I recently got a new cd by veteran jazz pianist Fred Hersch called “Alone at the Vanguard”. Solo piano, obviously, recorded in the famous Big Apple nightspot. The first cut is “In the Wee Small Hours ...
At about 2 a.m., I found myself in a state of respair, that obsolete old English word for recovery from despair. I had just finished revisiting my bookshelves, where I discovered that the mystery ...