1. |
Change Is Coming
04:51
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CHANGE IS COMING Music & Lyrics Julie O’Hara
Form: AAB Latin/swing
A1.(Latin feel)
Change is coming
I heard it on the breeze
A growing echo through the trees
Change is coming
Your voice will be the light upon your wings as you take flight
A2.
Drums are drumming
The beat of every heart
Longing for another start
Change is coming
United we will bring together hope’s eternal spring
Bridge: (swing)
Imagine a world that is peaceful and safe
Where people are valued and loved
Tender is the evening star
Standing at the edge of time
Longing for our voices to be heard
We may fall but we’ll rise up again
Surrounded by beauty and joy
Beauty and joy
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2. |
Keeping It Solid
03:30
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Keeping It Solid Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: AA
A1:
We’re moving in time
We’re towing the line
Keeping it solid
We don’t make it straight
Straight for the gate
Keeping it solid
It plays with your mind
’till the day that we die
Keeping it solid
Music will always be divine
When you’re keeping it solid
A2:
You will find the truth if you can open up the answer waiting there in your mind
Yes it’s crazy!
Just imagine what you might find
Never hesitate when there’s a way to get it right
Searching for the feeling you and I are all connected here in a piece of rhyme, a break in time, space and mind
B:
According to the Sonny Rollin’s calculator
The sum is always greater than it’s parts
Sonny Rollins knew it every single time he blew a note
A freedom of ease that digs, like solid doing
Solid doing
C: Interlude - scat line
Solos: Piano and vox exchange
C: Interlude – scat line
D:
Scratcher’s scratching
Rhythm he’s hatching
Soon the beat will multiply before our eyes
It’s the birth of a brand new beat
It’s only purpose is to move our feet
Sway our minds, to sunnier times
A sunset beach and a touch divine
You do the voodoo that you do so well, so well
E:
Starting singing bebop in the crib
Dribbling bebop down my bib
Addicted to the rhythm
Hooked on every flavour
Putting on a record, going back is what I savour
The hooks and the riffs, now part of my behaviour
The feels and the grooves, beats and the moves
A dichotomy of melody created by a special brood, of jazz musicians
Some of them magicians
Calculating melody like mathematicians
This is the world that I love
This is the world that I crave
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3. |
Leaving
06:40
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Leaving Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: AABA
A1.
When you’re heart is breaking
It’s a drag
You walk around the world
Just feeling sad
You try to feel alive
But only end up hurting deeper inside
You’ll never forget, all of those nights
He kept you waiting
A2.
Time will give you everything you need
No longer will your poor heart have to bleed
You’ll find love in the end
But only when your heart takes time out to mend
Remember, you’ve got a friend in anyone else who knows the feeling
Bridge:
When it was love, your spirit was high
You gave it all you could, you know that you tried
But when it all turned bad
You knew with a sigh
That it was time for leaving
A3.
Take a little time out just to breathe
You’ll find your strength again
If you believe
You loved with a heart of gold
And now you feel it down deep in your soul
Remember, you’ve got a friend in anyone else
who knows the feeling
Feeling
SOLOS (from recording, ‘All In The One Room’)
Tenor saxophone (Anton Delecca) over form AABA
Piano (Steve Sedergreen) over A
Bass (Mark Elton) over A
Bridge: (vox in)
When it was love’ your spirit was high
You gave it all you could
You know that you tried
But when it all turned bad
You knew with a sigh
That it was time for leaving
A4.
Time will give you everything you need
No longer will your poor heart have to bleed
You’ll find love in the end
But only when your heart takes time out to mend
Remember
You’ve got a friend in anyone else who knows the feeling.
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4. |
Over
04:26
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Over Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara P1.
Form: AAsolo AAsoloAAsolo
A1.
I was mistaken
I was shaken to the core
I fell
Holding on to all of the piece of my broken heart
Never knowing
What tore us apart
A2.
And everyday
Our constellation is loosing stars
From all the words that should never have been spoken
Still echo in a heart that is broken
What was I to do?
Where was I to go?
What was I to say?
When a love affair is over
Solo trumpet (Eamon McNelis, from recording ‘All In The One Room’)
A3.
And like a vapour
All the promises we made
Just vanished into air
We no longer cared enough to hold on to
What it was that made our souls collide
We were flying high
Our love was wild
And our flame
Flickered and died
From a love that went cold
Time is a killer of dreams for us
We no longer cared enough to hold on to us
What was I to do?
Where was I to go?
What is there to say?
When a love like ours is over
Solo piano, Steve Sedergreen
A4.
Standing at the edge of tomorrow
wondering what this world will bring
I cannot be afraid to change
You know that we weren’t meant to stay the same
You hurt me
Every time you lied to my face
I kind of knew the truth but I didn’t want to believe it was possible
Solos – bass, Mark Elton
A5.
