Just watched this again on Bill Moyer’s Journal. The music still moves me. Can’t wait to see the entire film!
Monthly Archive for December, 2008Page 4 of 4
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So free shipping is no more at Landsend, but Williams-Sonoma is picking up the slack, offering to ship over 400 products free of extra charges.
OTOH, there’s Amazon.com which offers “Free Two-Day Shipping” with Amazon Prime, their prepaid shipping program. I love Amazon Prime, but free it is not.
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Steve Lacy on Monk includes Lacy’s handwritten notes of advice given to him by Thelonious Monk, including “you’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
Update: Interesting that Lacy’s notes start off with the bane of my jazz existence: “Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean that you don’t have to keep time.” Guilty as charged! Always working on that…
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FastCompany.com has a nice slideshow of the New York Jets’ new training facility. Love the full-size indoor practice field:
Hope this helps get them back to the Super Bowl…
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I love listening to and playing jazz, and my musical tastes are fairly eclectic. I love old standards and fusion as played by Miles Davis, Return to Forever and Weather Report, among others, and almost everything in between.I’ve long been wondering how to turn current day popular music into jazz. Many musicians have tried, notably Herbie Hancock. Today I’ve been listening to View So Tender: Wonder Revisited by The Joe Gilman Trio, featuring instrumental versions of songs written or recorded by Stevie Wonder. I particularly like Smile Please and That Girl, but I’m just starting to dig in. Interestingly, both songs are in Sher Music’s New Real Book, Volume 3, so maybe I’ll get to try them soon…
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Maybe this is just a sign of the times. Landsend.com offers free shipping for online purchases, but all that ended Thursday, December 3rd. Or maybe not. As it turns out, the free shipping offer has been ending every week since October, and will end again next week.
Update: Free shipping has to end before Christmas, right? Maybe another week…
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I came across Bennie Maupin’s Early Reflections CD earlier this year and fell in love with the sound of his bass clarinet. Escondido is the song that has had the most resonance for me this year. Here’s a taste:
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The entire CD is just great, btw!
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