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Dedicated To Rich Pigs Everywhere

2012-01-25T06:37:00.001-07:00

Maybe It's All For The Best

2012-01-03T08:22:00.001-07:00

Dire Straits, Fade To Black, 1991.

Black On Black

2011-12-02T18:36:00.002-07:00

Queen, The March Of The Black Queen, 1974.

The Black Night Sighs

2011-11-26T08:57:00.001-07:00

Black Sabbath, Planet Caravan, 1970.

Sunday Overnight

2011-11-20T22:27:00.005-07:00

...The last one for a while, as I think the series has run its course.

My sincere thanks to all whom have showed an interest or commented over the years, especially Blckdgrd.

McCoy Tyner, with Sonny Fortune, Calvin Hill, and Alphonse Mouzon, Rebirth, 1972.

Charles Mingus, with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Booker Ervin, Jimmy Knepper, Doug Watkins, & Dannie Richmond, Oh Lord Don't Let them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me, 1962.

Bill Evans, with Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund, Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless), 1977.

Coleman Hawkins, Harry "Sweets" Edison, "Sir" Charles Thompson, Jimmy Woode, & Jo Jones, Centerpiece, 1964.

Jaco Pastorius, Word Of Mouth, 1981.

George Benson, The Shadow Of Your Smile, 1972.

The Pliant Ones

2011-11-14T22:14:00.001-07:00

Sunday Overnight

2011-11-13T22:39:00.002-07:00

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack deJohnette, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, 2009.

Thelonious Monk, Bolivar Blues, 1963.

Charles Mingus, Peggy's Blue Skylight, 1972.

Lester Young, Freddie Green & Count Basie, A Ghost Of A Chance, 1944.

Hampton Hawes, The Green Leaves Of Summer, 1964.

Never Forgotten

2011-11-11T08:07:00.002-07:00

Sunday Overnight

2011-11-06T20:25:00.003-07:00

Chet Baker & Paul Bley, You Go To My Head, 1985.

Freddie Hubbard, But Beautiful, 1960.

Sammy Davis Jr., accompanied by Michael Silva & Johnny Mendoza, I've Got You Under My Skin / You Came A Long Way From St. Louis / You Are My Sunshine / Bee-Bom, 1962.

Hubert Laws, Yoruba, 1972.

I Know You Are But What A Pie

2011-11-04T21:40:00.001-06:00

Sunday Overnight

2011-10-23T21:47:00.001-06:00

The Special Quartet (Pat Metheny, Ernie Watts, Charlie Haden, Paul Wertico), The Good Life, 1988.

Eddie Lang & Bix Beiderbecke with the Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra, I'm Coming Virginia, 1927.

The Jimmy Heath orchestra, Big "P", 1960.

Milton Nascimento, Novena, 1993.

Horace Parlan, Lonely One, 1961.

Push Baby Push

2011-10-20T15:50:00.002-06:00

Andre Williams, Humpin' Bumpin' And Thumping , 1967.

Sunday Overnight

2011-10-16T17:24:00.003-06:00

Barney Kessel & Herb Ellis, Theme From The Flintstones, 1980.

Anita O' Day, My Funny Valentine, 1958.

Esperanza Spalding, Espera, 2009.

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet featuring Lalo Schifrin, Tocatta from Gillespiana, 1961.

Urszula Dudziak, Butterfly, 1975.

Woe Betide That Evil Man Who Giveth Not A Care

2011-10-13T06:25:00.002-06:00

Steel Pulse, Babylon Makes The Rules, 1979.

Who'll Be The One To Answer Why?

2011-10-11T15:59:00.000-06:00

Derek & The Dominos, Thorn Tree In The Garden, 1970.

You So Slick, Rick

2011-10-10T11:23:00.001-06:00

Keep it clean, and you might yet come from behind.

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-10-09T12:51:00.001-06:00

The Thelonious Monk orchestra, Friday The 13th, 1959.

Yusef Lateef, Eboness, 1970.

Art Blakey, So Tired, 1960.

