Artist	Song
Azuma	Angel in the Distance
David Friesen	Dancing Spirits Before The Lord
Malcolm Daiglish	Jogging The Memory
East River Consort	The Sphinx In Her Stable
Montreux	Circular Birds
George Cromarty	Bittersweet
John Klemmer	Cry
Gary Burton & Chick Corea	Crystal Silence
Eddie Jobson	Lakemist
George Winston	Colors / Dance
Oregon	Cry of the Peacock / Coral
Al DiMeola	Scenario (In Fragments)

Comment:

With the onset of spring, I pulled down Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" and leafed through the 70-year-old hardcover, passed down by my mother, for inspiration. That famous pond in eastern Massachusetts is part of a tract of land that the Walden Woods Project is trying to keep from the hands of developers. One of the musicians on this mix, George Winston, has lent his support to preserving this historic space. During a show a few years ago, he read from Thoreau's work during an interlude. I recalled the passage and found it in the book.

"The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit, not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves."

I mused about being a fragment of history and then sought the songs for this mix from the racks of vinyl. Here is the result.

Quiz: To win a copy of this mix with accompanying artwork, answer this question: Which of these musicians has his own show on Sirius satellite radio?

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