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Angeline

Angeline

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So yesterday was Lester Young's 100th birthday. Ok he has been dead since 1959, but there's loads of his music floating around online and it's all sooo good (well if you like jazz).

When I came online this morning I had not one, but two, pm's from buddies here (the lovely Sassy and equally lovely tuntied2u) reminding me that it's Lester Young Appreciation time. Lol, my peeps know me. :D And Sassy (my jazz sistah) sent me a link to this great NYC radio station, WKCR, which is doing a Lester Young Birthday Broadcast all day today. Woot! You can listen to it online if you are so inclined.

Happy birthday Prez!

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/5/albumcoverLesterYoung-KenBurnsJazz.jpg

:heart::heart::heart:
 
Eleven people have viewed this page. I hope you all listen to Prez. And then write a poem about what the music sounds like to you, what does it make you see in your imagination?

Writing poems about Prez is fun.
 
Angeline said:
Eleven people have viewed this page. I hope you all listen to Prez. And then write a poem about what the music sounds like to you, what does it make you see in your imagination?

Writing poems about Prez is fun.
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I will try to write something about Prez. This may be the kick in the butt I need to sharpen my pencils.

P.S. that is my favorite picture of him. :D
 
Dreamville

I didn’t know
what time it was, when
the silken pitter, pitter-pat
of pennies from heaven, jarred

me from a respite so sweet.
A deluge of polka dots
and moonbeams dissolved
my pane, in staccato symphony.

Low lash veiled dreams
of a one o’clock rendezvous
adrift a sailboat in the moonlight,
just you, just me.
 
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This video ends too soon and so did their lives, prez and Lady Day together forever. Happy 100th Lester.

sisters in jazz - thanks for this Ange. :heart:
 
Sassy, I love the poem and the way you tied the titles together. And O I love "low lash veiled dreams"--but beautiful. :)

And Tess ty for the vid. I know you understand. Jo Jones said "jazz is our religion."

:rose:
 
Angeline said:
Sassy, I love the poem and the way you tied the titles together. And O I love "low lash veiled dreams"--but beautiful. :)

And Tess ty for the vid. I know you understand. Jo Jones said "jazz is our religion."

:rose:
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Thank you. I knew you'd get the title thingy.:rose:
 
audeamus said:
hello angeline,

i know this is probably too late, but i was browsing the thread and thought i'd pass this along. i'm a jazz fan myself and i hope you (and anyone else) enjoy it.

be golden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrzSMhO5WI
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I owe you a thank you for this. :rose:

Do you write about jazz? I love to write about music, especially jazz. And I almost always listen to it when I write. The rhythm is so inspiring. :)
 
Hello Angeline,

I'm so glad you enjoyed the song. I wrote a jazz poem in high school about Louis Armstrong. It was horrible and it was the only jazz poem I ever wrote, but I do listen to it when I read and write. :)
 
audeamus said:
Hello Angeline,

I'm so glad you enjoyed the song. I wrote a jazz poem in high school about Louis Armstrong. It was horrible and it was the only jazz poem I ever wrote, but I do listen to it when I read and write. :)
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Yep. Usually when I read or write it's either jazz or classical. Anything with words is out. I can't take the cognitive dissonance.
 
I understand, I actually enjoy classical too. Too much of it puts me to sleep, though.
 
I prefer classical, especially Baroque like Back, Handel, Vivaldi. Especially Bach, but lots more up to the present, like Glass.
 
EroticOrogeny said:
I prefer classical, especially Baroque like Back, Handel, Vivaldi. Especially Bach, but lots more up to the present, like Glass.
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The Fugue in D Minor was the first classical music I remember listening to, and it wasn't even in an old Vincent Price movie lol. My dad gave me this album of it played on some old church old in Austria (I don't remember more but yknow I was like 8). And I loved Bach and listened to it a lot. I am a wordsmith but Bach makes me think math when I listen. And some of the harpsichord stuff that I really loved when I was a teen and college age now sounds too frantic to me. But I have come to love listening to Bach on guitar and I was lucky enough to see Segovia play at Lincoln Center when I was in college. I love the way guitar warms Bach up. :)
 
I was learning to play piano a few years ago, along with my son. Bach's works have so much going on, with notes of different duration played together - I found it really hard to do.
I still like the harpsichord stuff and sometime find the piano lacks the verve of the harpsichord. I've enjoyed guitar transcriptions as well, mellower, but not as stimulating.
 
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