Clik here to view.
On Prez and Poetic Imagination
Prose writers are disciplined. Poets not nearly so. And so the long hiatus here atMontanaWriter. I pass time working on the blog that is to replace this one, and pushing lines of verse around on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Laughin’ to keep from cryin’
A man can only be a stylist if he makes up his mind not to copy anybody. Originality is the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain’t really...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ivey-Divey, Dig?
“Lester sings in his horn; you listen to him and can almost hear the words” ~Billie Holiday A true artist, maybe one of the truest we have ever had, Lester Young was creative in dress, in the way he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Review: Being Prez by Dave Gelly
… there is no more consistently perfect body of recorded work in jazz than that produced by Lester Young between 1936 and 1941 – with Count Basie’s orchestra, with Billie Holiday and with various small...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Real Men Wear Hats
Most of my life I have worn a hat. Sometimes it has been a cowboy hat but usually it is a baseball cap. In the West of my youth, hats were common. Most men wore them most of the time. But in the...
View Article