In his January 24 post, he meanders through Miles Smiles, Harold Land's The Fox (Elmo Hope, yes!), Coltrane's The Believer, and trad revivalist Muggsy Spanier. Oh yes, he ends with a visit to Gil Evans' sublime Out of the Cool.
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Speaking of great jazz websites, Rod from Loughborough has a dandy 'un in wordsandmusic. It's just what the title says: thoughtful words on music Rod likes, linked to examples, deep references, and videos.
OMG, there's a Dumas novel I haven't read? (A Dumas novel I haven't even heard of?)
Captain Pamphile just swashbuckled his way to the top of my reading list.
BTW, if you've never read The Three Musketeers, it's a ripsnortin' entertaining read—even funnier and bawdier than the Richard Lester/George MacDonald Fraser film treatments. Pass on the iffy-sounding Richard Pevear translation, however. The gold standard remains Lord Sudley's 1952 version, available as a Penguin trade paperback.
Evan Thomas and Jeffrey T. Richelson have written books that chart the CIA's legacy of arrogant wrongheadedness.
My continued use of my desk is the bane of Bagheera's existence.
"Here's something random for you," the editor begins.
At this, a smile blushes and blooms across the assistant editor's innocent face. He cannot suppress it. If you want to know why he is smiling, he is smiling because he does not want to laugh. He does not want to laugh because it would be wrong to laugh at his boss. This much is obvious.
He smiles because, in truth, it is quite a common thing for the editor to offer something "random." Does the editor not know this?
The assistant editor nods, anxiously, as if to say, "Yes?"
"If you look at the…
And, if you still feel like reading on this particularly frigid Friday, check out today's You Can Go To Jersey, Or You Can Go To Hell entry.
"You are the greatest."
In a few moments, I'll send the latest batch of Recommended Components blurbs to our copy editor, Richard Lehnert, the man of many words.
Speaking of words, this latest batch of blurbs features 8,085 of them. Words, that is. I always like to do a word-count on a finished RecCom file. In fact, not only do I perform a word-count after completing the entire project, I perform a word-count on each individual entry upon its specific completion. I don't know why. It's as if the number of words has something to do with the quality of the work. I give myself…