Tag: Jazz
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Post #93: Molly
If you’re like me, the words “Molly Ringwald” come accompanied by a set of 1980’s based imagery and cultural association. Swatches, Levis stonewashed jeans, Reagan. You know, the big stuff. But there’s also much more specific imagery from the handful of iconic films Ringwald starred in during her brief stint…
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Post #80: Did You Get Healed?
Took my lady to see The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at our beloved local theater, The Flynn, the other night. We sat front row in the balcony and watched Wynton and the cats do their thing, and as always, the experience was pure bliss. I was a little tired that…
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Post #31: Lush Life
Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” is one of my very favorite songs. Melancholy and haunting, full of experience and regret and a kind of upbeat sadness. Or, if not upbeat, at least still standing. Plus when’s the last time you heard a song that had a line like “Where one…
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Post #4: Under Five Hundred Words on an Album That Changed my Life, Part 1
Kind of Blue (1959, Columbia Records) Freshman year in college I auditioned and was cast in (I didn’t have any lines, though) a student written and directed play called “A Summer in Delaware” that was very cool and totally weird. It was eighteen minutes and thirteen seconds long, timed…
Benjamin Roesch 