I think my browser will crash again.  Which is also how I feel.  Slept too late, expecting the firepit fire to begin.  Woke up a little late, with crunky brain, Alzheimers gait, the feeling that I was being propelled forward when I walked, etc.  So, I decided not to take dog for planned walk.  Although, maybe I will.  Although.  Radio reminded me ( Read more... )

My sadness registers at the passing of the legendary jazz musician, Chick Corea.  You live long enough, and you see all the good people, everyone, disappear.  That this concentration of bones and dust once made jazz for an eager world.  And it's all gone now.  Gone the way we shall each go, alone, and ultimately forgotten.  What was jazz?  Why did ( Read more... )

Clyde Stubblefield was about the best drummer there ever can be. He was hugely influential in Jazz. As reported by NPR, he was also influential in Funk. He worked with the revolutionary James Brown, and his beat/s were the most resampled in history, including in Hip-Hop and Punk. But, he was more than a James Brown appendage, as NPR briefly conveys ( Read more... )

Ornette Coleman is dead. Arguably, the most influential jazz musician in later days, Ornette was a sincere pain in the ass to listen to. Up there with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane, Coleman did not play the saxophone so much as he played the Ornette. Listening to NPR, "FRESH AIR." Ornette died at the age of 85 of cardiac ( Read more... )