The Sublime

Whatever I, or you, or the per­son next to you, or who­ever occurs to you to think of, is think­ing right now, I ima­gine it’s not really got much on what this gen­tle­man is think­ing in this shot. Unless “you” hap­pen to be Vijay Iyer or something.

The exem­plary web­site If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger… fea­tures what an agram­mat­ic­al enthu­si­ast might call a moth­er­lode of such shots, all by Francis Wolff. The set is a pleas­ure, an edu­ca­tion, and I hope an anti­dote to any self-serious thoughts among those of us who are not only nev­er gonna be Coltrane, but don’t even have a vague shot at being Fats Navarro, for that mat­ter. Come on kids. Let’s get over ourselves. What the hell are we in this for, in the first place, really?