St. Arbucks Cup Speaketh Truth
Let’s do a better job of exposing the children to our rich musical history, so they know more than hip-hop samples of artists like Curtis Mayfield, Jackie Wilson and Billy Preston. Help them appreciate Duke Ellington and his peers, like Count Basie, for being more than lyrics in a “back in the day” Stevie Wonder song.
–Sam Moore
Preach St. Arbucks cup. Preach
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Hey…thats what my cup says too! Good quote also.
Testify.
I hate to sound like a curmudgeon, but it’s a crime against humanity that we Americans invented an art form as unapologetically awesome as jazz (and it really couldn’t have been invented anywhere else), but we can’t be bothered to actually listen to it because it defies our squirrels-on-crack attention spans, is generally not performed by teenaged sexpots, and is completely useless as the soundtrack for soft drink advertisements.
^ (Man, that is one long, curmudgeonly sentence, yeah?)
::end of rant::
Amen!
Ha ha…I love reading “The Way I see It” on my ‘bucks cups.
Brad Ruggles
http://www.bradruggles.com
We stopped the S’bucks habit when we figured we could sponsor 2 kids for what we have been spending at that place.
More Miles Davis! More T. Monk! More JJ Johnson! More Bird. More, more, more!
Instead of “more cowbell” we need more trombone!
rant on, Dan.
I got that one a while back, also. All I can say is “Somebody say Amen”.
Nice – we both posted about jazz today. Weird.
Throw Miles and Coltrain on Sam Moore’s list.
i love that write-up on the cup.
DEREK