Abdullah Ibrahim, Mindif, 1997.

Art Tatum, All The Things You Are, 1953.

Are You Ready For Some Hitler?

2011-10-07T14:46:00.001-06:00

Ain't Gonna Quit 'Til It All Comes Out

2011-10-05T06:33:00.002-06:00

Montrose, Rock The Nation, 1973.

Sunday Overnight

2011-10-02T17:41:00.003-06:00

Howard Roberts, Girl Talk, 1965.

Ronnie Laws, Never Be The Same, 1975.

Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters, Palm Grease, 1974.

Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, Lawns, 1987.

Tuck & Patti, Castles Made Of Sand / Little Wing, 1989.

Hello, darling...Suprised?

2011-10-01T08:14:00.001-06:00

ZZ Top, Heaven Hell Or Houston, 1981.

Keep your Dick to yourself

2011-09-28T06:06:00.000-06:00

...America.

Seriously, Cheney...don't you have enough toys to die with now?

;>)

Hangman, Hangman, Upon Your Face A Smile

2011-09-27T07:02:00.002-06:00

Led Zeppelin, Gallows Pole, 1970.

Sunday Overnight

2011-09-25T19:26:00.003-06:00

Oscar Pettiford, Seabreeze, 1957.

Tony Williams & Sam Rivers, Two Pieces of One: Green, 1964.

Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Jon Hiseman, HCKHH Blues, 1968.

Bud Powell, Ray Brown & Buddy Rich, Tea For Two, 1950.

Buddy Rich, Preach And Teach, 1970.

Guess they didn't probe too deeply

2011-09-23T19:10:00.000-06:00

CBC.ca - Moon rock pops up in Bill Clinton's files

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-09-18T08:04:00.002-06:00

Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Wilbur Ware & Shadow Wilson, Ruby My Dear, 1957.

Lee Konitz & Red Mitchell, Just One Of Those Things, 1974.

Eric Gale, Ginseng Woman, 1977.

Muhal Richard Abrams & Malachi Favors, Sightsong, 1976.

Cleo Laine & John Dankworth, Woman Talk, 1965.

Sunday Overnight

2011-09-11T20:24:00.003-06:00

The Cannonball Adderley sextet, Brother John, 1963.

Barbara Dennerlein, Sonny Fortune, and Emily Remler, Stormy Weather Blues, 1986.

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Swingin' 'til The Girls Come Home, 1960.

Brother Jack McDuff, The Honeydripper, 1961.

Don Byas and Slam Stewart, I Got Rhythm, 1945.

I Remember, Don't Worry

2011-09-09T06:24:00.002-06:00

...How could I forget?

;>)

The day after Sunday Overnight

2011-09-05T09:02:00.003-06:00

Billy Hart & Oliver Lake, Rahsaan Is Beautiful, 1977.

Biréli Lagrène & Roy Haynes, Autumn Leaves, 2009.

Tal Farlow, Meteor, 1956.

Sonny Rollins, Wilbur Ware & Elvin Jones, A Night In Tunisia, 1957.

Israel "Cachao" Lopez, A Gozar con Mi Combo, 1994.

Where does the time go?

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-08-28T10:13:00.003-06:00

The Art Pepper quartet, Summertime, 1956.

Sonny Rollins, Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and Albert Heath, Four, 1968.

Lester Young and the Oscar Peterson trio, Ad-Lib Blues, 1952.

Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Stan Tracey, Dave Green, & Phil Seamen, What the World Needs Now / Doodle-Oodle, 1968.

Charles 'Yardbird' Parker, Autumn In New York, 1949.

Sunday Overnight

2011-08-21T19:04:00.002-06:00

John Lee Hooker & The Meters, Bluebird, 1974.

Art Farmer, Chanson, 1977.

Pat Martino, You Don't Know What Love Is, 1976.

Wayne Shorter, Tom Thumb, 1967.

Ray Charles & the Count Basie Orchestra, The Long And Winding Road, 2006.

Sunday Overnight

2011-08-14T08:34:00.002-06:00

George Shearing & Jim Hall, To Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1981.

