Saying Goodbye with Song
Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Last March, doctors told singer/songwriter Warren Zevon that he only had three
more months to live, his terminal lung cancer taking over his body. Upon hearing
the news, he set forth to create his final farewell and recorded the album The
Wind on borrowed time. Today, his son Jordan Zevon is on the program to discuss
the incredible journey his father took to create this new recording and to give
us a taste of what the last year and a half has been like. We follow that with
a review of Warren Zevon's new CD by Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis.
Also on the program, jazz singer Kurt Elling, who is a master of vocalese, the
art of setting words to instrumental solos. Today, he joins us to preview his
newest recording, where he takes on the solos of many of jazzs titans,
including John Coltrane, Pat Matheny and Herbie Hancock.
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