tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222625576455946162.post8389487592033779010..comments2024-03-26T23:02:26.307+01:00Comments on silvae: JazzUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222625576455946162.post-20991072802074836552010-08-20T23:10:31.737+02:002010-08-20T23:10:31.737+02:00Ich dachte, ich hätte die Mail verloren, die mir J...Ich dachte, ich hätte die Mail verloren, die mir Jack Chambers im Januar geschickt hat, aber da ich sie wiedergefunden habe, stelle ich sie doch mal hierher, weil es eine so wunderbare Mail ist:<br /><br /> "Dear Jay-- I am honoured beyond reckoning to find myself in your blogosphere, and treated so well. Your perspicacity led you to my interview with Chet Baker. I have long been interested in the interview as a source of history and/or fact. Memories (as everyone knows) are unreliable, even with people who are more steadfast and reliable than Chet Baker. We live our lives, and we seldom (or never) know if our actions might some day seem important or interesting to someone. Jazz research has been highly dependent upon interviews as sources, and there is seldom documentary evidence from newspapers or other sources to corroborate what the musicians tell us. What they tell us are, at best, approximations of what happened and when, why, where or how it happened. <br /> <br /> Your blogging is prolific, and it seems as if you had stored up all that learning and enthusiasm waiting for the invention of the internet. Your breadth of knowledge is breath-taking. I am honoured to find find myself in company with many of my heroes like Glenn Gould, Herman Melville and whiskey champions like Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. From your blog, I learned that Grant was immortalized as a whiskey drinker by Lincoln himself. I discovered many other things as well, including these wonderful lines from Larkin--<br /> <br /> we should be careful<br /> Of each other, we should be kind<br /> While there is still time.<br /> <br /> <br /> Carefully and kindly<br /> Jackjayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297885808320517891noreply@blogger.com