Mal Waldron, Warm Canto, 1961.

Oscar Peterson Trio, The Windmills Of Your Mind, 1970.

The Johnny Smith quartet (Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Ed Shaughnessey), Embraceable You, 1961.

Sam Butera & Louis Prima, They'll Be No Next Time, 1957.

Sunday Overnight

2011-08-07T20:15:00.001-06:00

George Van Eps and Howard Alden, What's New?, 1992.

Eddie Harris and Joe Diorio, Theme From Exodus, 1961.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Spirits Up Above, 1969.

Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny, Denardo Coleman, Jack DeJohnette & Charlie Haden, Trigonometry, 1986.

Allan Holdsworth, Tokyo Dream, 1983.

Sunday Overnight

2011-07-31T15:59:00.001-06:00

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane, Why Was I Born?, 1958.

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Azalea, 1961.

Joachim Kuhn, with Alphonse Mouzon, Terumasa Hino, Nana
Vasconcelos, John Lee & Philip Catherine, First Frisco, 1975.

Herb Ellis and Jimmy Giuffre, A Country Boy, 1959.

Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Waltz For Debby, 1975.

Sunday Overnight

2011-07-24T09:03:00.002-06:00

Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, Let There Be Love, 1957.

Benny Goodman Octet (Charlie Christian, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green, Count Basie, Artie Bernstein & Jo Jones), Lester's Dream, 1940.

Hank Jones, What Am I Here For / Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me / Sophisticated Lady / Oh Look At Me Now, 1979.

Johnny Hodges, Gentle Breeze / My Reward, 1954.

Don Ellis, Open Beauty, 1967.

Sunday Overnight

2011-06-05T09:25:00.002-06:00

Tal Farlow, Flamingo, 1980.

Weather Report, Young And Fine, 1978.

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Purdie Good, 1971.

Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rhythm Box, 1984.

Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra, Smoke Rings, 1933.

Let The Sun Shine Through

2011-05-28T00:28:00.001-06:00

Gil Scott-Heron, Lady Day & John Coltrane, 1971.

R.I.P.

'Would You Believe...2013?'

2011-05-24T22:03:00.002-06:00

'But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.'

...And that's all I (or anyone sensate) need opine on this pedlar of falsehoods.

;>)

Sunday Overnight, post-Rapture edition

2011-05-22T02:49:00.005-06:00

Charles Mingus, Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, 1959.

Miles Davis, Guinnevere, 1970.

The Artie Shaw orchestra with Pauline Byrne, Gloomy Sunday, 1940.

Chet Baker with Doug Raney & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Someday My Prince Will Come, 1979.

Archie Shepp, A Prayer, 1972.

Sunday Overnight

2011-05-15T09:19:00.003-06:00

Sun Ra, Astro Black, 1972.

Polytown (David Torn, Mick Karn and Terry Bozzio), Bandaged By Dreams, 1994.

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Malachi, 1998.

Billy Cobham, Heather, 1974.

King Crimson, Epitaph, 1969.

Cause You Know What I Am Anyway

2011-05-12T06:49:00.000-06:00

The Babys, Head First, 1978.

Sunday Overnight

2011-05-08T08:47:00.004-06:00

Ralph Towner and Gary Peacock, Witchi Tai To, 1997.

The Gil Evans Orchestra, La Nevada (excerpt), 1960.

Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard, Ups And Downs, 1992.

John Scofield, Dennis Chambers and Gary Grainger, Blue Matter, 1986.

Bruford, The Sahara Of Snow, 1979.

Unfrozen Kochman Billionaire

2011-05-07T09:03:00.002-06:00

...your hardcore socialist president frightens and confuses him.

;>)

You Have To Move To Win The Race

2011-05-05T06:29:00.001-06:00

John Entwistle, Dancing Master, 1981.

But I Don't Care

2011-05-04T10:20:00.000-06:00

Glen Campbell, Guess I'm Dumb, 1965.

