Ben Wolfe’s ‘Unjust’ Is the Latest Stop on a Journey That Started in 1929
The song started as ‘Just You, Just Me’ and appeared in an early talkie. Among the notable innovators to have taken it on before Wolfe was Theolonious Monk, who renamed it ‘Justice’ and then ‘Evidence.’
Ben Wolfe, ‘Unjust’ (Resident Arts)
Sometimes it’s great to listen to a variation on a variation. The title track of bassist-composer-bandleader Ben Wolfe’s new album, “Unjust,” is the latest development of a tune and a set of chord changes that have been manifesting in different forms for almost a century now.
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