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Not that he can be blamed for wanting to slap a drummer to stop an interminable drum solo, we've all been there, but...what is this, The Normalization Of Whiplash?

I wish AT would have figured it out at least long enough to hear it performed with real confidence for more than 2-3 bars. I mean, I can hear what it's supposed to be, a kind of displaced 3/4 inside a 4/4 bar, , like 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc. 1 is silent, bass drum on 2, snare on 3 and 4. That's a really cool beat, but AT keeps wanting to slip into a simple oom-pah-pah 3/4, which if anything I think reveals how "limited" a lot of jazz was in terms, not of syncopation, but layering, not odd meters, but poly-meters (if you can call that a poly-meter, and since it's the same thing every bar, I don't think you can). It's a little, uh, slippery, but not really all that slippery (thus, I think, Monk chiding AT for being a "stupid motherfucker"). Let it be noted that such metric superimposition/displacement was part and parcel of the "Tristano school" almost from the beginning. Not like this, of course, but still, thinking about deliberate metrical tricksterisms. Anyway, if and when I get a band together again, that's going to be a project for it, to play "Light Blue" as Monk "originally intended".

That appears to have been Monk's idea for the drum part!

Very interesting, these changes that don't smooth out to the familiar ones until the second chorus and then go back when the vocal re-enters. Crazy! Here's another one from 1952 with the usual changes. Which came first? Nat from 1951...is this the original? This is closer to Bing's than not, or vice-versa, as the case may be. BILLY ECKSTINE!!!! When was this made? I really need to listen to more "crooner"-type Billy Eckstine, that cat was dealing! With Nelson Riddle, no less! Or Classic Crooner Kenny Burrell! If this song debuted in 1951, then it was still new-ish in 1959 in terms of currency, right? And the full original changes do not seem to be the one the song ended up with!

Sometimes you just find shit and you're like, whoa, never knew about THIS before!

What is hip today might become passe.

Newspapers? What are those? Seriously, I work for a corporation that very much has a global work force. The immediate personal impact to me might well be more from the monsoons in Mumbai than the flooding in Houston, but forgive me if my personal attention is more immediately captured by an area that's just a four hour drive from here, an area where I lived for a few years as a kid, an area where some of my mom's side of the family once roamed whatever it is they roamed, and an area where I have played any number of gigs over any number of years. But in both cases, a massive number of lives are being seriously disrupted, and some destroyed. This is not the time for pettiness/prissiness. Not that it ever is, but especially not now. What was that the song said, "I thin it's raining all over the world"? That's...neither funny nor poignant right now. It's kinda scary. Here's a corollary concern, presented for information purposes only: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/29/a-storm-made-in-washington-215549

oh btw, I received an email from work alerting me to the monsoons in Mumbai, and to expect an impact on workflow effective immediately. I'm still about to turn my KPRC stream to catch Khambrel Marshal, but to my co-workers in Mumbai and all their families, friends, neighbors, enemies, pets, livestock, everybody and everything. there and here, thoughts and prayers.

whoa....

Truthfully, I think she's rocking those shoes, and seriously, I applaud her for her ongoing efforts to look good for the camera. Optics DO matter, especially in times of crisis. Is the Astrodome in any kind of condition to be used as a shelter, even temporarily?

Well, this oughta be fun! https://www.axios.com/ecstasy-to-treat-ptsd-fast-trackedl-2478801847.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic "We're in this odd situation where one of the most promising therapies also happens to be a Schedule 1 substance," former Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton said to the Washington Post. "This is not a big scientific step ... It's been obvious for 40 years that these drugs are medicine. But it's a huge step in acceptance," David Nutt, a scientist at Imperial College London, told Science. One concern is that approving Ecstasy for PTSD will embolden groups seeking to legalize the drug for recreational use, the Post reports.

Ah, the debate about the effectiveness/efficiency of "local control" begins, even before the event itself passes: http://www.thedailybeast.com/houston-told-people-to-stay-for-harvey-now-they-cant-get-out I guess I'm asking...when there are no good answers, what is the best bad one? Time will tell.

I'm assuming this is a laugh? If so, wow, who knew?

A real name. Real name Dale: http://www.trumpetmaster.com/threads/glenn-millers-trumpets.24000/

or, for those who like a lighter touch on their sensitive areas:

although I'll not disagree even in the least about our current president being a "dickhead", criticizing hem for NOT doing a flyover after Shrub got TOTALLY reamed for doing just that seems a little...uneven, perhaps? the failure to communicate even a little with first-responders, yeah, that's classless, and dare I say it, totally in character. otoh...this is all going to be a test of how well "local government" handles things like this. I'm no fan of Greg Abbot either, he makes Rick Perry look like freakin' George McGovern, but the basic/baseline test of any governing official/system is can you provide adequate defense for/to your citizenry in times of calamity. Forget about social agenda and such, if you can't provide for your people when a fucking hurricane from hell hits, then you shouldn't even to be able to get in the door. So far, as best I see, all involved in local/state government have been passing that test. People wonder why not a forced evacuation, and seriously? What, 4-6 million people out of there in, what, 24-48 hours? No, that would be insane. So far, "local control" has been doing about as good as could be expected, imo. At some point, "local control" won't be enough, so let's see how it goes then. But I've not yet seen anybody seriously fucking up, so no criticism here, although hey, take it while you can, because my leash about this type of thing is a pretty short one! Kudos, though, to all the determined individuals, just plain citizens, who have stepped up. I still hate the way Houston drives, smells, sweats, all that, but dammit these people got heart out the ass when it counts, so...MUCH love!

Save it for when it counts, people. Lord knows, I'm not even remotely fond/fondish of Donald Trump, person or president, but if his wife wants to wear those type of shoes in this type of situation, more power to her. And if she can pull it off, I mean, actually walking in them, hey, even more power to her. Frankly, how anybody walks in any kind of heels escapes me, I have a hard time walking barefoot. If you do the work to make that work, hey, cfm or not, you got my respect, for that at least. Pretty sure that there will be more than enough to shame this administration with as time goes by. Shoe-shaming the First Lady - ANY First Lady, is just reflexively anti-progressive (in the broader sense), wrong. As for the President himself, hey, he came in a timely and appropriate manner, and he brought his wife with him. Whatever "X"s he gets against him in the future, this will not be among them.

I hope Bird comes out of retirement for, like, a farewell tour. He's sorely missed!

Yeah, I got that one pretty quickly after it came out. Fine stuff indeed!

I dig the trombone writing on this album, as well as the narcoleptic metronomity of the playing. Seriously. Many Kenton "easy listening" albums (and there are a surprisingly large amount of them) are just stupid. But the best of them hit a very specific zone that I have come to both appreciate and enjoy. This is one of them, just a big hovering fog of bossatrombonemetronomicnarcolepsy with occasional trumpet rays of hot sun coming in and then leaving. In it's own way, it's got a kind of Eno quality to it. In its won way.