Dedicated To The Canadian Voter

2011-05-03T08:41:00.001-06:00

Guns N' Roses, You're Crazy, 1987.

'Death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart...'

2011-05-01T22:03:00.003-06:00

Ah, he's not dead. D'you know why...?

Because...he's a dancer!

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-05-01T09:42:00.001-06:00

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Bo Duddley, 1976.

Derek Bailey & Han Bennink, 'An Old Woman...' from ICP 4, 1969.

The Avishai Cohen trio, Chutzpan, 2008.

The Paul Chambers quintet (Cannonball Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Kelly, & Jimmy Cobb), Ease It, 1959.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Meeting of The Spirits / You Know You Know, 1972.

Like Black Holes In The Sky

2011-04-28T13:56:00.000-06:00

Pink Floyd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, 1975.

The Irrational Purview

2011-04-27T13:00:00.001-06:00

Seriously, now.

;>)

You're Gonna Fake It After All

2011-04-26T09:28:00.006-06:00

The overly observant among my dwindling fellowship (and for that fact, I have only myself to blame) might have noted that a certain person is rarely if ever 'profiled' anymore - seemingly gone from headlining Carnegie Hall to demonstrating time-saving devices at a local supermarket, as it were.

This removal from a minor-league photoshop gadfly's A-list of pixilated playthings is due in part to the subject's own diminished capacity for purveying political self-aggrandizement into electoral success, as their ideological perversions became subsumed into a grabastic pattern of personal grift... possibly because of a glint of interior knowledge that the Big Prize for showing a bit of leg and saying something outrageous has skittered away across the tiles forever, and baby still needs new Ferragamos.

Yet journalists gnaw at the bleached bones of such petty infamy, looking to find relevance and gravitas upon an entity which cannot sustain either.

Here is a rather pointed question: Why should anyone believe a so-called journalist in this day and age, especially ones who contradict themselves a few years after the fact?
There is no credibility to be found by me in bought-and-paid-for opinions jotted by corporate minions, and no point in accepting such opinions as a form of honest reporting unless one wishes to fool themselves into a coma.
I was raised to respect the craft of investigative journalism used as a spur to public awareness, and perhaps even justice or hoped-for change...but sadly, that era has passed and nothing has risen to take its mantle in this neo-conformist, go-along-to-get-along-or-else age.

Frankly, whether or not one one has questions regarding the murky circumstances - and any thinking person regardless of their ideology should - if we are to accept someone's own account of a frenzied hejira from state to state, supposedly performed so that an at-risk baby could be born in a desired homeland - the simplest, starkest explanation on offer is that someone wanted that baby to die, and didn't give a damn how it happened...in a plane, on the road, in the maternity ward or wherever...if we take their statements as a form of unqualified truth.

Therefore, my personal binary is this: either it's all a set of lies to cover up some deep-seated familial dysfunction...or it's all another set of lies to cover up a failed prenatal murder plot.

And that's who could have been within a shaky heartbeat of the presidency three years ago, should tits and ass wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross have won the day over reason.

Enjoy the sunset, America.

;>)

Blog Against Theocracy 2011

2011-04-23T09:00:00.002-06:00

Blog Against Theocracy 2011 - because do you really want to kiss the ring of someone else's moral doctrine fantasy construct...?

Really?

;>)

Shake 'Em On Down For Miles Around

2011-04-22T09:41:00.001-06:00

Graham Central Station, Earthquake, 1977.

It's All The Same, She Said

2011-04-21T10:00:00.001-06:00

Ratt, Round and Round, 1984.

Stepping In The Future

2011-04-20T10:01:00.001-06:00

Peter Tosh, Mystic Man, 1979.

Does Your Koch Taste Different Lately?

2011-04-20T00:29:00.003-06:00

...Thanks for the laffs galore there, Arbuckle.

As for 'Hell', paid it a visit last decade, pal - it was called the Bush Administration.

;>)

You Can Have Your Funky World

2011-04-19T12:50:00.003-06:00

The Bob Seger System, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, 1969.

