Chris Potter, tenor sax, Andy LaVerne. piano, Rufus Reid, bass, and Adam Nussbaum, drums. Recorded at the Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop, July 2015. Posted by Andy LaVerne
Lake Wobegon, Adieu
Garrison Keillor’s farewell to Lake Wobegon is not shown above. That’s a 30-year-old clip from the Letterman show. It’s my intent to weave the two together, so hold on tight. Like many people who commented on Keillor’s farewell, I was not a regular fan of A Prairie Home Companion. However, whenever I stumbled across it,…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “You’re in luck! We’ve been looking for a white boy!” “Congratulations! It’s ‘Zeke Week’!” And if you play bridge and pinochle, well, you can practically write your own ticket.” “Let’s get you out of those bib overalls and into a dry martini.” “I know you have a million questions. Fortunately, we have…
Al McLean and Jaleel Shaw—“Bemsha Swing”
Al McLean, Tenor Saxophone; Jaleel Shaw, Alto Saxophone; Bryn Roberts, Piano; Jason Davis, Bass. Posted by Randy Cole
“The Conservative Mind” turns sixty! (Sound of one hand clapping)
Actually, the sound of no hands clapping. From the perspective sheer scholarly effort, Russell Kirk’s 500-page tome, surveying Anglo-American conservative thought from Edmund Burke to T. S. Eliot, is an impressive work, examining dozens of both illustrious and obscure thinkers and arranging them in a coherent historical framework that shows considerable learning as well.1 So…
Paul Ryan, an evidence-based analysis
“He has actually proposed three — total, three — bills that have become law in his entire career dating back to 1999,” said David T. Canon, chairman of the political science department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. One named a post office in Wisconsin, a second changed taxes on arrows used by deer hunters,…
Maureen Dowd, making Hillary look not entirely awful
Famed NYT hitchick Maureen Dowd ever so accurately pegs Bill and Hillary Clinton as America’s modern-day Tom and Daisy Buchanan (read the whole hit here), but then piles on FBI Director James Comey’s pile-on, to wit: “Instead of Clinton’s assurances that the server in the basement in Chappaqua had never been breached, Comey said it…
Renee Rosnes Trio plus 1—“Bright Mississippi”
Renee Rosnes, piano, Ira Coleman, bass, Billy Drummond, drums, George Young, tenor saxophone take on Monk’s rewrite of “Sweet Georgia Brown”. Posted by paris0820
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Oh, yeah, it’s a veritable hula hoop of holiness. Definitely.” “What can I say? The Big Guy likes me.” “Yeah, I was heading down 66, maybe 3 o’clock in the morning, and I see this guy with his thumb out, so I say ‘what the hey’, right? So I pull over and…
Ronald Radosh, writing history and then forgetting it
Way back in 1983, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton published a monument of Cold War scholarship, The Rosenberg File, arguing that while Julius Rosenberg was a very active and successful spy for the Soviet Union, whose conviction though not execution for espionage was well merited, the arrest, indictment, trial, conviction, sentencing, and ultimate execution of…