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…
Johannes Mössinger New York Trio—“Brilliant Corners”
Another sound only, taken from the 2002 CD shown above. I can’t get a fix on the personnel, other than what’s shown on the cover. Johannes Mössinger plays the piano, and Joe Lovano plays sax. Posted by Johannes Mössinger
Colin Powell, a four-star disappointment
The death of Colin Powell at age 84 has brought forth lots of eulogies and a few accurate criticisms, like this one, posted at Forever Wars by Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America And Produced Trump. Ackerman focuses almost exclusively on what one might call the “mysterious incident…
Sandra Oh and “The Chair”: Sorry, I can’t see the plot for the clichés!
I have not been “on campus” for (checks notes) 49 years, for which I thank God on my knees every fucking day—and that ain’t no lie. So I am not the best person to review The Chair, a Netflix mini-series that has gotten props for taking a reasonably honest look at political correctness, sexism, racism,…
Jeff Tain Watts—“Brilliant Corners”
Jeff Tain Watts, drums, David Budway, piano, Troy Roberts, sax, Neal Caine, bass. Again, no video, but too good to pass up. From the album Blue Vol. 1. Posted by Israel B
Political Notes from All Over
George F. Will, critical race theorist par excellance There was a time when I made a virtual albeit entirely unpaid cottage industry out of making fun of George F. Will, working up such labored funnies as Two-parent families iz da bomb, says Ramblin’ George Will, snickering at the twice married, frequently adulterous when married and…
Chuck Grassley to semi-Never Trumpers: Suck my aging, wrinkled, disgusting, shriveled dick!
Who are the semi-Never Trumpers? Perhaps the most famous/infamous is Ross Douthat, who recently spent a column, The Once and Future Threat of Trump, desperately trying to explain away the fact that his previous writings on Trump, both before the January 6 riot and after, were politely yet accurately skewered by Robert Kagan in his…
Colin Gordon—“Brilliant Corners”
Colin on sax, with Julian Garvue, piano, Tyrone Allen, bass, and Aaron Staebell, drums. Performed at Hatch Recital Hall at The Eastman School of Music on February 8, 2016. Posted by Colin