B E L V E D E R E

Dennis Hopper in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

Hopper played an unnamed, eccentric photojournalist who idolized Colonel Kurtz.

Wright: The Wright Groove / The Dave Brubeck Quartet on BBC's Jazz 625 on June 9, 1964.

Bassist Eugene Wright (born May 29, 1923)

Personnel: Dave Brubeck - piano, Eugene Wright - double bass, Joe Morello - drums, and Paul Desmond - alto saxophone.

Bassist Esperanza Spalding

ART, LITERATURE, POETRY AND MORE  ·

Ray Bradbury never went to college. He spent his youth in the libraries of Los Angeles, reading every book he could get his hands on until he claimed he had finally graduated from the stacks. He believed that the library was the only true university, a place where the soul of humanity was preserved in ink and paper.

He famously observed: A culture dies when people stop reading.

Verve: Vol. VII, Nos 25 et 26. Original frontispiece lithograph designed by Pablo Picasso.