we just had a cute exchange with a nephew who has fallen hard for jazz, and who was gifted a treasured vinyl sinatra record of my dad’s last night, after spending dinner with his grandma. i told steve i was going to write about jazz tonight, because i never talk about it, and yet it’s how we end almost every evening, by the fire, catching up on the day’s news, to the accompaniment of stan getz, and joao gilberto, and dave brubeck, and paul desmond, and sonny rollins, and miles davis, and bill evans. i told steve this photo reminds me of a jazz album cover. he told me to please proceed with writing about jazz, but that this is totally a folk album cover, and that a jazz album cover would have a cigarette butt or two, a square heeled dress shoe, a porkpie hat, and something made out of brass. i suppose he’s right, but it doesn’t make him any less of a smart ass.
collections of winter browns and tan
saint paul, minnesota
Of your recent image I thought the one of the grapevine wreath was my favorite. That is until I saw this one! This is amazing and just gorgeous!
i beg to differ, sorry steve .
this reminds me of something my daughter rebekah and i have really gotten into lately , gypsy jazz . It makes me think of jazz with eastern european folk music roots. Maybe in truth were are all right. xx
Hi Margie,
Gypsy Jazz in in our play mix as well, we have a Django Reinhardt station on Pandora. We have been so busy lately, and have so much to catching up to do at the end of the day, that we don’t want to try and talk over the music. So we have been evolving to softer and softer cool jazz like Paul Desmond and Bill Evans. I like these little subtle seasonal changes. Once we are back out on the deck talking over the frog chorus, I am guessing we will switch back to gypsy jazz! I will know when to make the switch when I ask for that first glass of lightly chilled rosé :-)
Mary Jo