Yama, by Art Blakey

By far one of my favorite jazz tunes is Yama, performed by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers on the album, A Night In Tunisia (1960).

So, in honor of that song, this entire post is being composed under the umbrella of the song -in all of its six minutes and twenty-four seconds of solid, mellow glory.

Not so impressive as other tunes by Blakey, the renowned jazz drummer, perhaps the skill comes as the musicians solo. Each in turn takes a polite, controlled spin in the front. Blakey sits back, a solid beat with the lightest work on the drums possible.

If this were live and, in a club, you and me are sitting there and we could be having a conversation. We could hear each other perfectly. But we wouldn't. We would be paused, and the whole room would be silent, for this one song resonates in a perfect melody. A unified Sax and Trumpet pleasureful ubiquitance of equinamic profundity.

And now the song, has ended.