Upward Spiral
OKEH / SONY | 2016
Track Listing
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There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
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Blue Gardenia
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From One Island To Another
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Practical Arrangement
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Doxy
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I'm A Fool To Want You
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West Virginia Rose
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Só Tinha de Ser Com Você
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Momma Said
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Let me tell you what’s true
My soul’s a golden flag that flies so far in the boundless blue
I know high up above what will be belowLet me tell you what’s true
The wings of windy change that will come to you cut me right through
I know nothing is certain to hold ontoAnd I’ll tell you what’s true
Your life will run away from you in moments both quick and smooth
I know fast are the hours and far too fewLet me tell you what’s true …
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Blue Velvet
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Every GRAIN of sand that’s lost upon the shore
will eventually roll homeEvery LEAF on every tree that falls to autumn
leaves a greenish stem to grow…becoming the leaves that adorn every tree in spring
Every WAVE that breaks the surface of the deep
to know a moment in the sunJust as suddenly returns to twilit sleep
Every one lives only seconds and it’s done…
It’s only the way that the ultimate mystery’s spunEvery breath you take / you borrow from air / giving back some part of you
Everything that lives has a birthright from the stars / a current passes through the person who you are … And though the distance is far / you return to you mother sky / as a star
Personnel
Branford Marsalis – Saxophone
Joey Calderazzo – Piano
Eric Revis – Bass
Justin Faulkner – Drums
Kurt Elling – Voice
Recorded and Mixed by Rob “Wacko” Hunter
Recorded December 16-19, 2015 at The Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in New Orleans, LA
Mixed March 20 – 27, 2016 at The Studio in the Country, Durham, NC
Mastered March 30, 2016 by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound Studios, New York, NY