Rationality and Jazz

As we start the year, here's hoping that the sense of general rationality will continue. In that vein, David Brooks is great.

As always, we listened to tons of music during 2009. Perhaps our best "discovery" of the year was Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, whose 1950s records with Shirley Scott are sensational. I also learned this year that Billie Holiday recorded in the 1950s, and some of those performances and recordings are extraordinary. There is a beautiful John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman record on Impulse that's been very well remastered.

2009 was the year we had an FM antenna put on our roof so we could listen to KKJZ in Long Beach as well as Jazz88 in San Diego. We're also enjoying LA's KUSC. More about classical music later.