Not really a Miles guy, but this is fantastic. No video, but, you know, so what. March 21, 1960 Olympia Theatre, Paris, France Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Davis (tpt); John Coltrane (ts); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d). Posted by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
Author: Alan Vanneman
Democrats in disarray! Who could have seen this coming?
Well, who but everyone? Yes, Joe Biden and his Merry Band have been hit with lots of bad news beyond their control, like the D variant, which put the kibosh on the back to new normal celebrations of last spring, and the continuing flood of desperate immigrants, and the rise in gas prices, and inflation…
For the Democrats, suddenly it’s 1978. And 1994. And 2010. Has anyone seen Dick Morris?
Yes, Democrats never seem to learn. Winning an election doesn’t mean you get to have everything you’ve always wanted for Christmas. You could, I guess, excuse Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, for all getting it wrong, but Joe Biden, surely the oldest DC hand ever elected to the presidency, can’t exactly claim…
2020 Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship: Manhattan School of Music—“Brilliant Corners”
No soloist information, unfortunately. Posted by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Academy
Feminist “rage” at Bloomberg.com
The World’s Top Business Cities Are Still Failing Working Women announces/pronounces/bellows “Bloomberg Equality + CityLab”, apparently a “thing”, though I certainly wasn’t aware of it until now. For the millions of working women in the world’s leading cities for doing business, daily life is often shaped by what they cannot do and how they’re excluded….
Let’s all hope Terry McAuliffe doesn’t get what he deserves for uncritically embracing Virginia’s all too woke education lobby
There was a time—there was a long time—during both the Clinton and Obama administrations when the Democratic neoliberal establishment did not much care for the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, regarding them, correctly, as enemies of educational reform, more interested in protecting bad teachers than helping struggling students. Well, that was…
Nice essay, George F. Will! But not, you know, perfect!
Hey, Georgie boy’s snappy retrospective of how a slightly pushy young lad from the sticks became the biggest goddamn Bow Tie the Beltway had ever seen—The pursuit of happiness is happiness—is not at all a bad read, informative and even touching at times, words I haven’t always used when discussing Mr. Will. I was particularly…
3 Moons— “Brilliant Corners”
No video, and obscure? I’m on it! Gaetano Partipilo, alto sax, Mauro Gargano, contrabbasso and Fabio Accardi, batteria. From their 2006 album Voyage. Posted by 3 Moons.
Yeah, well, that’s why they called her “Notorious”!
Alternate heads: “The Notorious Katie Couric” and “I didn’t even know Donald Trump had a cranky Jewish aunt!”. Yeah, the fairly shocking news that Saint Ruth’s attitude towards blacks was “We made it on our own; why can’t they?” and then sought to “take back” her own banal sentiments—almost like she didn’t believe in freedom…
Jonah Goldberg, cannons to the left of him, cannons to the right of him
A week or too ago I took an entirely justified crack at poor old Jonah Goldberg, deservedly lumping him together with the likes of Ross Douthat, Jack Shafer, Daniel Drezner and Ramesh Ponnuru as pussy-footing semi-Never Trumpers for acknowledging that the Big Guy himself was entirely unacceptable while denying that he constituted a real threat…