One of the lesser burdens of being an art historian is that, periodically, one has to go to New York. I will never tire of turning into the fifth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art to see, directly in front of me, Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and then, turning right, through the…
In 1970 Seattle, I first experienced live jazz as Miles Davis played with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette. A meme regarding memory accuracy notes that with every retelling of an event, the story changes. The accuracy of my 1970 memory? Google searches note that Davis played Seattle in October ‘70 with Keith Jarrett,…
