I Remember You
Lennie Tristano Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh Lyrics

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I remember you-ooh
You're the one who made my dreams come true
A few kisses ago

I remember you-ooh
You're the one who said "I love you, too"
Yes, I do, didn'tcha know?

I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell
Like the rain out of the blue-ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo

When my life is through
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of it all
Then I will tell them I remember you-ooh

I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell
Just like the rain out of the blue-ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo

When my life is through
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of it all

Then I will tell them I remember, tell them I remember
Tell them I remember you

Overall Meaning

"I Remember You" is a love song that invokes vivid and sentimental memories of a past relationship. The singer reminisces about the special moments shared with his lover, particularly the memories of how she fulfilled his dreams and expressed her love towards him. The song has a nostalgic tone, as the singer recalls the past love story's happy moments and how the relationship came to an end. He also talks about a distant bell that rings, and stars that fall like rain, probably metaphorical references to fate and the unpredictability of life.

The song is essentially a homage to a lost love. The singer will carry the memory of this love forever and will recount it to the angels when he leaves the physical world. The lyrics evoke a deep sense of longing and affection to the point that the singer would like to extend his reminiscing to the beyond.

Line by Line Meaning

I remember you-ooh
I recall your presence and the impact you've had on my life

You're the one who made my dreams come true
You have helped me to achieve my goals and fulfill my aspirations

A few kisses ago
It has been some time since we shared an intimate moment

You're the one who said 'I love you, too'
You expressed affection towards me in return, demonstrating a mutual love

Yes, I do, didn'tcha know?
I reciprocate your love and care for you deeply, as if it wasn't already apparent

I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell
I also recall specific details of our past, such as the sound of a distant bell and a celestial event

Like the rain out of the blue-ooh-ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo
These memories came forth suddenly and unexpectedly, like an unanticipated rainfall

When my life is through
At the end of my life on Earth

And the angels ask me to recall
If tasked with reminiscing about my time on Earth

The thrill of it all
The entirety of my existence and experiences

Then I will tell them I remember you-ooh
I will be sure to mention you as a significant, memorable part of my life and the impact you had on me

Tell them I remember, tell them I remember
Reaffirming my desire to remember and emphasize the importance of the memories associated with you

Tell them I remember you
Explicitly stating my recognition and admiration for you and the role you played in my life

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: JOHNNY MERCER, VICTOR SCHERTZINGER

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Comments from YouTube:

Doren Garcia

7y↑23

Otherworldly. I've been a jazz fan for decades... but I'm just realizing how revolutionary these guys were. Tristano has always been easy to appreciate. Surprisingly I'm becoming obsessed with Marsh and particularly the way Marsh and Konitz play together. Like what they do at 15:50 is just so different than anything anyone else has done to this day. The dedication they have to their collective aesthetic is so diligent... and impressive. Truely art for art's sake. They teach us how to hear.

Greg Burrows

3y↑2

Your appreciation is spurning and increasing my appreciation of this quiet revolutionary jazz movement built up around Lennie Tristano

Jonathan Dane

10y↑46

Warne Marsh: certainly one of the most underrated saxophonists in jazz. His across the bar harmonic/rhythmic concept was truly "modern" and WAY AHEAD of his time.

lenabloch

+Jonathan Dane true.

paxwallacejazz

7y↑4

He said WAY dig?

Eyton Shalom, L.Ac.

utterly...

Piratebreadstick

walt7500 24 years and 6 days.

Leo Bird

Warne was so fresh he’s somehow ahead of THIS time too.

DaveBassMusic

5y↑7

Once the heads are over, we're listening to intensely creative piano solos on three standards: Subsconscious Lee is based on What Is This Thing Called Love; 317 East 32 is based on Out of Nowhere; and Background Music is based on All of Me. Lennie's solo on this last one is simply stupefying!!!

Leen de Heer

10y↑9

as a saxophone teacher I only can say....
lets please connect our kids to this fabulous source !!!!