I was mistaken
I was shaken to the core
I fell
Holding on to all of the piece of my broken heart
Never knowing what tore us apart
A6.
And everyday
Our constellation is loosing stars
From all the words that should never have been spoken
Still echo in a. heart that is broken
What was I to do?
What was I to go?
What was I to say
When a love affair is over
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5. |
Drop The Penny
03:53
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Drop The Penny Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: AABC
A1:
What will it take to make the penny drop?
Keep the needle on the record so the beat won’t stop
Shake your body to the sound of a human beat
It’s rockin’
Not stoppin’
A2:
Feel up the funk but don’t forget the bop
Keep ascendinging on the bass to make your body rock
Groove your soul to the sound of a human beat
It’s rockin’
Not stoppin’
B:
Not stopping here tonight
We’ve got this party right
I’m groovin’ here with you
Like a flower in bloom
We own this world tonight
Let’s make this moment right
Come closer here to me
Be my ecstasy cause
C:
I’ve got something and
You’ve got something
We’ve all got something that deep inside
Tells us to get it
If we hesitate a moment too long we’ll loose it
Before we get to choose it
Don’t let dreams go slippin’ as time goes ticking on by, by, by, by ,by
Scat/horn interlude
Solos
Tenor saxophone (Anton Delecca)
Piano solo (Steve Sedergreen)
Vocal solo (Julie O’Hara)
B:
Not stopping here tonight
We’ve got this party right
I’m groovin’ here with you
Like a flower in bloom
We own this world tonight
Let’s make this moment right
Come closer here to me
Be my ecstasy cause
C:
I’ve got something and
You’ve got something
We’ve all got something that deep inside
Tells us to get it
If we hesitate a moment too long we’ll loose it
Before we get to choose it
Don’t let dreams go slippin’ as time goes ticking on by, by, by, by ,by
Scat/horn interlude
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6. |
All In The One Room
03:53
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ALL IN THE ONE ROOM MUSIC & LYRICS BY JULIE O’HARA
FORM: AABBCA
A1:
All in the one room
Hate and love
Bitter and sweet
Black and white
Day becomes night
A2:
All in the one room
Loving and fighting
Truth and lying
Crying and sighing
Surrender from trying
B1:
We’re running from the fire
Arms up in the air
Everything is moving fast
So how long will this fire last?
Take me aside
Hold me close
While the sun is setting
We have this place all to ourselves
B2:
The painting is finished
A portrait of our love
So supreme
With the riots
Interrupting the flow
When the fire’s hot
There is no where else to go
C1:
The light is shining on both sides now
And the power comes from love
Don’t let our memories fade
By pushing up
The centigrade any further
A3:
All in the one room
Hate and love
Bitter and sweet
Black and white
Day becomes night
Day becomes night
Solos
Piano solo
Bass solo
C2:
The light is shining on both sides now
And the power comes from love
Don’t let our colors fade
By pushing up
The centigrade any further
A1:
All in the one room
Hate and love
Bitter and sweet
Black and white
Day becomes night
A2:
All in the one room
Loving and fighting
Truth and lying
Crying and sighing
Surrender from trying
Surrender from trying
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7. |
Joy's Universe
05:25
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Joy’s Universe Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: AABA
Intro:
Let the possibilities overflow!
Let the possibilities overflow!
A1:
Now we’re flying high for a reason
Underneath a spell
A thrill to blow all your troubles away
Gone for a day
A2.
Now I find that I’m a believer
Let the notion spread
from heart to mind
leave your trouble behind
Bridge:
How long ago
Broken dreams under snow
Came to life in the warmth of the sun
Now that love’s streaming
Our hearts can start dreaming again
Let the possibilities overflow
A3:
You can amplify what I’m feeling
And I wouldn’t mind
Cause love helped me leave my trouble behind
Interlude
Let the possibilities overflow!
Let the possibilities overflow!
Solos (from recording - vocal over form, drums over AA, piano over BA)
A1.
Now we’re flying high for a reason
Underneath a spell
A thrill to blow all your troubles away
Gone for a day
A2.
Now I find that I’m a believer
Let the notion spread
from heart to mind
leave our troubles behind
Bridge 2:
How will we know?
When to stay when to go
Till a kiss brings the warmth of the sun
It’s pain in reverse
It’s joy’s universe again
Let the possibilities overflow
A3.
You can amplify what I’m feeling
And I wouldn’t mind
Cause love helped me
Leave my trouble behind
Outro:
Let the possibilities over flow
Let the possibilities over flow
Let the possibilities over flow
Let the possibilities over flow
Overflow
Overflow
Overflow
Overflow
Overflow
Overflow
It's pain in reverse
It's joy's universe again
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8. |
The Trip
05:55
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The Trip Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: Intro AABBCC
A1.
