM HALL(g) & RON CARTER(b) -ALONE TOGETHER, AGAIN 2007年4月18日　NAGOYA Blue Note 2007年04月25日　 BlueNote 東京

Alive! [LIVE] [FROM US] [IMPORT]
Carmen McRae

曲目リスト
1.Sometimes I'm Happy
2.Don't Explain
3.Woman Talk
4.Kick off Your Shoes
5.Shadow of Your Smile
6.Sweetest Sounds
7.Where Would You Be Without Me?
8.Feeling Good
9.Run Run Run
10.No More
11.Look at That Face
12.I Wish I Were in Love Again
13.You Better Go Now
14.Love for Sale
15.If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
16.Miss Brown to You
17.Perdido
18.Too Close for Comfort
19.Midnight Sun
20.Trav'lin' Light
21.Love Is Here to Stay
全21曲

Personnel: Carmen McRae (vocals), Ray Beckenstein (flute), Norman Simmons (piano), Joe Puma (guitar), Paul Breslin (bass), Frank Severino (drums), Jose Mangual (bongos).

ノーマン・シモンズ来日ライブレポ 2004年１0月10日ＴｏｋｙｏＴＵＣ in ＳＣＯＴＴ　ＨＡＭＩＬＴＯＮ　meets　 ＮＯＲＭＡＮ　ＳＩＭＭＯＮＳ

That's Him [CD, Import]
アビー・リンカーン | 形式: CD

1. Strong Man
2. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
3. My Man
4. Tender As A Rose
5. That's Him
6. I Must Have That Man
7. I Must Have That Man (Take 3)
8. Porgy
9. Porgy (Take 1)
10. When A Woman Loves A Man
11. Don't Explain

From Bing to Billie [BEST OF] [FROM US] [IMPORT]
Rosemary Clooney

ディスク：1
1. But Beautiful
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. Blue Skies
4. I Surrender, Dear
5. Where The Blue Of The Night
6. It's Easy To Remember
7. Swinging On A Star
8. Just One More Chance
9. I Wished On The Moon
10. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral
ディスク：2
1. I Cover The Waterfront
2. Good Morning, Heartache
3. Mean To Me
4. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
5. Don't Explain
6. Comes Love
7. He's Funny That Way
8. God Bless The Child
9. Them There Eyes
10. Everything Happens To Me

credits:
Monty Budwig Bass
Rosemary Clooney Primary Artist, Vocals
Cal Collins Guitar
Scott Hamilton Sax (Tenor)
Jack Hannah Drums
Nat Pierce Piano

2008年9月22日東京TUCにてスコット・ハミルトン氏 ライブレポート 2004年10月10日東京TUCにて スコット・ハミルトン氏 ライブレポート

♪Spotlight on Lou Rawls (Great Gentlemen of Song)
[Best of] [Import] [from US]
Lou Rawls ルー ・ロウルズ

1. Nobody But Me
2. Street of Dreams
3. God Bless the Child
4. Rockin' Chair
5. St. James Infirmary
6. (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone
7. Blues for the Weepers
8. Stormy Weather
9. Willow Weep for Me
10. Don't Explain
11. Georgia on My Mind
12. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
13. When It's Sleepy Time Down South [#]
14. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
15. How Long, How Long Blues
16. Summertime
17. If It's the Last Thing I Do
18. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

ジャズ詩大全1 (楽譜なし) (単行本)
村尾 陸男 (著)

01-01 All of Me
01-02 All of You
01-03 Anything Goes
01-04 As Time Goes By
01-05 Blue Moon
01-06 Blues in the Night
01-07 Body and Soul
01-08 But Beautiful
01-09 But Not for Me
01-10 Crazy She Calls Me
01-11 Don't Explain
01-12 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
01-13 Everytime We Say Goodbye
01-14 Fly Me to the Moon
01-15 For All We Know
01-16 Georgia on My Mind
01-17 Girl Talk
01-18 Guess Who I Saw Today
01-19 How About You
01-20 I Can't Give You Anything but Love
01-21 If I Were a Bell
01-22 I'm Beginning to See the Light
01-23 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
01-24 The Impossible Dream
01-25 I've Got a Crush on You
01-26 Love for Sale
01-27 Lullaby of Birdland
01-28 Rush Life
01-29 Makin' Whoopee
01-30 Misty
01-31 Moarnin'
01-32 The Night We Called It a Day
01-33 One for My Baby
01-34 People
01-35 The Second Time Around
01-36 This Masquerade
01-37 Wave
01-38 Whiper Not
01-39 Wives and Lovers
01-40 Yeasterday