Sunday Serendipity

By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor

Baroque jazz anyone? Came across this quite by accident. Just too fun not to share.

Enjoy the music but most of all enjoy the day!?

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  1. jace, here’s a little something from the musicallinkblog on

    The Link Between Baroque and Jazz
     
    Although Jazz and Baroque music were at the height of their popularity in completely different eras, the similarities are striking. Yes, of course the differences far outweigh the similarities, but there is still a good amount that one can link between these two very different genres.
    […]
    After the 1920’s, Jazz began to incorporate many baroque characteristics into its diverse and rhythmic compositions with the rise to popularity of Louis Armstrong. Despite such differences in contrasting instruments, addition of voice and contrasting level of formality; these two benchmark compositions highlight the many parallels in melody, harmonic language, accompaniment and form.
    Yes, the Jazz era can be described by these features but Jazz as a whole is very nebulous. As described by Mr. Armstrong himself, “’If you have to ask what it is,’ Louis Armstrong supposedly said, ‘you’ll never know.’” (Porter 1)
    […]
    Differences between the two styles are easily distinguished. Where Baroque had its basis firmly in strings, Jazz drew upon mainly brass and woodwind instruments. In fact, many of these Jazz instruments such as the saxophone, the clarinet and the trombone were not even developed until many years after the Baroque era. Also, the ornamental and formal nature of Baroque music is vastly different from the laid back and more simplistic style of Jazz. This contrast is partially due to the large difference in ensemble size: a Baroque orchestra being significantly larger than a Jazz band.

  2. wapo:

    ‘We’re back to frontier days’: Michael’s aftermath in Florida

     
    DRY CREEK, Fla.
     
    Up a red dirt road in the center of the Florida Panhandle, past fields of ripening cotton, the piney woods looks like pick-up sticks. Some trees are bent like praying mantises, and the few power poles still standing lean at precarious angles, their wires doing loop-the-loops around outstretched limbs.
     
    Until Saturday, when neighbors broke through with chain saws and an excavator, the Lipford home, sitting on 160 acres the family has owned since the Civil War, was cut off from civilization. The only way into the property was on an all-terrain vehicle crossing the waterlogged pastures and over bridges built of wooden pallets.
     
    “We’re back to frontier days,” said Jean Lipford, 50. Since Hurricane Michael struck this town on Wednesday, she has been washing clothes in a bucket and bathing in the creek where her husband made a dam with small stones. Her daughter Whitney, 23, has been wielding a chain saw, returning to the house every two hours to breast-feed her 6-week-old son.
    “I want power and water. The rest of it we can deal with,” Lipford said.

    After smashing Panama City and obliterating Mexico Beach, the eye of the storm swept north-northeast like a scythe, delivering misery to one of the poorest regions of Florida and neighboring Alabama and Georgia. A large percentage of people live in mobile homes and other vulnerable structures. The destruction extends far inland. Michael retained hurricane strength all the way through Georgia’s pecan groves and cotton fields.
    […]
    More than 250,000 customers across Florida were still without power on Saturday. Sixteen shelters housed 1,800 people.
    Search-and-rescue operations continue, not only in Mexico Beach, which was bulldozed by a storm surge that may have reached 14 feet, but also in the backcountry, where residents are fending for themselves and in some cases fearing they’ve been forgotten by the outside world.

    [….continues…]

  3. Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) meets with Kanye West (Chris Redd) and Jim Brown (Kenan Thompson) in the Oval Office.

  4. Jace…   what a wonderful marriage of sounds!

    ahhhh….  it’s chilly…  the leaves are spectacular this year…    I LOVE fall!

  5. The week before Hurricane Michael smashed into Florida, people were given standard hurricane information and then they were issued a mandatory evacuation notice.  Although shelters were created and paths inland were created and urgent information was given to all along the coast and islands, thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of people did not leave.

