Neal Pomea

Heaven Knows Mr. Allison

I am sorry but the scene has appeared to be the most powerful thing, NOT the underground thing, for a LONG time, which is in part why I mock it. Consider my position, hoping to keep alive French in Louisiana, when the young people there want to honor rap, the traditional music of Bronx and Brooklyn, instead of Louisiana's French music and language. It is Goliath, not David. Clear.

It's hardly a fair comparison really - 'rap' is just a specific vocal style, fairer perhaps (though equally pointless) to compare rap to 'scat' or something... As for the influence of Hip Hop - merely, as you hint at, a question of rebranding - there have been an infinite number of new 'genres' that came out of Hip Hop... and its elements have been incorporated into just about every other genre - metal, reggae, bangra, punk, blues... besides which, the whole look of things has changed after it, look at the way people write on walls compared to 40 years ago, or the way kids talk (even here in the UK there's an extremely pronounced difference) or graphic design, TV shows, FASHION.. etc etc. I don't think most people consider rap to be just a vocal style like scat before it or talking blues or vocalese. It's a musical genre. Tries to sell that way. To that end, I meant that the word "rap" will not have the cachet of the word "jazz". From 1920 to 1960, all sorts of musical styles such as swing, big band, be bop, cool, hard bop, soul jazz, free jazz, etc. have all tried to align themselves somehow with jazz, i.e. the music originally called jazz by the first people who called their music jazz in the 1920s. No way rap will carry that kind of prestige. Definitely NOT infinite number of musical genres coming out of rap. Not a single one yet in 30-40 years. A musical style as different from King Oliver as Sun Ra or Modern Jazz Quartet. Calling itself rap because the word "rap" is too cool to let go of? No way!

How about 'be-bop' or 'boogie-woogie'... But they succeeded in calling themselves jazz somehow. Not rap. Much less hip hop.

No. It's football season that starts too early.

Absolutely sillier! Obviously.

Paducah, Chocolate Dandies, by Don Redman, Okeh 8627. Great guitar solo, sounds like Lonnie Johnson!

Hard to picture that the word "rap" will have as much cachet as the word "jazz" has had for so long! Picture the musical changes that took place just from 1920 to 1960, with all kinds of different and great new musical styles all wanting to continue calling themselves jazz. Have there been as many new musics from 1970 to 2010 that have continued to want to call themselves rap? Rap has quite a way to go and may never reach the bar. And as for the term "hip hop"? I can't see how in the world that term hasn't been mocked and ridiculed out of existence by now. Our comedians are really asleep on the job! Sounds about like hippity hop or hop scotch, some kind of girly game! What a name for a supposedly menacing cultural phenomenon!

He's MLB's next Milton Bradley. Two weeks ago here in Philly some fans were heckling him and he got so pissed off he turned around and fired a ball right into the stands. It hit a fan, who by all accounts had not been one of the hecklers, in the head. Lucky for Morgan the fan declined to press charges. What an ass. No, that turned out to be bogus. MLB gives him no suspension at all for the "incident" with the fan, if you can even call it that. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2010/09/nyjer_morgan_suspended_eight_g_1.html?hpid=artslot But he IS suspended 8 games for the brawl when the Florida pitcher first hit him and then threw at him again because he stole bases. Wonder what the Florida pitcher gets. That was just terrible and I agreed wholeheartedly with the Nationals manager when he said that the Marlins do not dictate to us when we run and don't run.

As with all Ken Burns' documentaries, besides the subject matter of the title you will also get a lot about race relations in the United States, and it can be quite moving. I remember a story about a Supreme Court justice who, as a young man, heard and recognized the genius of Louis Armstrong, which changed his views on race forever and contributed to civil rights. It's puzzling that since the time period covered is so long, from the 1910s onward, there is no real mention or discussion of copyright or the public domain and how attitudes about them have changed. Those are issues that would seem to be important today and not too off the subject at all. It makes the documentary seem quite dated already. I definitely wish Burns had included more points of view. It could have been a far different documentary if it had traced the way the word jazz has been used and how ownership of the word has been claimed by so many people making such different kinds of music. Hope you enjoy the series and let us know your thoughts once you're done.

