Thursday, January 13, 2005
Stanley Crouch says: "Anyone purporting to be civilized, or who desires to be, should have as many late Ellington recordings as possible in his or her audio collection." Which is fine to say, but good heavens, man, I listen to Duke Ellington pretty regularly, and it is a vast, poorly catalogued body of work. It would be a fine thing to be Stanley Crouch, or Winton Marsalis, I suppose, and be able to devote more time to listening to Duke Ellington, but some of us are just going to have to struggle to be civilized by doing other things.
// posted by Bill @ 11:14 AM 
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