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Album King Cole at the Piano Artist Nat King Cole Year 1960 (compilation of earlier trio recordings) Personnel Nat King Cole (piano), Oscar Moore (guitar), Johnny Miller (bass) (personnel vary slightly by recording date) Era / Style Piano Trio / Swing / Early Jazz Favorite Tracks None singled out First Listen Reaction I came to… Read more
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“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”― Leo Durocher Read more
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Album Blowin’ the Blues Away Artist Horace Silver Year 1959 Personnel Horace Silver (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor saxophone), Eugene Taylor (bass), Louis Hayes (drums) Era / Style Hard Bop / Soul Jazz Favorite Tracks “The St. Vitus Dance,” “Peace,” “Melancholy Mood” First Listen Reaction A worthwhile listening experience with several standout tracks,… Read more
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall….” – F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 November 29th, 2010 (so almost 16 years ago) Ezra Pound is famous for many things: the man who discovered T.S. Eliot; an influence on and supporter of the generation of writers known as “The Lost Generation;” an… Read more
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. It is easier to wage a battle against distant abstractions than to fight the quiet war inside one’s own soul. Yet this is the only war that ever mattered.” — Leo Tolstoy 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 December 19th, 2010 (so almost 16 years ago) Hopkins was a convert to Roman Catholicism. His Roman Catholic faith infuses his poetry in a way that is as unique to English poetry as his famous sprung rhythm is. Combined… Read more
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain. Read more
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“You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan Sontag Read more
