7/4

Sounds like the Times was just having a slow news day.

NPR: A Breath Of Inspiration: John Luther Adams' New 'Sila' by ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS July 30, 2014

Washington Post John Luther Adams’s ‘Sila’: New work occupies Lincoln Center plaza By Anne Midgette July 27 "The world premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Sila: The Breath of the World” Friday night at New York’s Lincoln Center had the visual aesthetic of a music video, the vibe of a cultural Happening — some 2,500 people congregated on Hearst Plaza, between the Metropolitan Opera and 65th Street, to watch — and the sound of Richard Wagner as channeled by John Cage. In short, the piece — by the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Music, a follow-up to his percussion piece “Inuksuit” — spoke in a number of familiar languages to make statements whose outlines are familiar to most cultural consumers but that still, in the classical music world, smack of the new."

A Pulitzer Today, and in May, a New York Premiere By MICHAEL COOPER APRIL 14, 2014 "John Luther Adams, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday for his work “Become Ocean,” has a special reason to look forward to its New York premiere next month at Carnegie Hall: he has yet to hear it performed live." A Composer Attuned to the Earth’s Swirling Motion A New York Premiere for John Luther Adams’s ‘Become Ocean’ WQXR: John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean Wins Pulitzer Prize for Music WQXR: On-Demand Audio: John Luther Adams's Become Ocean Live at Carnegie Hall Sloshing in Symphonic Waters A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center By ANTHONY TOMMASINI JULY 27, 2014

Schoenberg always pissed me off. Every time I'd play a gig, he'd swear up and down that he'd bring a bunch of friends, then he'd usually never show up. If he'd show up at all, he'd be intoxicated and babbling about Danish furniture.

You can check your connection speed with http://www.speedtest.net/. When I got the upgrade it doubled in speed from about 35 Mbps to somewhere between 75-90 Mbps. For some reason, my laptop clocks in at 120+Mbps when it's plugged in. My desktop machine must have a lot of malware hogging bandwidth. BTW: test it muitiple times for a number. I get different results at different times. example:

I've been using Comcast about 16-17 years. My TV cable box and my internet cable modem are two different boxes. I haven't needed any tech help from them in years. Service started out real bad, but at some point, they rewired the building. I cut off the land lines (aka internet phones, VoIP) last Winter to save a few bucks. I know it sucks to deal with them.

Interesting. The wifi router is in the same box as the cable modem and the phone jack, all supplied by Comcast. Costco often offers a Motorola cable modem that claims better performance, but I can't use it because it doesn't have a phone jack. My box is not near a halogen light, but it is near a florescent light; I wonder whether there's a connection there. Sounds like you have the same modem they gave me last month. It says the model is technicolor 105+. Four ethernet ports and wifi. They sent me one last month. If you're having problems with your devices, ask them to swap the modem. If you're still having problems, suggest that it's a line problem.

Sounds like it could be your ISP.

Yeah, no. That's why the concept that musicians have any less time to spend on the internet than we do is a huge fallacy. They are human just like the rest of us. WTF would I know about being a musician, eh?

Seems like it was liver failure(!), but I can't find anymore details.

I'm thinking he's not gonna help me with my bills.

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004)

Does this mean he's not gonna pay my bills?

I haven't turned my datman on in years!

Shit...pay my bills too.

"From Vince Wilburn Jr. fb-Account: "From Mike Stern's Manager.. Our Brother Dennis Chambers... He is out of ICU awake and His Wife is with Him GREAT NEWS" First good news."

http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118178 still mysterious

Like Hendrix, he was the next generation, JW wasn't just a blues man. I don't love everything. When he left Columbia/Blue Sky Records for Alligator and started playing a different guitar, his sound changed and I lost interest for a long time.

JW was really hyper for a blues guy. He reminded me of the English blues/rock guys like Beck and Page. The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

I saw him about a dozen times, mostly between 1978-84. He had Bobby Torello on drums, double bass mayhem...a real power trio. Yes, he helped bring Muddy Waters to a new level of recognition and popularity, with a minimum of commercial concessions or false steps. He could have spent those years on his own career--the "Captured Live" album from just before that time, is quite energetic and good--or sitting on a veranda drinking cool beverages. Instead he helped out Muddy Waters, and didn't get much recognition for it for himself, outside of a small blues fanatic circle. from Wiki: "Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues legend Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. '

He was a bit guitar hero of mine when I was learning guitar. Sad news indeed, RIP JW!

That's fucked up.

Jon Hassell news updated link

playing vinyl...complete with the snaps and pops.