Re: Courtney Pine/Jhelisa

Tony Reid (t-bird@salata.com)
08 Oct 97 10:29:02 -0800


> apparently features Jhelisa... a remake of Donny Hathaway's "Trying
> Times"... Anyone hear this?

eb> I don't know about 'tryin times' early origins. Jhelisa's voice is
eb> incredibly suggestive but this is no news.

i don't know if donny ever recorded the song--i hope someone else does know
--but i *do* know that it showed up on roberta flack's 1st album,
*first take* (also features her take on "compared to what", much superior to
les mccann's version, imo, which btw, was sampled by up, bustle & out for
their revisit...).

-t