https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrdTRP3Q738 Lana Cencic, turning in a very boppy vocal, accompanied by Flip Philipp, vibes, Thomas Stempkowski, bass, and Wolfgang Rainer, drums. Nice! Appearing at Joe Zawinul`s Birdland, Vienna, in July 2006. Posted by mvojin. Need more Monk? Yes, you do. Go to Mostly Monk and continue your education.
The Snake at the Table
A month ago, thoughtful conservative Ross Douthat wrote a column, “The Necessity of Stephen Miller”, in which he argued that if liberals want a deal on immigration, they’re going to have to allow White House dude Stephen Miller a place at the table. Yes, Ross acknowledges, El Stevo has views on immigration that are at…
Too good to be true
There’s a good deal of yammering going on these days about the “failures” of liberalism, all of it too trivial for comment, to the point that it’s almost too convenient to learn, via the Washington Post’s William Martin, on the occasion of the death of 99-year-old über evangelist/never home dad Billy Graham, that three of…
The New Yorker fucks up
Thomas Meany has an article on German wunderdude Peter Sloterdijk, who knocks out thousand-page treatises on anything from the nature of being to the nature of shit. “This profligacy makes Sloterdijk hard to pin down,” sighs Meany. Is Sloterdijk wasteful and extravagant or just prolific, Tom? I know that “prolificness” is not an exciting word…
Paging Dr. Yeats! Paging Dr. Yeats!
Some time ago, I got so tired of reading about things “slouching towards Bethlehem”, or at least slouching somewheres, that I took upon myself to announce that no one, with the exception of Huckleberry Finn, would be allowed to use that verb, at once so affectedly literary and so uncouth that the poor word was…
Wadada Leo Smith—”Crepuscule with Nellie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLtky5Gejk Sorry, no video, just a recording of an 84-year-old man playing Monk on unaccompanied trumpet, from Smith’s new album, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk. Sound a bit austere? Well, maybe. Is his technique less than it was? Yes. Is the full album ever anything less than exceptional? No. Is it for everybody? No,…
Headline o’ the Day
Over at Bloomberg, we read the following “Crock-Pot Maker’s Activist Defense Needs More Cooking”. You’re funny, Mike, you’re funny! You’re a funny man!
Justin Bachman is confused
Over at Bloomberg, Justin Bachman is confused. *What Keeps the B-52 ‘Stratosaurus’ Airborne?” he wonders. “The Air Force says it sees a mission for the 1950s-era bomber until 2050. How can that be?” I’ll tell you how, Justin, or rather why. Because our other bombers—our “new” bombers, the B-1 and B-2—are crap, that’s why. Worst…
Rob who? Stormy who? Bennie who?
Want to read about that whole Rob Porter thing? You know, that White House dude whose two ex-wives accused him of abusive behavior, whose ex-girl friend claimed was receiving special treatment because he was “dating” White House babe/communications director Hope Hicks.1 Or how about Stormy Daniels, the porno star who received a $130,000 payment “facilitated”…
Wynton Marsalis—”Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPod_NTC1Yk Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Wycliffe Gordon, trombone; Wes Anderson, alto/soprano sax; Victor Goines, tenor sax; Danillo Perez, piano; Ben Wolfe, bass; Herlin Riley, drums. Warsaw, 1994. Posted by Austin Casey Need more Monk? Yes, you do. Go to Mostly Monk and continue your education.