Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1

Emil Gilels - Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

Tony Bennett - Full Concert - 08/10/02 - Newport Jazz Festival (OFFICIAL)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: CLAIR DE LUNE

Mischa Maisky - Haydn - Cello Concerto No 1 in C major

Satie - Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, Je te veux... (recording of the Centur...

Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 - by Aleksandra Miku...

TEDDY WILSON SEXTET -The Onyx Club 1944 (full album) w/ SIDNEY CATLETT

Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band "Harvest Shuffle"

Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Coleman Hawkins (Body and soul)

Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Sw...

Hank Jones - Blue Minor

Tommy Flanagan: Oh, Lady Be Good! (1994)

Unique Man Indeed---Sinatra

 FRANK SINATRA ROARS POWERFULLY!  Say, when I listen to Francis Albert Sinatra I go into big adulation mode Number 1.  The terrific Sinatra does 'New York, New York' and I break down with emotion... 'My Way' slips along engulfing me, too.    'Wee Small Hours Of The Morning Swings so Grand.  The gentleman from Hoboken was one of a kind.  God Bless You!  You Spiritual New Jersey Soul!

Taking on Chastisement

I USED TO GET CHASTISED by others for being too dramatic.  Got this with negative fusillades often.  This befuddled me.  But one day I realized how many idiots and morons I had come to know.  My existence was a torpid modern day version of Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair.'  I am more gutsy now and I don't let the mean clowns bother me.  I am not a scared little kid anymore.  Years ago I read the James T.Farrell book, 'Studs Lonigan' and therefore now I have achieved a state of more mental emancipation.

Rachmaninoff plays Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

Gauche Modes A La Francaise

OUR DECADENT MORASS OF CRAP FEELS LOONEY
  The Americanistic lifestyle mode loads itself up with odd vibrations.  As the French said stuff is often gauche.  Old Jean Genet would grow tickled at the absurd mundane aspects of our middle class lives.  Our antics so often drive us insane...we  exist in a cauldron of gauche, gross thoughts.  Sartre, Roth and sleek Mailer would go wild in our quest for feisty football and other subhuman ideas.  Our women like football hero prototypes because they seem scared to death of males who know how to think...i.e. they do not like in the slightest way the men of intellectualism.  They cannot stand those guys because they upset the apple cart of their ideas.

Chopin - The Piano Concertos (reference recording : Claudio Arrau/Inbal)

Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin - Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21

Van Cliburn - Chopin Heroic Polonaise op. 53

Healing

BRING HEALING to all of us.  In the content aspect of giants like James Joyce...let us all heal.  Remove the cancer and also get rid of the chest pain brought on by a fall.  Bring us Joy like when we hear the grand sounds of Frank Sinatra.