We were discussing some of the finer aspects of Frances Tiafoe’s game when we got the word that a member of our informal Maury Wills Athletic & Social Club, aka the East Side Racquets, which meets on the courts near.
Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine has now become a political and economic calamity for the Kremlin. Having developed over decades a climate of servitude to the will of controlled oligarchs and autocrats, Russia has now lost any grip it may.
Count Basie made it into one of the most popular pieces of the big-band jazz era, brass and solo horn and discreet piano the bandleader himself keeping the melody from going overboard with happiness or letting the contrasting.