Sweet Rain

Sweet Rain

Stan Getz Quartet: Sweet Rain

Amongst the many things I owe my father is the discovery of Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and Carlos Jobim. My father’s collection of European Verve records was a treasure I inadvertently inherited. I am not sure I have ever thanked him the way I should.

I just got the mono vinyl version of the Stan Getz Quartet’s Sweet Rain (VLP 9178 London, 1967) with Ron Carter (bass), Grady Tate (drums) and Chick Corea (piano). Gillespie’s “Con Alma” is enough to make anyone understand the poetic profoundity of his breath. I can’t wait to play it on Friday…

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Here and here, just two more reasons why my dissertation topic is proving so difficult (so wide), and so exciting…

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II

Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,
While all things else have rest from weariness?
All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things,
And make perpetual moan,
Still from one sorrow to another thrown;
Nor ever fold our wings,
And cease from wanderings,
Nor steep our brows in slumber’s holy balm;
Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
“There is no joy but calm!”—
Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?

-From Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters”

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Costo de un viaje a Amsterdam de 3 noches, donde los únicos lujos fueron volar en British Airways y no en aeropesero, quedarse en un bed and breakfast decente, tomar dos taxis y una comida horrenda en restaurante caro de turista, sin contar gasto en cerveza ni souvenirs: 609.537 euros. Si no me pagaran por viajar, jamás hubiera podido…

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One Response to “Sweet Rain”

  1. Miriam Jerade Says:
    November 20, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Ernesto, pues qué fuerte!!! Yo la única vez que me gasté eso en un viaje, fueron las 3 semanas a Europa del Este. Yo generalmente viajo a casas de amigos, así no pago hotel – y yo también recibo gente en mi casa, es un intercambio natural. Y qué bueno que te lo paguen, me cae que uno debería de dejar de poner la raya en el renglón de lo que no tiene por x y z razones y alegrarse de que te paguen por ir de viaje. Pues para eso elegimos este camino, para poder vivir bien de nuestras pasiones, y parte de eso es saber cómo hacerlo en el ENAH o en Londra o en Amsterdam (yo tengo amigos de la Esperanza, no muchos, que se cotizan cabrón en Europa). En fin, si voy a York, que ya no sé porque me está entrando la culpa de que estoy de vacaciones y la tesis y etc, igual nos tomamos una pinta en King Cross, creo que de ahí sale el tren.

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