Dave Frank

8y↑23

So spectacular that this was recorded! All the great cats, Sonny, Lee, Warne, Nick! Like the Dead Sea scrolls this) I think what the guy is saying is great!

Adrian Fundescu

6y↑3

And what's great is that people did really listen to this music at that time.It was something that had to do with a lot of aspects of cultural development.I mean it in the sense that was not for entertainment purposes but let's say aesthetics enjoyment,so to say.Whitch complete lacks in today's music consumption.

DaveBassMusic

8y↑1

What a treat. Thanks for posting. Lennie's solo on Subconscious Lee (What is This Thing Called Love) is simply astounding.

Alan Senzaki

3y↑1

One of the best videos of this incredible group! Thank you!

TropiCool

4y↑2

Never followed Tristano much though was much aware of his great playing. Seemed to be a bit angular, you could never tell where he was going.... so gifted

Mort Weiss

6y↑3

These cats were so far ahead of their times - but still connected to the roots of bop.

lastknowngood0

6y↑4

Fond memories of hanging out, digging the music and meeting Warne & Lennie for drinks one afternoon in between matinee sets!

martin saltzman

There was an article in the magazine "Jazz" about convincing the Canterinos (owners of the Half Note) to buy a new grand piano before Tristano was willing to play. With a new piano, I heard this group at the club and they were spectacular.

Benichou Philippe

Lennie seems always surprising... wonderful chorus on Out of/Street

Thomas Forsythe

3y↑3

Although at 68 years old I definitely heard of Phineas Newborne Jr. and Lennie Tristano this morning is the first time I heard 👂them. So cool to know that there is music that's not new in 2021 but new to my ears.

euclid1618

11y↑9

That's how you play drums with Lennie!!

David Baise

35w

“what is this thing called love” played in a very cerebral brainy fashion. Thanks for this!

sanmarinojr

12y↑1

This is a gem, thanks!

phillip stallworth

8y↑4

time capsule...love it. Thanks for posting

Vincent LaVorgna

11y

Sound isn't the greatest but you can't hide good music. So glad it's available

Richard Wallace

10y↑1

Fantastic, this is incredible! Thanks!

Sigrid Timmann

5y↑5

From a time where folks knew how to dress & behave properly, and wonderful music being played by Giants !

Alfredo Remus

LENNIE TRISTANO UN ADELANTADO EN LA ÉPOCA!!

Franklin Silva

12y

this is amazingly great!!!

Guide Jazz Christian Lewis

6y↑1

Thanks! Merci! We're lucky to have acces to this amazing archive! Nous sommes chanceux d'avoir accès à ces archives inspirantes!

Viggo Simonsen

7y↑1

Precious footage. Great playing by all. I love Tristano. I never listened much to Konitz and Marsh - but I like their stuff here. I am hearing a lot of lyric Bird licks in Konitz' solos.
'The What is this thing called Love' progression is so dramatic. Konitz captures it well.

2300 skiddoo

10y↑7

Don't know if anyone mentioned it, but Tristano was never recorded in the company of Konitz or Marsh after this. I had heard some of it on record, but never thought I'd see the footage. THANK you!

Luis Flores González

3y↑2

We need this audio to be remastered

beesleyc

11y

The whole thing in one piece at last! THANKS!

soapbxprod

11y↑4

WOW! My parents might have been at this show- and left me at home with the babysitter on 79th and Amsterdam... THANK YOU! :)

gian paolo Puglisi

9y↑5

Very important for jazz history !
Thanks

Luis Flores González

Lennie it's still ahead of our time

vlscher

10y

Tristano has such dignity that this video points up the embarrassing silliness of the club audience, not to mention the absurd commentary that deserves to be shouted down by the music!

Luis Flores González

3y↑1

Hey bro do you still have the full footage of solo Lennie?

