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• Music Review | David Weiss: Ripe for Rediscovery: An Obscure 1960s Jazz Album Gets Its Groove Back

  
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  “Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Play Selections From the New Musical Golden Boy” was the subject of David Weiss’s run at the Iridium.
  23 hours ago

• U.S. Satellite Export Control Reform Advancing in Congress

  
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  AIA Presses Obama on Export-Control Reform Space News The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to introduce legislation this month that could lead to a House-Senate conference next year in what lawmakers consider language-easing restrictions on U.S. commercial communications satellite exports. (...) ...
  2 days ago

• More Thoughts On the Relation Between Islam, Blackamericans, and Bebop

  
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  The following is s short excerpt from The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective, by Ingrid Tolia Monson. Monson’s book provides some further insight on the nature of the relation and attraction that Islam held for Blackamerican jazz musicians as well as Blackamericans as whole who embraced Islam.Art Blakey’s ...
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• 5 – The Cover Art

  
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  The P and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary last month. In mid-October of 2004, we were married on a dock on San Francisco Bay in front of 150 friends and family. It was a perfect day except for one small detail – due to a paperwork error, our marriage wasn’t officially recognized by the [...]
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• Hollowed Out

  
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  I remember back well before I retired, a friend of mine was on a detail at FAA Headquarters in Washington. She was amazed at the number of contractors there and went so far as to say, “There are more contractor badges there than government badges.” In other words, the contractors outnumbered the government ...
  2 weeks ago

• Welcome Aboard Comrade

  
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  They are wearing me down. I’m not sure I can treat these people seriously anymore. Perhaps I never should have. I’m sorry, but I can’t call this Wal-Street Journal headline even slightly better than propaganda. It’s just out and out propaganda. Airlines Fight for Safety-Upgrade Funds There’s no ...
  3 weeks ago

• Disc of the day: 14-11-09

  
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  Sonny Rollins: Moving Out (Prestige 0888072315945) Sonny in 1954 with Kenny Doreham on trumpet, Elmo Hope on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Art Blakey on drums. This is still bebop inspired music, and swift from the start with the title track, even swifter to follow with Swingin’ For Bumsy . The whole band is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Disc of the day: 11-11-09

  
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  John Hicks: I Remember You (High Note HCD 7191) I remember first hearing pianist John Hicks in the David Murray band. There, he revelled in the role of contrast to Murray, the quieter, contained and dignified power of his solos just perfect as a foil to the saxophonist’s boisterousness, bravura and bravado. Of ...
  3 weeks ago

• JAZZ TREASURES IN CYBERSPACE

  
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  I spend more than enough time in front of the computer (my neck can testify to this) but I’ve recently encountered two websites that might prove promising for jazz fanciers.  One, Wolfgang’s Vault, initially awakened all my snobbery: lips that touch Black Sabbath will never touch mine.  And I’m not terribly ...
  3 weeks ago

• The ignorance of youth (In Memoriam)

  
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  This is a post by Mike Blakey, a friend and former contributor to this blog who was murdered in India almost 3 years ago while working with the charity Tong-Len. A hostel for children is being built in Dharamsala in Mike’s memory. If you’d like to make a contribution, you can do so through [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Its Bow Wow Wow!

  
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  Earlier this year I asked you where I heard this song before (Flickhead confirmed was "No Hay Problema" by Art Blakey). The answer? Bow Wow Wows Aphrodisiac ! Ten points to me for getting the answer on my own!
  4 weeks ago

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