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rhythmaning) wrote2008-11-09 03:35 pm
rhythmaning) wrote2008-11-09 03:35 pm
"Come Sunday"
Those of you who pay attention may be aware that I quite like Duke Ellington; indeed, he is one of my heroes, and I think the guy was a genius. He made some of the most powerful, life-affirming music of the twentieth century.
Today, I have done something I don’t remember doing before: I let my iPod shuffle through a single artist – Ellington. I currently have 105 Ellington tracks on my iPod (I took most of the 24-CD centennial edition off my iPod because when I shuffle randomly, his music came up disproportionately; so I cut back to just specific LPs – Such Sweet Thunder, the Far East Suite, Black, Brown and Beige, Newport 1956, the Queen’s Suite and so on).
I started at about 10.15am – I decided I didn’t want to listen to the remembrance service, and I couldn’t decide what Ellington I wanted to listen too. So I let the iPod decide.
Five hours later (OK, I did have a break for lunch whilst I listened to the World This Weekend…), I am a little over half way through.
It has been invigorating: such variety, such beautiful and exciting music.
Wonderful.
I must do this more often!
Today, I have done something I don’t remember doing before: I let my iPod shuffle through a single artist – Ellington. I currently have 105 Ellington tracks on my iPod (I took most of the 24-CD centennial edition off my iPod because when I shuffle randomly, his music came up disproportionately; so I cut back to just specific LPs – Such Sweet Thunder, the Far East Suite, Black, Brown and Beige, Newport 1956, the Queen’s Suite and so on).
I started at about 10.15am – I decided I didn’t want to listen to the remembrance service, and I couldn’t decide what Ellington I wanted to listen too. So I let the iPod decide.
Five hours later (OK, I did have a break for lunch whilst I listened to the World This Weekend…), I am a little over half way through.
It has been invigorating: such variety, such beautiful and exciting music.
Wonderful.
I must do this more often!