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Thursday, December 08, 2005
OUR THING
Joe Henderson
Our Thing
Blue Note : 1963
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PEGGY'S BLUE SKYLIGHT
Charles Mingus
Oh Yeah
Atlantic/ Rhino : 1961
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REITERATION
Teddy Charles
Coolin'
Prestige : 1957
[Buy It]
KINGDOM OF NOT
Sun Ra
Supersonic Jazz
Evidence : 1956
[Buy It]
BYE-YA
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
Live at Carnegie Hall
Blue Note : 2005
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A room for rent, a vacancy to be filled. Bedroom has two windows, hardwood floors, great location, just steps from the subway. It faces out onto a busy street, and so it's best to have music that gently absorbs such noises of truck gears and brakes, honks and street hollers, while at the same time offering a subliminal sense of calm and cool to the space. Furniture negotiable music?
"The closets, you'll see, are huge. Mine's filled with records. I dread the idea of having to move them one day though."
Someone politely asks if that's Miles and Coltrane on the stereo, playing ever so softly. No, it's Joe Henderson.
"This isn't much of a skylight. It just keeps the living room from being so dark and bleak, which it often is by early afternoon."
One applicant wants to talk about the recently unearthed set of Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, but I break character and gush with fervor about its greatness. Settle down to talk about how the bills are broken up, the cleaning schedule, how sweet the landlady is, reiterate how great the location is, how I've stayed on this long. It suddenly occurs to me that this is the longest I've lived in any one place.
posted by beta
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