one thing today

 

Applachian spring chills as sinking sun wins thin  old temptations grow new gratitude rolls bold  as  a rusted skate key wind keeps up beat  shrubs and scrubs alight a herd of brood mares rides in  turn down tone  down slow goes  and all we know we know as ours to behold 

Lush Life   The verse describes the author's weariness of the night life after a failed romance, wasting time with "jazz and cocktails" at "come-what-may places" and in the company of girls with "sad and sullen gray faces/ with distingué traces". Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote most of the song, which was to become one of his signature compositions, along with " Take the 'A' Train ". The song was written in the key of D-flat major . [1] The melody moves over relatively complex chords, with chromatic turns and modulations evoking a dreamlike state and the dissolute spirit of the "lush life". The song's verse is 32 bars long, and its chorus is 24 bars. Unlike most other jazz standards with a verse and a chorus, "Lush Life" is never performed without the verse because it is completely integral to the composition. Gioia calls this standard "an art song, not a pop tune". [1] Strayhorn's biogr...

  He walks down a narrow path to a beach. Navaho children bob their heads in the surf. He sits on a dune &  listens to their singing. The songs are lovely and smart and funny.  He writes them down & plays with them a lot. He books & musics a show he names The B raves . It's the new Hamilton & wins him the Tony award. 

 

Spent the whole night online watching people listen to music ... young peeps hearing Like a Rolling Stone for the first time - first time hearing about/ listening to Dylan. Hard to believe. and lots of wonder at Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman, Bowie, Neil Young and especially Joni.  90 % of the folks were Black, and 98 % of that group - men. Newcomers hungry for old school OG sounds before they were born. It's kind of thrilling to watch them being thrilled about artists and art thats thrilled  me for 50 years. Check out Airplay Beats  two charming, rich and feeling talk brothers bobbing and laser focused on tons of hits, singles, classics. And Sarah Dengler ... dumb struck by the beauty and get-you-good-ness stupid with it liquidity of Here Comes the Sun, Old Man, California .  Such power in the combination of language, phrasing, choices, skill, gifts, collaborations.  The really good stuff never gets old or less rockem' sockem' real life automaton verisimilitude. I'...