I’m repeating this “Jazz Is” entry from “How We Lived on It” (2), but it is so exceptional, no collection of jazz riches should be without it. The better quality of the two full-length versions available at Daily Motion is ad defaced, while the other has very poor video quality, and Mili’s filmmaking is too […]
Eating Poetry (XIV)
How Fortunate the Man with None by Bertolt Brecht From his play Mother Courage You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that gave birth to him And saw that everything was vain. How great and wise was Solomon. The world however did not […]
No Generalizations about Generalizations, Please
The other day over at Yaacov Lozowick’s Ruminations an interesting discussion ensued over several posts consequent to some superciliously obnoxious troll taking Yaacov to task, along with Anthony Julius, author of the new Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England, for making generalizations about English culture. As is often the case with […]
Nazi Tourette’s
The definitive Glenn Beck take down. What it says about the state of the American political scene that the most incisive commentary on it is being offered by satirists is subject for another day. Go to the bathroom. Empty your bladder. Come back and watch. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p […]
Jazz Is 2
It is indication of the secret repositories of soul soaring talent that Dwight Tribble, the vocalist you are about to hear if you wisely stick around, worked for some years in the audio-visual department of my college. He established his career locally, playing clubs throughout Los Angeles with his own ensemble, then adding to that […]