Grant Green, Lewis Grizzard...Happy Times

Fine, easin' right along jazz guitar music sure is interesting to me. Especially when the jazz guitar man is the super guy, Grant Green. I used to have a friend, an Atlanta writer named Lewis Grizzard. He used to write about enjoying all the good, simple pleasures of life. Well I remember the words of Grizzard and when I listen to great jazz guitar guys like Grant Green....well...my, my....it makes me really smile. Today, I massively enjoyed Grant Green playing that fabulous standard, 'My Favorite Things.' That made me a happy camper as us older souls say. On the Green work I was listening to they also had the ace of the keyboard, the marvelous individual, McCoy Tyner. That fella' can produce excellent keyboard jazz. Oh, Yeah! Oh my...this has been a so great Friday. Why yes indeed, my friends.

Good Luck to The Hawks!

Big game tonight. Go get 'em Hawks....Get yourself a good game Josh Smith, Jeff Teague, Jamal Crawford. Hope my great Atlanta Sports Culture Hawks guys get it done with the Chicago Bulls this evening.

Atlanta Hawks: Super, High-Energy Guys

Professional Sports (especially the powerhouse that is the NBA) is an important cog in our cultural engine here in Metro Atlanta. I like to savor super sports times. Lord, yes. OK listen... all of you....last night The Atlanta Hawks really took it to a feisty Chicago Bulls team in a huge playoff game downtown. The Hawks slammed the Bulls by a wild score of 100 to 88. One hot part of this game was the fine defensive work on the part of the Atlanta guys. The high drama got me excited, because I got tickled watching the strong play of J. Teague (Hawks No. 0) while he took it hard to Chicago Bulls superstar, Derrick Rose. The game had plenty of big-time fun for us happy-go-lucky NBA fans. It was sensational watching the high-energy performance of The Hawks mighty Josh Smith as he rolled up 23 points and 16 rebounds last night. I love NBA Playoff Basketball. Lots of rapid, fast-fire action and the joy of watching great guys thinking fast and getting the job done in a terrific way.

Mark Rothko....A Profound Modernist

Here I go with another blog on meaningful creative souls. The powerhouse wild art that is abstract expressionism lights up my being. A favorite artist of mine in this category of "super" guys is Mark Rothko. This man's art has so much vigorous emotionalism built into its structure. In rather clever innovative contexts he was able to mix the systems of expressionism and surrealism. Mark Rothko always backed up the artist's right to total freedom in creating his works. Mark Rothko was born in a part of Russia that is now Latvia. He came to the United States in 1910 and got the others in his family brought over in the year 1913. Later in his life Rothko came up with rigorous indeed profound color field kinds of paintings. Rothko makes his esthetic surges into art sleekness by letting us have quite unusual shapes. He has landscapes and yet indeed they are not landscapes. For they push the envelope much as the unique music of John Cage offers new vistas and poignant journeys into the dynamics of the human soul. In the vivid art of Mark Rothko just as in the modernism-inflected music of John Cage there is an iconoclastic wild tremendousness that is so completely engaging. The art of Mark Rothko has the brilliance of "cutting edge" thought processes. Indeed this essence is refreshing. The color rectangles of the wild art of Rothko.....Ah! This kind of passion injects terrific energy into all our brains.

Jackson Pollock Art Has Terrific Power

I think I'm going to write on art for a little while. Abstract art is so clever. you have to work at it to "get it" as the street folks say. Many times in my life I have been amused by how people react when you say you like brittle, odd abstract art. I know my mother used to only like mainstream art fellows like Renoir and Monet and perhaps T. Lautrec. Therefore, it tickled me when she got befuddled about the very idea that I would be enthralled by a social iconoclast like Jackson Pollock. Anyway I figure the decisive,emotional abstract art of Jackson Pollock has so much linear and vigorous mind processes with its intrinsic and certainly not coy essences of its "Action Painting." It sends one into a terrific sense of lucid happiness when one is engulfed by the bright and loud art of a miracle great man like the sensational Jackson Pollock.

What A Major Story!

The BL story last evening is huge. A giant vibe of strength is going through our culture. There is a truly new music happening. Thanks to all...especially the good intel people.

The Modern Jazz Quartet: Big Jazz Power

Classic modern jazz with its soaring, so haunting melodies can fascinate all of us with our yearning for meaning brains. The heady brew that is the jazz music of the strongly potent Modern Jazz Quartet inserts in one a major impact of dollops of musical superior experiences. Listening today to the beautiful sounds of The Modern Jazz Quartet performing 'Django' was so wonderful. Oh and then there was also the fact I enjoyed so much the vivid and sonorous composition with the terrific defined beat...of course I am making reference to the miracle of poignant jazz tunes...the one they call 'Bags Groove.' Indeed, when one listens to the especially super piano work of the great John Lewis and the sophisticated man of the vibes, Milt Jackson of the MJQ then.....it is a so merry and happy world of musical jazz fun we live in.