It’s been a while since I heard something piped in that made me say, “Aww, why did they have to do that to that song?” But there I was, walking into the Reston Chick-Fil-A this evening, and as I stood in line, I thought, “that sounds like… is that… yeah, it is…” The mooshy mix made it hard to tell whether the solo instrument was strings, or an organ, or a reed instrument, but the languid, swoopy intervals were unmistakeable: “Naima,” by John Coltrane, originally recorded on the Giant Steps album.
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