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Posts I Like
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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
I significantly re-created from inside
Out of...
Posts tagged "jazz"
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Steve Lacy Quartet
“Ask Me Now”
Reflections - Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958)
Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1933
The Benny Goodman Orchestra in Busby Berkeley’s Hollywood Hotel.
There are many many good things about this but Gene Krupa on the drums is just incredibly cool.
Moanin’
Oh it’s a hard wrinkle Mingus. Haw haw! I’m thinking when Peggy Lee be appearing in some east side club. Her biggest applause come when she says, “Now I’m going to do the great Billie Holiday,” and Billie be out on the street and they all be saying she’s a junkie.
Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
Steve Lacy (via eloquentandhonest)
