Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
The Bill Evans Trio plays Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” on Swedish TV in 1970. Eddie Gomez is the bassist, Marty Morell the drummer:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man’s mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.”
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court