Song of the Day: The opening vocals and style of yesterday's 3WW by alt-J, "There was a wayward lad" may spark a musical echo, this beautiful 1948 recording by the jazz pianist and singer, written by the original 'hippie' eden ahbez
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Song of the Day: We began the week with Charles Mingus's Moanin', we end it with a song that needs no lyrics – a moaning blues number from 1927 of extraordinary beauty that expresses the pain and sorrow of centuries of black and African-American history, slavery, prejudice and poverty. If yesterday's Louis Jordan number is influential, Johnson's voice and slide guitar sound is even more so
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Song of the Day: Recorded in the extraordinary jazz year of 1959 and released on Blues & Roots in 1960, the genius bass player's masterpiece is recognised for the baritone sax riff, but contains extraordinary power and complexity
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