Sunday Jazz

Todays selection is Autumn Leaves,

Performed by

Cannonball Adderley – Alto Sax, Miles Davis -Trumpet, Hank Jones – Piano, Sam Jones – Bass, Art Blakey – Drums

From the Cannonball Adderley, album: “Somethin’ Else”, 1958, Blue Note

Enjoy, Jack

From wiki

Somethin’ Else is a jazz album by saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, released on Blue Note Records in 1958. Also on the session is trumpeter Miles Davis in one of his handful of recording dates for Blue Note. Adderley was a member of Davis’ group at the time this album was recorded. The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested “Core Collection.”

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  2. hope we do get to hear his public testimony. from  wapo op ed by leshchenko:

     

    On Aug. 19, 2016, I convened a news conference in Kiev at which I revealed previously secret records of payments made by the former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. (Yanukovych fled the country in February 2014 after he was toppled by our Revolution of Dignity, a popular uprising on the streets of Kiev.) The information came from the “black ledger of the Party of Regions,” which was obtained by an anonymous source in the burned-out ruins of the headquarters of Yanukoych’s party. Yanukovych had used the ledger to keep records of his illegal transactions. At that time, although I was a member of parliament, I continued to combine that position with my journalistic work, which is allowed by the laws of Ukraine.
    I will always be angry at Manafort. His work contributed greatly to Yanukovych’s election victory in 2010; Yanukovych then used his position as president to enrich himself and his inner circle. I have no doubt that Yanukovych paid Manafort for his services out of the funds he robbed from Ukrainian taxpayers.
    […]
    Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the Manafort revelations would become fodder for the U.S. elections in 2020. President Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, the mouthpiece of this campaign, is not only attempting to rehabilitate Manafort but is also working to undermine U.S. relations with Ukraine, which has been confronting Russian aggression on its own for more than five years. Giuliani and his associates are trying to drag our newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, into a conflict between two foreign political parties, drastically limiting Ukraine’s room for maneuver in respect to the United States, perhaps its most important international partner.
    Giuliani attempted to visit Ukraine in May 2019 with the express purpose of involving Zelensky in this process. His aim was quite clear: He was planning to ask Zelensky to intervene in an American election on the side of Trump.
    Zelensky refused, forcing Giuliani to cancel his trip. Shortly after that, Giuliani went on Fox News, where he called me “[an enemy] of the president [and] of the United States.” This accusation had a devastating effect on my political career. I had been helping Zelenksy’s team since January — but now Giuliani’s smear cost me a job in the new administration. Not wanting to create problems for Zelensky, I withdrew from consideration.
    Giuliani’s entire approach is built on disinformation and the manipulation of facts. Giuliani has developed a conspiracy theory in which he depicts my revelations about Manafort as an intervention in the 2016 U.S. election in favor of the Democratic Party. In his May interview on Fox, Giuliani even claimed that I was convicted of a corresponding crime.
    The facts do not support this allegation. Here’s the truth: The administrative court — which has long had a reputation as the most corrupt in Ukraine — ruled in December 2018 that I had acted illegally by disclosing the payments to Manafort. We appealed, and the verdict was suspended. And in the summer of this year, we won the appeal and the court’s decision was completely annulled. The appeal concluded that all the charges against me were unfounded, and even obliged my opponents to reimburse me for $100 in legal costs.
    But Giuliani continues to quote this court decision even though it never attained legal force.
    […]
    By repeating this lie, Giuliani is not only deceiving American citizens. He is not only intervening in Ukrainian politics, smearing parliamentarians and officials of the presidential administration. He is also trying to drag the new president of Ukraine into an American election, which is absolutely unacceptable.
    I know that leaders of the three U.S. congressional committees that are now investigating the whistleblower case have asked the White House and the State Department to share all correspondence regarding the people involved in this story, including me. As a person who has had direct experience of many of these events, I express my readiness to testify to the U.S. Congress about what has been happening for the past six months in the gray zone of Ukrainian-American relations.

  3.  Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.

    Elizabeth Warren has surged in Iowa, narrowly overtaking Joe Biden and distancing herself from fellow progressive Bernie Sanders, the latest Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.  
    Warren, the U.S. senator from Massachusetts, now holds a 2-percentage-point lead, with 22% of likely Democratic caucusgoers saying she is their first choice for president. It is the first time she has led in the Register’s poll. 
    Former Vice President Biden, who had led each of the Register’s three previous 2020 cycle polls, follows her at 20%. Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont, has fallen to third place with 11%.  
    No other candidate reaches double digits. 

    [continues]

  6. Thank you Jack.  Autumn Leaves is a particular favorite and this is a wonderful jazz version.  My favorite of the song is the original French by Yves Montand with second choice being Nat King Cole also in French. Both are on YouTube

    For those who don’t know the French lyrics, here is Andrea Bocelli with translation of the sadness not present in the English version. 

     

  9. Jamie, the DNC sets the voting calendar, not the media. And media has little influence on Iowans. They meet the candidates themselves and decide. Look no further than yesterday’s steak fry to see why Warren is surging there. On message discipline, crowd reaction and concrete solutions she was in a category by herself. 

