Jazz: Straight no chaser

Michael Balter 6/29/2008 06:21:00 AM Culture
This week's "Straight No Chaser" podcast from the always terrific Jeffrey Siegel features a preview of acts from this weekend's Saratoga Jazz Festival. The podcast includes a haunting rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" by Chris Botti. In the podcast, Jeffrey apparently slips up and refers to Jeff Buckley's cover of the song, thus sparking the confused comments by yours truly on Jeffrey's blog entry. Scroll down a bit in the entry and you will find the mp3 file of the program.

You can also listen to a very short excerpt of Botti's cover of "Hallelujah" here, and while I am at it, below also is a YouTube clip of Botti doing Cohen's "A Thousand Kisses Deep."

The photo, of course, is Dee Dee Bridgewater, who was scheduled to perform at Saratoga.



Michael Balter

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I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE

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Anonymous said…
thanks for the kind words and link. Juat to add a little more to the Botti-Buckley connection, from the stage at SPAC on Saturday Botti told the story that the first time he ever heard the song was when he ran into Buckley in Bearsville Studioes where he was recording "Hallelujah" for Grace album,
June 30, 2008 at 7:01 PM
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