Yes, it's done in blackface. And yes, we don't do things like that anymore. Yet Fred Astaire's tribute to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is so deep from the heart; and so beyond race.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Impressions
September, 1963 -- McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums.
Tenor, John Coltrane, born 93 years ago today.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Sticks
"Pick Up Sticks" ~ Dave Brubeck piano, Paul Desmond alto, Eugene Wright bass, Joe Morello drums. The summer of '59.
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