Theme noir

The theme song for the noirish interludes of my life has been the version of "St. James Infirmary" on the Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie Pablo CD (1977) "The Gifted Ones" thanks to my buddy Carl Abernathy, who introduced me to the disk and whose literate rock, blues and jazz blog I recommend. I was disconcerted the other day to read a review of this CD that bad rapped it. I think it's an excellent disk and Ray Brown on bass and Mickey Roker on drums to round out the quartet certainly don't hurt.