an ape like me

can learn to be human too. anuradha sajjanhar. jazz and ukulele.

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- dream a little dream of me -

found recordings of practice sessions with my friend eric g. on guitar. 

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- ain’t misbehavin’ -

a very relevant song about staying home all the time. originally by fats waller. 

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- can't help falling in love - I sang and recorded this for my dear friends Marie and Chris to walk down the aisle to at their ridiculously gorgeous mariage in the south of France.

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- night and day -

night and day, sung by me with my friend eric g. on the guitar.

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- you go to my head -

billie holiday fave, singing and guitar with my pal eric. grad school is better with jazz.

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- till there was you -

but i never heard it singing.

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- my funny valentine -

not endorsing valentine's day, but its tomorrow. just a topically relevant song. recorded in one-take.

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- cry me a river -

holiday season pathos. scratchy throat. terrrrible uke playing. also, the julie london one, not the justin timberlake. 

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- i can't give you anything but love - a cover of a song i've heard by billie holiday. baby.

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- in the wee small hours of the morning -

this was my go-to emo song when i was thirteen years old, lying awake thinking of the boy. so lovely.

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Miles Davis, by de Koenigswarter

Pannonica de Koenigswarter, the muse and patron of the American jazz world (as seen in the rare documentary I posted earlier) was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, evidenced in an enthralling collection of candid Polaroid snapshots.

She also collected wishes. Over the course of a decade, Koenigswarter asked three hundred musicians what their three wishes in life were, jotting them all down in a notebook.

The three wishes of Miles Davis: 1. ‘To be white!’

And that was it.

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- ain't misbehavin' - louis armstrong

your kisses are worth waitin' for, believe me 

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for this thursday at the brill flipside cafe in hauz khas village - artwork of brandosaurus henderson.

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- misty - billie holiday

SUCH a good song - recorded with minimal and sporadic uke playing (read: because i couldn't play it, but let's pretend its all about the jaaaazz soul)

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- all of me - billie holiday/louis armstrong/frank sinatra/lots of peeps

singing it all away.

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No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Selma Lagerlof

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from the Keep Calm Gallery