Round about this time tomorrow, I mean somewhere around an hour and a half before midnight tomorrow, or 23 hours from now, it will be solstice, the longest day of the year.

Aristotle quotes the solstice as a moment of self-reflection:

For all men begin, as we said, by wondering that things are as they are, as they do about self-moving marionettes, or about the solstices or the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square with the side. —Aristotle

The music I will be remembering this solstice is American jazz singer Andy Bey‘s “Round Midnight”^[1], which some of you may know in Amy Winehouse‘s version ^[2]. The song, in Bey’s version is WMC #50. “River Man” of my previous post reminded me of Andy Bey, who did his own interpretation of “River Man,”

Andy Bey‘s “Round Midnight”^[1]

Amy Winehouse‘s version ^[2]

But it really gets bad,

’round midnight.

Incidentally, here is Bey’s version of “River Man” mentioned in my previous post.