Category: Art that speaks to me

Leonard Cohen is everything.

Unequaled energy, clarity and verve.

The great singer celebrates the great city.

Because the West is best.

Searingly intense. An unusual performance, but brilliant.

You will not find music more passionate and profound than this.

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Don Julio for me, thankyouverymuch.

Charles Aznavour died this week. And France, too — the France of love, romance, beauty, elegance, fashion.

She’s A Rainbow, The Rolling Stones

We lost one of the greats.

A rare, remarkable recording of the transcendent Jacqueline du Pre playing the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Royal Albert Hall, in 1968.

Bach: Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G major

Friday night music with long time jazz guitar favorite, three fingered lightening Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli doing Sweet Georgia Brown.

How this evokes my youth, my exuberant, wild youth and that of my generation…..

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Paris, 1960 – what else do you need save for a martini, extra dry, very cool?

Check out the first track from John Coltrane’s never before released album “Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album”

A towering song by a towering genius sung by a towering voice.

Giant Steps (John Coltrane)

The man on an open thread singing for only the lonely.