Zimmer wrote an article for National Geographic on complexity in November 2006, which has lately been the subject of criticism by a biology teacher at Liberty University (Falwell's fundamentalist school in my home town of Lynchburg). Zimmer writes about the experience of reading "such stuff."
" It's as if my words were dragged through some creationist machine and chopped up into...well, into something, although it's hard to quite see what it is…
He told me he'd been developing the site for three years. It sometimes takes that long, yes, when you've…
Via be.jazz, which is a pretty cool site in its own right.
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.
Learn, listen, enjoy.
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.