Up 6:30. Watched John Oliver.
Finished Spaar.
Coffee, breakfast, visited w/ Bree.
9-10, exercise, form notes 10 R&B songs. Fnished 1950 set - a few more 32-bar or blues-w-bridge songs than ’49, but not many; possibly also a small uptick in VC forms, maybe paralleling pop mainstream.
Read more news than usual, on astroturf background of lockdown “protests” in Michigan (DeVos family a backer) &c.
Remembered to write to an out-of-state friend w/ grandparents on the UWS w/ grocery delivery advice - she said she was horrified to hear her 85-year-old grandmother was still walking to Zabar’s!
Walk.
Worked 11:30-2. “Modal” music. Sent.
Lunch. Started reading Willie the Lion Smith’s memoir, Music On My Mind around 3; needed a nap, resumed until 5-ish.
Very little else in afternoon. Should have called dad.
CD organizing. Into the Cs, but also pulling compilations and sountracks/cast recordings.
2nd walk, 6:30.
Worked on mixing document (2P) — plugged in the drive, checked the files, added some notes about where to find the overdubs from other studios. Also copied everything to my laptop. Now have to decide whether to send the entire external drive, or just a flash w/ the additions (I have an unused one, and they might fit).
Worked on “Hold the Flashlight” 25 min (P) - there’s are phrases I can’t get the harmony for.
Listened to 1st half of the “lost” Coltrane album that came out last year as Both Directions at Once before Bree went to bed (and asked if I could do something quiet.) There’s at least one great untitled original, and a take of Franz Lehar’s “Villa” — oddly, Lehar comes up in Willie the Lion’s book as an influence on Eubie Blake.
Read Lisa Robertson’s intro and Nicole Brossard’s essay + poems in Theory, A Sunday (a group of talks by a working group of Montreal feminist writers from the late 80s).
Lights out 11:15.