Jazz
2,380 words by 4 writers in Tokyo, Melbourne & elsewhere
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jazz, flowers, Streets
Crepuscule with Pie
by Chris DeBarrPortland — Let’s cool one first with the P.S. as I ask you to play any favorite version of Thelonious Monk’s romantic tune, “Crepuscule with Nellie.” If you don’t know the song, here’s a gorgeous rendering from the bootleg session caught at Carnegie Hall with John Coltrane: http://youtu.be/YIV6MOnzlLw Enjoy reading along while the music plays, if you can There was a moment last night when my friend and I w...
Active Writers
Chris DeBarr
Stephen Scott
So-Shan Au
Vivien Leung
#100HappyDays, jazz, Sunshine
Day 5 #100happydays: Jazz by the pond
by So-Shan AuKingston upon thames — A happy day - first, with breakfast on my balcony garden, then receiving some real post through the letterbox from a friend (telling me that I’m special - it made me well up) and a day spent in the su...
poetry, hello, jazz
A Simulacrum for the Blues
by Chris DeBarrPortland — “We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air” —Evangelista Torricelli, 1644 I. the moon slips through a keyhole insinuating home where the nearness of you seems very faraway from what the tan...
cafes, jazz, Coffee
"Coffee now. Come back tonight. We'll drink beer."
by Stephen ScottTokyo — The tell-tale orange spine of the Impulse! vinyl LP. You can spot them a mile off – especially when they’re stacked side-by-side. The big honkin’ set of speakers. Not sure what I noticed first. I gu...
Other Stories
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#100HappyDays, jazz, Sunshine
Day 5 #100happydays: Jazz by the pond
by So-Shan Au in Kingston upon Thames -
jazz, Dog Walking, Trees
...and this is how I found out Ornette Coleman has died...
by Chris DeBarr in Portland -
jazz, flowers, Streets
Crepuscule with Pie
by Chris DeBarr in Portland -
poetry, hello, jazz
A Simulacrum for the Blues
by Chris DeBarr in Portland -
cafes, jazz, Coffee
"Coffee now. Come back tonight. We'll drink beer."
by Stephen Scott in Tokyo
Recent Moments
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#100HappyDays, jazz, Sunshine
Day 5 #100happydays: Jazz by the pond
in Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom -
jazz, Dog Walking, Trees
...and this is how I found out Ornette Coleman has died...
in Portland, United States -
jazz, flowers, Streets
Crepuscule with Pie
in Portland, United States -
poetry, hello, jazz
A Simulacrum for the Blues
in Portland, United States -
Today's office, jazz, Coffee
Sunday's office. Spending a snowy afternoon being serenaded by a jazz duo.
in Toronto, Canada -
cafes, jazz, Views from a window
Safe from the wind. And a dose of ethiopiques.
in Melbourne, Australia -
cafes, jazz, Coffee
"Coffee now. Come back tonight. We'll drink beer."
in Tokyo, Japan