2021-02-01, Monday
What a beautiful start to February!
An awakening marked by a beautiful grayness.
Then I listened for the first time to a friend's gift: Ella & Louis!
Fantastic!
Fitzgerald's voice, fresh and crystal clear combined with Satchmo's rough voice: what an incredible contrast!
Of course he plays his trumpet and.... what perfection of sound!
I remember, back in the late 1950s, when Armstrong has been a guest on a TV show.
I didn't know who he was, but I still remember that big black face in which shone a row of white teeth: he smiled heartly, not a politician's smile!
He passed a white handkerchief over his sweaty face, drained the humidity from his instrument, kissed the mouthpiece and... from there my father would go into ecstasy
.
He was the greatest trumpet player in the world and he was of an incredible modesty: nice, helpful...
And to think that this great artist was forbidden to enter through the main door of the theaters where he was performing. being black he had to pass through the back door!
It seems incredible to me...
And that's not all!
Next to these two giants there is another one: Oscar Peterson!
A giant in every way!
Unbelievable that someone with the physique of a tackle could have such nimble fingers!
There were still times when he didn't perform as a soloist: an incredible sideman for two jazz great artists!
After a shave whose relevance to all this is negligible and unworthy of comment, however pleasant, when I sat down to do my homework, they were broadcasting a service from the Villa Borghese Museum presented by none the less than Antonio Paolucci, the former curator of the Vatican Museums!
His culture leaves me stunned, perhaps because I don't even know the name of the seven dwarfs!
And what fluidity of exposition, what rapidity of thought, what clarity of comparison!
The way he recounts Bernini...
How did a man, four centuries ago, get something like this out of a piece of marble?
Alright, I'll stop it right there!
And, yes, as I said, the shave with a brush, a razor and one of my favorite soaps, was satisfying!
The blade could have been smoother, even if not more efficient!
Sapone PS: Pear Soap
Sapone: Floris, N° 89
Pennello: Simpson's, Commodore X3, BB
Rasoio: Gillette, Super Speed ’40 Style, 1961
Lametta: Rapira, Super Stainless
AS 1: MilMil, Figaro Gel
AS 2: MilMil, BeMan, Balsamo Polivalente
EdT: Alfred Dunhill, Dunhill for Men
ST: Ella & Louis, 1957
