Up for a bit at 6, had to go to bed again, up at 8:30.
Joined Bree in talking to our friend Ron in CA on FaceTime.Made coffee. Walk.
Didn’t go to Farmer’s Market - Bree and her mom (who says they’ve been closed where she lives) were concerned about safety/social distancing. I’m not sure how I feel, and might go next week, but it didn’t seem like we were in dire need of something we can’t get elsewhere.
Worked 11-1. Sent a graf.
Form notes, 10 R&B songs, into disc 4 of current year (1948).
Read 15 p. Adorno bio.
Put in grocery delivery order w/ Bree, took a while.
Had her sign (our first joint) tax returns.
Finished Adorno quota, 2nd section of Reines. Disarming.
Watched another 10 min. of The German Sisters.
2nd walk, about 6 pm.
Listened to Kris Davis, Matt Mitchell, Aruan Ortiz, Matthew Shipp, New American Songbooks Volume 2. Shipp’s versions of hymns are beautiful - not entirely, but largely, played straight. Kris Davis does a prepared piano version of Carla Bley’s “Sing Me Softly of the Blues,” also a highlight. The LP pressing isn’t that great, tbh - a lot of surface noise. But there’s a download card.
Read David Brackett, “From Jazz to Pop: Swing in the 1940s” (actually a ch. of his 2016 book Categorizing Sound.” Interesting, but bad on the “work concept.” Also doesn’t realize that Johnny Mercer wrote “G.I. Jive”; thinks his recording is a cover of Louis Jordan’s. Sigh.
Zoom session w/ Ted & Wendy - read and talked about each other poems. Edifying.
Not much after 10 pm. Lights out 11:30.