Townes Van Zandt - In The Beginning... (1966)

"Not surprisingly, when one listens to these early recordings of Townes Van Zandt, it's obvious from the start that he was someone and something that arrived fully formed. Even if the songs themselves weren’t quite as refined as they would become, virtually all of the elements are in place: the poetry, the stark melodies, the restless wanderlust, the inherent melancholy and impenetrable darkness; all of which this would inhabit his lyrics and delivery for the rest of his too-short life. The songs on In the Beginning were recorded in his first Nashville recording sessions in 1966, pre-dating the release of For the Sake of the Song by two years. Eight of these ten songs was recorded with Van Zandt playing solo on his guitar. ... Take this for what it is, not some holy grail, but a collection of heretofore unheard and excellent early Van Zandt material, which is in itself a gift."
allmusic (Audio)
popmatters
Discogs (Video)
amazon
YouTube: In The Beginning... 30:54

2014 March: Heartworn Highways - James Szalapski (1975), 2014 September: The 10 Best Townes Van Zandt Songs, 2015 January: Solo Sessions (Jan 17, 1995), 2015 September: Townes Van Zandt & Nanci Griffith - "Tecumseh Valley," 1993, 2016 February: "If I Needed You" - Townes Van Zandt (1972)

Requiem for What's His Name - Marc Ribot & The Rootless Cosmopolitans (1992)

"Requiem for What's His Name is the second album by Marc Ribot & The Rootless Cosmopolitans which was released by the Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule in 1992. The album was recorded in New York City at Sound on Sound Recording except 'Commit a Crime' which was recorded live at Desi Stadtteilzentrum in Nuremberg, Germany. Ribot stated 'On the next record, Requiem for What’s His Name, the focus moved towards composition. It’s almost impossible to get hold of it. I was interested in Balkan music at the time, certain ritual music ... in finding stuff I could do without ironic distance.' ..."
Wikipedia
Discogs (Video)
amazon
YouTube: Requiem for What's His Name

2011 February: Selling Water By the Side of the River - Evan Lurie, 2012 September: Marc Ribot, 2013 February: Silent Movies, 2013 November: The Nearness Of You, 2014 January: Full Concert Jazz in Marciac (2010), 2014 May: Gig Alert: Marc Ribot Trio, 2014 September: Marc Ribot Trio with Mary Halvorson at The Stone, 2015 September: Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos - The Prosthetic Cubans (1998), 2015 November: Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog (2014), 2016 February: Musical Improvisation in the Marlene Dumas Exhibition (2015), 2017 May: Marc Ribot Trio - Fat Man Blues (2015), 2017 July: Err Guitar by Elliott Sharp with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot (2017)

The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brian (1977)

"The Mauritius Command is the fourth naval historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1977. Aubrey is married and the father of twin girls, owner of a cottage with a fine observatory he built. He is more than ready to be back at sea. He and Stephen Maturin join a convoy charged with taking two well-located islands in the Indian Ocean from the French. The mission provides scope for each man to advance in his specialty. A review written at first publication found the novel to be written in 'language deep with detail and the poetry of fact', appreciating the period detail. A later review, written at the reissue, finds the author a graceful writer but sees a difficulty with the novel's structure, building to climaxes that do not occur. Others writing at that time saw the novel more as part of the long series, with humour, erudition and 'impeccable period detail'. ..."
Wikipedia
Coffee, (1810, Port-Louis, Mauritius)
The Mauritius Command Radio Play (Audio)
amazon

Combat de Grand Port by Pierre-Julien Gilbert

2009 September: Patrick O'Brian, 2013 July: Harbors and High Seas - Dean King and John B. Hattendorf, 2015 October: HMS Surprise (1973), 2016 May: Post Captain (1972), 2019 February: Aubrey–Maturin series, 2019 February: Cooking with Patrick O’Brian By Valerie Stivers, 2019 June: Desolation Island (1978)

