I admire how you experiment with every possible form to tell a story. The thread that runs through all of them as your ability to make them heartbreaking. So many good lines in this one.
I had an intense dalliance with Coltrane when I was in music school, but I confess I didn’t feel the intellectual compulsion to subject myself to his more tortured explorations. Like most great players in any genre, it’s satisfying when they bring their powers to bear on simpler music, but you realize they could never achieve that if they didn’t go to the places they go outside.
I admire how you experiment with every possible form to tell a story. The thread that runs through all of them as your ability to make them heartbreaking. So many good lines in this one.
Thanks so much, Ben. Side question: do you know the two big recordings? Ascension is a workout and not in a pleasant way. I’m Team Sarah.
I had an intense dalliance with Coltrane when I was in music school, but I confess I didn’t feel the intellectual compulsion to subject myself to his more tortured explorations. Like most great players in any genre, it’s satisfying when they bring their powers to bear on simpler music, but you realize they could never achieve that if they didn’t go to the places they go outside.
Hard to pick a favorite line. It might be “I don’t want a Louis Armstrong handkerchief collection on the console.”
"We’re not naming her Ornette or Ella or Esperanza...." Or Billie, or Sarah, or Diana, or Carla, or Betty, or Cleo, or Carmen, or Ina Ray...
"No normal girl wants to play a saxophone."
"So I'm not NORMAL?" says Lisa Simpson.
😂 omg, that is too funny. I didn’t think of that at all.