Greensleeves

And that's how Pretty much all of the first piece, "Africa," sounds.

And then "Greensleeves," similar.

And "Greensleeves" also has a feel similar to "My Favorite Things," so kind of getting towards that modal stuff again.

And then finally in "Blues Minor," you actually hear some of the other instruments carrying the melody.

The-- none of them get solos, just Coltrane and his quartet members, especially pianist McCoy Tyner, get to do the soloing and stuff.

Gathering the folk songs handed down in his homeland, he nurtured a music of warm, distinctly English color.

Today, we bring you the Fantasia on Greensleeves.

Greensleeves is an old English love song sung to a lady in green sleeves, a melody almost everyone has heard at some time.

Von Williams used the tune in an interlude from one of his own operas, and later shaped it into this Fantasia.

In the middle section, another folk song, Lovely Joan, quietly appears.

Carried on the sound of the harp, it flows gently, like a breeze crossing a green meadow.

Thoughts drifting toward far-off greensleeves.

Today, on Von Williams' birthday, we bring you the Fantasia on Greensleeves, for Windband.

Now, to refresh your memory, it was the episode Take Your Daughter to Work Day in season two, episode 18, that got me started on this.

Dwight is playing the song Greensleeves on his little recorder, you know, for the kids who came in to work that day.

They're all in the conference room.

And he mentions Greensleeves was the song, and I had to look it up, and that led me to this journey about the color green.

Let's hear it.

[upbeat music] This is big.

That might not be saying much.

[laughs] This is a big card for me.

When you look at modern folk revival movements, you see the same pattern.

Musicians re-recording Greensleeves or Scarborough Fair keep the refrain, but insert new verses about climate change or political protests.

The ballad's repetitive heart lets them remix meaning without losing the original melody.

And that brings us to an unexpected twist.

The shorts should be packed away.

Hearing a mangled mechanical version of Green Sleeves will be a distant memory as the ice cream vans are mothballed for the winter and the joy of a tea time trip to the tip is over.

Although I suppose it depends what time you have your tea.

From Thursday, Dorset Council's household recycling centres, including ours at Winkham, will shut earlier.

He also was not above being influenced by medieval music as well.

You're going to play green sleeves, aren't you? Where does this fit into Coltrane's output?

Yeah.

You know, I sometimes try to imagine him listening to Greensleeves or My Favourite Things, listening to The Sound of Music and try to picture him going, yeah, yeah, that's going to be a great tune, you know.

Yes, so he gave a 1500s tune, The Jazz Going Over.

Thank you.

Green Sleeves, Coltrane, with an expanded line-up, and that's the alternative take from the Africa Brass Sessions, Volume 2, if you're making notes.

We've had so many music show guests over the years who've been doing their own versions of Coltrane tunes and records, people like Andy Sugg, who we just heard, and also Branford Marsalis, who we heard from earlier.