Al's French Frys

"... Founded by Al and Genevieve Rusterholz in the late 1940s, Al's French Frys was originally housed in a small hut, open to the elements. Many Chittenden Countians encountered Al’s French Frys stand at the Champlain Valley Fair, where it earned a reputation that has endured for more than half a century. Al’s is now owned by the Bissonette family, headed by Bill Bissonette, who revealed part of the restaurant’s secret when he told a local paper that he starts with Idaho or California russets and fries them twice in a combination of beef tallow and soy bean oil at between 300 and 400 degrees for a total of about seven minutes. There are always lines at Al’s, night and day. ..."
America's Classics: Al's French Frys, South Burlington, VT
Al's French Frys
Google - Al's French Frys
YouTube: JBF Awards 2010: Al's French Frys, Americas Classic Award

Nothing but Blue Skies

Stoke-by-Nayland, 1836, John Constable
"The sky alters our day. As soon as we open our eyes, the light in the window colors the way many of us approach family, school, work. The sky, whether clear, overcast, or threatening storms, is a dramatic visual character in our daily stories. Artists have approached the sky in many ways. John Constable was an influential British painter who harbored an intense curiosity about skies and weather. He went on sketching outings he called 'skying' during which he closely observed the sky and clouds. In Stoke-by-Nayland (1836) the earth is a muddle of dark colors and shapes that blend into one another. ..."
Art Institute of Chicago

Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm, 1836/37, Joseph Mallord William Turner

Haymarket Books

"Our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, international left. We take inspiration and courage from our namesakes, the Haymarket Martyrs, who gave their lives fighting for a better world. ... Radically independent, Haymarket seeks to drive a wedge into the risk-averse world of corporate book publishing. Our authors include Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Solnit, Angela Davis, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Wallace Shawn, Mike Davis, Winona LaDuke, Ilan Pappé, Richard Wolff, Dave Zirin, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nick Turse, Dahr Jamail, David Barsamian, Elizabeth Laird, Amira Hass, Mark Steel, Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, and Neil Davidson. ..."
Haymarket Books

The 48 Hours When Liverpool’s Title Run Screeched to a Halt

Liverpool was on pace to clinch the Premier League title this Saturday at Anfield.
"LIVERPOOL, England — For once, there was no big finale to Jürgen Klopp’s speech. Liverpool’s coach stood in the canteen at Melwood, the club’s training facility, with his players and the club’s staff gathered in front of him. All boundaries had blurred. Star players sat next to interns, all wondering the same thing: What now? Klopp did not, as he ordinarily would, end his talk with a rhetorical flourish, or a war cry, or even a joke. Instead, as he sent everyone home for the foreseeable future, he stressed two simple messages. ..."
NY Times

Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan

"Contemplative, confessional, and comedic, the art of Duane Michals exerts an appeal that transcends the conventional audience of photography. Since the early 1960s, Michals has worked past what he sees as the limitations of the camera: he writes in the margins of his prints, creates sequences of images that explore intangible human dilemmas (doubt, mortality, desire), and derives poetic effects from technical errors such as double exposure and motion blur. Illusions of the Photographer combines a full career retrospective—the first on Michals to be organized by a New York City museum—with an artist’s-choice show, as Michals plumbs the Morgan’s vaults for treasures both revered and long-forgotten. Michals leads viewers on a tour of his mind as he engages heroes and mentors as varied as William Blake, Edward Lear, and Saul Steinberg and matches wits with stage designers, toy-makers, and his fellow portraitists of the past and the present. The exhibition will be accompanied by screenings of short films—Michals’ preferred medium in recent years. An audioguide narrated by the artist will complement a wide-ranging interview in the exhibition’s catalog. ..."
The Morgan Library & Museum (Video)
NY Times: Duane Michals Searches the Morgan and Finds Himself