Finkanslig

12y↑7

Rec’d in person at The Half Note, 06 JUN 1964: Lee Konitz as/ Warne Marsh ts/ Lennie Tristano p/ Sonny Dallas b/ Nick Stabulas d [band members from credits rolled at the end] 1. Subconscious Lee (Lee Konitz) - almost 6 min 2. @ 317 East 32nd Street (Lennie Tristano; Out of Nowhere changes) - almost 10 min 3. Background Music (Warne Marsh) - almost 8 mins :I:

theHellza Poppin

8y↑1

Good times. Thank you Tadeus !!!!

Jay Francis

6y↑1

From time to time just to amuse myself I make lists. For jazz I pick my top three players on each instrument. For piano Lennie Tristano is number two (after Oscar Peterson); On tenor Warne Marsh is number three (after Zoot Sims and Stan Getz) and on alto Lee Konitz is number one after nobody.

fred price

9y↑18

I heard that band, and I loved that club. $2 meatball hero's!

noahvale939

9y↑6

fred price There's no apostrophe in heros.

Alan Senzaki

7y↑1

fred price wow. must have been incredible experience. i was only fourteen at the time when i got turned on to jazz. coltrane, miles, evans, mose, monk and of course lee, warne, tristano. i remember searching high and low for the lee konitz / warne marsh album. i still have that album.

sclogse1

Wonder if you saw my friend Christopher Lane there back then. Turned 80 a few weeks ago...

bellsystem_1877

6y↑5

NO WAY LEE AND WARNE COULD PLAY LIKE THAT AND POUND MEATBALL HEROS, I BET THEY DIDNT HAVE ANY

Helen Chan

Thanks for sharing this video! Came across 317 32nd from Mark Turner and nice to discover Lennie/Warne/Lee, I didn't know this footage existed!

mark kimbrell

11y

yes,,,this is just great,,wow!!!

GeoCoppens

11y↑5

With Sonny Dallas (bass) and Nick Stabulas (drums). Poor sound, awesome music!!!

anonagain

Thanks - was wondering who the drummer was.

Isak Sigurdssønn Hungnes

7:52 - 317

10:10 - Lennie solo

Hoyt Henry

10y↑2

Great music, but few shots of Konitz for some reason. He was really hot during this period. Everyone was playing superbly. Konitz was playing the half note then with Sonny Dallas and Elvin Jones which resulted in a fantastic record(s). Jazz clubs in NYC were (and are) tiny places with the audience stuffed in like sardines. This was not Ramsey Lewis. These people had to be serious about jazz to be out listening to Lennie Tristano. The Half Note was one of the best clubs at this time.

Folks this was a "religious" (serious variety) program, thus the attempt to put it in a Christian context. I think I saw this or something similar to it featuring Tristano, etc. on CBS in the middle 70s, but it was interrupted midway by a report from the UN. Maybe they were rerunning it or it was a new version or a different CBS program that focused on the arts. Anyway it was Sunday morning and the local station (Cleveland) preempted it regularly. I had to wait until the summer to catch it from Toledo when the conditions for VHF skipping were right.
From the internet:
Look Up and Live was a series that ran on CBS from 1954 until 1979. The show featured a number of inspirational and religious speeches designed to provide viewers with enough hope to last the week. There were a number of hosts on the show including Reverend Lawrence McMasters and Merv Griffin. At times, the host would alternate every season. The 30-minute show aired every Sunday morning and was targeted for religious audiences throughout the United States.

Look Up and Live (religious anthology)
(CBS Sunday Mornings, 1954 - 1979) [a rare network-sponsored program dealing with the subject of religion; in fulfilling the former mandate of the F.C.C. for stations and networks to produce programs "in the public interest, convenience and necessity", and in view of the fact stations and network licenses were up for renewal periodically, not only were public service programs produced, but non-demoninational or omni- denominational programs were sometimes a part of that mix; As in this series, this kind of "religious anthology" format followed the familiar "dramatic anthology" pattern well-known to TV viewers of the 1950s, except there was a spiritual angle to the story; To be fair to many faiths and denominations, there were many different pastors and priests included in the story line; but primarily the series focused on stories of Judao-Christian traditional values; The hosts of this religious anthology series ranged from the Reverend Lawrence McMaster to Merv Griffin]

