Welcome to Litsy!

Jazz and magic and Peter Grant right in the middle of it all.

Includes a trip to the Bodleian Library.

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Finished this all about jazz and the death that consumes some jazz musicians is this a normal read… not really but I really loved the story 🙌🏽📖

Hubkaphone!

P243 “It‘s all about the combination of players. […] Count Basie without Freddie Green, without Lester Young? The Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock: there were key people in that orchestra who made that sound. […] People forget that sometimes and only look at the leader‘s name on the date. But the musicians are the ones who realize the blueprint. And it‘s the ability to open up a blueprint that brings a work to life.”

Vietnam: P153 “One of the main ways that war transforms you has to do with your sense of hearing. […] It‘s like I grew a set of antennae over there. When I returned, my reception equipment was different. And even if the war messed up my head in a million other ways at the same time—and even if I didn‘t ask for any of it—I‘d have to admit that that heightened sensitivity became one of the main things that shaped me into the composer I‘ve become.”

Love this. Already a Threadgill superfan, but this cements it. A new fave music bio. Explains his background & influences, while insisting nothing can be explained. Extended musings on performance and composition. Big ideas & sly humor. Vietnam. Goa. Englewood. The East Village. Hubkaphone! Houseboat rehearsals. Collaboration. My jazz heroes tying knots on the motor home in a panhandle tornado. Gorgeous sentences—kudos to Brent Hayes Edwards. 2023

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The material in this book was very interesting, and was best conveyed to me through the analogies and jazz references. Most of the equations lost me, but even without a background in physics or music theory I still greatly enjoyed reading this

#LuckyInLove Day 22: Husband and I were #OnADate with Alicia Keys at Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi last weekend - open air concert in gorgeous winter weather in the UAE.