#AlternateFridayMusic
May 22 2026
Prompt: Where is my mind?
Wayne Shorter, “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”

This hashtag will likely be flooded with WIILD and WACKY🤪 selections this time around; gentle reader, take respite here.

This track is by #RogersAndHart which kind of implicitly places it in the Great American Songbook. #WayneShorter recorded this version in 1960 but it wasn’t released until 1974 on his album “Second Genesis.” I encountered it on the fantastic jazz compilation “Either Side of Midnight.”

Beautiful #jazz ballad on #TenorSax in the hands of a master? My key boxes checked. Less clinically: it is lovely.

Checking the lyrics for this exercise, I found they portray a wizened soul looking back on an under-appreciated love in the singer’s clueless (as in the title metaphor) youth, but being unfamiliar with the lyrics, this instrumental version to me had the flavor of being so lost in the object of one’s affection upon first meeting, that suddenly (literal) time had no meaning: You walk in and…where is my mind? Sorry not sorry, Mr. Hart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAgu1zd12a8

Gerald Ross: "Isn't It Romantic?"

https://youtu.be/afm74LxozSA

#Music #Ukulele #RogersAndHart

Today's poem:

A song lyric from Rogers & Hart, sung by Judy Garland.

You're nearer, than my head is to my pillow
Nearer, than the wind is to the willow
Dearer, than the rain is to the earth below
Precious as the sun to the things that grow
You're nearer, than the ivy to the wall is
Nearer, than the winter to the fall is
Leave me, but when you're away, you'll know
You're nearer, for I love you so!

https://youtu.be/-ae2v1wP6v4

#lyric #poetry #RogersAndHart #JudyGarland #love #separation