Brownian Motion

I'll second this recommendation. This is a wonderful album.

I can't decide which is crazier: to ask this question or to reply to it.

I would like to have sat in on the first 1923 recording by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Oliver and Johnny Dodds in their prime and Louis Armstrong's first recording session. Alternatively I'd love to have been there in 1936 when Fletcher Henderson's Band with Roy Eldridge and Chu Berry recorded Blue Lou, Stealing Apples, and Christopher Columbus.

You Philly folks say the wittiest things!

Squares A and B are the same shade of gray. http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/c...w_illusion.html

I believe they're out-of-print, but you can find used copies here: http://www.bookfinder.com/

Another vote for Louis' West End Blues. Also, Mahogany Hall Stomp, 1936 Decca version.

Fred Becker, a well-known artist and printmaker who taught in the fine arts department at the University of Massachusetts from 1968 until his retirement in 1986, died on June 30 at his home in Amherst, Mass. He was 90. The cause was esophageal cancer, said his daughter, Carla. Mr. Becker's work is represented in many important museum collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His most recent shows were at the Susan Teller Gallery in New York in 2002 and 2003; he had a retrospective at the Herter Gallery of the University of Massachusetts in 1999. His career began in the 1930's with quirky characterizations of musicians made during frequent visits to Manhattan jazz clubs and lively observations of the urban scene, done with a Surrealist touch. In 1935, he was accepted by the Graphic Arts Division of the Works Project Administration. His etchings and wood engravings brought him his first one-man show, at the Marion Willard Gallery in 1938. But in 1940 he was drawn to Atelier 17, the workshop established by the British engraver Stanley William Hayter, where Mr. Becker turned to abstraction, developing technical expertise while using various intaglio techniques and color printing methods developed by or with Hayter. His work at first was related to Surrealism and Constructivism, but by the mid-1950's he was using his skilled draftsmanship in a gestural, Abstract Expressionist mode. Throughout the rest of his career he continued to join his technical proficiency with experimentation, and his approach to subject matter became highly individualistic, as in "Workman's Glove," a 1986 woodcut in which a shapeless glove was made into a vivid color abstraction while retaining its worn identity. Frederick G. Becker was born in Oakland, Calif., in 1913 and reared in Hollywood, where his father, Frederick Becker Sr., was an actor in silent films. After study at the Otis Art Institute, the younger Becker moved to New York in 1933 to study architecture at New York University, but abandoned it for the freer mediums of drawing and printmaking. Drafted during World War II, he returned to civilian life in 1946, then began teaching at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. In 1948 he joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, where he established a printmaking department. He taught there for 20 years before going to the University of Massachusetts. Mr. Becker's wife, Jean Morrison, a painter, died in 1994. In addition to his daughter, of Amherst, he is survived by a son, Anton, of Newburyport, Mass.; his companion, Alberta Booth, of Pelham, Mass.; and three grandchildren.

With your health in mind I left out a crucial ingredient: bacon fat to fry in. Yummy but deadly. I use olive oil.

No egg or milk unless you live north of the Mason-Dixon line. For one chicken put a cup and a quarter of flour in a brown paper bag, add salt and pepper to taste, add chicken a couple of pieces at a time, shake until coated with flour, and fry.

Here's the other one (I hope).

Believe it or not, these two sculptures are folded from a single sheet of paper. They were created by Dr. David Huffman, a pioneer in the application of math to the art of origami. These photos originally appeared in the NYT; I've meaning to post the article, but can no longer do so without paying. Here's the first paragraph: On the mantel of a quiet suburban home here stands a curious object resembling a small set of organ pipes nestled into a neat, white case. At first glance it does not seem possible that such a complex, curving form could have been folded from a single sheet of paper, and yet it was. The construction is one of an astonishing collection of paper objects folded by Dr. David Huffman, a former professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a pioneer in computational origami, an emerging field with an improbable name but surprisingly practical applications.

Certain artists and certain albums get a lot of buzz on this board. Everyone already knows Trane and Miles and Duke and RVGs on Bluenote and this and that. I'm looking for discoveries made by you in the course of your own investigation of jazz music, especially if your selection lies outside the jazz canon.

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And by the way Marissam, what do you think of fuSION? If done well.

I'm surprised she hasn't been back for the bouquets. By the way, whatever became of Peter Cincotti?

You asked whether "anyone her". I her. Jimmy too. He her.

Why does Sam Donaldson have a bloody ranch for? He's a cowboy or something?

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I'm really agog at her levitation skills.

Hello Marissa, Welcome. You might want to start this thread in a different forum--Artists or Musician's Forum. B)

Interesting Elsie-Elmer history. * In 1936, Borden launched a series of advertisements featuring cartoon cows, including Elsie, the spokescow for Borden dairy products. In 1940, compelled by Elsie's popularity, Borden dressed up "You'll Do Lobelia," a seven-year-old, 950-pound Jersey cow from Brookfield, Massachusetts, as Elsie for an exhibit at the World's Fair. She stood in a barn boudoir decorated with whimsical props including churns used as tables, lamps made from milk bottles, a wheelbarrow for a chaise lounge, and oil paintings of Elsie's ancestors?among them Great Aunt Bess in her bridal gown and Uncle Bosworth, the noted Spanish-American War Admiral. * When RKO Pictures hired Elsie to star with Jack Oakie and Kay Francis in the movie Little Men, Borden needed to find a replacement for Elsie for the World's Fair exhibit. Elsie's husband, Elmer, was chosen, and the boudoir was converted overnight into a bachelor apartment, complete with every conceivable prop to suggest a series of nightly poker parties. In 1951, Borden chose Elmer to be the marketing symbol for all of Borden's glue and adhesive products. * Elsie the Cow and her husband Elmer have two calves, Beulah and Beauregard. *

Larry, thank you. This is exactly the response this topic was meant to elicit. I've already ordered a copy of Alabama Concerto.

I was afraid someone would ask for a picture. Here it is, from my scanner to you.