Matthew Johnson the founder of Fat Possum records brought a group of North Mississippi blues musicians to the world's attention in the early 1990s. Almost all dead now. One most powerful was Junior Kimbrough, whose work Matthew Johnson described as "the beginning and the end of music."
Yes, "the beginning and the end" and it's interesting to see very accomplished musicians — or, for that matter, plumbers, athletes, bartenders, rabbis, airplane pilots, shoe salesmen — return to the most basic elements of their craft. Doing it with joy and no affectation is surely a mark of greatness.
Hillary Hahn is heap big young violinist. Can play just about anything
And here she does "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"…
Yardbird Parker is supposed to have been drawn to this kind of performance, sometimes playing Three Blind Mice on a toy saxophone. But Yardbird Parker might have been mocking his audience a little bit there too fuckin' with 'em a little bit gettin' over on 'em a little bit as members of the fishy tribe deserve.