Folks are doing their top music of the year, here’s mine (with a couple of kids picks thrown in). First, this year I obviously fell in love with Kenny Drew. Second, I for reasons I don’t understand, when COVID hit, I went deep into Steely Dan. For about a month or so. Finally I found other new music I really like in Renee Rosnes, Walter Weiskopf, etc.
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Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
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“Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.”
A woman poses for a photograph - WWII Poland
Herbie Hancock has a beautiful anecdote when he was a very young musician and he started playing with Miles Davis. He said one of the first gigs that he had, it was a great night and it was a great club and a great ambience and all the band members did incredible solos. Miles had just done a solo. It was Herbie’s turn, he’s probably 18-19, and he just went for it and hit some notes. And it was, to him, completely wrong. He said he completely messed up. But he just had to continue. He got all hot and started sweating and there was nothing he could do. He started on the wrong note and he just said, “oh my god I have to finish this solo”
. He just wanted to crawl under the piano he was so embarrassed that he made such a mess out of such a beautiful moment.
When he was done with the solo, Miles looked at him, he took a breath, and he played a note, a note that made his terrible note sound right. Isn’t that beautiful? He didn’t understand for years what had happened; it was only later on that he realized the reason why Miles was able to make something beautiful out of his mistake was because he didn’t judge him. He just took what he did as an occurrence, like “this happened”, and it’s not this “mistake” happened, but this sound happened. Now what are you going to do about it? It was Miles’ responsibility to make that into this, fit into that ensemble that beautiful evening when that beautiful moment that was happening. It’s such a beautiful example of what jazz is.
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Singer Island
Acrylic on canvas, 48 in. diameter (122cm)
Just rainbow. Ellsworth Kelly at SF Moma.
Photo Jon Gasca
Found this pic today.