music clip of the day

Some sounds never grow old.

Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials, “Find My Baby,” live

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lagniappe

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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.

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Awake at night—
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.

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Even in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo’s cry—
I long for Kyoto.

—Matsuo Basho (trans. Robert Hass), 1644-1694