As much as I have enjoyed reading Clio’s Psyche, I regret that I have not read anything about jazz — a field that brings so much pleasure, as well as insight into the human condition, to so many people. Miles Davis begins his autobiography, Miles (1989), with, “Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life — with my clothes on — was when I first heard Diz (Dizzy Gillespie) and Bird (Charlie Parker) together in St. Louis.” Jazz in an expressive music that is associated with our deepest emotions.
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