At her concert with guitarist Romero Lubambo at the Martinskirche in Basel last night, Dianne Reeves sang "Nine", a song about being nine years old that she co-write with Eddie del Barrio and released on her 1994 album "Quiet After The Storm": "Double Dutch, kickball, hop scotch, bobby socks." She was born in October 1956, so as she recalled when she was nine in summer 1966, I thought of the year she was 10, with the April 1967 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the riots in Detroit (her hometown and mine) and other cities in the United States that "long hot summer" that was also the "Summer of Love". (Andrew Shields, #111words, 16 March 2026)