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'At the end of a numb day—I put on Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue in an attempt to really hear it again—to catch the original lure through all the intervening time-fuzz—Unearthly sonic signatures woven from everyday air; flurries of notes like Rimbaud’s million golden birds set free: no one else could do this one thing he did, exactly the way he did it—So why does this—astringent music touch so many of us, still?'
— Mar 20, 2026 08:58AM
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emily
is on page 107 of 182
‘Every string has a potential tale: jagged / leafy, rueful / resilient. For first-time listeners, it may sound like two guitarists playing—in judicious harmony—modest instrument made glancingly symphonic—Nothing on Pretzel Logic is overstressed / overplayed—The drums—a rising heartbeat squall of saxophones—thick membrane of sound flows forth and hovers in the room—incredibly plush—you begin to see—the askew texture—’
— Mar 22, 2026 12:56PM
emily
is on page 99 of 182
‘—after his blurry end—a fond graffito rose—sprouted all over—Even if you’ve loved this music for half a lifetime, you can find the algebraic lingo of jazz theory about as clarifying as a book of logarithms baked in mud—You develop certain muscles at the expense of others—‘Love perfection because it is the threshold / But deny it once known, once dead forget it.’—'In the Wee Small Hours' flicker—sleep, dream, waking’
— Mar 22, 2026 12:40PM
