song: Blue Smoke

artist: Miles Shadow

lyric_line: Blue smoke curling through the spotlight beam

mood: smoky

composition: stage spotlight

camera: low stage angle

description: A single spotlight cuts through blue cigarette smoke. A saxophone gleams in the beam.


lyric_line: Rain tapping rhythms on the club window

mood: cool

composition: smoke layers

camera: smoky soft focus

description: Rain streaks down a window, through which a club interior glows warmly.


lyric_line: Chiaroscuro playing on the ivory keys

mood: brooding

composition: instrument focus

camera: slow rack focus

description: A figure at a piano, half in light, half in shadow. The keys are ivory and obsidian.


lyric_line: Whiskey neat, piano talking to itself

mood: improvisational

composition: audience blur

camera: ambient light

description: A whiskey glass catches light from a dim lamp. In the background, a piano waits.


lyric_line: Last call approaching, sax still going strong

mood: mellow

composition: table top-down

camera: close-up hands

description: The bar is almost empty. A saxophonist plays to the last few listeners. Closing time.


lyric_line: Satin steps gliding across the stage floor

mood: noir

composition: bar counter leading

camera: steady medium

description: A figure in satin shoes crosses a dark stage. The spotlight follows their feet.


lyric_line: Cool breeze through the alley behind the club

mood: suave

composition: stage wings view

camera: moody low-key

description: An alley behind a jazz club. A cool breeze moves discarded sheet music across the ground.


lyric_line: After midnight, the real music begins

mood: wistful

composition: silhouette trio

camera: cigarette haze

description: Past midnight: the club glows like an ember. The band plays to an audience of ghosts.


lyric_line: Autumn leaves falling in six-eight time

mood: intense

composition: rain-streaked window

camera: warm tungsten

description: Dead leaves drift across a rain-slicked sidewalk. A jazz poster peels from a brick wall.


lyric_line: Smoke signals rising from the bass line

mood: reflective

composition: neon reflection

camera: grainy film

description: From the bass player's perspective: the audience is a blur, the smoke rises.


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artist: Nina Noir


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artist: Duke Gray


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artist: The Night Owls


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artist: Billie Dusk


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artist: Sidney Smooth


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artist: Cole Autumn


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artist: The Indigo Club