“Young men on the rooftops changed their tune; spit and fiddled with the mouthpiece [… and when they] blew out their cheeks it was just like the light of that day, pure and steady and kind of kind. You would have thought everything had been forgiven the way they played” — Toni Morrison, Jazz.
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“Writing about music is like… “
“…dancing to architecture.” It’s an old quote, variously attributed to Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, David Byrne and others, as capital C clever pronouncements of this sort usually are. That I’ve started a blog dedicated writing about music at all should probably indicate whether I agree (indeed, I note that all of that trio have themselves …