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Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
As Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote in the classic Dead song “Uncle John’s Band,” “When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.”
Barry Barnes • Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
― Miles Davis
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
If I have to struggle to write a song, I stop before I start. I figure if it don’t flow easy, it’s not meant to be.
Willie Nelson • It's a Long Story
arranger Gil Evans,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Al Green, Parliament, the Meters, the Isley Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, Labelle, and Stevie Wonder.
Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.