Thursday, March 5, 2020

Elvin Jones - A Change is Gonna Come


Spring is trying to spring. It's daylight savings time this weekend. Things are changing. Things are about to really change.

This whole album is excellent but this is the one I'm going with tonight. It's probably hard to do a bad version of this song but this one is pretty much fire.

It starts with a real large band feel recorded live in a big old room. Real rich and cavernous. And then it grabs you by the throat and next thing you know you're in a saxophone. Somewhere there is a trumpet. You think you hear a piano but it's all mostly lost to you because you now live in this saxophone. At some points, it feels like the song's going to fall over sideways and at other points, it feels like a brick shit house.

Pretty, pretty, pretty gooood.