Sunday with Thomas Wendt Quintet

 

I attended this performance by Thomas Wendt quintet last week (Sunday, July25th) at the Sampsonia Way Tent. It was an event organized by the City of Asylum.

This was a group of top-notch musicians and accordingly, they selected a very nice repertoire. There were songs by a number of Jazz legends: Victor Young and Ed Washington ("My Foolish Heart"), Walter Bishop Jr., James Williams (hailing from Memphis), ...

It was a wonderful evening with beautiful tunes.

Thomas Wendt Quintet:

James Moore – trumpet

Jeff Bush – trombone

Deanna Witkowski – piano

Tony DePaolis – bass

Thomas Wendt on Drums

Harbor

Many pulses, actions, feedbacks are innocuous in nature. The world surrounding us, all the deceitful pleasures, or the dark waves encroaching our peaceful shores, the insults we receive, everything, all in all

they are just worth...

... forgetting,

 and forgoing

Picture: Southside, 7/24/21 

Sunday in the Park

Sunday, March 23rd, 2021, Flagstaff Hill

 Last Sunday was a fascinating performance and more importantly a celebration of a new season in our social functions.

The playlist included the following:

• "Canzonetta sull'aria", The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
• "Madamina, il catalog e questo", Don Giovanni (Mozart)
• "Un di see ben rammentomi", Rigoletto (Verdi)
• "Par le rang...Salut a la France", The Daughter of the Regiment (Donzetti)
• "Tous less trois reunis", The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti)
• "Acerba volutta" Adirana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
• "Au fond du temple saint", The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
• "Signore, ascolta", Turandot (Puccini)
• "Largo al factotum", The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
• "Habanera, Carmen (Bizet)
• "La donna e mobile", Rigoletto (Verdi)
• "Pa-pa-pa...", The Magic Flute (Mozart)
• "Ah! Quelle est cette voix...Chere infant que j'appelle". The Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach)

High-hat

 Whatever tears apart that elegant high-hat hubris and the delirious "Know All" attitude, is a step toward enlightenment.

Onward and Upward

 (In the middle of the hassle, when I am overrun and wolves are surrounding me)

I listen to the tunes, carried by the wind

You are here, vividly and omnipresently, 

Lost the taste for rusted joy,

and the colorful fabrics of the universe, 

I saw through the smiles,

I walked through the frowns,

I shrugged off the indifference,

I fathomed the depth of despair, 

Onward and upward,

To where light devours 

Pedram 

4/18/2021

Night-Sight

 

2/26/2021

Thank You Scientist: Stranger Heads Prevail

 

What an astonishing album. A crossover of Rock, Metal, and Jazz. Highly sophisticated music lines and very technical. This 2016 album was lost in the shuffle for a while.

Glacier

 There are philosophical qualms to the detriment of everyday normal life. Most of them are unnecessary, excessive, and manageable.