Good for him! Maybe Morgan can use that time off to practice his routes to outfield fly balls, where he's weak for a centerfielder! He still doesn't get it that he did something wrong.

I would like to point out that fair use is what makes it possible for a journalist or critic to quote a politician or an author and criticize him or her without needing to get the person's permission. If you needed permission, a person who had said something embarrassing could simply deny permission and that would be the end of it. Far from being a dubious doctrine that needs to be put in quotes like "so-called fair use," hinting that it is near communist or immoral because it deprives someone who deserves payment, it is an important part of freedom of the press, and not all uses of copyrighted material need permission. Why shouldn't a music critic, journalist, or educator be able to reference a passage (a short one) for criticism and comment? Demanding permission and payment for short passages that elucidate a critical point sounds antithetical to freedom of the press and education in general.

One way to look at this is the length of preview clips on Amazon etc. They are usually only 30 seconds long, no matter the length of the whole. I know that for my Web site 2 companies only wanted to give permission for 30 second clips, acting as if this were some kind of industry standard. I don't think it is an industry standard, much less a fair use guideline since 30 seconds represents a greater percentage of a 3:00 minute song than a 15:00 minute song, obviously, but I guess Amazon claims fair use on the basis of the brevity of the clips. It's all backward since it's the copyright holder who should be paying Amazon for the publicity, although that would smack of the radio payola scandal.

Ma Rainey, Blues the World Forgot, parts 1 and 2

This might weed out some of the "every fifth day" fans we have in Washington. I swear you would think baseball is a solo sport! Sorry for Strasburg, but we had a guy pitch last night, Jordan Zimmermann, who is also very promising. His first MLB start after Tommy John surgery. Sounds like with determination Strasburg will be fine. He'll be put to work trying to earn his millions.

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Why not? I don't follow. Do you mean that the museum and library think it would be too costly for them to do this? Because it would not. Internet Archives does it. Even the individual who has the Red Hot Jazz site manages to do it. I can't imagine Mosaic doing it if the music is all out there and available for free. And if the library can make some money on it, I assume that's why they're talking to Mosaic about doing it. gregmo I can't imagine that keeping Mosaic from doing it. Of course people buy things they can find free on the Internet! Look at all the music on the Red Hot Jazz site. It's free there, but there are people who want it on cd instead. The market is not all composed of rational agents acting in their self-interest. This is what the courts do not understand. Mosaic would have NO problem adding value and selling box sets even if all of the music were available from the library or museum's web site. Especially if the library posted it at a lower bit rate for the duration of the print run. As far as the library making money, why wouldn't they more concerned with making access available for the greatest number of people, according to the ethics and mission of the American Library Association? I am not trying to be a wiseguy here; I am serious. I don't understand a rush to have Mosaic monopolize it.

Shake it Down, Lillian Glinn.

Why not? I don't follow. Do you mean that the museum and library think it would be too costly for them to do this? Because it would not. Internet Archives does it. Even the individual who has the Red Hot Jazz site manages to do it.

I hope we are not going to be limited to a costly Mosaic set. There's no reason the museum itself can't make this available online for download one song at a time even if Mosaic puts out a commercial box set. This has been hoarded for so long, why put it in the monopoly of a single company for who knows how much longer? License it but non-exclusively. Just my two cents.

As great as that call is, turn off the volume next time and just see Eddie Stanky charging across the field, jumping for joy all over Leo Durocher at third base! It has to be one of the greatest images of pure joy in sports that I can think of!

I read on this board that Lester Young loved Frankie Trumbauer, so I thought he should be mentioned in this thread as one of the greats of jazz.

A Face in the Crowd, Hud, The Subject was Roses -- all great films!

Indians apologize for not having ace pitcher to trade to contender this year

Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals leads baseball in walk-off game winning home runs since September 1 2005, his first game in the majors, and he did it again last night against the Phillies. This is sweeter than it would have been to beat them on opening day, when the team sold more tickets to Phillies fans than locals.