Yes, got that sense of knowing a solo after hearing it so often, yet, a good jazz listener, & I assume yule been one for one time, gets that feel for new ones too. I like the connection to the walks. I remember a somewhat different Christchurch I suspect, but it was oh so walkable, & neatly laid out…
Doug
> On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:24 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> They'd be pretty shaky seeds in Christchurch these days wouldn't they,
> Andrew. How's the quake situation now? Like your connection with
> music/familiarity/tramping. Whoops, better watch it, In NZ, tramping means
> something more specific doesn't it, more hiking I think, off-road.
>
> Bill
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> On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Miles and Coltrane playing in Stockholm
>> enlivens a wet Christchurch afternoon
>> and I come to the realization I knew
>> what Trane was going to play next.
>> It was at this point that I knew
>> two days of prowling the city
>> had taught me the pattern of streets,
>> the beat of our feet connecting
>> to the sight of the eyes and
>> the frontal lobes. All this
>> connectivity part of writing -
>> but as Ezra Pound told WS Merwin,
>> *Read seeds, not twigs.*
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