Don’t mistake Xavier Dphrepaulezz’s album title Last Days of Oakland for pessimism. Don’t even mistake it for some kind of eulogy. Because at the age of 40, the multi-instrumentalist has found opportunity in poverty and rebirth in tragedy.
On the first (of many) entirely sleepless nights, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s soothing, 1956 masterpiece took us to our collective happy place.
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