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Grant Mbeki

Table Mountain Blue

Plays a horn that belonged to a man he never met and feels responsible for it

style

  • afro jazz
  • cape jazz
  • saxophone lead
  • upright bass
  • male baritone
  • smooth and conversational
  • live band
  • sophisticated groove
  • south african accent
  • unaccompanied saxophone solo

the numbers

bpm
185
key
G minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.95
valence
0.48
vocal at
0.2s
length
4:22
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental, smooth)

This horn belonged to a man I never met
He played it in a club that does not exist now
His widow gave it to my teacher, my teacher gave it to me
(gave it to me)
Three hands, one horn, and a debt nobody wrote down

I looked up his name once
(his name once)
Two lines in an archive and a photograph

Table Mountain blue
(mountain blue)
The city forgets and the mountain does not
Table Mountain blue
I play what he did not get to finish

They cleared his district and they called it development
The bricks went somewhere, the music went into people
You cannot bulldoze a chord progression
(a chord progression)
That is the only thing I know that they could not move

(unaccompanied sax solo, 8 bars)
(band returns, gently)

Table Mountain blue
(mountain blue)
The city forgets and the mountain does not
Table Mountain blue
I play what he did not get to finish

(Table Mountain blue...)
Table Mountain Blue — Grant Mbeki · FERAL