Jazz singer Gabrielle Stravelli reinvents and honors country-western great Willie Nelson
The late, great jazz writer Nat Hentoff was much enamored of a certain anecdote about Charlie Parker, the legendary saxophonist and modern jazz innovator.
The story goes that Bird and his band were relaxing and he kept playing country-and-western records on a jukebox. The musicians, who regarded country music as hopelessly square, asked their boss just what he found so appealing in those tracks, and he answered: “Listen to the stories.”
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