But one of its most instant delights was the sense of giddy communion last Friday, as fans and observers awaited, then savoured, the record in real time.
The big-band recording, live in Town Hall, from 1959, puts the compositions front and center; the arrangements, by Hall Overton, have a buoyant directness that highlights the sheer delight, the instant if belated classicism, that Monk's compositions represent.
Throughout the series, he constructs a virtual gallery, library, and phonothèque of forebears, references, inspirations, and delights, an instant classicism of conscious pleasures and under-recognized legacies.
'Good times' are here again (1979) A song that single-handedly sums up the spirit of hip-hop music, "Rapper's Delight" was an instant party-starter.
An emerging meritocracy, restless and impatient, always in a hurry, took great delight in the instant status conferred by landing a good table in a happening restaurant.
Like movies and baseball, jazz is an art of memory; arising from evanescent workaday miracles, it doubles its aesthetic delights with an instant nostalgia.
But then she pulled back and spread herself for him, and an instant later, to his amazement and delight, his hard cock was plunging into the hot, throbbing depths of her moist pussy, and—.
The 1975 is an album with so many delights that, despite the instant sugar rush, it also works as a slow burn, yielding more pleasures than one could ever have expected.
Once I'd tasted the delights of genre fiction – the instant hit, the smash to the head, the flow, the muscle, the vernacular – literary fiction lost all its appeal for me.
