Alone With The Gods

Kurt Elling playing “Samurai Hee-Haw” at the Pizza Express Soho in London on November 14, 2009. Laurence Hobgood (piano), Harish Raghavan (bass), Otis Brown III (drums). Variously referred to as Life of the Mind (from the lyric itself) and Kabuki Cowboy, it’s Kurt’s vocalese of a Marc Johnson lick over a John Scofield solo. Samurai Hee Haw is on Marc Johnson’s Bass Desires.