Up about 8. Breakfast/coffee. Played “Stella By Starlight.” Spelling Bee. Retrieved a recycling container I’d left downstairs. Printed out “Dancers In Love” and tried to sight read it. I think it’s playable if I work on the trick opening run. Ellington’s original has an ending I have to work out.

Read to p. 50 How to Raise an Ox. 7 JA poems. (Would like to finish both books before New Year’s.) Sat Zazen 15 min. Got to writing about 3-6:30; finished revising Adorno section - didn’t cut as much as I’d have liked, but put the current state in the chapter draft. Shaved for the first time in several days. Started looking at conclusion of chapter. Read ch. of Blesh on Lester Young and Billie Holiday, both told tragically, the latter a rehash of Lady Sings the Blues. Spent some time w/ Bree. Watched a piano lesson, practiced about 30 min. — scales, brief ear training, rhythm changes voicings, played through Bobby Timmons’ “Moanin’” (nice voicings in B section), tried the Ellington w/ metronome. Played a few oddities from a big fake book - “At the Codfish Ball.” Took a box of bottles out to recycling, short walk. A couple more JA poems. Crossword (under 6 min.). 1 p. Poetry notebook - would like to get out of the habit of doing this last. Watched a couple cooking videos, lights out 11:15, w/ 2nd disc of Private Lives.