Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

yes, from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock -

/ ... /

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

/ ... /

Brilliant stuff isn't it, vinchaud and saly...

It was definitely a T.S. Eliot / Atkinson Grimshaw sort of evening today, glad to be indoors again with tea and a chocolate éclair

(Incidentally, I remember Atkinson Grimshaw being the source of amusement in the episode of 'Minder' where Arthur Daley gets into fine art - it was the first time I'd ever heard of him. Call me a pleb. An AG is even depicted in an auction catalogue, I recall.)

[Anna]

There is a wistful charm, a tenderness,
Mysterious and soft, in autumn's even:
The trees in weird and brilliant dress,
The gory leaves to whispered talk are given;
Above the sad and orphaned, the skies
Lie veiled and bleak, the sun's departure mourning,
And gusty winds with sudden anger rise,
Of pending storms the grim and chilly warning...
Fatigue, decline, and - over all - the worn
And wasting spirit's smile, doomed soon to vanish


Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

Chet Baker. Autumn Leaves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfEcGZ4D5Y4&feature=related

Oh, watch. It's marvellous. I think.

[salymap]

Brilliant stuff isn't it, vinchaud and saly...

It was definitely a T.S. Eliot / Atkinson Grimshaw sort of evening today, glad to be indoors again with tea and a chocolate éclair

(Incidentally, I remember Atkinson Grimshaw being the source of amusement in the episode of 'Minder' where Arthur Daley gets into fine art - it was the first time I'd ever heard of him. Call me a pleb. An AG is even depicted in an auction catalogue, I recall.)

That is rather unkind Caliban. I can't find my Penguin TS Eliot and I really need a chocolate eclair

[Nick Armstrong]

That is rather unkind Caliban. I can't find my Penguin TS Eliot and I really need a chocolate eclair

Apologies!!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

There is a wistful charm, a tenderness,
Mysterious and soft, in autumn's even:
The trees in weird and brilliant dress,
The gory leaves to whispered talk are given;
Above the sad and orphaned, the skies
Lie veiled and bleak, the sun's departure mourning,
And gusty winds with sudden anger rise,
Of pending storms the grim and chilly warning...
Fatigue, decline, and - over all - the worn
And wasting spirit's smile, doomed soon to vanish


Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

Chet Baker. Autumn Leaves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfEcGZ4D5Y4&feature=related

Oh, watch. It's marvellous. I think.

I have that Baker album... Great stuff!

[Serial_Apologist]

I have that Baker album... Great stuff!

Didn't know you were a closet jazzer, Caliban!

[salymap]

I've just been reading the Beecham thread from 2008 and it makes me sad all over again at the good people we've apparently 'lost', one way or another. Thosaitch, smittims, many more.

A 'guest' drew my attention to it as he/she listed it this morning.

[greenilex]

Morning, saly and all:

"one way and another" - not so much the one way that bothers me (after all, that's it) but unfortunately all those anothers are scarey...

if you catch my drift.

[salymap]

Everything is 'scary' to me at the moment greenilex.

[Mahlerei]

Mornin' sal et al

Watching the news is pretty scary. Especially thr possibility of ground-to-air misslles being deployed to protect the Olympics - just a few miles from my doorstep.

In 10 days we'll have reached the first anniversary of Stormy Weather here on FoR3.

[salymap]

Afternoon Mahlerei, not too far from my doorstep either then. Thanks for that.

A Happy Birthday to Stormy Weather and all the other friendly threads. You've seen the congrats to ff at the top of the page I guess? Bestio, sal

[Mahlerei]

sal

1. You're welcome :)
2. I have now.

[salymap]

sal

1. You're welcome :)
2. I have now.

And congrats to you for starting this,of course.

[gurnemanz]

A beautiful Autumn morning in Wiltshire - sunny and mild. I did some gardening and chose Neil Young's Harvest as approriate earphone material. It's a good album which I hadn't heard for a while. It came out in 1972 when I was 23. Mr Young, only slightly more gnarled than me, is four years my senior.

http://www.index.hr/images2/neil_young_wiki_625.jpg

[Nick Armstrong]

Didn't know you were a closet jazzer, Caliban!

I don't listen anything like as much as I do to 'classical' but yes, having played my trombone in a swing band and learnt to like playing the piano through Scott Joplin as well as Shostakovich, I came to jazz via Ellington and Basie on the one hand, Oscar P and Bill Evans on the other, with an option on jazz trumpeters - M Davis, C Baker and W Marsalis among others.

I also have a slight fetish for the Hammond organ