Bookin' It in 2020

Sadly, I only finished reading a mere total of five books in 2020.  They are as follows. 

1.  A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Winsor with Joshua Lyon
2. Hatch Show Print: Letterpress Print and Design Since 1879 by Jim Sherraden with Celene Aubry
3. This Living by Reka Jellema
4. Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
5. Logical Family by Armistead Maupin

Quote of the Day

... we would like very much to mention the four major freedoms that my friend and writing-and-arranging composer, Billy Strayhorn, lived by and enjoyed.  That was freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from self-pity; freedom from fear of possibly doing something that may help someone else more than it would him; and freedom from the kind of pride that could make a man feel that he is better than his brother.

-- Duke Ellington, upon receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Quote of the Day

Jazz is America's own.  It is played and listened to by all peoples -- in harmony together.  Pigmentation differences have no place...as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

-- Norman Granz

Quote of the Day

Jazz is music; swing is business.

-- Duke Ellington

Quote of the Day

Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.

-- Art Blakey