Serenity Street Shrine on east Market Street, Louisville, Ky
photos by Danny O'Bryan
"Tom had been completely swept away, borne off with the music-jazz, the pure sound of it. He crouched with eyes and face raised to the sight of it...noding his head yes yes- a shoulder hunched urging on of the bassman to new highs with "Give it! Give it!...Here! Here!...Now take it!" - pumping notes one to one, artist to artist -- the sweet sweat eye-bond holding the both on that wave riding out and over...gone with it...
And coming back to the table, eyes wide serious, Tom said, "Now that's praying...
That's some kind of prayer...the new liturgy-Really, I'm not kiding. Closer than most of us'll ever get to it."
Thomas Merton at 118 Washington Street, jazz nightclub, Louisville, Ky in the sixties
excerpt from "Song for Nobody" by Ron Seitz
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