RIP Billy Barnes

Billy Barnes may not be a name that is over familiar to jazz fans but it should be! Barnes composed the title track for the immortal June Christy album Something Cool. A charismatic piece that tells the story of a woman bending the ear of a stranger in a bar whilst drinking "Something Cool." Its enigmatic - has she really fallen so far from grace, or does she just have a drink infused imagination?

Whatever, the song is one powerful item

Barnes also wrote Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair? for Barbra Streisand.

Billy Barnes died on Sept. 25 aged 85.

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