Groovin’
Movin’
You’ll never know until you give it a try
You’ll be swinging, swaying
And everybody will be asking you why?
You’ll be smiling
Flying
High on the fact that we’ve got only one life
So you better start loving and giving
And have a good time while you’re living
A2:
You better know it
Sow it
Make any dream come true if you get a chance
You’ll be healing
Reeling
Now that you’re moving to your own grooving dance
Don’t forget it
Get it
It’s up to you it’s not a thing you can buy
So start picking up again
Back to the top again
Now
B1:
The only thing to do is dance
Now you know what I’m saying
Even shuffling your feet
To any old beat
You’ve got to feel the rhythm
Moving in them
Keep it spinning, never resist
The wonderful beats
That give your feet a good reason to walk in this direction
Feel my heart is jumping to the beat
I’m trying hard here just to speak
B2:
Because you really do move me
You do groove me
You really know the way to my heart it’s true
There’s really nothing that I want to do about it
I can’t live without it
You’ve got rhythm
Anyone that’s got a life that’s boring
Better be dancing and stop snoring in the middle
So, put the needle on the record and the record on the microphone
C: (Solos Piano, Vocal Improv)
Roll up this is your time to move
Hold up this is your time to groove
Get hep hep hep
Get ready for the trip
Scat line
I don’t care what time it is
All I know is that I’m down for this
I’m gonna keep on grooving till the sun comes up!
Trumpet solo
Vocal solo
Repeat AAB
Coda
Come on and get hip (hip, hip)
Get ready for the trip (trip, trip)
Just loosen all your grip (grip, grip)
And let your body slip (slip slip)
Get hip (hip, hip)
Get ready for the trip (trip, trip)
Just loosen all your grip (grip, grip)
And let your body slip (slip slip)
Scat and Bv’s/trumpet unison
Ooohs to end.
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9. |
Peace
03:26
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Peace Music & Lyrics Julie O’Hara
Form: A1B1A2B2A3solosB1A3
A1.
Twilight breaks and stars awake
Illuminate a path through chaos and time
Hearts collide in space and time
With a promise rich of treasure to find
B1:
While memories of secret dreams
Return to the shadows of yesterday
And hearts ablaze in sweet embrace
Hoping to live for another day
Another day
A2.
Tangled dreams of whispering
Where the truth evaporates with the dawn
Imagination free and wild
Crossing over just to feel alive
B2:
So caught up in the strings of melodies
So enchanting, unravelling
And swept way to brighter days
When our love was new
Our love was new
A3.
Realm of possibilities
Is a thing that only dreamers can find
Magical, a new design
Where the waking hearts will finally find
Peace
Peace
Peace
Solos (from recording, ‘All In The One Room’)
Piano
B2: (Vox in)
So caught up in the strings of melodies so enchanting,
Unravelling
And swept way to brighter days
When our love was new
Our love was new
A3.
Realm of possibilities
Is a thing that only dreamers can find
Magical, a new design
Where the waking hearts will finally find
Peace
Peace
Peace
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10. |
Coming After You
05:36
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Coming after you Music & Lyrics Julie O’Hara
Form: AABA
A1.
You’re running from the feeling
Straight for the gate
There is no way for you to fight it
So I’m telling it straight
It’s coming after you, babe
It’s coming after you
A2.
Now every time you see her
You shiver and shake
Blown away by all of the feelings
of the love you could make
It’s coming after you, babe
It’s coming after you
Bridge:
What to do?
You’ve got a crazy attitude where loving’s concerned
What to do?
Well maybe you’re afraid that you’re, gonna burn
A3.
Now there’s a way to fight it
But you’ve got to stay
Don’t go running mad and crazy
in the opposite way
It’s coming after you, babe
It’s coming after you
It’s coming after you, babe
It’s coming after you
Improv/rap
Do you go right, left or down the middle
Why is every question now a riddle?
