But he shares with his creator an awareness that arrangement is everything in telling a story.
Spending time in them looking at the art, the everyday objects and his deliberate arrangement of everything can be a life-changing experience.
More typical was the arrangement for "Everything in Its Right Place," a pulsing song built around Yorke's gentle vocals and twinkly electric piano chords, which recalled Miles Davis's "In A Silent Way".
Distribution, always tricky in the beverage business, has been a patchwork arrangement, encompassing everything from driving their own U-Hauls to piggybacking the product onto delivery trucks belonging to a corned beef company with lots of deli connections.
The way that I've worked my last several records is that I'd get the songs arranged exactly like I want them, all of the orchestral arrangements and everything, and then I go in and replace that with live players, so the live players bring in their little touches to it, the little twists and turns that you can't program, something that only the personality of a player can do.
"I'm still amazed at his knowledge of all aspects of jazz -- brass, reeds, piano, bass, drums, arrangements and everything else," Mr. Washington said.
And while these are two prominent examples, the Web is jammed with much-clicked-and-forwarded images of similar ilk — neat arrangements of everything from ingredients to disassembled appliances.
What's really scary about this collaboration with Al Green's producer, Willie Mitchell (who died in January), is how much it sounds like Van Morrison Burkee's voice, the arrangements, lyrics, everything, as in the transcendent opener of "Oh What a Feeling", one of three or four total standing ovations here.
So, some songs come fully formed in my head with all the arrangements and everything.
Vince and Peggy go to buy Vince's single, but are shocked to discover Mickey Alba's recording has been released instead; Vince blurts, "He stole my style, my arrangements, my EVERYTHING!" With that he storms into the label's office and slaps the manager.
