Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez
Jazz saxophone legend James Moody played at Waterplace Park last night as part of the climax to Black Rep's weeklong downtown Providence SoundSession festival. Amazingly, James is 82.

You might want to listen to James Moody's Lazy Afternoon on this lovely Sunday in Rhode Island, temperature an easy 75. The tune is at Geezer Music Club, a blog so geezer it predates Rock Around the Clock..

Ted Barron, at Boogie Woogie Flu has a photo of James Moody in 1951, a couple of Moody tunes and a confession to make in a post titled Moody's Mood.

A few short clips are buried on the CDs page at JamesMoody.com.

Ambient sound: At Aaron Ximm's Quiet American, "One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else."

My goal with Quiet American is to sketch in sound the experience of being in an unfamiliar place.

The work on this site is not a replacement for travel. But if you are willing to listen, you may be transported.

...Please use headphones.

The ambient sound of the "vacations" -- 287 so far -- ranges widely: daytime bazaar in Panama, Voodoo Festival in Benin, West Africa, nighttime insects in India, opera in a Norman cathedral, a thunderstorm in Portugal....

There is also a page of field recordings made in Vietnam in 1998. Evening chant at Thien Mu monastery in Hue.

I enjoyed clicking around the other pages of this simple site, too, reading what Aaron has to say about it all and listening to sound snippets.

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