Archives for November 3, 2010

A rare video of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra playing Jerome Richardson’s “The Groove Merchant” in 1969:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

“I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of the freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer, letter to Frank Oppenheimer (March 12, 1932)