q. i. f?

Thelonious three times

12/05/2009  |   |  2 comments

1957, from The Sound of Jazz

1963, Baden-Baden

1966, Oslo

Value

11/06/2009  |   |  0 comments

Cannonball Adderley Sextet, Brother John

wait there's more

Colors

05/06/2009  |   |  0 comments

Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters, Chameleon

Feminine aside

04/24/2009  |   |  2 comments

mosaic tile, the little black dress of the bathroom

A way of putting it that would never, ever have occurred to me. From Remodelista (which I glance through faithfully every day via email subscription), yesterday’s ‘roundup of baths with black tile flooring’.

Ascent

03/18/2009  |   |  0 comments

The King’s Singers
Psalm 121, Cyrillus Kreek

wait there's more

The crazy beat

02/21/2009  |   |  2 comments

The Mills Brothers, Swing It Sister

Into the kitchen

02/06/2009  |   |  0 comments

I recommend a look at less-than-month-old blog ‘me local’. Katy’s a young woman from the little PCA church near D.C. that I attended for some years. Right out of culinary studies, she’s gone off to Dublin to get her start in fine restauranting — and she’s writing her experiences delightfully.

Young musician

02/01/2009  |   |  2 comments

Sungha Jung

Lovely recent Youtube offering by 12-year-old Korean Sungha Jung, unschooled guitar wunderkind. How I would love to meet this kid, say a word of thanks, and ask for his autograph! This strange exposure to all the web-wide world of one gifted young person’s pure devotion to discovery of music in the most common, readily shared-in fashion of our time really is something to be glad in, I think. He’s not only gifted, he seems to have become, whether he knows it or not, sort of a gift.

Anniversary

01/27/2009  |   |  0 comments

Mr Thompson likes to remember Mozart on this day (as do others), and I’m inclined to follow his example.

Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel

Electric sound

12/29/2008  |   |  0 comments

Chet Atkins, Black Mountain Rag

Tristeza perfeita

12/06/2008  |   |  0 comments

Elis Regina

Jeff Sack & Rick Peterson

Modernity

11/25/2008  |   |  1 comment

MJQ with Laurindo Almeida