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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
What's the one piece of music that most drives you nuts/brings you to tears/makes you stand up and dance/whatever and why?
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Picking one is hard. Too many songs make me dance/go nuts/whatever. But using the criteria of tears as a guide, I immediately thought of the one song that brings me to tears every time:
Fly with the Wings of Love, performed by the Crusaders, featuring Joe Sample at piano, and accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, in a live concert in London.
I'm a jazz fan from waaaay back, and a Crusaders fan ever since I first heard them in the seventies. I'm also a
Fantasia fan, and for whatever reason, listening to this song causes me to imagine a detailed animated sequence in my head, of two songbirds flying an intricate and sensuous dance over a lake, meeting other birds which accompany them in the "chorus," and a fiery-red starling that performs a "solo." The closing moments, with the birds alighting in sequence at the end of the movement, brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it, or even think about it.
Fly with the Wings of Love may not be the perfect jazz song, but it makes me tear up every time.