Drop The Needle W/ Terence Blanchard
Drop the Needle
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6m 33s
For this special edition of Drop the Video, SFJAZZ Executive Artistic Director Terence Blanchard looks back at our history of YouTube Singles taken from our Fridays Live streaming series and on-demand concerts and picks several of his favorites.
From Meshell Ndegeocello’s brilliantly reconstructed version of George Clinton’s 1982 classic “Atomic Dog” to an intimate duet version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Can’t Help It” by guitarist Lionel Loueke and vocalist Gretchen Parlato, these highlights are just a tiny sample of the wealth of amazing music available on-demand through SFJAZZ At Home and on YouTube.
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