No information on the other musicians. If you like the two trombone thing check out Trombone Heaven, a CD featuring Frank Rosolino and Carl Fontana. Posted by Sigurd Scodal
All too English, more or less
In the National Interest, English journalist and author Geoffrey Wheatcroft takes a rather dyspeptic look at the political situation on both sides of the Atlantic, coming to the conclusion that Europe’s Political Center Cannot Hold, though he finds a few shreds of hope in the U.K. itself. “There’s always been a healthy skepticism about parliamentary…
Why did the GOP fail to stop Trump? Because Republicans voted for him
At the Washington Post, Dan Drezner serves up “My very peculiar and speculative theory of why the GOP has not stopped Donald Trump”, receiving an approving nod from the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison, “How the GOP Failed To Stop Trump”. Drezner’s take: “My hypothesis is that GOP decision-makers also read the same analyses [from political…
Noam Chomsky explains it all for you—why standardized testing is bad
The Progressive Magazine has posted this interview with Noam Chomsky, in which the founder of modern linguistics explains why standardized testing in k-12 education is bad. According to Chomsky “tests that determine what’s going to happen to students and what’s going to happen to teachers is guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process.” Tests give…
What could be done, and why liberals won’t let it happen
It’s no secret that a large chunk of the American people are very upset these days, mad as hell and not going to take it any more, and also no secret that family incomes that have flat-lined for the past 15 years are a large part of the problem and also no secret that neither…
Reagan Speaks!
Over at Politico, Michael Kruse has a story up regarding the Jeb/Marco friendship/betrayal kerfuffle that includes a hoary/whorey chestnut attributed to Ronald Reagan, to wit: “There’s no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” Of course, what Ronnie meant was “there’s no…
Old 1999
Tumblr informs me that I’m coming up on 2,000 posts, since I started cranking out this stuff back in the early days of the Obama Administration. I confess that even a cursory review reveals that I tend to sound like an old man sitting in a bar yelling at a TV set. Well, this is…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Okay, here’s the deal. One bowl of milk and then you hit the road.” “Wait a minute. You’re not Albert! And you’re not Cecil either!” “Well, look who’s back! Mr. “the sewers are better than this dump any day”! “You’ve come back but Fluffy hasn’t. Should I be worried?” …
William Kristol, unhappily swallowing, though not willing to digest, a very bitter pill
William Kristol, a man I love to hate—or at least ridicule—has a plaintive post up at his rag, the Weekly Standard, labeled “No Outrage”, in which the enraged Mr. Kristol gives vent to his bewilderment that no Republican—not Jeb Bush, not George Bush, not Dick Cheney—has been willing to fault Donald Trump for asserting that…
Estefanía Olmedo Trío—“Brilliant Corners”
https://youtu.be/Kd8f_OS9b9E Nice scatting from Estefanía, with Jaime Serradilla on keyboard and Daniel Abad on bass. On Monk’s original Brilliant Corners album 20 takes failed to produce an acceptable version, so a composite track had to be created. As far as I know, Monk never played it again, either live or in the recording studio, until…