Up 6:30. Watched a couple of late night monologues. Notes on a few r&b songs.
Left at 8. Started a ch. of Disciplining Music (on Schenknerian meta-theory, very abstract), continued later
Therapy.
Lincoln Ctr. Library about 11:30-5:30. Mainly read through an old draft of the first substantive ch. of my book, to remind myself of what was in it (so, what not to put in the introduction). Productive? I don’t know. It’s overlong, would like to look for cuts.
Bought a new pair of Converse at Discount Shoe Warehouse, mine are beat. Looked for dress shoes, nothing quite right.
Had time for coffee, read a short, somewhat clarifying summary of Jakobson’s account of poetry/poetics (a course handout I d/l’d from somewhere). Also made quick notes on the last 2 songs on the r&b disc (also on my phone). Benny Goodman’s “Solo Flight,” essentially a Charlie Christian feature, is mystifying — no obvious head melody, seems almost through-composed
Miles Okazaki (g), Wendy Eisenberg (g), Michael Formanek (b), Uri Caine (p), Chex Smith (d) at the Stone. Seemingly some composed material, as several players had music out. 2 guitars, w/ Wendy often as post-Bailey foil/spoiler to Okazaki’s (somewhat) more jazz-language approach and timbre; Caine often sounded quasi-classical, even Romantic, against them. Jacob Garchik came in just before it started; pleasantries, but he left before the end. Talked to Wendy briefly before + after.
Bought Okazaki’s Monk album (6 cds, every tune).
Finished off Discliplining Music on the train — ch. on Gregorian chant, and an anodyne summary/epilogue.
Home 10:30, Bree already in bed. Wasted time. Lights out midnight
[Didn’t: practice, work on taxes]