Category: Art that speaks to me

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.

Pour yourself a stiff one and kick back.

Just. cuz. I’m. feelin it.

I chose a chanson française for tonight’s Friday night chill in tribute to the the women of France this week who rebuked the posers of the #metoo movement, and if you aren’t up to speed on that ….

Friday night thaw.

Something warm and sexy on a bitter cold New York night.

Mix yourself your favorite cocktail, kick back, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

What a lovely way to be on a Friday night — Frank Sinatra crooning, Wave.

I know of no proud Jew, myself included, who can hold back tears when hearing this song (it’s more like a prayer).

Louis!

It is a rare thing indeed when one of someone in the entertainment or music business whose work I love is of politically sound mind. Beloved icons of my youth such as Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen were, in fact blithering idiots, making it difficult to listen to their music.