A Velvet Garden Of Rhinestone Stars

2011-04-18T08:06:00.003-06:00

Heart, Magazine, 1978.

Sunday Overnight

2011-04-17T17:40:00.002-06:00

Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Jaki Byard & Dannie Richmond, Meditations On Integration, 1964.

Slide Hampton, Joachim Kühn, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, & Philly Joe Jones, Last Minute Blues, 1969.

The Tito Puente Latin Jazz Orchestra with Israel 'Cachao' Lopez, Solo / Oye Como Va, 1990.

Archie Shepp, Bakai, 1974.

Jeff Beck, Sophie, 1976.

Sun Come Shinin' On The Rain Soaked Street

2011-04-14T18:15:00.002-06:00

ZZ Top, Whiskey'n Mama, 1972.

I Don't Like The Progs But The Progs Like Me

2011-04-13T08:26:00.000-06:00

Wouldn't Take A Maybe From Me

2011-04-12T14:49:00.001-06:00

The Sweet, Yesterday's Rain, 1976.

Feckless, Mugged

2011-04-11T09:52:00.002-06:00

...but he has balls.

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-04-10T13:24:00.001-06:00

Elvin Jones, Bireli Lagrene, and Joey DeFrancesco, Night In Tunisia, 1999.

Stuff (Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, and Gordon Edwards), Groovin', 1976.

Richard Davis, Epistrophy / Now's The Time, 1972.

Herbie Hancock, Hang Up Your Hang Ups, 1975.

Freddie Hubbard, Keep Your Soul Together, 1973.

Be Anything But Don't Be Gone

2011-04-08T17:28:00.001-06:00

Motörhead, I Got Mine, 1983.

Wondering Who Is Really In The Driver's Seat

2011-04-07T01:09:00.001-06:00

Eagles, On The Border, 1974.

Wafer Thin Ratings

2011-04-06T16:22:00.002-06:00

So long, hired mouth.

;>)

Semi-private Ryan

2011-04-05T17:34:00.001-06:00

In The Slot

2011-04-05T08:43:00.000-06:00

Tower Of Power, Ebony Jam, 1975.

Blogging Macht Frei

2011-04-04T08:26:00.000-06:00

'I'm wearing your panties'

A lot of hoopla lately over l'affaires HuffPo of late...various newsy items, casual disinformation and outright knee-slappers being proffered to a guileless public.

For example, take the 'no longer left' brou-hardy-har-har...please.

Technically, if HuffPo had even a scrap of socialistic pretense it would be a non-profit with a begging bowl button.

(Pause while I adjust my tie)

Let's quickly dispense with that alluring mirage, call it a New Media capitalist thought dispensary and move on.

A quick thought on subjective context, take it as one wills.

I think that a lot of people drawn to islets of community during the recent express ride to the Dark F*cking Ages wanted their own 'quasi-socialist news outlet with gossip 'n recipes' very badly - bold adventurers seeking compatriots, conspirators, or maybe even hot steamy approval for their own subjective biases - who willed such a thing to be so...and made it so.

Since not everybody getting onto the Internet in those wacky, zany 2000's was a raging me-me-mehadist (hard to believe, I know)....what we have is a triumph of implicative branding over reality.

'Kudos'

However, and typical of all other media games 'it's all the news that fits'...the agenda of the principals.

Visualize the background of one such principal...Investor class, not playing a game for little people and no real reason to care about anything save portfolio depletion, and therefore my internal binary contrasting oscillates between 'sounds like bullshit, Maurice' and 'whatta darling deep pockets do-gooder'.

Gah, set my hair on fire now, a sugar mommy with a heart - and of course we all know the worst kind of 'liberal' (my sincere apologies for using a devalued, deprecated word) is one who just wants to help the unwashed.

DoublePlus Phooey.

Regarding 'working for free' - When my viewers come to visit for a time during their day, they get some things unique to this location.
This is the only blog that has all my public art works, located somewhere back in time and to the right...and most of the Youtubes still work - at least until the next round of corporate lawsuit wars.

