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All Things Are Quite Silent

from The Cutty Sark Suite by Betty Accorsi Quartet

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This is an English folk song collected by R. V. Williams in 1904 from Sussex, and published in The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1959). The lyrics are a lament of a woman for the abduction of her husband, who gets forced to join the navy and leave at once. I arranged it into a jazz ballad, taking two stanzas off the original lyrics. The pace suddenly changes to a fast, mambo-inspired coda that pushes the attention from a lament to the anxious feelings of the sailor, forced to confront against his will a possibly hostile and treacherous sea.

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All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest,
When me and my true love lay snug in one nest,
When a bold set of ruffians broke into our cave,
And they forced my dear jewel to plough the salt wave.

Through green fields and meadows we oft times have walked,
And sweet conversation of love we have talked,
With the birds in the woodland so sweetly did sing,
And the lovely thrushes' voices made the valleys to ring.

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from The Cutty Sark Suite, released November 12, 2020
Traditional Song
Betty Accorsi- composer, arranger, soprano saxophone
Finn Carter-piano
Andy Hamill- bass
Scott MacDonald- drums

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Betty Accorsi Quartet UK

I am an Italian award-winning jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader.

In December 2020 Betty Accorsi Quartet released “The Cutty Sark Suite”, an album of my compositions blending Wayne Shorter, folk and punk.
Our second album “Growing Roots” will be released on the 15th July 2022 and it is inspired by Brighton's culture and natural beauty. ... more

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