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Report: Tesla and Elon Musk face criminal investigation https://www.axios.com/report-tesla-elon-musk-criminal-tweets-22b7a9f3-b3f5-44bf-8c96-c5f889a4e298.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics God knows I like the idea of Elon Musk. But the reality...still not sure. But if not him, then somebody needs to be doing this. Not so much the space travel (because after all, it IS rocket science), but the electric car, mass-produced and affordable. Just thank god it's not that guy...who was it...Tommy Tucker?

Heard these performed live (by this group, under the supervision of the composer) over a year ago, was so taken that I bought the CD in the lobby. A wonderfully engaging experience (the concert, not the purchase!). Let it sit on the shelf until yesterday, mainly to be able to put some distance between the live experience and whatever would be on the record. As it turns out, the record is just dandy! Widmann is a significant figure among today's composer's, imo.

Yeah, but same crazy (not necessarily incompetent, and definitely a visionary, but still, at root, crazy, I think) motherfucker in charge.

But not before sending a tourist to the moon! https://www.axios.com/spacex-japanese-billionaire-yusaku-maezawa-moon-e4bcb096-898a-43c3-9afc-9347d65987e2.html?stream=technology&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_technology

I was steered to Ruzickova's Bach set by Moms Mobley and it has been one of the best recommendations I've ever gotten. Mackey is an very interesting composer. I've been checking him out for a few years now. His works that include his guitar are just as well-constructed as his works without, imo, and that's what I look for in "classical" music, the construction, and, of course, the actual playing. Flute, my god, check out Gazzelloni. Dolphy did!

Erin Hannigan says that's not her problem.

Kofsky was one of those ideologues who make everything political. Redundantly, joylessly, tirelessly political at the expense of whatever shared joyful humanity may be available. They come in all flavors, his was Marxist. He tried to get Trane to align himslef with the Black Power movement and the rad-lib anti-war movement, and of course Trane was sympathetic to all that, how could he not be, but Kofksy was just such a clodding sod that without realizing it, he was asking Trane questions that if answered as asked, would be contractive, and Trane was all about expansive. In spite of all that, his book is essential reading, because yes - you don't have much American Black Jazz of the last 60 or so years without there being Malcolm X and John Coltrane in there, you just don't. And I've yet to see anybody rebut his opening chapter dealing with the open, thuggish repression of club economics, "playing ball" with the critics to keep your career going, record company politics, etcetcetc. If anything, time has only affirmed these realities. Just because he was an obsessive asshole doesn't mean that he was wrong about everything. It just means that he was an obsessive asshole.

Have you read it? It's famous/infamous. Kofsky kept trying to push Coltrane into a pretty narrow/specific "political" box, and Trane just wasn't going for it, at least not like that. By many accounts, Kofsky was a bit or more "off". But his book Black Nationalism and the Revolution In Music is an essential read, imo, just because that's where things were then.

Not begun reading yet, but it's on the nightstand, just waiting. Probably not much in here I either don't know about or at least have heard about, but a linear layout of how all this insanity grew and got normalized...I need this now.

I hope to be seeing Stephen Mackey in a few weeks: http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/engage/event?id=633 I've not at all minded his works with electric guitar. Not sure if this performance will have him playing or not, though.

How was that happening?

https://soundcloud.com/fullyaltered/07-up-up-and-away Whoa, WTF? John Hollenbeck, b. 1968, must have heard Don Ellis in the womb?

It's Joe's record, but it could just as easily be Kenny's. Three of the five tunes are his, and they're all true gems, familiar vocabularies creatively structured, all quite evocative of a wholly different place than Generic. Same thing for his playing. He's the star of the record, imo, not that there ever needs to be one, just that sometimes it happens like that.

https://www.axios.com/hurricane-florence-waffle-house-north-carolina-839b1888-4c78-46e4-897b-1dc6ff778b15.html Waffle Houses throughout the South are being used to determine the damage and stability of communities in North and South Carolina as the state rides out Hurricane Florence. How it works: The Federal Emergency Management Agency uses the "Waffle House Index" to determine if an establishment is offering a full menu. According to FEMA, "If a Waffle House can serve a full menu, they’ve likely got power (or are running on a generator). A limited menu means an area may not have running water or electricity, but there’s gas for the stove to make bacon, eggs, and coffee: exactly what hungry, weary people need." Why it matters: Businesses like Waffle House give people a place to go for normalcy in the midst of chaos, writes FEMA. "For small towns, places like coffee shops and local restaurants are often the local hubs of activity." They also can give people a place to stay if they've lost power. In the midst of Hurricane Florence in North Carolina, a Waffle House in Wilmington is taking people in who have nowhere to go — even without ID cards, reports the LA Times. A Waffle House employee told the Times "we're not closing unless it gets unsafe." And the establishment is open 24 hours every day of the year.

Well, he did play with Gil Evans some.

I'd be glad to write you a check, that's not the problem.

Violence never soles anything, just ask him to autograph a copy of his. or this: Remember that post-Santa Esmeralda world that lasted for a quick minute when everybody thought they would strike gold by discofying 60s hit? The only problem being...no, you had to do it right, not just do it. Santa Esmeralda only did it right once afaic, but they did it hella right. That shit was epic.

They're from the early part of the century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Like There's a little bit of "industry pedigree" involved, which means nothing except that they paid attention.Sure doesn't mean they bought "success" or anything. AFAICT, they never really moved beyond cult status. Z Berg's eyes belong in some kind of Hall Of Fame.

For all you kids out there who dig ALL the variations... Neverthe nonethe less, that's one helluva record, and one REAL helluvan A-Side!

No need to apologize, it was an honest mistake. Besides, I love R&B and I never mind doing a little digging!