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Spalding described Harvard’s history as “inextricably linked to Black and Native subjugation,” adding that in order to maintain her relationship with the University, she would need to be involved in redressing the school’s “historical and lingering colonial impacts.” https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/18/spalding-email-music-departure-baedap/

“The importance of curiosity for creative genius can also be seen in case studies of eminent figures…For example, the 20th Century jazz musician John Coltrane was deeply fascinated in religious faiths, studying Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, many of the influences of which can be detected in his music.” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221028-why-theres-more-to-being-smart-than-intelligence

If you wish to make a comparison, here is Lena Horne singing My Funny Valentine in the mid 1970s:

I assume you mean this tune:

Lena Horne now has a Broadway theater named in her honor: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lena-horne-first-black-woman-to-be-honored-with-broadway-theater-new-york/

If you missed the celebration of the life of Sue Mingus:

I knew that response was coming - I have heard it many times. I first heard Dark Side of the Moon long before college and I was not smoking dope.

Well...I remember 1973 as the year Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy (not lousy at all). 1973 was also the year that Dark Side of the Moon appeared - I have not heard the Pink Floyd album in years but I still have it memorized.

For those who do not already know: https://www.thebeatles.com/announcing-revolver-special-editions-0

Perhaps Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department also made a video of Coltrane’s visit to Japan – and future generations will be able to see it.

A video of the Beatles captured by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department during the British rock band's 1966 tour to Japan has been disclosed. The release came after a disclosure request filed with the MPD eight years ago by a nonprofit organization working to promote information disclosure in the city of Nagoya and a related lawsuit. The faces of people in the video, excluding the Beatles members, have been censored by the police department. The silent 35 minute 40 second black-and-white video was captured between June 29 and July 3, 1966, when the Beatles stayed in Japan, and is titled "security operations during the Beatles' visit to Japan." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2022/10/03/entertainment-news/beatles-video/ A few days after the visit of the Beatles, John Coltrane arrived.

Debbie Harry, at 77, fulfilled her dream of travelling to Cuba and playing in Havana with local musicians. https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cqh1hz/longshots-blondie-vivir-en-habana

I would say it will be great if the Patti Smith contribution to the book motivates more punk rockers to listen to Coltrane.

Some websites are posting "Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend" by Ravi Coltrane and others, to be released next year. https://bookshop.org/books/coltrane-the-definitive-visual-celebration-of-the-legend/9781984858399 https://juilliardstore.com/products/coltrane-the-definitive-visual-celebration-of-the-legend

I do hope it is bullshit - but an organization such as USPS (or any federal or state agency) is not likely to be following today the same procedures that it followed dozens of years ago.

I don't know how many of you already know this about "media mail" - a lady working the counter at the post office that I use told me that each media mail package is opened (by USPS) to verify that it has the type of contents that it is supposed to have. I told her I was sending only a CD and she said it had to be a CD bought at a store - it could not be a CD made at home. I asked her if the package will be resealed after it is opened, and she said yes. I received a tracking number for my package, but I will not start checking the tracking until at least a week from now.

Why do people line up around the world to see canvases by post-1910 painters, why do paintings by Willem de Kooning and Frank Stella sell at auction for millions, but the orchestral music of Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, or Elliott Carter is never played at pops concerts (and rarely at subscription performances, for that matter)? https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disappearing-modernists/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/07/new-record-label-raises-profile-of-forgotten-female-composers

What I most wanted to read in Bley's autobiography was his description/analysis/reflection/etc. of his time as a pianist with Jimmy Giuffre in the early 1960s. The topic begins at the bottom of page 75 and ends in the middle of page 79. Page 78 has only a photo. On page 79, Bley concludes: "The two most important figures in the early days of avant garde jazz were both composers and reed players: Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre." I would have liked to read a bit more on the topic.

In France, the book appears to be at: http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/cbs/xslt/CMD?DB=2.1&ACT=SRCHA&PRS=HOL&HLIB=861942101&IKT=8910&TRM=868808381 I read the book many years ago - I thought the book was good but I had the impression it could/should have been twice as long.

George Harrison was a fan of Formula 1. He wrote the song "Faster" - check out the video of the song - you might recognize some of the Formula 1 race drivers in the video:

Is Airto too far away to get help from the Jazz Foundation of America? https://jazzfoundation.org/

I can remember - 40 years ago - couples dancing to Yoko Ono's song "Kiss Kiss Kiss"

Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance

I was hoping the Mosaic box set would have the Lena Horne songs. It was on Black & White that she recorded the spirituals “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”. Lena Horne recorded very few spirituals. But then a Mosaic box set of only Lena Horne would be even better.