Sunday, February 21, 2010

Video of the Day

Tonight on Dr. John's Record Shelf we're doing our annual tribute to African-American History Month. The focus will be on classic soul from the sixties and seventies. The song in the following video sort of straddles the line between soul and jazz, but it would fit right in. The video's nothing more than a slide show, but the song, "Compared to What" recorded in 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival by Les McCann (piano) and Eddie Harris (sax) is a true classic:

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