At first I was going to write about the ongoing mindboggle that is known as the principal of Keswick High - or, more accurately, why no officials have come out to speak on the issue or reprimand the school officials - but I'd rather expend that energy on listening to version after version of Ahmad Jamal's "Swahililand," which is what I ended up doing.
There's an endless number of different versions of the song - and that's just out of Jamal's own output - but from what I can tell, the one from the out-of-print Jamal Plays Jamal seems to be IT. Thus:
Ahmad Jamal - "Swahililand"
And, for no real reason, the best cover of any song I have ever heard:
El Michels Affair - "Shimmy Shimmy Ya"
quite the statement for ema's take on odb (although gilles peterson did find it worthy enough to put on his myspace page). it's highly enjoyable, yet i'm still mesmerized by m-a ferguson's reworking of "fall in love" just a smidge more. call me romantic.
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