Archives for November 15, 2011

I’m worn out from last week’s travels, and so have withdrawn from the world for a couple of days of total seclusion. I’m reading P.G. Wodehouse novels, listening to music, seeing no shows, and doing no work of any kind.
I am, however, checking my e-mail from time to time, which is why I know that my downstairs neighbors were kind enough to send me a link to a recent episode of Radio Deluxe, the John Pizzarelli-Jessica Molaskey radio show. If you listen to the second track, a performance of “Let’s Fall in Love” by Louis Armstrong and the Oscar Peterson, you’ll hear John and Jess serve up a big fat plug for Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, which is still selling two years after the fact. How cool is that?
I’m also pleased to report that Pops is going be published in Russia, though the publisher has yet to get in touch with me about it. Indeed, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Russian edition of Pops may not redound to my benefit! Be that as it may, I’m pleased to know that my magnum opus will be translated into yet another language, and that an excerpt will soon appear in Jazz.Ru, Russia’s only jazz magazine (read all about it here).
And now…back to inactivity.

“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
André Malraux, Antimémoires