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pg. 57 or online here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/18/kwame-brathwaites-grandassa-models In the nineteen-sixties, the age of Ann-Margret and Jean Shrimpton, the photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite co-founded a group called the Grandassa Models. (“Grandassa” is taken from the term “Grandassaland,” which the black nationalist Carlos Cooks had used to refer to Africa.) “We said, ‘We’ve got to do something to make the women feel proud of their hair, proud of their blackness,’ ” Brathwaite recalled. The models’ skin tones ranged from light brown to dark brown, and they had full lips, natural hairstyles, and a variety of body shapes. The above photograph is from a series in which the models wore Afrocentric fashions, their hair untouched by heat tools, against a variety of brightly colored backgrounds. The first monograph dedicated to Brathwaite’s work, titled “Black Is Beautiful” (a phrase that Brathwaite and the Grandassa Models helped popularize) will be released on May 1, 2019. —Tyler Foggatt Book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/159711443X/?tag=thneyo0f-20 In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” This monograph―the first ever dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career―tells the story of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite, along with his older brother, Elombe Brath, founded the African Jazz Arts Society and Studios (AJASS) and the Grandassa Models (1962). AJASS was a collective of artists, playwrights, designers, and dancers; Grandassa Models was a modeling agency for black women, founded to challenge white beauty standards. From stunning studio portraits of the Grandassa Models to behind-the-scenes images of Harlem’s artistic community, including Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Miles Davis, this book offers a long-overdue exploration of Brathwaite’s life and work

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Jaap van Zweden, conductor Louis Lortie, pianist Schumann: Piano Concerto Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Jaap does Mahler - 'nuff said.

Just keep in mind that a cause of death is only sometimes health-related.

Wonderful, fully alive with aliveness in full!

What a gas this is, to hear the Goodman band in its natural habitat, relaxed, unhurried, just riding that 4/4 in their own natural tempos, so many great Fletcher Henderson charts (& Jimmy Mundy ones as well)...at some point it becomes evident that, as with any language, a communal comfort with a more or less set vocabulary played repeatedly over not just minutes or hours, but days/months creates a deep and true intimacy. In other words, this band was feeling it together, breathing it together, living it together. It's a joy to hear ANY band do that. The studio records of these charts (when they were made) feel totally different than they do here. Make mine these!

Yeah, that one's so nice becuase there's so few licks in it. Still usually played his licks more or less the same way that he played his more inspired ideas, so it's easy to not hear the difference unless you're really paying attention, that's why he's so easy to listen to and enjoy on a casual level (and that's not a dis either, he was a master master craftsman who, unlike, say, Sonny Rollins, didn't need to be inspired in order to "sound good"). But when he got clear of the licks, as he does here, hey, HOORAY FOR SONNY STITT!!!!

Yep, me too.

I do have Sonny's Bits and am glad to have it. But yeah,

I've seen what happens to loved ones when they get out of their house knowing they can't come back. You want to avoid that if at all possible. Check into local (state/county/municipal) elderly care agencies, as well as VA benefits (if he qualifies). Also - and tread carefully here, but do tread if need be - a reverse mortgage, properly set up and executed, can really help pay for some expenses that that might arise to keep him in his house. There are very real financial implications to this, so consult anybody/everybody who might be impacted. Also, and we learned this one the hard way - check into what Missouri laws are regarding elderly care/abuse/etc. In Ohio, for instance, we learned that you cannot force an elderly, failing, relative out of there house and into any kind of facility (even if they are legally blind and bedridden) unless you can prove mental incompetence, and the baseline for meant incompetence is very basic, like, what is your name and who is the president. The philosophy is that all people have rights to make decisions about their life, including bad decisions (I know, don't go there about choices, I know....). In other words, if an old person wants to put themselves at risk by living where they ARE at risk, that's their prerogative. We found out that there are allowances made for extreme conditions, but they were a helluva lot more extreme than seems conscionable to us. This is tough, and it might go on a while. I've got no parents or in-laws left. With each one, it took a different path. None were "easy", but some were more between-the-lines than others. So be ready, and realize that you're increasingly be called upon to be the "parent". Such is life. Just be engaged as locally and as transparently as is humanly possible. It's a jungle out there, a cesspool, a snake-pit, all of that and more. You know how predators are when they smell death. Some try the long game, some, the short. Just do your damnedest to be sure that you're doing for them as they would have done for you. Good luck, dude. Stay strong.

Might be time to take some leave time and go back to see for yourself what's up, and then talk to anybody in the area you trust about who is a good custodial service to look in on him twice a day or something like that. That may or may not be indicated, but until you see for yourself... If you do it all remotely, you be totally at the mercy of people you've never met. Trust me, that sucks.

Yep, 11.7.74. I distinctly remember reading the issue, the same issue had a Litwieler review of two Revelation records, one by Gary Foster, the other that Relaxed Symposium thing with Warne. I also remember checking to see who wrote those reviews and seeing that it was the same guy, thinking wow, this guy really know what he likes and doesn't like, and can be really precise about it, and he did not really care for 3 of those 4 records. Me myself, I think that Sonny Stith made waaaaay more records than his imagination could sustain, but that's not why he made them, so hey. I will say that anything past a smallish dose of him is usually adequate for me.

Bob Berg could be found. He played on Horace & Cedar's records. Maybe not everybody was looking for him there. They got played on the jazz radio around here though (AM jazz radio, at that!), so he never got lost around here!

Stitt's Muses had been getting good reviews until, one day...

Bob Berg stepping up.

Elly May from Down Under, I have no idea how to thank you!

I've been to a competitive fishing tournament. That's some serious shit, there's money to be had, and cheating is indeed criminal.

Maybe it's just some guy.

cover photo is "courtesy" of Schlitten. the embolism was probably the result of there being an air bubble in the needle. oh, btw - those notes are Gitler doing what he did best - talking about times and places and people that he knew well. When he worked at that level, as he did here, it's great reading.

Will you be on the lookout for other lists from other scandals? Hope so. We're going to need names and labels, lest out disenchantment with the follies of humanity gets misdirected at, like, you know, the individuals themselves.

about as much as it has to do with "Hollywood do-gooders", which is to say, not one damn thing. Find me a group anywhere that doesn't have cheaters and hypocrites. Find me that group, and then tell me what method of transportation you used to get to that particular planet.