“There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.” – Stan Getz *** Samba De Uma Nota So
Category: Music
Sunday Baroque
“You are very harsh.’‘I have seen the world.”― Voltaire, Candide *** Bach: Piano Concerto in D-Minor, BWV 1052 – Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Beatrice Rana Photo by Marianne
Saturday Jazz
“When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn’t TV, there wasn’t much money, and there was just a real dedication…. I never
Aeschylus & ‘Sheherazade’
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget fails, drop by drop, upon the heart, and in our own
Sunday Baroque
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.” ~
Saturday Jazz
“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” ― Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor *** Essentially Ellington 2021:
Dispatches from the Asylum 