2011 October: Duane Michals, 2014 May:The Last Sentimentalist: A Q. & A. with Duane Michals, 2014 September: Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals

Greatest Hits - Afro-Zen Allstars (2017)

"Led by a driving horn section, Afro-Zen Allstars deliver a powerful instrumental collection on Greatest Hits that evokes irresistible rhythms and danceable grooves to match their acclaimed live performances. From Ethiopia's 'Golden Age' of music (popularized by the Ethiopiques Series and groups like Debo Band) to wedding music of Rajasthan or Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga music of 'revolutionary struggle,' Afro-Zen honors a heritage of positive music through the modern arrangements of its bandleader, George M. Lowe. As a lifelong student of international music, Lowe takes the listener to a place where the sound is both rare yet familiar. On Afro-Zen Allstars’s Greatest Hits, he leads the powerhouse lineup of Hector 'Coco' Barez, percussion; Brian Cruse, Bass; John Lilley, Alto and Tenor Sax; George M. Lowe, Guitar; Scott Milstead, Drums; Chris Sclafani, Baritone Sax; Chris Vasi, Guitar; and Toby Whitaker, Trombone through highlights of their vast songbook of Ethiojazz standards and originals. ..."
Afro Zen All Stars
bandcamp (Audio)
anazon, iTunes
YouTube: Afro Zen All Stars perform 'Wu Beat'

A Trip to Charles Olson’s Gloucester

Ipswich Bay to Gloucester Harbor; Rockport Harbor
"... Except for that letter, for years I kept largely to myself and have had a limited correspondence. That has begun to change recently but for the most part I still remain wary of my idols despite all the wonderful insight they could bring. Charles Olson would have been an exception to that rule had I been fortunate enough to have been born a full two decades earlier. From all accounts, Olson was one of the great talkers of all time at home, in the library, looming over the lecture hall, sitting at the kitchen table, or holding forth in the barroom. The depth and breadth of his thought coupled with his mythic endurance made for an exhausting and, for many listeners, a life-changing experience. I like to think I would have tracked him down at 28 Fort Square in Gloucester for an evening of strong drink and heady talk as the fog rolled in off of Ten Pound Island and mixed with the cigarette smoke. ..."
Reality Studio
OLSON from From Gloucester Out by Peter Anastas
Gloucester Author Peter Anastas
Jacket2: 'To find out for yourself' - Maximus at Gloucester High School
W - Gloucester, Massachusetts

July 20, 1967

2009 January: Charles Olson, 2009 April: Rockport Harbor, 2010 September: Charles Olson: The Art of Poetry No. 12, 2011 July: Charles Olson: February 21, 1957, 2012 April: A Trip to Charles Olson’s Gloucester, 2012 June: In Which We Lather Our Sensibilities At Length, 2013 January: Mass.Charles Olson, 2013 May: The Maximus Poems, 2013 November: A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson , 2015 March: "In Cold Hell, in Thicket" (1950), 2017 May: The Collected Poems of Charles Olson edited by George Butterick, 2017 May: Gloucester HarborWalk #: Charles Olson 3rd Letter on Georges, unwritten to Schooner Footage

Learn the constellations

The Winter Sky
"If you're a newcomer to amateur astronomy, eager to begin exploring the night sky, you'll have to overcome one of astronomy's biggest hurdles — learning to identify the constellations. After all, you can't find the Andromeda Galaxy if you can't find Andromeda. Trying to make sense of those myriad stellar specks overhead might seem intimidating, but making friends with the stars needn't be a 'mission impossible.' ... North circumpolar constellations. We begin in the northern sky, realm of those always-visible star groups known as the north circumpolar constellations. The most prominent figure is the Big Dipper (Note: The Big Dipper is not a constellation). These bright stars — four forming the 'bowl,' three more tracing out the 'handle' — create one of the most recognizable patterns in the night sky, an ideal guide for locating surrounding constellations. ..."
Astronomy
Constellation Guide
amazon: Guide to the Stars

