Entertainment: Audio and Visual

March 4th, 2016 § 0 comments

HG has a daily swim before dinner in HG/BSK/s indoor lap pool (The lap pool is in a separate building with a wall of windows and a toilet room, a changing room and a shower room. New Mexico luxury). Feeling healthy, exercised and super clean, HG sips a bitters and soda drink and listens to music. HG/BSK’s musical tastes are eclectic. Jazz: Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli; Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Ruby Braff, Billie Holliday, Fats Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Blossom Dearie; HG’s late, dear friends, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral. Plus the extraordinary Chet Baker (HG often wonders why such a handsome man and a supreme trumpeter and singer could destroy himself with drugs at such a young age). Other favorites are from foreign lands. From Cuba: Bebo and Cigala. From Capo Verde: Cesaria Evora. From France: Serge Gainsbourg. From Jamaica: Deadly Dragon Sound Mix CDs. From Brazil: Antonio Carlos Jobim (The Jobim Songbook on Verve has a virtuoso jazz-samba scat by Ella Fitzgerald). While dining and wine drinking, HG/BSK switch to classical music. Yo Yo Ma; the Jascha Heifetz- Gregor Piatigorsky concert series. Plus select Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach CD’s. (Sometimes there is no classical music but rather the mellow, beautifully phrased songs of Tony Bennet). After dinner it’s movie time from Netflix. Lately, HG/BSK have been exploring little known but critically acclaimed foreign movies. “Divided We Fall” from Czechoslovakia. “Seraphine” , a French-Belgian production. “Diplomacy”, a French-German production. No movies on nights when “Better Call Saul”, “Downton Abbey,” “Breaking Bad”, “Homeland” are (or were) on TV.

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