Art Pepper, doing a very nice job with Monk’s take on Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm,” known in the biz as “Rhythm changes.” With Milcho Leview, piano, Tony Dumas, bass, and Carl Burnett, drums. Not clear when it was filmed. Posted by Jazzoduc13
Author: Alan Vanneman
Democrats hold a Tea Party
From all accounts, Democrats in the House of Representatives are delirious over their defiance of decorum, their recent all-nighter on the House floor, where they pushed the envelope to the extent of shouting down House Speaker Paul Ryan, perhaps the most pummeled personage in the history of this blog. Well, I have a hard time…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Thrust and parry! Thrust and parry! Hey, big guy, we’ll make a soldier out of you yet!” “’Smatter, boy! Can’t handle a lefty?” “Oops! Too much ice tea put out your fire? Whoever left all those potato chips lying around sure didn’t do you a favor!” “Oh, sure! Fire’s…
Loretta Lynch, super hack
Loretta Lynch is our first black female U.S. attorney general, and there’s a reasonably good chance that she will also be our worst black female U.S. attorney general, because, frankly, you’d have to go pretty far to be more of a witless hack than poor Loretta, who simply can’t tell the difference between the Obama…
Innocent until proven guilty? No, guilty before being accused! Democrats forget what civil liberties mean
The federal government’s “No Fly List” is already a massive insult to our constitutional liberties, as the American Civil Liberties Union makes clear. Now Senate Democrats want to make it worse by restricting or denying the right of people on the list to exercise their Second Amendment right to own a firearm. I am not…
Ryan Lizza still heart Paul Ryan. But why?
O that Paulie Ryan! He’s so handsome! Isn’t he? Just look at him! Just look! How can he be so cute and, you know, so dishonest and corrupt? Over at the New Yorker, from which I snitched this stunningly sappy photo of Paulie, a bewildered, even broken-hearted Ryan Lizza tries to puzzle the mystery of…
Paul and the Europeans
Paul Krugman has explained, several times that he is a very reluctant, though thoroughly convinced anti-Brexit kind of guy. Why so reluctant? Because of the “sad reality” that the EU has become: “The so-called European project began more than 60 years ago, and for many years it was a tremendous force for good. It didn’t…
Meat Loaf still a thing, Bloomberg explains
I check out Bloomberg News largely because I won’t subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. I like to have some information, and, possibly, some insight, on the state of the world’s economy. Not to mention the state of Meat Loaf. Well, Meat, it seems, isn’t doing too well. “CONDITION UNKNOWN” blared the head. “Singer Meat…
Orlando explained! Well, sort of.
Over at Bloomberg, Pankaj Mishra gives a nice take on “The Messy Mind of Omar Mateen”, noting that, among other things, “Mateen was mentally unstable, according to his divorced first wife. His Afghan-born father spoke of his son’s hatred of gays. Obama confirmed that the Islamic State had not directed the attack even though Mateen…
Luis Deniz & Greg Osby—“Ask Me Now”
Luis Deniz and Greg Osby, alto sax, Lorne Lofsky, guitar, Neil Swainson, bass, and Ethan Ardelli, drums. Greg seems to like this tune. Posted by Eugene Beck