Luyện nghe bài hát He Was The Cat (A Tribute to Eddie Jefferson)

There was a fellow Jefferson who
Would tear it up the band
A vocalizin phenomenon who they used to the Main Man
He would think like a sage, like a horn
And on the stage somethin special was born
He swing, dit n doo dat
He was The Cat.
He sang Moody in 57
He put a to bop
When little Benny came from Heaven
He put it the top
Jazz was hot in the East, cool in the
But his vocalese it was the best
Because man, he scat
He was The Cat.
was hip but wise as an old man
Takin that trip to Coleman
Lettin it rip on Body and man
And oh what hed do, the flew
A founding was Jefferson but
He never got the
here to tell you that hes the one that
Put vocalese in the
He would dig sittin in, the hit
And then he would spin out a to fit
He was acrobat
He was The Cat.
There was a when there was jazz cookin up on every corner
Everybody would sit and as they blew
Tellin stories they knew in his own way
the news, bop to blues
Set the moods any way want to
Innovation was always
Electrifyin the air youd be, let me tell ya
All around youd hear the sound of life abounding
Comin out of a horn, born a new way
Never knew what hear
First we heard from The
Then the on the scene was so choice:
Jeffersons voice, what a beautiful noise
Master of a lyric and an inventor
Singin with the of jazz at the center
Anyone hear it knew that he was a mentor
for the love the sound
You found the rhythm where you can marry vocabulary
To every melody you hear
For when would sing, the story was king
Hed about a thing, then be sockin it like the swing of a bat
He it like that!
He would embrace his zen to
Tickle those phrases like he was to
us to places nobodyd been to
An Everest climb, the kind!
When Charlie Parker and played it
There was a in the crowd
And when Eddie would elevate it
The jazz community
Hed evoke we heard on the soloin rides
And every word tell a story besides
And were all our hat!
He Was The Cat.