Dexter Gordon BALLADS (1991)

what if living with constant anxiety and crippling bouts of terror is actually what it takes for a white man to become human idk

Allmusic calls it regal and they fucking nailed it.  I guess I'd usually not advocate a culled collection from over a decade+ of performances but desperate times call for desperate measures.  the voice as purveyor of human language has uh, lost its endurability right now.