Where does memory live?

  • 2012-01-25
  • By Leonidas Donskis
Once I became witness to a stunning dialogue between a celebrity jazz musician and the audience. It happened on October 22, 2006 during the show of Arturo Sandoval, a Cuban-born American jazz trumpeter, in the Kaunas Jazz festival, Lithuania. A most revealing dialogue occurred after a couple of opening pieces which proved Sandoval one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of our time.He paused and addressed the audience: “Who of you know the great trumpeter Timofei Dokshizer, who lived in Vilnius and who just passed away?” The mortal silence came after the roar of fascination ...
 
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