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LiSten to aLL that Jazz

Baby, you’re like music to me.
You’re the picture I see, when I close my eyes.
Baby, you’re like a melody
that lingers inside of me. You make me realize.
You’re the sound that matches my soul
and I listen to … all that jazz.

Baby, you are the words for me
that makes the sentence come free, when I write a song.
Baby you are the notes for me
when I write a melody and the music lingers on.
You’re the sound that matches my soul
and I listen to … all that jazz.

Baby, you give meaning to me.
To all that I long to be, when I’m with you.
Baby, baby you set me free.
You let me fly to where I wanna be and that’s with you.
You’re the melody that’s inside my soul
and I listen to … all that jazz.

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Inspiration is everywhere, so very often I cannot say I Other CD’s were “Shades of blue’s”; a bluesy, blues
am ‘writing’ a song. Very often I’m more like inspired CD with songs with lyrics about the terrible
‘receiving´it; a melody, a piece of lyric, or an idea, or terrorist attacks (Paris, Bagdad,Manchester) that hap-
just a guitar lick. And when time is on my side I do pened, about criticizing nearly everything, or about
something with it and it evolves into a real song, and lost love and starting over. In 2017 another Dutch
sometimes it gets recorded. CD came out with 16 songs on it. In 2018 I released
a second double album: “WAVES”, with a second
I have been playing and singing from age 10 and “bonus”CD filled with (decent enough)demo’s of the
my first song dates from 1968 – I was thirteen at songs I played with several bands.
that time. Never stopped since, although there have
been periods I wrote less. But always I was playing “Listen to all that jazz” is a love song. Simple lyrics,
in bands. The first years/bands we performed many written one line after another, expressing my thoughts
of my own songs, being the writer/composer of the of that moment. The song was on the 2015 album “All
band. sorts … One guy”. It’s an example of a song that more
or less writes itself. Lyrics in maybe 10 minutes and
My first CD (1995) was inspired by expecting, getting composing during the morning and recording it in
and having two daughters. All songs (in Dutch) are the afternoon. Loved it!
about that wonderful experience of getting and having
a child. At the time of writing this article (December 2019), I
am waiting for my latest album release, coming end of
Much later -2015- I released a double album with all 2019, entitled “61 – Etched in Memory”. On it some
kinds of different songs, many styles; hence the title more personal songs. Maybe you’ll read about one of
“All sorts…One guy”. Songs about love (of course), them in a future edition of this Write Away magazine.
about music styles, self-reflection, losing someone,
social media, Christmas, a photograph, and more.

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