music clip of the day

Thirty-seven years ago, at a church outside Chicago, my wife Suzanne and I were married. Saxophonist Von Freeman and pianist John Young played at the ceremony.* Afterward, at the nearby reception hall, this guy tickled the ivories. All three are now gone.

Blind John Davis (1913-1985), live, Canada, early ’80s

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*Here’s how they sounded that night. (Give it a few seconds.)