I think it’s time to fiddle with your fate
Take a turn a little late
Maybe that might detonate a change for you to celebrate
Manipulate what you control
Validate your own existence
A bend cannot be found without persistence
Dimensional mess
Feeding on stress
Will you confess
To give your destiny a different address
Solos
Repeat form AABA
Coda
And so you shall remain
Sitting in a pool of doubt
Reaching for a miracle to pull you out x2
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11. |
Returning Me To You
05:11
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RETURNING ME TO YOU Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: AABC
A1:
Throw myself, silently
Fall into eternity
A2:
Hearts grow cold on the steps of hell
Feel my pulse
It’s racing in time
B:
The matrix of my heart
Consoling me with hope
Lifting my feet of evil ground
C:
Returning me to love
Returning me to you
A3:
Evening star
Swinging low
Tell me all I need to know
A4:
Guide me through
This smoky blue
So I, may reach, my destiny
B:
The matrix of my heart
Consoling me with hope
Lifting my feet of evil ground
C:
Returning me to love
Returning me to you
Solos: (From recording ‘All in the One Room”)
Bass solo (Mark Elton)
Piano solo (Steve Sedergreen)
vocal scat solo (Julie O'Hara)
A3:
Evening star
Swinging low
Tell me all I need to know
A4:
Guide me through
This smoky blue
So I, may reach, my destiny
B:
The matrix of my heart
Consoling me with hope
Lifting my feet of evil ground
C:
Returning me to love
Returning me to you
Outro:
It’s so close now, I can taste it
Got this feeling in my bones I’m not gonna waste it
No more running round in circles, getting further from my truth
I’m finally home
With love
With you
vocal improv to end
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12. |
Future Paradise
05:59
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Future Paradise Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: AABC
A1:
Beside me and beside you
There’s an answer to this question that keeps rising up
Inside the waves of our mind’s, ocean of life
Take me to a place
Where our love reigned supreme
Love can burn but can it turn this nightmare into a dream?
A2:
Beside me and beside you
So much love
We haven’t been too,
So much to loose
So hold me tight and breath
For a new beginning of life
Take me to a place
Where two souls can collide
Ride again united
For a future paradise
B:
A future paradise
A future Paradise
A future paradise
A future paradise
C:
Beside me and beside you
It’s so simple
Just like watching a child at play
It’s either yes or no
Or stay or go
But don’t leave our love this way
Why this battlefield?
Where everyone will loose
Free the enemy in your mind
For the very last time and choose
D:
A future paradise
A future paradise
A future paradise
A future paradise
Solos (from recording ‘All In The One Room’)
Sax solo (Anton Delecca)
Piano solo (Steve Sedergreen)
Vox back in on C:
Beside me and beside you
It’s so simple
Just like watching a child at play
It’s either yes or no
Or stay or go
But don’t leave our love this way
Why this battlefield?
Where everyone will loose
Free the enemy in your mind for the very last time and choose
D:
A future paradise
A future paradise
A future paradise
A future paradise
“We have a love worth fighting for
If we don’t try
What was it for?”
A future paradise
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13. |
Uptown
02:30
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UPTOWN Music & Lyrics by Julie O’Hara
Form: ABAC
Intro:
TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
UPTOWN x4
A:
WE’RE JAMMING THROUGH THE NIGHT
HARMONY’S IN SEASON
LINGER IN THE STRATOSPHERE
DREAMS ARE MADE TO PLAY RIGHT HERE
SUSPEND ALL NOTION OF ALL DOUBT AND FEAR
B:
MELODY OVERPOWERING REASON AT A SPEED TO MAGNIFY
A KINGDOM OF UNYEILDING GRACE
PENDULUM IT SWINGS TO THE HORIZON OF A HEAVENLY DREAM
UPHOLD THE WAY THE MUSIC PLAYS
AND TAKE THE BUZZ UPTOWN
A:
WE’RE DRIFTING DOWN A STREAM
CAN’T ESCAPE THIS FEELING
I’M GETTING HIGH ON BIRD AND DIZ
A WATERFALL OF POSITIVES
SO GET UP TOWN TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
C:
UPTOWN
TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
UPTOWN X2
TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
SOLOS
Tenor Saxophone (Anton Delecca)
Bass (Mark Elton Elton) - From recording, ’All The One Room’)
A:
WHO CARES FOR STATUS QUO
DON’T TRY TO DIAGNOSE IT
COMPARISONS A USELESS VIBE
DIVIDE AND CONQUER BEATS COLLIDE
IGNITE THE UNIVERSE
AND FEEL ALIVE
B:
WELL, HERE’S TO THE LONGEVITY OF HUMAN CREATIVITY
PLAYING EVERYTHING WE FEEL
FOR THEIR FINE FACILITY WE THANK THEM WITH SINCERITY TRUE
A NOBLE LIFE PHILOSOPHY
A RECORD OF US ALL
A:
I’M DRIFTING DOWN A STREAM
CAN’T ESCAPE THIS FEELING
I’M GETTING HIGH ON BIRD AND DIZ
A WATERFALL OF POSITIVES
SO GET UPTOWN TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
C:
TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
UPTOWN,
TO WHERE THE MUSIC LIVES
UPTOWN x2
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Julie O'Hara Melbourne, Australia
New contemporary jazz album "All in the One Room' out early 2024.
Hi, I'm Julie, a
jazz artist from Melbourne, Australia. I have many influences however am particularly drawn to the quintet sound of the 50's and 60's and the art of vocalese. I love bop, latin jazz Afrocuban music and groove. I love writing across many genres, inspired by the bands that I play with and the stories along the way.
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