At the Bird's Eye in Basel this evening, the Aphorism Quartet (with Domenic Landolf on saxophones, Michael Beck on piano, Arne Huber on bass, and Jorge Rossy on drums and vibraphone) concluded their first set of originals with one standard: a brisk, tight, and wide-ranging version of "Nobody Else But Me", by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Written for the 1946 revival of the composer and lyricist's 1926 musical "Showboat" (which also featured their "Ol' Man River"), it was, as I was moved to learn when I looked it up, Kern's very last composition: he died on 11 November 1945, and the song was first performed on 5 January 1946. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 26 March 2025)
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