Dancing up a river...

I tweaked the playlist just a tad. No disrespect meant to my cherished Scorpio siblings Neil and Joni, but Joni's "Free Man in Paris" was feeling just a bit out of place in the progression, and with the new addition of Herbie Hancock's tribute cover of "Court and Spark" to close out the set, Neil's "I am a Child" felt a bit out of place, too. Neil will come back, as will Joni's own Joni, but for now, this is the way it will sit.

I wrote about the amazing tribute album (River) to Ms Joni some months ago, after I stumbled onto its opening cut one gloriously dark and cold morning on the way to the Instituto. So wonderful was the arrangement that it had me stumped at first by its unfamiliar familiarity, with a similar feeling about Norah's voice. I love this treatment: Wayne Shorter's playing is wonderfully lush, Herbie's gorgeous piano underneath, and then, for me, a lovely raggedness to Norah's voice as they all take this beauty out for a magnificent walk.

Goddess Cassandra flowing into the final number: whoooosh.