The Museum seems a sort of stage… an arch under which to sing… and all the little objects are cast (particularly if bronze) in some opera at which the rainbow ends. Is it Louis and Ella singing Porgy and Bess? Or Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer?
Well I was still feeling haunted by Rodin, so I thought I’d go visit BAM and see their collection of studies and Maquettes for The Burgers of Callais. It’s great to see the little placement study and then the great big head studies. I also went to see JMB again. I liked the show even better the second time without all the hype and expectation I had before… today I could just enjoy the paintings while listening to Jazz and P.E. John Macenroe owns a pretty great late Basquiat and my favorite is owned by Peter Brandt in Greenwich, CT of all places… the large Charlie Parker record of my most favorite song of his: Now’s The Time. Then I went to Brooklyn Library to see if they had a copy of Family Story (they don’t) and then I got rained on.
In Unrelated News, Rick Rubin is producing a new Neil Diamond album… That could work. Jazz Singer in deed… Al Jolson Mammy… Al freakin’ Jolson.
