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On this show, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis invite the Sesame Street gang onstage. Plus, trombonist Joe Fielder s Open Sesame share rare songs from the Sesame songbook.
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1 Brianna Thomas, Everybody Knows. This album is a multigenre excursion of soulfulness, evoking many moods and emotions. Thomas flexible delivery is effortless and assured, particularly on her rendition of Nina Simone s Mississippi Goddam.
2 Jeremy Pelt, Griot: This Is Important! With this album, the jazz trumpeter expands on what it means to be a storyteller by capturing stories for posterity. It s his take on the West African Griot tradition where stories and reminiscences are handed down as oral histories, which here includes interviews with his peers followed by his compositions as exclamation points.
Saint Coltrane: The Church Built On A Love Supreme wbgo.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbgo.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A Love Supreme. /Mark Doox
John Coltrane composed these words in December 1964, as part of a poem he called
A Love Supreme.
I have seen God – I have seen ungodly – none can be greater – none can compare to God.
He included the poem in the inside gatefold of an album by the same name, released the following year. That same year, a young couple in San Francisco heard Coltrane in concert, sharing a jolt of higher purpose when he seemed to fix them in his sights with the bell of his saxophone.
That couple, Franzo and Marina King, went on to establish a church devoted to Coltrane and his spiritual message, incorporating