Editor's note: Music Friday makes an appearance very late on Saturday this week, but it still sounds just as good.

Driving to work this morning, I heard on the radio that Bush is going to fly over the damage done by the fires in California. All the expected resentment arose, as I drove past the trailers, gutted neighborhoods and a few houses that have been raised, as if on stilts, a current requirement of insurance companies.

More importantly, I thought of those victims of fire, while looking at these victims of flood, and I sent a silent wish to those who are soon to be visited by our president: May you have the strength to survive this man’s pity.

Driving home from work, I heard the great Terence Blanchard being interviewed on "Fresh Air." It is well worth a listen, and this link will lead to many other links about our brilliant musician.

So I came home and searched for one of Blanchard’s new tunes to put on Music Friday. I came across this clip from Blanchard's performance at Jazz Fest 2007. Musically, it is a fine moment; more importantly, I think I am in it. The guy with the blue baseball hat, toward the center of the frame. I believe that is the back of my head. Settle down, ladies.

It is strange that I am not sure. Would you recognize yourself with only the back of your head? Am I looking at a complete stranger?

Probably more interesting to everyone else in the world is this beautiful tune from Blanchard’s latest work, “A Tale of God’s Will,” based on the score for Spike Lee’s documentary. I’ll dedicate this hauntingly hopeful funeral dirge to those folks suffering from the fires. Check it out behind the cut.