Artist, Work, and Audience
Leaving Small’s Hotel, Chapter 29:
WHEN I FINISHED READING, I remained standing in my reading spot beside the fire, and I said, “If I may be permitted to say something slightly sentimental — a great sin in our cynical times — I would like to thank all of you for being here and listening to me, . . .
Jon Hendricks, “Now’s the Time” (set to Charlie Parker’s solo in Parker’s “Now’s the Time”):
Well, I’ve often found it a pleasure knowin’ I was
Bein’ heard; maybe “here,” or “there,” I never could measure
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See also:
Artist, Work, and Audience TG 393, TG 742
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