@fmf saidAn under-rated musician, playing an under-rated instrument.
Gary Peacock, jazz double bassist.
I love this quote by him: "Miles [Davis] probably said one of the most brilliant, useful, and necessary comments I've ever heard. Somebody was recording with him, and Miles looked at him and said, "What I want to hear is what you don't know." That is really the key: not playing what you know, playing what you don't know. To do that, you have to get very quiet inside, listen, and surrender to whatever that particular musical setting is. So it doesn't make any difference whether I'm playing standards or free stuff, because you're giving up any kind of fixed positions or attitudes you may have about what it should or shouldn't be. And to do that, you have to be vulnerable, to be in a place where you realize that what you're after, you cannot know. It's not conceivable. But it's there. It's the muse. So it's kind of a switch from the self playing the muse to the muse playing the self."
He played with many of the jazz greats of that time.
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@neilarini saidShe was a good actress.
Diana Rigg
The perfect woman
Is it a tiny weeny bit wrong to not call her an "actor" nowadays? Serious question.
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@neilarini saidActresses. You can't make a plural with an apostrophe. 😉
One for actress' to answer.
She'd have called herself an actor in Game of Thrones if you'd asked her.
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@ponderable saidShere Hite and Nancy Friday, warriors in the 1970's sexual revolution for women.
Shere Hite
Us born German sex educator and feminist, her "Hite Report" was discussed heavily in the 70's...
(Friday passed on in 2017.)
