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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…
"The United States Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) spectrum chart, dated October 2003, depicts the radio frequency spectrum allocations to radio services operated within the United States. This chart graphically partitions the radio frequency spectrum, extending from 9kHz to 300GHz, into over 450 frequency bands, and uses distinct colors to distinguish the allocations for the thirty different radio services."
You can order the poster USGPO or you can download the .pdf file. You probably know this information intellectually, but…
Guitarist Barry Finnerty remembers his bandmate, friend, and rehab mentor.
Using the acoustics of gunfire to calculate the location of snipers. It doesn't work the way you might imagine.
Last week I went to an advance screening at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) of Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, a new film about the short, creative, and ultimately kinda sad life of songwriter/arranger Billy Strayhorn. "Strays" or "Sweet Pea" as his friends knew him was part, some would say most, of the brains behind Duke Ellington's success in the forties and fifties. The film will be shown on PBS around the country in February.
If you haven't read it already David Hajdu’s book on Strays, also called Lush Life after one of his most famous tunes, is the go–to resource for all things…
If you're interested in a really special look at some of the best albums of 2006, you can visit The Tris McCall Report. You'll find that Tris has just begun to unveil the results of his annual Critics Poll. Today, he shares his thoughts on the voting results for the year's top albums. If you like what you read, check back each day this week for further commentary.
This year, surprisingly, there was a landslide winner.
I've participated in the voting in each of the last three years, I believe. And, this year, I must confess, I didn't feel up to the task. I mean, I haven't…
"An audience member unhappy with the sound in their part of the auditorium can change seats, but we [concert pianists] cannot," Byron Janis says. "Therefore the position of the piano on stage is of utmost importance—moving it only a foot in either direction can make an enormous difference in the sound and therefore in the performance."