The Autumn Sky

Garden of Painterly Delights

Percy Horton: Suburban Garden, 1921
"A bright, blowy day in London. Blue sky, tumbling white clouds. The trees are budding in the parks, and even the brown Thames seems to sparkle. Could spring be coming? We are fed up with snow and floods and sad, bad news. Many of us—myself including—simply want to get into the garden. In tune with this mood, thank goodness, the Garden Museum in Lambeth is showing an exhibition called 'Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners 1919–1939.' During World War I, when soldiers thought longingly of home, their minds often turned to the garden. Indeed, they made small gardens in the trenches, planting bulbs in empty brass shell-casings. In a catalog essay, the Garden Museum’s director, Christopher Woodward, quotes Ford Madox-Ford’s No Enemy: A Tale of Reconstruction (1929), on the soldier’s dream of return, not to a landscape but 'a nook rather,' at the end of a valley 'with a little stream, just a trickle level with the grass of the bottom. You understand the idea—a sanctuary.' ..."
NYBooks
Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners 1919–1939

Harry Bush: Snowfall in the suburbs, 1940

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché - Pamela B. Green (2018)

"Pioneering Franco-American filmmaker Alice Guy was never completely forgotten. Her movies would be mentioned by legendary directors like Hitchcock and Eisenstein in their memoirs. Every so often, over the decades of her life and in the 50 years since her death, some archivist or historian would seek to give her the due she was owed — first female writer-director-producer-editor, first female head of production, etc. But the slights, omissions and outright sexist erasures of her name from the historical record ruled the day — a century of days. ... Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, the First Female Filmmaker, begins with Alison McMahan’s 2002 book, Alice Guy-Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema and dives into globe-trotting original scholarship, filling the screen with some 138 interview subjects and mountains of primary source (written and film) material. ..."
Movie Nation (Video)
NY Times - ‘Be Natural’ Review: Rescuing Alice Guy Blaché, a Film Pioneer, From Oblivion - A.O. Scott (Video)
W - Alice Guy-Blaché
W - Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
YouTube: BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ - official US trailer

061° SPIRITUAL JAZZ - THE LOST TRACKS - selected by Gerald "Jazzman" Short

"Those of you that has been following the blog for a while knows that we have a very special interest and respect for the English record label Jazzman Records. So it is with very great pleasure that we are pleased to present to you exclusively 9 Spiritual Tracks selected by Gerald Short, owner and creator of Jazzman Records. When we asked him to tell us what has led his choice, he answered us 'This is a selection of European modal & spiritual jazz tracks that for one reason or another did not make it onto our series of Spiritual Jazz albums on Jazzman. The quality is there for all to hear; these are not rejects.' We wish you a nice travel into Northern and Eastern European Jazz! ..."
les mains noires (Audio)

Disconcerted: A Music Critic’s Empty Nights

Webster Hall in Manhattan.
"Empty rooms. Empty stages. Empty seats. Empty dance floors. And not far away, empty lobbies, empty dressing rooms, empty back rooms, empty bar areas, empty kitchens, empty lounges, empty sound booths, empty loading zones. These were places animated by live music, with entire backstage workdays dedicated to presenting just a few hours of intangible sound — gigs, shows, concerts — for the audiences that gathered there, often with great anticipation and at significant cost. I already miss them dearly. Concerts have been shut down by the Covid-19 pandemic; schedules and calendars, at least in the short run and possibly for much longer, are empty too. ..."
NY Times

The United Palace, from the balcony.

