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Simon quickly adjusted to McFerrin's loose, irreverent style as they echoed each other's lines, broke up the lyrics and adapted their singing to saxophonist Ted Nash's arrangement of the Simon song for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. As the audience gave a standing ovation, orchestra music director Wynton Marsalis joked: "OK, Paul, I saw that. I'm shocked you did that." The evening's program, "My Audio Biography," featured McFerrin reconnecting with what he considers touchstones in his musical life: spirituals taught to him by his father Robert McFerrin, the first black man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera; rhythm and blues and funk tunes; a movement from Beethoven's "Symphony No. 7," and bebop
-- Charlie Parker's "Donna Lee" that featured a rapid-fire vocalese-trumpet duo with Marsalis. McFerrin chose not to perform his biggest pop commercial hit, "Don't Worry Be Happy." ___ Online:
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