Episode 240:Jazz Interpretations of Folk Songs Part 2

from Discovering Jazz · host Larry Saidman

Did you know that Sonny Rollins didn’t actually write “St. Thomas”. And that Randy Weston recorded this traditional folk song before Rollins, but under the name of “Fire Down There”? And another piece of information: Thelonious Monk’s “Japanese Folk Song

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