Friday, March 30, 2007
(11:05 PM) | Brad:
Friday Night Jazz
It's a gorgeous, mild Friday evening here in the Midwest, so I'm sitting by an open window watching the hipster girls in skinny jeans stroll through the nearby galleries & the boys in jackets two sizes too big follow them with their own style of loyal indifference. Oh, to be so ironic! The scene for me now is set to music, and tonight it is Charles Mingus' absolutely indispensable Mingus Ah Um. When the gospel wailings of its opening track, 'Better Git It In Your Soul,' are screaming in my ear, my apostate soul shakes, and for a moment, if only for about next seven or eight minutes, everything (from damnation to redemption to those boys with the awful haircuts) makes a little more sense.Listen, and enjoy.
