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Take Two Some Other Time
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The song for this month's Take Two seems appropriate looking back
at the time that has passed since Covid-19 arrived.
Where has the time all gone to?
Haven't done half the things we want to
Oh well, we'll catch up some other time
With music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the song comes from the Broadway musical On The Town. Most people will remember the movie starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin, but by the time the movie was made, most songs, except for New York, New York, had been replaced. That's a shame because Some Other Time is a beautiful number.
You know the story - three American sailors go on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City during wartime and each of them meets and falls for a woman. Premiered in 1944, the original production was notable for its racially diverse cast and intentional avoidance of racial stereotypes. The Japanese-American dancer Sono Osato starred as Ivy and there were six African-Americans in the cast. Nine months into the run, the black conductor Everett Lee took over the podium. By Act II, the sailors' 24 hours shore leave is running out and it dawns on them that there is so much more they would like to do.
This day was just a token
Too many words are still unspoken
Oh well, we'll catch up some other time
Here is a video of the number from the stage show performed by the Olney Theatre Centre in Maryland:
Our first 'take' is this video of Swedish vocalist Monica Zetterland singing Some Other Time with the Bill Evans Trio in 1965 - Bill Evans (piano); Chuck Israels (bass); Larry Bunker (drums) (Monica had made an album with the trio carrying the title of Bill Evans' Waltz For Debby the year before).
Just when the fun is startin'
Comes the time for partin'
But let's just be glad for what we've had
And what's to come
Take Two is an instrumental version with guitarist Gilad Hekselman, Rick Rosato (bass) and Jonathan Pinson (drums).
Gilad came to New York from Israel in 2004 and has played with many prominent jazz musicians including Chris Potter, Eric Harland, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Esperanza Spalding, Gretchen Parlato, Avishai Cohen, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Tigran Hamasyan, Aaron Parks, John Scofield, Terri Lyne Carrington, among many others. In 2017, he was placed first in the Rising Star category of Downbeat Magazine. You can read more about him here.
There's so much more embracin'
Still to be done but time is racin'
Oh well, we'll catch up some other time
As an afterword, there is a nice version of Some Other Time on the recent (2020) album What's New by vocalist Ian Shaw with saxophonist Iain Ballamy and pianist Jamie Safir - you can listen to it here:
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