Three Tune Tuesday: Jazz (with a Blues in the Middle) for the Mid-Winter Mood

Photo by the author, Deeann D. Mathews, December 5, 2016

While I was working on last week's post and still thinking about the blues because I talked with @nickydee, I found some other tunes ... a mid-winter connection ... it's still winter both ways ... it's dark, and cold, and damp ... but still, it can be so beautiful ...

Winter nights are long and cold ... but if you follow Thelonius Monk to the end, you will see, a long way off, but there ... sunrise ... and a glimmer of the coming spring ... but 'round midnight, and 'round mid-winter, things get real...

It's early February and spring is nowhere close, and whoever we left behind last year that represented love and warmth to us is STILL GONE ... sometimes on these winter days, when the color of the autumn leaves is all gone, it hits with deep blue!

You can literally hear the rain coming down with the brush strokes ... and yet in the morning's light there is silver flowing along every street, and every tree's winter filigree of empty branches is beaded with diamond drops ... such a beautiful connection between Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane here for a mid-winter day, after that long, blue midnight is over!