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July 26, 2005
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Orbert Davis: Blue Notes (3Sixteen). Davis is a trumpeter much admired in Chicago. He is attracting serious attention beyond the Midwest in part because he scored the movie Road To Perdition, but mostly for the breadth and fire of his playing and his cogent arranging. The album title has a double meaning. It is the name of one of his tunes. It also reflects the CD’s sensibility arising out of the Blue Note label’s albums of the 1960s by Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and other post-bop heroes. Davis’s “Back in the Day” may make you think of Lee Morgan’s “Sidewinder,” his approach to Wayne Shorter’s “Hammer Head” of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Davis surrounds himself with excellent sidemen, including the pianist Ryan Cohan.Posted by mclennan at July 26, 2005 01:04 AM
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Orbert Davis: Blue Notes (3Sixteen). Davis is a trumpeter much admired in Chicago. He is attracting serious attention beyond the Midwest in part because he scored the movie Road To Perdition, but mostly for the breadth and fire of his playing and his cogent arranging. The album title has a double meaning. It is the name of one of his tunes. It also reflects the CD’s sensibility arising out of the Blue Note label’s albums of the 1960s by Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and other post-bop heroes. Davis’s “Back in the Day” may make you think of Lee Morgan’s “Sidewinder,” his approach to Wayne Shorter’s “Hammer Head” of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Davis surrounds himself with excellent sidemen, including the pianist Ryan Cohan.
Charles Mingus: Live At Montreux 1975 (Eagle Eye Media). The protean bassist had pianist Don Pullen, trumpeter Jack Walrath, tenor saxophonist George Adams and drummer Dannie Richmond in his quintet. Gerry Mulligan and Benny Bailey sat in for two numbers. Everyone played at a high level, but Bailey was celestial in his trumpet solo on “Goodbye Porkpie Hat.” Mulligan’s facial expressions of wonderment speak volumes about Bailey’s tour de force. This was one of those rare moments when a masterpiece of improvisation happened in the presence of cameras and sound equipment.
William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White: The Elements of Style (Macmillan). If I were allowed two books on English, one would be a good dictionary, the other The Elements of Style. This volume of seventy-eight pages has guided generations of writers, professional and otherwise. If each user of the written or spoken language observed only this Elementary Principle of Composition, the world would be a better place:
13. Omit needless words. "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."
When Cell Phones Become Oracles, by Ryan Singel: Wired News. I just acquired, reluctantly, a low-level cell phone—no pictures, no camera, no internet; just a telephone, just in case. Imagine my alarm when I read this:
"Cell phones know whom you called and which calls you dodged, but they can also record where you went, how much sleep you got and predict what you're going to do next.
At least, these are the capabilities of 100 customized phones given to students and employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- and they may be coming soon to your cell phone."
Yikes. Read the entire article here.
Our apricot tree produced one apricot this year. Maybe the bees boycotted it. Maybe the tree needed a rest. So, I’m buying apricots, cutting them in half and drying them in dehydrators. When I was a kid, we dried them on the roof in the sun. If you don’t care to do either, dried apricots are available in many stores and from dozens of online sources. They are a great source of energy, vitamin C and vitamin A. In the dead of winter, they bring stored sunshine into your life. Sulfur dioxide is often added to preserve color. I prefer unsulfured apricots. I can't think of any food that I would prefer sulfured.
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