Hush of Midnight's Sigh
Dorian Slate
Jazz
About
A poignant cool jazz ballad featuring intimate piano and double bass laying down a swinging groove with syncopated rhythms and blue-note bends, while saxophone solos weave improvisational melancholy over complex chord progressions. Scat singing and trading fours evoke call-and-response patterns in a nocturnal lament of lost love, captured in a live club atmosphere with subtle polyrhythms pulsing through the heartache. The head arrangement bookends emotional verses, building to wild yet introspective solos that linger in the hush of midnight.
Lyrics
In the hush of midnight shadows stands Where you once lay, whispers chase the fleeting Heart adrift in yesterday Through endless night Longing pulls me night by night Ooh Soft and vised are stolen fires Now I'm solo in the rain Swinging wild on threads of desire Calling out your name in vain Da-do-ba-dee, let it cruise Twist the air, touch the sky Da-do-ba-dee, let it cruise Polyrhythms of a shattered heart Da-do-ba-dee, let it cruise
Hush of Midnight's Sigh
Dorian Slate
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