"... What is The 1959 Project? Most jazz fans find themselves suffering from golden age syndrome at some point or another; for the casual listener it might define their relationship with the music, given that so many of the genre’s seminal (and best-selling) records are now well-worn classics. A fair number of them, in fact, were released or recorded 60 years ago, and thus form the inspiration for this (quite probably foolhardy) endeavor. But for me, and I imagine for others, the best thing about jazz music isn’t the albums. ...” About
March 26, 1959 - John Coltrane in the studio, 1958 (Video)
the author assumes the reader wasn't there. but this one actually WAS .... i graduated secondary school in 59 and moved to manhattan shortly after
ReplyDeletei can answer many of her questions, but i can never make her feel like she was there
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