Life is Good: June 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Kenny Rankin, rest in peace

Sad and shocked to hear that last Sunday, Kenny Rankin passed away, after he found out 3 weeks earlier he had stage IV lung cancer. Unbelievable. Here's a video -- sweet song at the end. Glad I got to see him in person at Yoshi's Jazz Club, twice -- even talked to him outside the building -- what a voice, and what a gentleman. Life is Good, but Life's Too Short.

Beautiful song starts at 1:27, if you'd like to skip to the music.

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Standing on the very spot of my earliest memory in life, outside the Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum in Banff, Alberta, Canada. I remember it was a sunny day, I was standing on the banks of this river, I was barely taller than the grass, and there was a dragonfly ... the beginning of a very good life!
* found my mother's diary of this very trip, and now know this was Wednesday, June 8, 1960 ... so, it's not my first memory, but a very special one, one that lay forgotten until I happened to drive by the spot I thought I'd never been & was suddenly overwhelmed with deja vu. Memory is a fascinating thing, sometimes laying dormant and waiting for a smell, a sound, some trigger, to bring it all back, so fresh.