Your 16-year-old daughter dies, suddenly, in a car accident.
What do you do?
If you’re pianist/composer Kenny Werner, what you do is create music.
Kenny Werner, No Beginning No End (featuring Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone), recording session, New York (NYU), 2009
two takes
“Driftin’ Blues”
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (including Elvin Bishop, guitar), live, California (Monterey), 1967
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Charles Brown, 1945
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lagniappe
Thanks so much for sending me this link.
It was a thrill for me to be a part of the tribute concert for Albertina.
I really dig the Blackwell clips also!
—Juli Wood (responding to an email letting her know that her recent performance at the Albertina Walker Musical Tribute was featured here)
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