Music Lives 365: September 20 Jelly Roll Morton

In 1908 Handy didn’t know anything about the blues and he doesn’t know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
— J.R. Morton
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
— Sophia Loren
“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” .
— Upton Sinclair

The quietly seen New Orleans piano giant Eddie Bo.

 
Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.
— Malcolm Nance

Counter intelligence expert Malcolm Nance. In the current age of disinformation this guy speaks not with forked tongue.

In this uneasy land of the talking heads, he has participated in the belly of the beast: having both received and

administered waterboarding for example! The lessons he paints are not pretty. Their beauty perhaps resides in their truth.

Work of the late Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman