– Yesterday I watched Turner Classic Movies’ two-part documentary on Cecil B. de Mille, who is a lot more interesting in theory than practice (though I really do like The Greatest Show on Earth).
– I also read most of another Barbara Pym novel, Quartet in Autumn.
– Now playing on iTunes: “Tour’s End,” a “Sweet Georgia Brown” contrafact (that’s musicologist talk) from Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio. It swings like hell–and without a drummer, thank you very much.
(Incidentally, a reader writes to tell me that Matchbook, the Ralph Towner-Gary Burton CD I listened to yesterday, is in print in Europe and can be ordered by going here.)