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Huckleberry assumes the difficult "Lima bean" position. Inexperienced cats should start with the "bread loaf" and work their way up to the more difficult poses gradually.
Jazz Messenger, June 15, 2007
I launch this blog with two bits of news that should make all jazz fans quiver. A brief prelude: Three years ago, an archivist at the Library of Congress discovered, during a routine inventory, the long-lost tapes of a 1957 concert at Carnegie Hall by Thelonious Monk’s quartet featuring John Coltrane. The tapes were pristine. The music was glorious, Monk playing his most archly elegant piano, Coltrane his most relaxed yet searching tenor sax. Blue Note released the concert tapes on CD, to jaw-dropping acclaim.
The Monk-Coltrane session was but one set of a…
Fred Kaplan's new Stereophile blog, Jazz Messenger is now up and running.
That is so going to be a bookmarked destination for this blog.
Anat Cohen’s Poetica, on her own Anzic Records label, is a fresh breeze of an album, and I mean that in a good way. Still in her 20s, Cohen plays clarinet with a polished edge and verve second only to Don Byron’s. Born in Tel Aviv, schooled at Berklee, honed in New York clubs, playing not just modern jazz but Brazilian Choro and Dixieland, she lets all her influences show but none of them dominate. Her tone bears something of klezmer’s lilt but none of its schmaltz. Her arrangements have the joyful-melancholic sway of Israeli or Latin folk music but none of its sentimentality. On the album,…
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Jeff de Boer is a sculptor, jeweler, and artist who produces wonderfulobjets. From his FAQ: "I have not put a mouse into a suit of armor. I have, however, tried it with one of my cats, and have the scars to prove it."
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. El borracho est convencido
que a l el alcohol no le afecta los sentidos
that the alcohol does not affect his senses
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. El borracho est convencido
que a l el alcohol no le afecta los sentidos
It was nice of you to do that. I could tell how much you loved the songs, and it made me feel good to know that you wanted to share that with me. I wonder if they're letting you listen to music in jail. I suppose not.
The alcoholic is convincedthat the alcohol does not affect his senses
I can…
Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners may be our era's Yogi Berra.
Sample: "If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice."
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