music, all kinds.
Late yesterday afternoon while we were getting dinner together I noticed how much I enjoyed listening to the Otis Redding album I'd put on. This album I've heard dozens of times seemed totally new and genius to me. The cause of this "hearing anew" is perhaps due to the fact that I've been really stretching my ears and listening skills several nights each week listening to new classical pieces (a lot of Mendelssohn and Sibelius, lately).
I was having lunch with a few of the guys from Passionato the other day and someone made the point that both Jazz and Classical are similar in the sense that they are like wine: they can be appreciated at face value but the more you know the more deeply you can appreciate what's going on. What's interesting here vis a vis Otis Redding is that knowing about the wine can foster an appreciation of every ingredient in the meal.
Here's "Pain In My Heart." Listen to those horns. And that guitar. Man.
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