It doesn't cost anything to look, and coming up on 5 years in this racket the returns have dwindled somewhat...but so what?
Although what I perform within these confines is a very secondary consideration to the rest of my life, I'll continue to provide it here at my leisure to those with an interest...and I'm not at liberty to enrich the wealthy for 'exposure', or some other ephemeral conceit. Pay the writer!

So how 'bout that sale?

And all the fuss being raised by an outraged community, amplified by the bored editors of old media conzerns? Breathtaking...but so's a yawn. Business as usual, a big fish late to the party looks to splash out into that big steaming pool of page stats and ad views. Who needs relevance when one has commercial viability?

Tell you one thing - being a comment editor sucked ass. But I was only a pawn in the game of life.

And if I modded you, you deserved it. You betcha.

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-04-03T10:47:00.000-06:00

Gary Burton, Larry Coryell, Steve Swallow and Bob Moses, General Mojo's Well-Laid Plan, 1967.

Donald Byrd and Booker Little, Quiet Temple, 1960.

Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn, Scott LaFaro and Roy Haynes, Airegin, 1961.

Jimmy McGriff and Richard 'Groove' Holmes, The Preacher's Tune, 1973.

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales and Ben Riley, Ugly Beauty, 1967.

GOP Phone Home

2011-03-31T02:19:00.000-06:00

Adrift Upon A Sea Of Futile Speech

2011-03-30T09:29:00.001-06:00

Led Zeppelin, Carouselambra, 1979.

Pass The Douchey On The Left Hand Side

2011-03-29T11:40:00.002-06:00

...Born in Jamaica, seen?

You're fried.

;>)

Sunday Overnight

2011-03-27T13:33:00.001-06:00

Cecil Taylor, Things Ain't What They Used To Be, 1961.

Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, and Paul Motian, Lonely Woman, 1988.

Sarah Vaughan, Lush Life, 1980.

Roy Eldridge, Tommy Turk, Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich, Embraceable You, 1949.

Michael Brecker, Monk's Mood / Hot House, 2003.

If I Can't Be My Own

2011-03-26T04:01:00.003-06:00

Alice In Chains, Nutshell, 1996.

From A Pimp To A Ho

2011-03-24T16:47:00.001-06:00

...What a shame that Sugar Daddy left town with 'no forwarding', hmmm?

;>)

Wish I Was Ten Feet Tall

2011-03-24T12:50:00.003-06:00

John Entwistle, My Size, 1970.

All We Have Is That Day

2011-03-22T13:30:00.002-06:00

Beck, Bogert & Appice, Lady, 1973.

Sunday Overnight

2011-03-20T14:24:00.001-06:00

Bill Frisell, Han Bennink, and Ernst Reijseger, WOW, 1997.

Paul Horn & Haida, Tunin' In, 1972.

The Gene Ammons quintet (Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor, and Ray Barretto), Canadian Sunset, 1960.

The Nat 'King' Cole trio, The Frim-Fram Sauce, 1945.

Lennie Tristano, Spontaneous Combustion, 1947.

And I Heard Every Word You Said

2011-03-19T14:10:00.000-06:00

SRV & Double Trouble, Leave My Little Girl Alone, 1986.

Radiation is good food

2011-03-18T09:49:00.004-06:00

...when one is a creature like Ann Coulter.

Yummy

;>)

Music Is My Food And Life

2011-03-17T12:32:00.001-06:00

Peter Frampton, I Want To Go To The Sun, 1976.

Or A Corpse That Can't Be Bought

2011-03-16T10:20:00.003-06:00

Utopia, Swing To The Right, 1982.

If Dollar Bills Was Worries

2011-03-15T08:51:00.002-06:00

Albert Collins, If Trouble Was Money, 1990.

Surrender, earthlings

2011-03-14T09:58:00.002-06:00

Shall We Go You And I While We Can

2011-03-13T23:20:00.002-06:00

The Grateful Dead, Dark Star, 1969.

R.I.P., Bear.