Raymond Ginn

Hoyt Henry Nonsense...Sorry,you have knowledge buyt you don't get the big picture.Marsh was a convert to Islam months before he died onstage at Donte's,I believe it was.Konitz?Of course not:he's still playing well at 92,but I don't see any point at all in framing this in a Judeo-Christian 'traditional values'?Why?One of the best sax players of our time is both Jewish n Anti-Zionist.Why politicize everything?N Tristano?What was he to you?A dago?

lenabloch

+Raymond Ginn Warne never "converted" to anything and my teacher Lee is 87.

Mihai Iordache

@Hoyt Henry Thanks, I was really wondering what the little sermon had to do with the music, especially as it goes on during one of the tunes.

Matt LeGroulx

7y↑3

Warne Marsh practicing fingering during Konitz's solo. Dedication!

Marylou Leeman

Isn't this the obvious Brubeck dream team precursor?

Grant Koeller

6y↑4

The audience has 2 kinds of people those who "Get it" and those who don't hear "it"

ghairraigh

8y↑10

Lennie Tristano performs for the CBS television at Manhattan's Half Note Club on June 6, 1964. Personnel: Lennie Tristano, piano Lee Konitz, alto sax Warne Marsh, tenor sax Sonny Dallas, bass Nick Stabulas, drums. Set List: 1 "Subconscious Lee" 2 "317 East 32nd Street" 3 "Background Music". Footage filmed for the CBS TV show "Look up and Live" narrated by Dr. William Hamilton. Dr. Hamilton surely is a pompous ass... the band starts a tune and HE WON'T SHUT UP!

André Silva

7y↑4

Fernando Villegas not really. lee konitz is still alive and kicking

Fernando Villegas

Great

anonagain

4y↑2

@André Silva - He passed on today at age 92 of pneumonia related to COVID-19. Rest In Peace Lee, and thanks for the music.

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Jim Brown

8y↑2

The host of the TV broadcast is highly disrespectful of the musicians and the audience, yelling his comments while the band grooves and the audience tries to listen. What a loser! The lighting is terrible -- we never get to see Konitz, except in shadow, ditto for Stabulus.

Now for the good part -- this is a real time capsule of a classic band I've listened to on record, but never thought I'd get to see. I've heard Konitz in clubs several times, first around 1965, most recently in 2014, and still playing with as much imagination as ever. And Warne played a week with SuperSax at a Chicago club where I was doing sound. What a treat!

Mort Weiss

This is the way it was.

Thomas Arneson

37w

A little to noisy for me. Two saxes soloing together and the constant pounding of the drummer. My problem i guess. Nice to see though, a rare video. I actually bought Tristanos solo LP around 1964. In that one he plays a walking bass with his left hand and bebop lines with his right. An interesting sound.

Jacobus Scheeres

8y↑3

aahhh, to go to a joint, smoke, have someone bring you a cocktail and listen to a bit of jazz.

Jacobus Scheeres

oh my, lee morgan 'speedball'

Daniel Suarez

@lennonforever40 well said.

Alan Senzaki

@lennonforever40 😂😨

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djandersonny

10y↑4

Yes scarfacejosh123 and Sam Greenfield, you’re so right. This Dr. William Hamilton seems to think that “Background Music” is supposed to be background music. I actually listened to some of this doggedly persistent bloviation. Hamilton was apparently part of the God Is Dead revival. He maintained that divine transcendence had lost its relevance in the contemporary world. While this may be true, we all would have prayed to God that he would have listened to himself, “...but finally the protestant task here, is not to impose meaning, but to listen, listen, and listen...”, and shut the fuck up.

