Here he joined that extraordinary band of "Northern poets" that included Michael Longley and Derek Mahon, and later on Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian.
In the crowd, jaws drop, as well they should in the presence of such an extraordinary band.
And in this journey, I am accompanied by an extraordinary band of brothers led by that American hero, a patriot called Max Cleland.
We would sway to the powerful groove of Paul Simon and his extraordinary band of South African musicians, and it would stop the colicky crying every time.
In that time, this extraordinary band prove over and over that rock need not always be mere sturm-und-drang, that it can be like oil over-filling a bowl, trembling with surface tension, before flooding over the lip.
While most acts are just satisfied to play their songs, White urges his extraordinary band on to extended jams before making his way over to the main stage to watch headliner Jay-Z from the side of the stage.
Friday night's show at Aaron Davis Hall -- which brought together within one extraordinary band the pianist Andrew Hill, the saxophonist Jackie McLean, the vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, the drummer Billy Higgins and the bassist Scott Colley -- was a one-time corral of great musicians that had "jazz festival" written all over it: it takes curatorial motivation to make this happen.
When I got to the top of the stairs it opened up into this kind of loft and my head poked up from the stairwell with a worm's eye view of this extraordinary, silhouetted band who seemed like nothing you'd expect a band to be; spiky hair, skinny legs, mohair stripe jumpers in black and yellow and black and red.
I thought his next group, the Fatima Mansions, were an extraordinary rock band.
There, backed by Stax's extraordinary house band, Sam and Dave became the premier messengers of the songwriting-production duo of Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
