"You've got to hear this," Charlie Haden said, passing across the silvery CD as if it were a communion wafer. "Man, you got to hear this. It's like going to church." The music came on, cool and reverent: Hank Jones playing It's Me, O Lord (Standing in the Need of Prayer). If church were as blissful as this--if it swung like this--there would be a worldwide conversion.
Haden had religion. He had the history, he had the soul, and as he listened to Jones' serene and supple piano, his eyes closed, his head went back and he started playing a bass...
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