Out

Detour Ahead

With all years, we lose. Few years have taken so much from us as did 1963: John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis on the same day; Robert Frost and Yasujiro Ozu, Dinah Washington, Patsy Cline and Edith Piaf, Medgar Evers, W.E.B. DuBois, Elmore James, Jean Cocteau, Clifford Odets, Pope John XXIII, Herbie Nichols.

And Sonny Clark, at the age of 31.

Impressions

Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Norman Bates, bass
Joe Morello, drums

"Plain Song"
"Curtain Time"
"Sounds of the Loop"
"Home at Last"

Herbie

Born 100 years ago today.

"Sunday Stroll" -- perhaps the most beautiful six minutes in jazz.