Mongo Santamaria - Afro Blue
last updated: May 24, 2024
Here's Coltrane playing his version:
Roberta Flack sings a beautiful version; Oscar Brown, whom I'd never heard of before, wrote lyrics for it in 1959:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozOm2jhuz1E
You can hear his version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G748lKUVaJs
the Derek Trucks band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6L3-A_oJBo
Robert Glasper did a modernized version with Erykah Badu (side note, I love the photo collage cover of that album):