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While compiling the data for Recommended Components, I came across High Water Sound's new website. Stark, black backgrounds are broken by quiet images of strength and beauty, New York City's Brooklyn Bridge taken from so many lovely angles, presenting all of its long lines and promises. Brick walls, cold air, and hard work. 2-channel with attitude. It's always a nice surprise to find a good-looking audio website, so I congratulated High Water's Jeffrey Catalano on a job well-done.
What a combination, as Forums participant jazzfan would say. I just discovered Destination: OUT, a website that posts MP3s of out of print jazz discs. Lots of good stuff there. Play nice.
Via be.jazz, which is a pretty cool site in its own right.
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.
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.
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…