Tomás Murray
@tomasjmurray.bsky.social
Lean left • Tom will do • Far from the West of Ireland now • Fond of cats (Aoife & Sophie), Georgia, jazz, old films, poetry, stout, & Sylvia 🎺 https://tinyurl.com/3bvnbyfb 🎬 https://tinyurl.com/47stke59 • https://tinyurl.com/2jan4tzd
“I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good),” Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster (1941). I’m not very happy with the solo here, but it passes quickly and I like the way the final time through the body of the song works out. Baby steps.
Robert Hayden, Poet (& Poet Laureate), Essayist, #BornOnThisDay in 1913, in Detroit, Michigan From ‘Those Winter Sundays’: “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?”
Herb Ellis, Jazz Guitarist, #BornOnThisDay in 1921, in Farmersville, Texas ‘Moonlight in Vermont’ from ‘On the Town with the Oscar Peterson Trio’ (1958): youtu.be/yp2eUfubD4c?...
Hayden Carruth, Poet, Critic, Anthologist, #BornOnThisDay in 1921, in Waterbury, Connecticut From ‘Emergency Haying’: “My hands are torn by baling twine, not nails, and my side is pierced by my ulcer, not a lance. The acid in my throat is only hayseed.”
Rupert Brooke, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1887, in Rugby, England From ‘Seaside’: “From inland Leaps a gay fragment of some mocking tune, That tinkles and laughs and fades along the sand, And dies between the seawall and the sea.” 📸 Sherril Schell (April, 1913)
“I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes),” Hoagy Carmichael (1939).
I’m happy Juice Box is here, but I’m really happy for Billy. He needed a cat companion so bad. He was fucking bored with just me: “Oh wow, Frank is walking to the kitchen. Big if true.” Now he has a constant source of intrigue and fun. BFFs!
Ernest Dowson, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1867, in Lee, London “They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.”
“The Man I Love,” George and Ira Gershwin (1924). Not Ira’s most inspired lyrics. This is one I want to learn to improv around. I can just about hear what’s needed, but I’ve gotta put in more time and thought.
Today is Seán Ó Riada’s birthday.
Marbhna Luimnigh (Limerick's Lamentation)
YouTube video by Seán Ó Riada - Topic
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Henry Moore, Artist, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire, England ‘Sheep with Lamb IV’ (1972), Tate Britain
Beatrix Potter, Writer, Illustrator, Conservationist, #BornOnThisDay in 1866, in London ‘Frontispiece: The Tailor Mouse’ (c. 1902), Tate Britain
“Fly Me to the Moon,” Bart Howard (1954). Feel like I got to like 2/3 of an almost passable solo in this one before it started to get away from me. But it’s a fun, jaunty song to work on when you’re trying to force yourself to rely less on the pedal to cover up mistakes and gaps.
It’s Marie’s birthday tomorrow. 📸 Claude Harris (1920s)
Wrapping my arms around the things i like so they cannot be tipped into the Discourse Machine
Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic, Novelist, Short Story Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, in Lexington, Kentucky
“Reek Sunday had dawned grey and damp, with drizzle and mist making for slippery underfoot conditions, especially on the upper slopes.”
On Croagh Patrick the three-leafed shamrock predicted Mayo’s winning margin
Reek Sunday 2026: Mayo climb mountain in Croke Park as thousands of the county’s faithful ascend Croagh Patrick
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I am only sorry my Mayo mother was not alive to see it. My Mayo grandmother too. But maybe they got to watch.
Kerry v Mayo live updates: Mayo end 75-year All-Ireland drought with dramatic win over Kerry
Mayo look to overcome reigning champions to end 75-year Sam Maguire wait
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Today’s reading - a book by one Elizabeth from the library of another