  11. Bink

    You must tell me when I stopped being female.

    Craig,

    I’m talking about the sound bite journalism that gives little to no coverage of other candidates influencing public opinion.  For instance, deep in the article from the Des Moines Register is this quote about Klobuchar:

    The Minnesota senator is running for president on a campaign of Midwest values and has visited Iowa multiple times. While she hasn’t climbed above low single digits as likely caucusgoers’ first choice, her visibility in the state continues to rise. A majority now view her favorably. Her highest favorability rating is among those ages 55 and over (64%); her lowest is among first-time caucusgoers (37%). Poll results also suggest Klobuchar could benefit if Joe Biden falters; she’s the second choice for 1 in 10 of his supporters.

    Haven’t heard anything on TV that even mentions something like the above analyzing any candidate other than Biden, Warren, and Sanders.  

    I know the first primary/caucus are traditional and neither state accurately represents the whole of the population which tends to slant the favorabilities.  So yes, the DNC is giving in to a tradition that actually injures the process this far in advance of those elections.  

     

  12. sound bite journalism sure enough made trump possible.  just ask Jeb!, the other goper guys and hillary who didn’t get near the free TV and print coverage. the media was captivated by his circus performance and outrageous behavior toward competitors.   too hard to cover boring sensible speeches when nasty fights are right in front of you. 

  15. But think about it this way, Jamie. If we didn’t have a process that allowed a small state to see and evaluate candidates unfiltered by media, sound bite journalism nationally would allow no chance for dark horses to break out in such a huge field.

  16. Craig,

    I wouldn’t mind so much if Iowa weren’t a caucus state since I firmly believe both the caucus and the Electoral College should go the way of the dinosaur never to be resurrected. 

    Iowa only has a 43% record of voting for the eventual winner.  As with all the other caucus states, they are just too open to cult followings while suppressing the votes of a large percentage of the population. 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/us/politics/dnc-iowa-virtual-caucus.html

     

  17. I suppose the key is getting your sound bites broadcast. 
     
    I can can only say about Harris I’d vote for and Mrs. P wouldn’t. But I have to say Mrs. P, as a practicing lawyer may not be broadly representative of women voters in general – any more than I am representative of male voters in general. 

  19. Pogo

    Harris doesn’t feel particularly sincere, but I find her acceptable.  I’m more concerned that someone like Booker is considering dropping out despite results like this in the Iowa poll.

    Booker, 49, is a New Jersey senator and previous mayor of Newark. He is the first choice of 3% of likely caucusgoers and the second choice of 4%. But above average proportions (42%) of women say they are “actively considering” him, as are people who live in suburbs (42%); those reporting household incomes above $100,000 (45%); and those who label themselves very liberal (43%).

    I’m being very stubborn about being pushed by media.  I know it is a holdover from 2016, but still feel as if someone is trying to create an attitude rather than reality.

     

  21. The Perez Prado that I used to love for dancing the Mambo.  Considering I was 11 at the time, it probably wasn’t the effect Prado was hoping to get. lol 

  22. New shuffle in the Iowa numbers.  Sanders really should not have pissed off the Hillary voters:

    New Suffolk University/USA Today of likely Democratic Iowa caucus goers: Biden 24% Harris 16% Warren 13% Sanders 9% And/but: six in 10 say they may change their minds before the caucus.

  24. Lizzie’s the Iowa front runner last week- ahead in 2/3 polls. 
     
    Sincerity is is a great trait. Finding that in a prosecutor is rare. And in a prosecutor/senator/candidate for president – not bloody common. I’ll take intelligent and not devious. I didn’t like Harris’ attack on Biden in the 1st debate, but that is way past its shelf life, so I’m not going to disqualify her for her skills or using them. 

    Spent 3 hours pulling an invasive Asian grass from our back yard shrub beds this morning. Mrs. P was grateful. And sweat and insects aside, it was fairly gratifying. Quit when the temp hit 88. It rose to 91 according to the thermometer in my car. I guess Fall ain’t here yet, meteorologically speaking.

  26. Something I am trying to narrow down to a simple question, yet it refuses to hold still.
    During the last couple of years of purchasing goods on Amazon I keep seeing the cheap Chinese copy at drastically lower cost (another post for the future is “Is Amazon the Sears that destroyed retail sales in the 1900’s?).  I have purchased a few items and for the most part have been surprised at the quality, and have been satisfied with the purchases.  Most had decent translations of the instructions, some, not so close.  A few were very wrong, somehow XXL in China is about a 4 in the US. 
    Has anyone else tempted fate and bought something that you could not pronounce the name of the manufacturer? 

  27. BB, I have. I’m an Amazon Prime guy. I’ve gotten some things that were Chinese copies of name brand items that were good or bad. Good – a deck rebuild kit for my Husqvarna lawn tractor- for less than 1/3 the Husky price, and every bit as good as the Husky originals. Not as good – replacement heat tents for my grill. Cheesy, chintzy, not gonna last. But for 1/4 the price they’re a decent stopgap. 

  29. Minnesota dumped the caucus system this year.  They’ve tried going pure primary before, and were deeply sorry afterwards. They’ll be deeply sorry again. 

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