Kind of Blue, again
Listened to Kind of Blue start to finish on a rainy evening. "Blue in Green" still sounds like it was improvised five minutes ago. Bill Evans' voicings are the whole mood of the album.
Notes on records I keep coming back to, concerts, and things I learn at the piano.
Listened to Kind of Blue start to finish on a rainy evening. "Blue in Green" still sounds like it was improvised five minutes ago. Bill Evans' voicings are the whole mood of the album.
Three weeks in. The ornaments are the hard part, not the notes. Comparing Gould's 1955 and 1981 recordings: the later one is twice as slow and somehow feels shorter.
Saw a trio in a basement club with maybe forty people. No screens, no phones held up, just the sound of the room. Bigger shows rarely feel like this.
Brian Eno, Music for Airports. Nils Frahm, Spaces. Radiohead, In Rainbows. Bonobo, Black Sands. Each one fits the rhythm of the window.