Jonathan Mayhew on jazz.

Favorite trumpeters:
Chet Baker
Booker Little
Miles Davis
Tom Harrell

certain pieces of music put me regularly in a hypnotic trance, sort of sinking into chair.

My funny Valentine (Baker version) & another ballad he does
Beethoven quartet op. 132, 3rd movement
Wanda Landowska playing Mozart piano solos
some of Bach's little piano works for kids

Eric Dolphy is probably my # 1 saxophonist (see J. Mayhew's jazz/poetry diary). Not that I'm an expert. "Feathers" & "Booker's Waltz".

Beethoven's quartet #132, 3rd movement.

"Feathers" : squawks & arpeggios. dissonance & resolution. Baroque display (peacock feathers).

Heard "Louie Bluie", the 93-yr-old blues violinist on NYr's Eve. switch to mandolin after heart attack. Said he had outlived all his doctors by 20 years.