    Many excuses are given, a big one is distrust of government information resulting in the “I have stayed before and the storm was nothing like forecast”.

    Now we have a problem of many thousands of people needing shelter, health care, food, water and sanitation and they are going to have trouble getting it for a few days and weeks.  If they had been in shelters all of that would have been available in some form and quantity.  It may not have been great, food would be MRE’s, but it was there.

    Because Michael blew up so fast during the last day, the mobilization of all forces, government and NGO’s, was not sufficient immediately attend to the ultimate destruction laid on the coast and inland.

    It takes a lot of time, materiel and personnel to clear out debris and make the destruction zone safe to work and live in. At least helicopters are able to drop in food and water and take out those needing evacuation.

    Right now there is a lot of catch up being performed to open and staff more kitchens, shelters and feeding stations.  This includes covering areas not in the original plans.  However, as in combat where no plan survives first contact with the enemy, the same can be said with taking on hurricanes.  But, all the plans have us on the right path to update and correct as we go along.

  6. Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, including the United Nations’ report on climate change.

  7. When I left from Matthew the hurricane,  it cost a thousand bucks before it was over……motels, eating out, gas, etc.  that might be one reason people don’t leave, they can’t afford it.  I couldn’t either but I had to because where I lived they cut off power and water and said, “Get out.”

    Dying is, of course, a lot more expensive, but people who are broke have to gamble.

    Don’t live there anymore, so on Michael we rolled the dice….as it turned out we won that one.

  14. Craig…  the Chiefs have a really good first year quarterback.  It should be an interesting game.  I’ll do a bet with you.  If the Chiefs win, I’ll make a donation to Trailmix in Sean’s name.  If the Patriots win, I’ll make a donation to Trailmix in my name.

  19. So glad you all enjoyed today’s selection thanks for the feedback as always.

    Will be interested in the Chiefs Pats game tonight, but first have to watch the Seahawks and the Raiders from London. Strange. I’m afraid that it is a case of two so so teams playing in a very unusual venue. Hopefully the Hawks won’t give away another game.

  20. How ’bout them Chiefs?

    Another week and another team that is sure to spank our young quarterback.

    Watching him  has been a treat, the Chiefs have never had QB like him.  Not only that  he also has recievers that can catch the ball and don’t forget the great play calling. a total package. IMO the chief offense is superbowl quality.

    The  defense isn’t. They really need a killer line backer that can put fear into the frontline and QB.

    Go Chiefs!!!!!!

    Jack

  21. Thank you Jace   great way to start the day –at least I hope Mr Cracker felt that way.  He was still asleep when I turned it on.

  22. Too bad being a stupid selfish asshole doesn’t qualify as a pre-existing condition.  If it were one I’m sure goopers would feel different about covering pre-existing conditions

  24. sturge, new York times has story along those same lines as your comment

    The Price of Fleeing Hurricane Michael: ‘We Are Going to Be Financially Devastated

    We asked readers to tell us about the costs — financial, physical and emotional — of evacuating from the path of Hurricane Michael.

     
    When Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday afternoon in Mexico Beach, Fla., as a Category 4 storm, residents of the Florida Panhandle’s most vulnerable areas had had only 48 hours’ notice to flee.
    A single mother in Florida decided not to go after her employer told her that if she left, she would not be paid. A family that did evacuate found its bill rising to at least $750 on hotels, food and other costs, and it does not know when it will finally be able to go home.
    […continues with their stories about evacuating…..]

  25. bbronc, what about those who are in rural areas without transportation, unable to drive themselves, perhaps even without phone/communication facility?  is there a national/state program (private or public) that reaches out for such folk?

  26. wapo:
    President Trump said he is unsure whether Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave the administration and described him as “sort of a Democrat,” amid reports of friction between the two.
     
    Trump made the remarks in an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” that airs Sunday night. An excerpt of the interview was released Sunday morning.
     
