Maurice Yancey & One Accord - Not Your OrdinaryMaurice Yancey & One Accord Not Your Ordinary

His large-scale string works (quintet with 2 violas 1919 & quartet 1921) are lush

and the heavy bass line coupled with hard-rock crunch on "Vegetable" is classic King's X

Let Me Be Good To You celebrates 'The First Lady Of Stax Records' whose 1961 classic hit 'Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)' led to the Memphis-based label's distribution with Atlantic Records

and thankfully

Featured here is "What a Shame" coupled with "Wow Wow

These musical "games" were not only notes

Pianist Bernstein leads burning quartet

Produced by Dan Auerbach

An unexpected performance

and John Barbata

The first movement

an offering as bleak and chilling as it is melodic and impassioned