Joe Bartone, guitar, Sean Rainey, drums, Kyle O’Donnell, tenor Sax, Brandon Schmidt, Acoustic Bass. Thelonious Dub is a group, with an eponymous Monk album available from cdbaby.com. OK, you know the story on Thelonious Dub, but what about “Bemsha Swing,” which I’ve been playing a lot? Monk wrote the tune with drummer Denzil Best, who…
Mike Titlebaum, Jeff Campbell, Tom Killian and John Stetch— “Bemsha Swing”
Pablo Picasso salutes the heroic workers of North Korea in their struggle to smash the forces of American Imperialism!
Over at Slate, Christopher Benfey has a nice slide show on an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute—located “in the Berkshires”—according to Chris, examining the impact of Edgar Degas on the illimitable and irrepressible Pablo Picasso. Among the works featured is the one shown here, Nude Wringing Her Hair (1952). Although clearly riffing on Degas’…
Well, at least he didn’t choke on a terrarium!
Over at Slate, heartless Jack Shafer is at it again, pounding the New York Times for running fake “trend” stories on the non-existent rise in teen chokings and the non-existent increase in the number of terrariums, both non-existent trends attributed to the mother of all non-existent trends, Youtube. Not content with trashing the Gray Lady,…
No tits allowed—Steve’s rules
James Joyce must be laughing now—as if he ever stopped. Steve Jobs has found a graphic version of Joyce’s Ulysses too hot for iPad, the New York Times reports. The Times doesn’t say so, but it turns out that Ulysses is also too hot for the Gray Lady, because the comics page provided by the…
Tony Malaby—“Obambo”
Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Ben Monder, guitar; Eivind Opsvik, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums. Live at The Jazz Gallery, New York City, January 24, 2009.
There goes number 3! Again!
A variety of wise guys in the press are making fun of the recent announcement by U.S. “intelligence” announcing the demise of al-Qaida’s “third-ranking operative,” making this the tenth No. 3 to bite the dust, by some accounts. The government is always reporting taking out al-Qaida’s No. 3 guy because if it reported taking out…
Coyotes: mangy scavengers or misunderstood plot devices?
Maybe it’s just the luck of the draw, but in the crime shows I’m watching these days, whenever a corpse has been mysteriously eaten, moved, mutilated, or otherwise disturbed, the preliminary analysis always concludes that the mysterious eating, moving, mutilating, etc. was done “presumably by coyotes,” who apparently range from Central Park West to Jerry’s…
America the Innocent, on Occasion
Glenn Greenwald hammers away at a pricelessly asinine article in the New York Times on those wacky Pakistanis, who actually think that the U.S. means them harm! Oy, those paranoid Muslim freaks! Where do they get the idea that the U.S. might, you know, attack and kill innocent people with, you know, predator drones from…
O the humanity? No, the stupidity
In yet another event that lessens one’s hope for the future, President Obama has announced the deployment of 1,200 National Guard troops to “guard” the Mexican border in Arizona. According to the New York Times, the president acted in response to demands from both Republicans and Democrats in that state. I’m guessing that this latest…