shape note on Fresh Air

[Hannah Mae]

Just caught a minute of a Terry Gross radio interview with jazz musicians whose latest album is based on sacred harp songs.  (The saxophone is about the last instrument I would've thought suited to sacred harp, unless maybe Ornette Coleman is playing it, but perhaps this is a failure of imagination on my part.)

Here's the transcript of the interview, audio at the top:

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/07/338621619/douglas-and-caine-find-present-joys-in-the-sacred-harp-songbook

The story in the same show about field recording ancient Christian chants in Aleppo is pretty damn good too.

Hannah