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Paloma Dineli Chesky: Memory

by Richard J Salvucci
July 7, 2025

Sometimes a listener fixes on a particular version of a tune, especially on first hearing. The result can be good or simply limiting. Someone may never quite escape first exposure; it influences all subsequent experience. Some perhaps learned “Corcovado" when Miles Davis did it on Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1963). It may have been an odd choice for a first exposure to Davis, but it did happen in the early 1960s. Paloma Dineli Chesky sings “Corcovado" much ...