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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’ That’s the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a… 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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“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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“Don’t play what’s there; play what’s not there.” – Miles Davis 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 October 26, 2013. … there is no more consistently perfect body of recorded work in jazz than that produced by Lester Young between 1936 and 1941 – with Count Basie’s orchestra, with Billie Holiday and with… Read more
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“I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.” ~ Ahmad Jamal Read more
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“When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad..” ~ Miles Davis Read more
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“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.“ — A.A. Milne (from Winnie-the-Pooh) Read more
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“Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.” ~ Ernest Hemingway Read more
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