. . . on ‘A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing’ from ‘The Peaceful Side’: youtu.be/Gtw4zICtSF4?...

📸 Herman Leonard (Paris, 1960)

(This I would like to have seen.)

(My favourite Attenborough)

“. . . People get over these things. Come, I shan’t do so badly. One is ashamed to listen to this voice, but it seems to be making out a good case for a while. Then comes the sudden jab of red-hot memory and all this ‘commonsense’ vanishes like an ant in the mouth of a furnace.” 2/2

“There are moments, most unexpectedly, when something inside me tries to assure me that I don’t really mind so much, not so very much after all. Love is not the whole of a man’s life. I was happy before I ever met H. I’ve plenty of what are called ‘resources’. . . .” 1/2

. . . his ‘Chelsea Bridge’ played by Mulligan & Webster: youtu.be/AConXKO_tcM?...

Billy Strayhorn, Jazz Composer, Pianist, Arranger, #BornOnThisDay in 1915, in Dayton, Ohio

40. ‘Scrooge’ (Hurst, 1951)

“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware of both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have they no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

. . . his ‘Lotus Blossom’ from Ellington’s ‘…And His Mother Called Him Bill’:
youtu.be/elo63IXDGjM?...