Between surgical procedures, followups thereto, college basketball, reading too much; I've neglected my music. When I neglect my music, I get irritable - of course the US and world situations increase one's crankiness.
Thirty(?) years ago, when the Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit was a quasi-going concern, Johnny Hartman with a trio sang to my wife and me for a couple of hours - there were at most eight people in the room. Mr. Hartman's recordings with John Coltrane's quartet are among the very few sublime vocal recordings in the jam session aesthetic. I'll drop a few names in this tradition: Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ethel Waters, Kay Star, Rosemary Clooney, Fred Astaire, The Divine One - Sarah Vaughan, and Herb Jeffries.
This evening I've rediscovered Johnny Hartman's Songs From The Heart that features Howard McGee, trumpet with the Ralph Sharon Trio - sublime music.
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