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Sonhos, Pesadelos & An American Tune
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As a brief curtain call, we hear a short excerpt of the Dave Brubeck Quartet with the folksinging trio Peter, Paul and Mary, performing "Because All Men are Brothers." Lyric is by Tom Glazer and Pete Seeger (1948). The piece is based on the same medieval hymn as "American Tune" (you may know the Bach chorale). I was not familiar with "Because All Men Are Brothers" and found it profoundly moving (check the elegant pandemic-era YouTube, below). There are many other worthy versions, including J.S. Bach's chorale, "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" (BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 54) and Rhiannon Giddens' aptly altered lyric. Leaving them up to you...
Playlist
- Gal Costa & Maria Bethânia "Sonho Meu" (Delcio Carvalho, Yvonne Lara Da Costa) from Álibi (Philips, 1978) 00:14
- Nação Zumbi "Um Sonho" (Alexandre Salgues, Jorge Du Peixe, Lucio Maia, Romario Menezes De Oliveira) from Nação Zumbi (Polysom, 2014) 6:07
- Lenine "Sonhei" (Macedo Pimentel Oswaldo Lenine, Tavares Braulio Fernandes Neto, Santos Ivan Araújo) from Lenine (Ariola, 2002) 12:37
- Music for a While "Youkali" (Kurt Weill, Roger Fernay) from Weill Variations (Grappa, 2007) 16:26
- Jorge Continentino "Pesadelo" (Alberto Continentino) from Portrait (Self Produced, 2005) 24:05
- Lionel Loueke (feat. George Garzone, Kenwood Dennard) "Dream" from Incantation (Lionel Loueke, 2004) 27:25
- Renato Braz "Pesadelo, feat. Eduardo Gudin" (Mauricio Tapajós, Paulo Cesar Pinheiro) from Canto Guerreiro—Levantados do Chão (Self Produced, 2018) 31:21
- Alaide Costa "Sonho de um Carnaval" (Chico Buarque) from Alaide Costa (Som Maior, 1965) 38:01
- Ben Webster "Somewhere Over the Rainbow, feat. Hank Jones, Richard Davis" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) from The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic Recordings (Verve, 1954) 41:04
- Kurt Elling "American Tune, feat. Branford Marsalis" (Paul Simon) from The Questions (OKeh, 2018) 45:57
- Bill Charlap "Somewhere" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) from Somewhere—The Songs of Leonard Bernstein (Blue Note, 2004) 56:29
- Dave Brubeck & Peter, Paul and Mary "Because All Men Are Brothers" from Vocal Encounters (Columbia Legacy, 2000 [1956]) 59:27
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