Richard Leigh

I suspect that the only way to smuggle some good jazz onto TV was to dress it up as a religious experience. In the UK, the BBC won't broadcast any music on Radio 3 without commentary - so even a broadcast of Beethoven's 5th has to be prefaced by someone telling us who Beethoven was, and that he had previously written three earlier symphonies for symphony orchestra...............Yes, the man is absurd; but maybe now we can just enjoy the way he parodies himself, and if that's the price of the chance to see this band, then so be it.

Peter Lapper

11y↑3

who,s on drums? he's so good.

Nikosi9

5y↑1

Nick Stabulis on drums

noahvale939

9y↑2

Hamilton is not only pompous, he's unnecessary, adding little or nothing to the music. He looks to be in his thirties in 1964; so, do the math: he's probably in his nineties now if he's still alive. If he's no longer alive, I'll give him this much credit: he's spinning in his grave over the foul anti-semitism expressed here. There's no room for this kind of hatred, or any other kind, in music.

lenabloch

+noahvale939 what antisemitism?? This is not a Jewish band!

noahvale939

+lenabloch I think I must have been reacting to something that was said in one of the much earlier comments. I assure you it had nothing to do with the members of the band. Sorry for any confusion.

Al O

6y↑1

Died in 2012 in Portland Oregon. Here is his obit: http://blog.oregonlive.com/lifestories/2012/02/william_hamilton_the_god-is-de.html. He was apparently once a controversial and well-known theologian (well, as well known as a theologian ever gets - he had his own TV show after all, and a Time Magazine cover story). He went to teach at Portland State and soon faded from the public consciousness. One could only wish that he'd faded before he decided to blather all over this much more interesting and historically important music.

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John Lindstrom

"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is in there somewhere.

spraddr

11y↑1

Our host, Dr. William Hamilton: "Johann Sebastian Bach fought pietism vigorously--and it's being fought today by such magazines as Playboy"!!! Baby, that is CLASSIC!!! Hip Protestantism, 1964 style!

Bob Taylor

And so nice to be taught by an authority, isn't it?

noble debate

28w

The host, Dr. William Hamilton, was pissing out of the pot, I do not know whether Lennie Tristano, or any other musician, was an atheist, but many Christians like me, like Jazz independently their religion beliefs.

坂巻　去来

❤️😃🍀

joel fass

3y↑2

All well and good, and I think highly of Warne too. But not ONE black person in the audience, for a JAZZ group? What's THAT about? And the 'best' jazz group, with all the greats still around? Not a slam on Tristano or his group, just a comment on how divided the races were (still are, let's be real) and how the commentator was, as a result, equipped to praise only the jazz coming from the culture he understood and came out of...

Dave Frank

3y↑1

blah blah blah

Leo Bird

@Dave Frank haha that’s right Dave. The music is about the MUSIC. If your takeaway from listening to this is some politics thought, you missed the show

Ricardo da Mata

Thank you very much!

Jonathan Dane

10y↑1

Interesting comments around 18:00. Couple observations: 1.) How far we have become as a society away from even considering these questions, since Christianity has been so dismissed from the public arena. Faith must now keep it's "proper" place which is out of the public square altogether. Is this a good thing? 2.) True, Tristano's music is both emotional and intellectual. If we were to ever even consider the God question again, perhaps some appropriate questions would be: Where does intellect and emotion stem from? And what of creativity; specifically the kind (like jazz) that seems to instantaneously create something out of virtually nothing? Is this not what Genesis shows us? Except God had no chord changes to accompany Himself. Or do we attribute this great gift to evolution? What was once so sure in the Cathedrals of science is becoming more and more questioned. Most musicians and critics would now scoff at these observations preferring to keep God out and man autonomous. Guess we've "evolved" past these ideas. Where is the closed mind?

Ptah Studio

Jonathan Dane I couple this with understanding that their are strong religious undertones in the creation of blues/jazz music being that Black/African are the original people to conceptualize the medium

Tom

31w

Unfortunately my Uncle Nick Stabulas passed away too young in 1973 car crash .

