Commemoration in Another Key

My father would have been 80 yesterday (that’s how far it is to July 3, 1936). We slippedĀ out to a jazz club in the South Loop by way of celebration. Think of it: in July ’36 Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton were still in their prime, Miles Davis was ten years old. An unpredictable zigzag was born.

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