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around the 55 second mark the jazz trio halts and a gasp of silence envelops you. then bud powell’s piano cascades tenderly, yet implacably, down a flight of stairs and your swept away with him and it’s absolute magic
Jan 30, 2024
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Jun 28, 2024
the best performance (imo) of my favorite jazz standard. most renditions of it are (appropriately) melancholic and introspective, but this one really escalates into a really dramatic and action-packed crescendo at the end that i really like
Oct 3, 2024
Four parts, one continuous musical experience.
The jazz equivalent of a conversation with God.
Mar 1, 2024
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Her voice in ‘Pearls’ makes me ache
Jan 28, 2024
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my best friend, now that she studies in a film school in the cuban countryside, took up the hobby as there isn’t much to do over there. she frequently talks to me about it, the quiet thrill of it, and all of a sudden i find myself looking up, frowning at the branches. i recently told her, half in jest (we were visiting home for the holidays) “what if we drop everything, go to papua new guinea, film the birds of paradise?” and she, dead serious, responded: “hmm… à la les blank?” expect the doc anytime soon!
Jan 29, 2024
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the endings of great novels stay with you. a momentous rush that last dot, words and eyes speeding towards it almost with reluctance, until yes that world is done but something ripples out, a faint radiance or shadow, like the dark spot that lingers in your eye long after staring at the sun.
this i felt reading:
—portrait of a lady by henry james
—swann’s way by proust
—the red and the black by stendhal
—ulysses by joyce
—the sun also rises by hemingway
Jan 30, 2024