That is the meaning of the title, and Marsalis enlarges on this theme through songs with bitter lyrics sung by a marvellous new singer, Jennifer Sanon, and even a burst of rap he himself delivers.
Deli's poignant battle to help his son into a responsible adulthood takes a brilliant, shocking turn at the finale, which bears out the bitter calypso sung during the play: "Oh England, what a wonderful land, / In England, what you must understand... You's a black man in a cold cold land".
In his Chicago blues, there's pure pain seeking release: bitter, desolate singing and guitar lines that slice with ruthless, serrated fury.
The Greenhornes, from Detroit, played unironic mid-1960's-style mid-1960's-style mid-1960's-stylebitter breakups.
Mr. Zukerman produced a centered tone and gave the line some color — singing here, bitter there — but his phrasing was easygoing and distant.
True to California, it has a sunny ease with some of Mr. Jansch's smoothest vocals, even as he was singing the bitter tidings of songs like "No Rhyme Nor Reason".
He'd become a legend in South Africa but a rumour circulated that he was dead, possibly dying mid-performance after singing a bitter song with the valedictory lines "But thanks for your time/ Then you can thank me for mine/ And after that's said, forget it".
He sang Bitter Sweet Symphony in the police car.
Damn your lies!" Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks sang, bitter and enraged, in "The Chain," from Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, "Rumours," which has sold 19 million copies in the United States and was reissued in an expanded version this year.
Barnsley's fans kept singing until the bitter end but their season now reverts to a relegation battle.