Sunday Overnight

2011-03-13T11:26:00.003-06:00

The Tubby Hayes big band, Killers Of W1, 1965.

Astor Piazzolla, Fuga y Misterio, 1998.

Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, and Roy Haynes, Groovin' High, 1982.

The Quincy Jones big band with Clark Terry, Moanin', 1960.

The Charles Lloyd quartet, Dreamweaver, 1966.

Open For Business

2011-03-11T16:41:00.001-07:00

But I've Never Seen The Sky

2011-03-11T10:03:00.003-07:00

Lee Michaels and Bartholomew 'Frosty' Smith-Frost, Tell Me How Do You Feel / Don't Want No Woman / My Friends / Frosty's / Think I'll Go Back, 1969.

Bach Child Escapes!

2011-03-10T17:01:00.000-07:00

Cry out to legions of the brave

2011-03-09T17:56:00.001-07:00

Black Sabbath, Neon Knights, 1980.

Still On The Line

2011-03-09T08:21:00.003-07:00

Buddy Emmons, Wichita Lineman, 1970.

Just Put A Band-Aid On It

2011-03-08T10:49:00.001-07:00

John Lennon, I'm Losing You, 1980.

It Hurts All Of Us

2011-03-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

Sunday Overnight

2011-03-06T19:28:00.000-07:00

Ray Charles, You Don't Know Me, 1963.

Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Skillet, 1958.

Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Sunny Murray - Number one (take 2), 1960.

The Elvin Jones / Jimmy Garrison sextet (Sonny Simmons, Prince Lasha, Charles Davis and McCoy Tyner), Half and Half, 1963.

The Lyman Woodard Organization with Norma Jean Bell, Joy Ride, 1975.

With the answers but no clue

2011-03-05T16:00:00.001-07:00

Rush, Digital Man, 1982.

Time Capsule: Washington, D.C.

2011-03-04T15:34:00.007-07:00

'A weeping Republican laments as triumphant progressives march past into the city' (date unknown).

;>)

Your wig in one hand and your teeth in the other

2011-03-04T09:25:00.002-07:00

King Biscuit Boy (Richard Newell), You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down Again, 1971.

F*ck FOX, redux

2011-03-02T16:31:00.004-07:00

The Globe & Mail:

Canada's broadcasting regulator has abandoned its attempt to change a regulation that prohibits the dissemination of false or misleading news.

The decision from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission followed a meeting last week of Parliament’s joint committee for the scrutiny of regulations, which ended its 10-year bid to get the regulation to comply with the law.
...
But the CRTC's call for public input on the proposal resulted in a tidal wave of angry responses from Canadians who said they feared such a move would open the door to Fox TV-style news and reduce their ability to determine what is true and what is false.

...which was preceded by this story:

Then, on Jan. 10, the commission announced it was seeking comments on a proposal to change the wording of the regulation to say that it applied only in cases in which broadcasters knew the information was false or misleading and that reporting it was likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public. The cut-off date for public input was set at Feb. 9.

NDP MP Charlie Angus noted that the proposed change precedes the start of Sun TV, a network that has been shepherded in large part by Kory Teneycke, the former director of communication to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

“We all know our Prime Minister well enough to say we don’t have to be in the realm of conspiracy theory here,” Mr. Angus said at a news conference on Monday. “We can draw our conclusions and they are pretty clear."

Now, in the service of remaining clear, '...Although there is no corporate connection between Fox and Sun, there is a visceral one. In March 2009, CP has reported, Prime Minister Stephen Harper lunched in New York City with Murdoch, accompanied by Fox news president Roger Ailes and then- Harper communications director Tenycke.'

So, to sum up - Our Canucklestanikazh© Conservative minority overlords (the nice polite version of the GOP), hankering to git that sweet, sweet corporate spooge all over their mugs and earn those electo-bucks the oldest-professional way, wanted to make it legal for TV talking heads to spout right-wing lies in our faces all day long - just like they do for you down U.S.A. way, my dear American readers.

And they failed.

'Ha ha'

Oh, and f*ck you again, FOX.

;>)