Million-dollar Ears

Sheila Jordan at the Firefly

by PIotr Michalowski

posted 5/22/2009

In August 1962 jazz composer-pianist George Russell recorded a forward-looking album, The Outer View, that included a twelve-minute version of “You Are My Sunshine,” a song first recorded in 1939 by the Pine Ridge Boys and hardly a jazz standard. Halfway through the piece, after a number of instrumental solos, everyone lays out, and the air is filled with

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