Thomas Venetis

Relaxing tonight with Eberhard Weber's Later That Evening on ECM and Roland Barthes.

I cannot think of a better combination for this long weekend than Cecil Taylor and Thomas Bernhard.

With more snow on the way, best to settle down and listen to Glenn Gould's transcriptions of Wagner's orchestral showpieces and dipping into Edmund Wilson's Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England.

When you awake to this wintery scene, best to listen to Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and read Donald Barthelme.

Some new Anthony Burgess additions to my home library.

The nights are growing longer, the weather colder, and snow has begun to fall. It feels right to read Hesiod and listen to the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall.

For this evening, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars and David Markson's Vanishing Point.

With the first snowfall of the season, best to listen this evening to Gene Ammons on Prestige.

A new addition to my Wagner collection and tonight's listening choice will be Leo Smith's Divine Love on ECM, featuring Dwight Andrews, Bobby Naughton, Charlie Haden, Lester Bowie, and Kenny Wheeler.

Enjoying Glenn Gould's performance of Brahms' Ballades, Op. 10, and Rhapsodies, Op. 79, followed by Horace's Odes and Epodes.

For this evening's listening and reading.

Enjoying the evening with a Japanese pressing of Thelma Gracen put out by Emarcy/Mercury Records.

As summer winds down and work wraps up, I'm diving back into music and reading, starting here:

Vassily Aksyonov, was one of the finest post World World II novelists from Russia. The Burn (Ozhog), with its anarchic mix of memory, fantasy, and traditional Russian realism, charts many a Russian's responses to their homeland.

But the “doctrine” of a thinker is that which, within what is said, remains unsaid, that to which we are exposed so that we might expend ourselves on it. - Plato's Doctrine of Truth

For tonight, Sweet and Lovely with The Buddy De Franco Quintet.

Relaxing this evening with Abbey Lincoln and reading Kojeve's study The Notion of Authority which should be read alongside Agamben's State of Exception.

Happy to have this now in my library: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence published by Manchester University Press.

Anthony Braxton's Trio and Duet features David Holland, Leo Smith and Richard Teitelbaum, recorded on Sackville Recordings operated by John Norris and Bill Smith who also published the great CODA magazine.

Today is Bloomsday. I have multiple editions of Ulysses in my home library. This Penguin printing has been with me since my final year of high school. A cherished companion through many readings of Joyce's novel.

For this evening: Ahmad Jamal Trio At The Pershing - But Not For Me, from Quality Records for Canada.

Looking forward to listening to Philly Joe Jones' Dameronia and reading Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste, translated by Charlotte Mandell in this NYRB Classics edition.

Listening tonight to Andrew Hill with Kenny Dorham, Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis and Anthony Williams.

I did not mind this past weekend's weather kept everyone indoors. I had great company to spend that time with.

Will enjoy the evening with Paper Man led by Charles Tolliver with Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers, and Paul Morand's wonderfully unconventional autobiography Venices.

I will hazard a guess and say you are not a fan of MJQ?😁

Once this workday ends, I'll settle down with The Modern Jazz Quartet's Prestige recordings and this volume of Foucault essays.

Ellmann's Joyce along with Boswell's on Samuel Johnson are the exemplars of what biographies should be.

I don't recall Wilson writing about Davies, though he may certainly have admired him. I'll have to go through his later journals to see if there is a mention of Davies there.

Settling into the evening with Tamami Koyake and Edmund Wilson.