music clip of the day

timeless

Shirley Scott (1934-2002, organ) with Harold Vick (1936-1987, tenor saxophone), Billy Higgins (1936-2001, drums), Jimmy Hopps (1939-, cowbell), “Keep On Movin’ On” (H. Vick), rec. 1974 (One for Me [Strata-East], 1975)

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table

Drooping
in this upside-down world,
a bamboo in the snow.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Tom Lowenstein