Some music asks nothing more than to be a source of delight.
Wim Mertens Ensemble, “Maximizing the Audience,” live, Spain (Madrid), 1998
Vodpod videos no longer available.Some sounds never grow old.
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials, “Find My Baby,” live
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lagniappe
In response to yesterday’s post, a reader writes:
No, you were right the first time, the movement to bebop was immense progress. . . . To deny progress in art or politics is bad politics, tho there are clearly eddies and flows as we know from being currently enmeshed in a backward eddy.
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reading table
They don’t live long
but you’d never know it—
the cicada’s cry.***
Awake at night—
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.***
Even in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo’s cry—
I long for Kyoto.—Matsuo Basho (trans. Robert Hass), 1644-1694
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