Johnny Mathis Does Kol Nidre

I’m here at the office a bit late, and was Googling around, and stumbled onto Johnny Mathis’s recording of Kol Nidre, which he recorded in 1958, and a glorious reminder of both the emotion behind what’s technically a contract and the complex history of black and Jewish collaborations in music:

And as someone who writes about art, it’s always nice to be reminded that the Awe in Days of Awe can come in many forms.