Héctor O. Manghi

Espero que lo goces mucho mas que yo

Grant Koeller

6y↑1

2nd tune....
Out of Nowhere

Michael Dr.Frohne

12y

Check out the changes of the other tunes on jazzrealities blog. There is a list of the Tristano et al. tunes with changes. And more information. jazzrealities ( a friend of Lee since more than 30 years)

Peter Lapper

11y

nice very rear this one, Tristano an his deciples 5star stuf this guys.

Caleb Tusk Ossmann’s Organ Room

8y↑1

Audience member totally vining the host at 17:47 hahahah

V H

12y

what is the name of the second tune??

Idiotypus

why doesn t some jazz institution clean up the audio and preserve these films

Tom Djll

8y↑3

I don't see much smoke in the air. With those camera lights on the audience, you'd expect to see clouds and clouds of it. Did they ask the patrons to "cool it" in the cig department?

Kate Richardson

3y↑1

We definitely smoked there

John Bartholomew

10y↑2

Second piece is based on You Come to Me From Out of Nowhere, is it not?

John Bartholomew

10y↑1

Jerry Kennedy That's definitely one for the book of jazz anecdotes.

John Bartholomew

10y↑1

Jerry Kennedy Thanks in return. Always happy to exchange thoughts with other fans of this music.

Marco Villarreal

Subconscious-Lee!!!

Cat Man

11y

Wow.

Ben Grigorov

17:35 lol this guy

Grant Koeller

What is this thing called love

Tasi Chang Wu

Sonny Dallas on bass?

Mort Weiss

Tune, "Out of No where"?

tpe54

no beatniks in the audience.....the folk/rock scene was in full swing then......I surmise jazz was for the old and square by 1964

Charles Duckett Jr.

4y↑1

I guess "you" are maybe 22 YO. Hippie rock was in the future in 1964. "A Love Supreme" by Coltrane was from Dec. 1964. Hendrix didn't have a record out until late 1966. I would say that "you" are a square for having little knowledge. Hipster of 2020 = square.

broskoone

Not in 1964. Beatles I want to hold your hand just coming out was for kids. This is NY City in the day. This was the hip scene at that time.

Bernardo Cavalcanti

11y

man, what's up with this guy talking filosofy at 18'??? I wanna listen and see the musicians!

zbeeez / zach berns

That Paul Motian ...??

Ben Allison

8y↑1

+Zach Berns Nick Stabulas (drums), Sonny Dallas ( bass)

Stephane Neidhardt

Al the Waiter ? 7:35

dribnif yaknow

7y↑4

I have great respect for Tristano, Konitz and Marsh. But that commentator needs to be edited out. It's Incoherent babble trying to sound intellectually cool - and that's on top of the fact that there's an implied racism to his words, which completely disregards the music's origins.

Alan Senzaki

dribnif yaknow i agree completely. that was the time. notice.. dont see any people of color on the audience except for the puerto rican waiter.

Al O

6y↑1

Seriously. "Nature of man" "nature of god", wth? A lot of claptrap to weigh down some excellent music with.

Keith Kirk

5y↑2

Give the guy a break. He's almost as unintentionally funny as the Trump family while doing somewhat less damage to the world. And Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan never had Lenny Tristano on their shows.

spb 78

Let’s just be happy this was filmed.

Alan Senzaki

@Keith Kirk it's 2020 now and we finally got that madman trump out of office. Well have to get a swat team to drag him out. The music is beautiful! Always loved Tristano, Marsh and Konitz.

soundsandsoul

7:51

Bernardo Cavalcanti

11y

I can't understand either..!

Mort Weiss

6y↑1

Still In 1964 - a all white audience.

Nikosi9

Notice that the band was all white. Not many blacks went for this type of jazz. The audience when Coltrane was there was always mixed...Happy now?

Paul Connah

We don't really get a good look at the whole crowd in this dim lighting. It's mostly white, but not all white: 01:49

Keith Otis Edwards

9y↑1

Yeah, guys like the Rev. Dr. Hamilton are what killed jazz -- the same thing that killed classical music -- taking it too seriously. Since when does music need commentary?