It’s not yet March, but I’ve Summertime on my mind. Enjoy.

Sounds fancy, but it’s not — jazz is no aloof and distant music, but rather music very much from within American culture. Enjoy. Blues from Wynton Marsalis on Vimeo.

Here’s Adele, singing Rolling in the Deep, from last night’s Grammy Awards.

Always a mistake for a person, or a place, to envy and conspire against others’ free, voluntary accomplishments.

For a reader who rides the commuter rails each day, here’s a song from the Roches:

A real treat today — Ben Sommer’s cover of Sister from the Black Keys’ El Camino. Enjoy!

I’m neither Irish nor English, but one needn’t be to enjoy Irish Blood, English Heart. Irish blood, English heart, this I’m made of There is no-one on earth I’m afraid of And no regime can buy or sell me I’ve been dreaming of a time when To be English is not to be baneful To…