ClimbingSky

Just Another Traveller in Little Things

  • A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words – #8

    ‘Nuff said! Read more

  • MY JAZZ PROJECT: Interplay by Bill Evans

    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

  • FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Wyeth on Winter and Fall

    “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

  • THROWBACK THURSDAY: “The Remains” by Mark Strand

    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

  • A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words – #7

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  • On Being an Amateur

    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

  • FOOD FOR THOUGHT FRIDAY: Simone on Jazz

    “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

  • THROWBACK THURSDAY: “Wingtip” by Carl Sandburg

    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

  • A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words – #6

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  • MY JAZZ PROJECT: Kelly at Midnight by Wynton Kelly Trio

    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