HeyJaredPenguin Jazz A-Z
Observations on jazz music and the connections we make from it.
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May 13, 2026 - Part 1 (opens the original)
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My wife is picking up the kids this fine Wednesday evening. I’m making dinner, something easy tonight, maybe pasta and sauce. I put on my apron, turn my Bluetooth speaker on and choose some spiritual jazz like Pharoah Sanders’ “Morning Prayer.” No kids no wife. All jazz. I crack open a cold tall boy of local IPA. There’s Ducks beer and there’s Two Loons beer. I become a mallard waiting for my hen.I’m enjoying myself too much and wander aimlessly down the hallway, but the music entices me back in
Man in a shed (opens the original)
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I was awakened last night at 4 am by a man in a shed. He lives next door, in the back yard of a modest three-story apartment building. He was coughing an insidious guttural cough. The cough has gotten much worse. The man in the shed plays video games on an early 2000’s square tv. He doesn’t seem to be working right now; he is lonely and frustrated. I know this because I can hear all his conversations that he has in his shed, on speaker phone, loudly. I can recognize the timbre of his friend’s vo
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