What if time travel was about chasing the music you wish you could’ve felt in real time? In this episode we daydream our way into those moments, hearing first notes and electric performances as if they were happening now. It’s complicated, it’s joyful, and it’s all about how music lets us bend time, and, of course, as always, our minds!

VIDEOSGeorge Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (1927 Recording)

James Brown: The Payback (1974 Live in Zaire)

EXTRASLeonard Bernstein, Rhapsody in Blue (1976)

James P. Johnson's Yamekraw, A Negro Rhapsody

A century on from Rhapsody in Blue, debates about cultural ‘theft’ rage still

1984 Olympic Opening Ceremony - Rhapsody in Blue 

Rhapsody in Blue at 100 Library of Congress 

Rhapsody In Blue, by George Gershwin, performed for first time

Rhapsody in Blue: After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates 

James Brown performing “The Payback” at Zaire 74

James Brown live at the Boston Garden 1964 (full performance)

James Brown speech at the Boston Garden performance

Zaire ’74: politicising the sound event

Soul Power (2008)

Danny Ray’s Obit in NYT - The Original Hype Man

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