Parties . . .

The stars lay
In a blanket above
The gentle breeze
Blowing in from the sea
The last light flickers
From one lonely candle
Never before
Was a night half as perfect
For you and me

But there was a party last night
Yeah there was a party next door
Cause there's a boy sleeping on the back porch

You would have
Noticed a pin drop that evening
The peace and calm
When romance fills the air
Ambience flowing
From Coltrane and Hartman
But barely twenty feet away
We'd no clue what was
Happening there

But there was a party last night
Yeah there was a party next door
Cause there's a boy sleeping on the back porch

No blaring rockn' roll
No bottles on the walk
No screaming shouting
And no fights
Nobody called the law
No sirens in the night
Just one young man
Stretched out on a chaise
Sleeping it off

Occasions
Such as this should be savored
The combination of circumstance rare
You may just be
The true love that I've searched for
I think though
That the folks in the house that's next door
Just don't care

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Mysterious? . . .

. . . ordinary. . .

On very special occasions
When celebrating felt right
This place we'd go
With ambience and wine
On a Saturday night
Caricatures hung on the walls
Eavesdropping on our most intimate moments
"I love you"

It was essential to go there
To mark the passage of time
Between the dates
We used to signify
The bond we shared and to dine
Always served Angus A-one prime
To patrons of each and every persuasion
"I loved you"

But now that place is all gone
Where did our love go
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty's piano

While you eat
You're serenaded
By some local musician
Playing bad renditions of the popular songs
You sing along

And so it ended
Our passion
Somehow just faded away
And likewise too
That place we held divine
Became a dance club today
The memories come charging in
Sweet dreams and all the romancing related
It's gone now

But now that place is all gone
Where did our love go
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty's piano


McCafferty's Piano
©2010 Raymond M. Jozwiak
from Ambience & Wine

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Where Is . . .

. . . that piano???!!! . . . 

On very special occasions  
When celebrating felt right
This place we'd go
With ambience and wine
On a Saturday night
Caricatures hung on the walls
Eavesdropping on our most intimate moments
"I love you"

It was essential to go there
To mark the passage of time
Between the dates
We used to signify
The bond we shared and to dine  
Always served Angus A-one prime
To patrons of each and every persuasion
"I loved you"

But now that place is all gone
Where did our love go
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty's piano

While you eat
You're serenaded
By some local musician
Playing bad renditions of the popular songs
You sing along

And so it ended
Our passion
Somehow just faded away
And likewise too
That place we held divine
Became a dance club today
The memories come charging in
Sweet dreams and all the romancing related  
It's gone now  

But now that place is all gone
Where did our love go
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty's piano


McCafferty's Piano
from Ambience & Wine ©2010 Raymond M. Jozwiak






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Yay!!! . . .

 . . . so I'm not big in Japan!   I am #35 in Uruguay. . .


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L-STREET (from AMBIENCE & WINE)
©2011 Raymond M. Jozwiak



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The City . . .

At first, the mere height of the buildings and the ambience those buildings created, as contrasted with green (not rural-lush) flat, expansive suburbs, was the most impressive feature of the city to my eyes.  Granted, I lived no more than two blocks away from the city line, but this was ‘downtown’;  the heart of the big city;  the center of both cultural and business activities as well as (and it really is, these days, a business) medical and health professionals.  The latter was precisely what brought me to the city on one of the earliest trips I took there in memory.  It was a doctor visit for my mother, or my father (I can’t remember precisely which) although my feeble recollection does place my mother more prominently in the picture. It had then, as it does now, its own very specific aroma, look and feel which is both grimy and exotic at the same time.  The very same attractively fascinating allure continued to taunt me many years later when my first ‘legit’, full-time employment was taken at a prominent, downtown location and I found myself spending increasingly larger amounts of time there.
Although I have spent the preponderance of my professional life making my livelihood in the city, I realized this very day, just how much of that original allure still has a hold upon me.  The city has changed drastically in many areas in the interim, but just enough historical architecture remains to flood the mind and body with the thoughts and stimulations that I first experienced more than half a lifetime ago. I don’t often stop to contemplate it, as we fail to do with regards to most things we experience on a routine basis, but I find that ‘downtown’ still possesses a magical yet elusive quality that can both attract and appall at either separate or the very same time. These mysterious but desirable qualities do, and will always to my mind, make it a truly wonderful place.

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The days . . .

. . . of wine and roses. . .

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through a meadow land toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
{ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/h/henry-mancini-lyrics/days-of-wine-and-roses-lyrics.html }
The days of wine and roses and you

(The lonely night discloses) just a passing breeze filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wine and roses and you-oo-oo
(Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer)

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Ooh Bee Ahh Bop . . .

 . . . I take my inspiration from whence it comes, no questions asked . . .

Ooh Bee Ahh Bop is a track on my latest release AMBIENCE & WINE which incorporates digital sampling, in this case of male & female choruses, placed against a pedestrian rhythm or beat.  The melodies are completely improvised but with something very specific in the background which was influencing my ideas on the day of that recording.

“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!”
― Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

 
Ooh Bee Ahh Bop
(from AMBIENCE & WINE)
©2011 Raymond M. Jozwiak



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As a piano player . . .

. . . I find

. . . something about this just doesn't sit well with me . . .

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Pardon. . .

. . . my persistence. . . 

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MY WORLD
(from AMBIENCE & WINE)
©2011 Raymond M. Jozwiak



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