Monday, February 29, 2016

Jean Sibelius Symfoni nr 7 - Det Kongelige Kapel - Simon Rattle

Rafael Mendez - Jota Number 2

Bobby Hutcherson Quartet - Bologna, Italy 1977 TV

Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar |FULL ALBUM|

Bill Charlap - I'm Old Fashioned (2010) - (Full Álbum)

Tommy Flanagan The Trio (1983).

Wolfgang Puck Debuts His Oscars Night Menu

Leonardo DiCaprio Wants to Thank You For His Oscar (Yes, YOU!)

Jackie McLean - Abstraction

Blue Mitchell - Delilah

Ceder Walton 「Eastern Rebellion」 Bolivia

Frank Lacy Septet - Live at Zinc Bar, New York 2014

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Offenbach 'Barcarolle' ("Tales of Hoffmann") - Stokowski conducts

Stanley T. - The Return Of The Prodigal Son (full album)

Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball's Bossa Nova (Full Album)

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Full Album)

Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges - The Complete 1960 Sextet Jazz Cellar Session

Berlioz :Symphonie fantastique

Mendelssohn: 4. Sinfonie (»Italienische«) ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Paavo...

Mendelssohn A Midsummer night's dream op.61 - d'Avalos

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse [Full Album]

Sonny Rollins Trio 1959 - Lady Bird

Benjamin Britten Classical Music HQ Phaedra Lachrymae Sinfonietta Sword...

Monday, February 15, 2016

Sonny Rollins - St.Thomas (Original) 1956

Patsy Cline -- I Fall To Pieces

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Anthropology

Tough Guy Writers

THIS POST PRODUCES STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS VIBES:  I believe the tough guy writers like Elmore Leonard, James M. Cain and Dashiel Hammett are extremely invigorating.  Their rough descriptions snare us and rocket us to stratospheric levels of readers' delight.  The potent crackle of James M. Cain's little novel 'Serenade' is a prime example of this fiery prose vibrancy.  It is a need...a big one...in our culture...that we should possess strong prose artists.  Get us some writers who can develop seething, mean guys, folks who dig deep into the at times blah aspects of our weird American cultural life.  If a person reads Cain, he or she will be overcome with a brand of literary sensualism that is ideological and almost hits the Leo Tolstoy plane of psychic wildness.  Listen to Patsy C. and Charlie Parker and Coltrane and Vivaldi.  Go passionately into a gigantic, multi-level lifestyle.

A. Vivaldi: Concerti con Molti Strumenti [Ensemble Matheus-J.-Ch.Spinosi]

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Modern Journalism Needs

UNIVERSITIES TEACHING MEDIA STUFF NEED TO BE CHANGED.  It is high time colleges started teaching men and women the concept of journalism that has a dose of reality. Get away from philosophical clap-trap. The abhorrent nature of gross big-ego thinking pounded into the brains of young people is absurd.  If you get courses in how to deal with regular folks it is better for our contemporary culture.  Stop the visceral garbage of moronic elitist media thinking.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Valentine's Day 2016

A TERRIFIC Valentine's Day to all.  This cultural mainstay can overwhelm us with memories.  When I was a little kid we gave little valentines to classmates...and it was a cultural amalgam of chaos...because some people didn't want to play this game.  V Day is weird....some like it and some do not.  There are so many oddball variables in American life.  It appears more and more difficult as we age...this keeping things socially smooth is often difficult.

Charlie Parker Quintet 1947 ~ Donna Lee ( Master Take 5 )

ANYTHING GOES (Broadway) - "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" [LIVE @ Letterman]

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra / 2001 Space Odyssey Opening T...

Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio (best live version)

Liszt - Harmonies du soir (Kissin)

Cecil Payne Quintet 1956 ~ Saucer Eyes

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Charlie Byrd ‎- Blues Sonata [Full Album]

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba (Album)

Nerds, Eggheads and of course Squares

IT IS MORONIC how so many put labels on many of us.  One time years ago I was called a square....then they said egghead.  And now they say nerd.  It is absurd the way other mean and selfish ones want to demean us and humiliate us and say disgusting phrases like "don't have a pity party for yourself."  Tired of mean, nasty and selfish idiots.

Nice Writing

THE GOOD terse writing of Ernest Hemingway is a real joy.  He does not use too many adjectives.  His 'Torrents' is a fine tome.