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The Daily

Special Episode: An Interplanetary Jazz Legend, a Cosmic Vegetable and a Psychic Prodigy

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This weekend, we’re bringing dispatches from Times critics and writers on great music, TV, movies, recipes and more. They’re all part of a new series called “NYT Shorts,” available only on NYT Audio, our new iOS audio app. It’s home to podcasts, narrated articles from our newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows. Find out more at nytimes.com/audioapp. On today’s episode: Five minutes to fall in love with jazz legend Sun Ra. A food critic’s love letter to the eggplant. Recommendations from a Times editor on what to listen to, watch and who to follow this weekend.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I am so glad you're here. I'm Kim Severson. I write about food for the New York Times.

0:08.0

I'm here to tell you about a brand new project we've been cooking up. It's an audio app. It's called NYT Audio.

0:15.0

And it's got all the shows you already know and love like the daily. Plus some exclusive new shows,

0:21.0

reporters reading the articles they've written, and so much more.

0:26.0

Including something I'm especially excited about called NYT shorts.

0:30.0

These are little gems, nuggets of fun delivered directly to you from our editors, reporters, and our critics.

0:38.0

Hello everybody. I am Jay Werthum. I'm Melissa Clark.

0:42.0

My name is Elizabeth Egan. And I'm Aoskott. My name is Yawande Kamalafit.

0:46.0

I'm Gilbert Cruz. And I'll be here for the next few Saturdays, so you can get a taste of some of these new stories.

0:53.0

Okay, here we go. Today we have some old music for you to revisit and owed to a very sublime vegetable

1:01.0

and some very cool recommendations to keep you busy this weekend.

1:05.0

First up, my colleague, Marcus Moore, who writes about music.

1:10.0

Listen, we're going to make it work. It's like jazz. So jazz and prof, man. That's all it is. We're going to figure it out.

1:19.0

My name is Marcus J. Moore. And this is five minutes to love Sunra.

1:33.0

I always want to tell people about some good music or some good news. And that's why I'm here.

1:39.0

I'm here to spread the gospel of Sunra. I'm here to talk about spaces of place as an incredible jazz song.

1:47.0

And hopefully these five minutes will help you fall in love with Sunra the way that I did.

2:02.0

It was the year 2010. It was the summertime. And somebody online was talking about Sunra.

2:10.0

And I just wanted to see what was going on because I thought maybe a traditional jazz or something like that.

2:15.0

And the first thing that comes up is spaces of place.

2:24.0

I was hooked right away, but I also was uncomfortable in a way.

2:29.0

All this atonal screeching and you have these rocked drums.

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