Cool, red October is for settling in at night with some music — jazz — with the windows ajar, a light rain falling, and the curtains stirring with a lazy motion. Ah!
By the late 1970s, I was transitioning from rock and moving on to folk and jazz. My first forays into jazz had been my parents’ dusty 78s in the basement: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw.