19 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. jack, wow! indeed defies description but here’s one about that bassist anyway:

    Christian McBride : NPR

    Bassist extraordinaire, composer, arranger, educator, curator and administrator, Christian McBride, has been one of the most important and most omnipresent figures in the jazz world for 20 years. Sometimes hard to believe considering this man just entered his 40’s.
    Beginning in 1989, this Philadelphia-born bassist moved to New York City to further his classical studies at the Juilliard School, only to be snatched up by alto saxophonist, Bobby Watson. Since then, McBride’s list of accomplishments has been nothing short of staggering. As a sideman in the jazz world alone, he’s worked with the best of the very best – ….
    Away from the bass, Christian has become quite an astute and respected spokesperson for the music. In 1997, he spoke on former President Bill Clinton’s town hall meeting “Racism in the Performing Arts.” In 2000, he was named Artistic Director of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Sessions. In 2005, he was officially named the co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Also in 2005, he was named the second Creative Chair for Jazz of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
    In 1998, McBride composed “The Movement, Revisited,” a four-movement suite dedicated to four of the major figures of the civil rights movement – Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  2. continuing the musical theme, a blues ode from David Horsey

    Smoky-sky blues | The Seattle Times

    […]

    Smoky days have become a permanent summer reality. They may be better or worse, year to year, but they are not going away. This is just one more example of how climate change induced by human industrial practices is making our planet less hospitable.
    This year, when Seattle’s sun turns red, the blue sky disappears behind a yellow smog and we are forced to stay indoors for the sake of our health, it will be a reminder that, as a species, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

  3. a ‘toon in re discussion last thread

    Attribution: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL by Randall Enos, Easton, CT

  5. This so awesome. Just the serenity we need today after the tumultuous events of a week that still has me more rattled than I realized. 

    Saw Chick perform in person and not that long ago, so it feels. His death was a shock.

  6. thank you Jack,  Excellent selection.

    Corea was a great musician.  I remember all the brouhaha when he became heavily involved with Scientology in the 70s.

     

  9. jack – I was kind of expecting Ode To Joy this morning, but this poppy, jazz fits the bill just as well.  Thanks. 

    Summer has arrived here with a vengeance. It’s 98 with a heat index of 106.

    Happy Tony Awards night to those who observe.

  10. A calm day in the home that is poorly built it will never float and sail, better to be on my boat that is built to float and sail.
     
    Although not a high priority I have been dropping in on the twit and other places to enjoy the rage, the stupidity, the absolute crazy of the white nationalist party going bazerkee.  They did not fail to meet the depths of depravity and absolute ignorance I had hoped for.  From the outright lying to themselves, nothing wrong, to HILLARY.  Ah, the smell of sulpher in the morning.
     
    I was more interested in the OSINT covering the Ukraine military destroying more of the invaders.  So far, whatever is confirmed happened a day or two ago, they are driving the convicts out of Ukraine.  Also, there are confirmed reports of significant sabotage in enemy areas which will be of major consequences going forward, besides the maateriel needs. Morale is affected knowing someone is roaming around behind you and blowing things up and killing your coinvaders.

  11. I’m wondering why those GQPers running against tRUMPsky are also railing against him being indicted.   I know they’re scared sh/tless of getting on the wrong side of his base, but is it more than that?

    Are they, in fact, more worried about the heat from Georgia and J6 because they realize that if they were to be their party’s nominee, they will need to pull more than a few stunts to try to steal the election? 

    Or, is it just to signal that they would pardon tRUMPsky from being a traitor, a spy, a thief, a thug, etc., should they win the office?

  12. bID – those cult members are trying to keep the twenty percent, the white supremacists KKK etc, from not voting for them. So they sell their soul, but that is long gone now.
     
    Summer time and the living is easy?  YouTube ad – woman has head covered in what looks like cotton. It splits and floats away. Some yacking in the background, she is much better now.  She has been to the California Psychics.  Oh, yeah.

  13. They had access to ALL the dirt.  Four years of it. It’s blackmail most foul—top to bottom   
    What you see and hear reeks of DESPERATION.

  14. Love Chick, Jack. Thanks. A prof/friend in grad school was a jazz freak – he sort of introduced me to jazz. I quickly grew to appreciate it. Still do. 

    Happy to see the boat shop got the hull leak ID’d and fixed. And she runs like a top. For a 37 year old she’s aging very well. I wish the teak would sand and oil itself, but it’s a Ratty thing. 

    Believe me my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

    So says Ratty to Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s classic novel ‘The Wind in the Willows’

  18. BB, I’ve never used a heat gun in on mine. Just light sanding to get the dark stuff off. The pain is that I really love bright teak. I used Star Brite teak cleaner & brightener once, followed by their golden oil, and it looked great but longevity was an issue. What varnish do you recommend?  I’m open to suggestions. 

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