music clip of the day

Miles Davis Quintet (MD, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums), “Footprints” (W. Shorter), live, Sweden, 1967

Time for just one note? 3:34. (Shorter’s entire solo is a marvel [1:54-3:54]: it’s as intimate and delicate as a dream.)

More? Here. And here.

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lagniappe

reading table

just the other day
we said goodbye . . .
dewy grave

—Kobayashi Issa, 1790s (trans. David G. Lanoue)