Magical Land Art By Andy Goldsworthy

"Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, renowned in his field, that creates temporary landscape art installations out of sticks and stones, and anything and everything else that he finds outside. The son of a mathematician, Goldsworthy grew up working on farms before eventually getting his BA from what is now the University of Central Lancashire. 'A lot of my earth art is like picking potatoes,' he told the Guardian. 'You have to get into the rhythm of it.' Much of Goldsworthy’s land art is transient and ephemeral, leading many to view it as a comment on the Earth’s fragility. But for Goldsworthy, the picture is more complicated. ..."
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amazon: Andy Goldsworthy

2007 November: Andy Goldsworthy: Roof, 2012 March: Rivers and Tides, 2012 June: Andy Goldsworthy 1987 Grizedale, 2017 September: Rivers and Tides: Working With Time - Fred Frith (2001), 2018 August: Hedge Walking: The Land Art Of Andy Goldsworthy

Titian: Love, Desire, Death review – whims of the gods made flesh

Female realm … Titian’s Diana and Actaeon, 1556-69.
"The women are the stars in Titian. Men barely get a look-in – and that look-in can be fatal. In his painting Diana and Actaeon, a young man out hunting has chanced on the goddess Diana and her court bathing naked in a woodland hideaway. As he pushes aside a soft pink hanging, he sees inside this female realm. His punishment is shown in another painting here: he will be turned into a stag and torn apart by his hounds. In Diana and Actaeon we see what he sees: women kneel and crouch, turn in horror and rush to cover. Titian’s brush shapes their flesh in ethereal yet weighty flicks of colour that capture form while being smokily suggestive. He called these paintings 'poesie', poetic pictures, with good reason, for they hover in a cloud of carnality and dreams. ..."
Guardian
W - Titian

‘An image of the Venetian sex trade itself’ … Danae, c1554–56.

How to Socially Distance and Stay Sane

"On Monday, The Times reported that British researchers studying the coronavirus had made a harrowing projection: If government and individuals don’t take sweeping actions to slow the virus’s spread and suppress new cases, 2.2 million people in the United States could die. Social distancing is one such action, now in increasingly wide effect. But how does it help, what exactly does it entail, and how do you practice it without sacrificing your physical and mental health? Here’s what public-health experts, journalists and others are saying. ..."
NY Times

Fehlfarben - 33 Tage in Ketten (1982)

“Fehlfarben is a Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The band name is from a German term referring to cigars with a discoloured wrapper leaf and sold cheaply: singer Peter Hein was in this line of work at Xerox while in the band. Its founding members were Peter Hein (vocals), former Mittagspause (‘lunch break’), Thomas Schwebel (guitar, former Mittagspause, S.Y.P.H.), Michael Kemner (bass, former 20 Colors, Mau Mau, DAF, YOU), Frank Fenstermacher (saxophone, later Der Plan), Markus Oehlen and Uwe Bauer (drums, former Mittagspause, Materialschlacht). … Shortly after having released their debut album, Fehlfarben suffered the departure of lead singer Peter Hein owing to his frustration at the follow-up tour’s being lengthened from three to six weeks on short notice. He went back to his day job at Xerox, where he worked until 2003. …”
Wikipedia
Discogs
amazon, iTunes
YouTube: 33 Tage in Ketten (Full)

Robert Stone, Chronicler of America’s Decline

"... [Robert] Stone’s novels each capture the zeitgeist of a particular period. A Hall of Mirrors slashes into the underbelly of American racial anxieties as the civil rights movement, and resistance to it, get underway. Dog Soldiers somehow captures the whole spirit of the Vietnam era while barely setting a scene in Vietnam. A Flag for Sunrise delves into the dark side of the Monroe Doctrine, following the most corrupt machinations of American influence into the bloodiest crannies of Central America. Children of Light stages the cocaine-fueled, illusion-rich culture of eighties Hollywood. Outerbridge Reach swings the nineties boom-and-bust stock market cycle by the tail, shaking out its scariest social consequences. Damascus Gate discovers the sinister side of the U.S. engagement with Mideast politics in general and Israel in particular—among other things, as one must always say of any Robert Stone novel … a great many other things. ..."
The Paris Review

2013 September: Outerbridge Reach (1993), 2015 January: Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015), 2017 March: Damascus Gate (1998), 2020 February: The Total Anti-Totalist Robert Stone

Peter Tosh & Wailers - Downpresser (1971), Etc.

