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Fred Kaplan
Festival
Fred Kaplan  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  1 comments
The JVC Jazz Festival is in New York City (a bit of an absurdity: New York City is a jazz festival, all the time). A crazy schedule prevents me from seeing much this year (less and less of this festival is actually jazz, in any case), but I’m definitely catching the Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette trio, Thursday night at Carnegie Hall, and Lee Konitz playing with a few bands, in honor of his 80th birthday (!), Monday night at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall.
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Robert Baird
Sweet Children
Robert Baird  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  2 comments
With increasing frequency, a litany of strange packages began arriving in my mail recently. Inside were, and continue to be, a series of very strange discs, entitled, Rockabye Baby!, that purport to be rock tunes made into lullabies. My first reaction? Smoking crack, as well all well saw in the 90's, can be a terrible, terrible thing.
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Wes Phillips
On the Road with On the Road
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  1 comments
Book collector Jeff Wong thinks the coolest collector's edition of OTR would be a limited reproduction of the scroll. Me too, although I'm sure I couldn't afford one.
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Stephen Mejias
Swaying to Seemingly Silent Tunes
Stephen Mejias  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  4 comments
"Congratulations," the comment began.
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Wes Phillips
10 Worst Jobs in Science
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  0 comments
These don't sound fantastic, but it's not like washing test-tubes is all that hunky-dory.
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Stephen Mejias
A Full-Length Commute
Stephen Mejias  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  1 comments
I have a full-length commute. It lasts just about as long as an album. For instance, if I plug in the iPod and press play on Dinosaur Jr.'s Beyond just as I leave my apartment, the album comes to a glorious end exactly as I enter our office's elevators. This was a great discovery.
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Wes Phillips
A Dublin Without Guinness?
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  2 comments
That just seems so wrong. But the article is a reasonable excuse to link to this.
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Wes Phillips
The Existential Angst of Ichiro
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 19, 2007  |  0 comments
Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners may be our era's Yogi Berra.
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Stephen Mejias
Decisiones
Stephen Mejias  |  Jun 18, 2007  |  3 comments
Dad,
It's difficult for me to think of good times with you, but something that does come to mind is how you'd translate those wonderful Ruben Blades songs for me, word for word.
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Wes Phillips
Kinetic Sculpture
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 18, 2007  |  0 comments
Theo Jansen's art is moving—literally.

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