Drawn from The Parsonage: True Tales of Love and Anarchy at 64 East 7th Street this terrific Renee Rosnes song verging on the Weill-Brecht universe - the pianist here is Dan Tepfer - is from an album studded with compositions by a range of luminaries who also include Theo Bleckmann, Regina Carter and Darcy James Argue. Singers on our track of the week which is a revolutionist tinged Wall Street satire are Theo Bleckmann and Alicia Olatuja - the lyrics by the great, revisionist, groundbreaking, Billy Strayhorn biographer David Hajdu. There's a fabulously longing cello line from Erik Friedlander.

A concept album that revolves around a building in the East Village of Manhattan, at 64 East 7th Street, that Hajdu explains was home to New York's first macrobiotic restaurant and where remarkably Yoko Ono once waitressed and threw happenings, pieces centre on 8 key events in the building's life.

''I thought that the story of this building would make a great subject for a song cycle, with the music for each song written by a different composer. I wrote a libretto for eight songs, and brought it to eight contemporary composers I admired, and the project started coming together,'' Hajdu tells Columbia News, a journal of New York city's Columbia University, where he teaches journalism.

David Hajdu, top left, Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, Dan Tepfer. Photo: Christopher Drukker/Columbia