Category: Music
An ode to life in a red state.
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I’ve been listening to a lot of Wendy Eisenberg recently to prepare for an interview. All that music inspired this piece, performed on ukulele, diddley bow, pandeiro, and two tracks of soprano saxophone.
Leave a CommentCat Stevens’ voice breaks
when he sings the word “listen.”
Hummingbird flies off.
Prince died four years ago today. On that morning I talked with guitarist Vernon Reid about Prince and his legacy:
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For McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner died today.
He was 81.
Honestly that surprised me;
I’d thought he was older.
Aren’t all masters ancient?
Or maybe timeless. Ageless.
Achieve a certain level of fluency
& you pass beyond the reach of the clock’s hands,
slip through Death’s grasping arms.
Now all four are gone: John, then Jimmy,
Elvin next, now McCoy.
A baby born tomorrow will never have
breathed the air at the same time
as any member of Coltrane’s classic quartet.
I wasn’t born when Trane died.
I was two when Jimmy left us.
Once I shook Elvin’s hand.
Another time I heard McCoy play.
McCoy Tyner died today.
He was 81.
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Jason Crane
7 March 2020
Tucson, AZ