March 24th, 2012 12:54am

bainer:

Sonny Clark - Can’t We Be Friends (1958)

I continue to post a bevy of Sonny Clark’s standard interpretations because they are impossible to forget. The more I listen, the better they sound. His sense of swing is so light and easy—yet also so thoroughly elegant, authoritative and palpable—that it gets inside your bones and commandeers the brain’s magic playback button.