The other writing where I've felt that it truly caught something of
what it would have meant to be there hearing it, was in the late
Whitney Balliett's jazz columns (mostly in The New Yorker).
Great stuff.
Doug
On 22-Feb-07, at 1:24 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> I had one student, who is a
> musician, say he had never heared / seen the actual playing of music
> described more truly than in the last few pages of the story.
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