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Album Interplay Artist Bill Evans Year 1963 Personnel Bill Evans (piano), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Jim Hall (guitar), Percy Heath (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums) Era / Style Post-Bop / Small Group Jazz / Collaborative Session Favorite Tracks When You Wish Upon a Star First Listen Reaction Strongly enjoyed the album right away and appreciated the… Read more
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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 4th, 2011. There are a number of very good poems about growing old. Yeats, of course, wrote a goodly number, but all poets if they live long enough find themselves moved to write about the… Read more
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I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the concept of being an “Amateur” vs. a Professional of something. No doubt this has been prompted by the amount of time I spend with 19th Century Literature. Specifically with 19th Century Adventure and Detective Fiction where characters that are amateur scientists, archeologists, naturalists, and… Read more
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“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.” ~ Nina Simone Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 11th, 2011. There are poets I love because they represent elusive/ideal/transcendent/otherworldly beauty: Yeats, Keats, Shelley, Milton, Blake, Byron. There are other poets I love because they represent familiar/democratic (small “d”)/transubstatiated/thisworldly beauty: Kooser, Heaney, Whitman, Frost, and… Read more
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Album Kelly At Midnight Artist Wynton Kelly Trio Year 1960 Personnel Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Era / Style Piano Trio / Hard Bop / Live Jazz Favorite Tracks None stood out First Listen Reaction Felt a bit drum-heavy at times making it feel unbalanced Atmosphere / Mood Tags Live Jazz,… Read more
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This week four teams have been competing in the NLCS and ALCS. So far, this baseball fan has only gotten to see one of the games. That’s right, just one. And why is that? Because even though I have a number of subscriptions to streaming services, including MLB.TV, all but one of the games have… Read more