    “Well, I don’t know; he hasn’t told me that,” Trump said when asked whether Mattis might be leaving his position.
     
    Trump said that he has a “very good relationship” with Mattis and that the two had lunch together “two days ago,” but the president added that “it could be that he is” leaving.
     
    “I think he’s sort of a Democrat, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said. “But General Mattis is a good guy. We get along very well. He may leave. I mean, at some point, everybody leaves. Everybody. People leave. That’s Washington.”
    Mattis has often publicly walked back some of Trump’s more controversial statements on foreign policy, and the two have a strained relationship, veteran journalist Bob Woodward has reported in his book “Fear.”

    [….continues…]

  28. The population within a zone is considered at all points.  Transportation depends on local or state governments.  I have seen buses hired to move people to shelters.  But, often it is left to those who want to get out to move out.  The costs involved, along with the fear of leaving one’s home, a place that may have generations of memories, can be high.  Also, leaving one’s pets behind can cause people to not leave, this is one that has been key to changing some shelter situations, even Red Cross shelters.

    A big table top is to imagine how you are going to move a half million people from a small region, this time the Florida Panhandle, in four days.  You have limited roads available, even if you designate those as one way out, those will be clogged.  People will crash, run out of gas, engines fail, each clogging the roads more.  But, you know if you do not get people moved X percentage will die due to the disaster.  Now you add in emptying the nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living and low mobility people, such as live at homes.

    It is a real exercise performed all the time.  I heard on Friday that Michael was stronger than expected and the governor of Florida said to evacuate the Panhandle, especially the barrier islands. On Tuesday there was a discussion on MSNBC about the messaging and why few paid attention.  One major point was the holiday interferred with normal means of communication so the evacuation message from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday was not picked up.

    Going back to getting those who want to leave but are not able to, that is something I cannot answer from my little world.  The key is wanting to leave, instead of those who decided to ride it out.

  30. which comes first: extinction by climate change or by self design?

    the guardian: 

    Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of ‘superhumans’

     

    Physicist said genetic editing may create species that could destroy rest of humanity

     
    The late physicist and author Prof Stephen Hawking has caused controversy by suggesting a new race of superhumans could develop from wealthy people choosing to edit their and their children’s DNA.
     
    Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time, who died in March, made the predictions in a collection of articles and essays.
     
    The scientist presented the possibility that genetic engineering could create a new species of superhuman that could destroy the rest of humanity. The essays, published in the Sunday Times, were written in preparation for a book that will be published on Tuesday.
     
    “I am sure that during this century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression,” he wrote.
     
    “Laws will probably be passed against genetic engineering with humans. But some people won’t be able to resist the temptation to improve human characteristics, such as memory, resistance to disease and length of life.”
    [….continues…]

     

  32. Yeah, craig he missed some opportunities and this maybe his welcome to the NFL moment,

    How good  he is,  is how well he adjusts not just in the half but future games too.

    But remember the Denver game, it ain’t over till it is over. He can be explosive.

    Jack

  34. A Mrs Jack update

    She came home Thursday, still attached to the feeding tube. I threw a fit and at least got the nurses to show me how to manage her feeding port. Simple really just flush before and after  with water so it doesn’t plug up. But if I hadn’t thrown the fit I’m not sure anybody would have. So far the home health people have been a no show and the person who dropped off her machine didn’t even set it up.

    But we are making do, and it is just a matter of learning how to eat without a stomach.

    We are on day 3 making progress

    Jack

  35. All I can say about the Chiefs see what I mean? win or loose God this is fun

    I know for some of you this is just normal

    jack

  36. Congrats Renee

    What a game

    Mahomes just lost his first NFL game he now has a career  game numbers of 6 and 1.

    He is just a baby.

    Jack

  37. Mr Jack,

    We’re glad you are still feisty, and that Mrs Jack is at home surrounded and protected by you. Still praying.

    Wishing you stamina and confidence.

    The X-es.

     

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