Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Jukebox: Dave Brubeck, Michael Jackson both giants in different ways
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Michael Hochanadel
Michael Jackson was just a year old in 1959 when the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded “Time Out,” and Brubeck was 39. Seeing the 88-year-old Brubeck play on Sunday at the Freihofer’s Jazz Festival at Saratoga Performing Arts Center just three days after Jackson died at 50 offered a startling contrast between very different giants....
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