MUSIC
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“Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own” ~cf. “Eyes of the World” by Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia Just shy of 100 albums into my album-listening project—which I have come to call “My Jazz Project”—I find myself listening over and over this week to a single track: “Cigar Eddie” by… Read more
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Album Money Jungle Artist Duke EllingtonCharles Mingus Year 1962 Personnel Duke Ellington (piano), Charles Mingus (bass), Max Roach (drums) Era / Style Piano Trio / Modern Jazz Favorite Tracks “Warm Valley,” “Solitude” First Listen Reaction Three “Legends” together. A compelling and historically important album that I admired throughout, even though only a few tracks fully… Read more
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Album From Sweden With Love Artist Art FarmerJim Hall Year 1964 Personnel Art Farmer (flugelhorn), Jim Hall (guitar), Steve Swallow (bass), and rhythm section Era / Style Chamber Jazz / Folk-Jazz / Cool Jazz Favorite Tracks Fine Crystal First Listen Reaction Immediate connection. The combination of Swedish folk melodies and jazz improvisation felt fresh and… 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 September 30, 2013. Non-Fiction writers are disciplined. Poets not nearly so. And so the long hiatuses here. I pass time pushing lines of verse around on metaphorical pages. In short, I have been waiting for inspiration. A… Read more
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Album Firefly Artist Emily Remler Year 1981 Personnel Emily Remler (guitar), Hank Jones (piano), Bob Maize (bass), Jake Hanna (drums Era / Style Mainstream Jazz / Guitar Jazz / Post-Bop Favorite Tracks Album experience as a whole First Listen Reaction Immediate and enthusiastic connection. One of the most satisfying discoveries of the project so far.… Read more
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In early April, I was on Substack and found a link to an article with a list of someone’s 100 Greatest Jazz Albums. When I took a look at the list, I could see that I had listened to a fair number of the albums already. However, there were still more that were new to me. On… Read more
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“One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next.” — Bix Beiderbecke Read more
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Midsummer has arrived, and I have written little about baseball yet this season. But even more, I have written little of anything at all, period. This writing dry spell is the longest of my adult life. For those counting, that is 45 years of “adulthood.” But I am beginning to see a light at the… Read more
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“You can never say you don’t like a kind of music. Best you can say is that you don’t like it yet.” – John Mayer Read more
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“A chord is not a chord until the bass player decides which note to play.” ~Bill Evans Read more
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