"A quintessential Lee 'Scratch' Perry Wailers single on Upsetter with an upsolute Righteous Upsetters dynamite dub on the flipside. As described in the recommended recent book BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS: THE DEFINITIVE DISCOGRAPHY by Roger Steffens and Leroy Jodie Pierson, this original version of 'Downpresser' features Peter Tosh on vocal, Bob Marley & Bunny Wailer on harmony vocals, Carlton Barrett on drums, Aston 'Family Man' Barrett on bass, Alva 'Reggie' Lewis on guitar, Glen Adams on keyboards, Gladdy Anderson on piano, Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson playing percussion. Errol Thompsion engineered the whole affair at Randy's Studio 17 on a four track with Lee Perry producing. Almighty sounds. The composer credit on 'Downpresser' reads P. Touch. It is Peter's third recording of the traditional 'Sinner Man' which he first cut at Studio One in 1968. ..."
Popsiks, YouTube: PETER TOSH & THE WAILERS - Downpresser
YouTube: Burning Spear - Bad To Worse
YouTube: HUGH MUNDELL - Great Tribulation
YouTube: Toney Barrett ‎- Trying Man
YouTube: JOHNNY CLARKE - None Shall Escape The Judgement
YouTube: ERROL DUNKLEY - Movie Star
YouTube: Wailing Souls - Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall
YouTube: AUGUSTUS PABLO - Crucial Burial
YouTube: Bunny Wailer - Rise & Shine
YouTube: JOE MORGAN - Basement Session

Dave Wesley - Tons de Quarto (2020)

"The first of two tracks from Dave Wesley released with the title 'Tons de Quarto,' the music comes across like some fierce collage mix of zigzagging field recordings and rampantly droning organ. It’s all about fleetingly quelled chaos — the volume lowered, and yet the action raised in inverse proportion. The organ-like sound comes in waves, wide hands pushing out arrhythmic patterns that ebb and flow in an expression of unrest and pent-up power. The other sounds are foreground and background, rough noises tossed about, and rapid patterning, the wind in motion. It’s a potent combination. Track originally posted at soundcloud.com/davewesley. Wesley is based in Porto, Portugal. More at arcticdub.bandcamp.com and YouTube."
disquiet: Quelled Chaos (Audio)
Arctic Dub (Audio)

The Workers Who Face the Greatest Coronavirus Risk

"As the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the United States, people with jobs that put them in physical contact with many others are at the greatest risk of becoming sick. Each bubble on this chart represents an occupation. The bigger the bubble, the more people do that job. The vertical position of each bubble is a measure of how often workers in a given profession are exposed to disease and infection. The horizontal position is a measure of how close people are to others during their workdays. Health care workers are at the greatest risk — they can encounter diseases and infections daily and typically work in close proximity to one another and their patients. Many are already under quarantine because of exposure to the virus. ..."
NY Times
NY Times - ‘It Has All Gone to Hell’: Businesses, Workers Bled Dry by Coronavirus
NY Times - As Coronavirus Deepens Inequality, Inequality Worsens Its Spread

A quiet Pike Place Market, which is usually crowded on Fridays with tourists and Seattleites grabbing lunch.

A Century Downtown: A Visual History of Lower Manhattan Hardcover – Matt Kapp

"It would be an understatement to say that Lower Manhattan has undergone radical change over the last hundred years. But the construction of the World Trade Center, September 11th, and the subsequent revitalization of the area is only one piece of the story. Once upon a time, Lower Manhattan was home to more than 300 vibrant electronics businesses, known as Radio Row. And Washington Street was once the home to Little Syria, the biggest Arab-American community in the country at the time. Matt Kapp looks at the rich and ever-shifting history of that part of Manhattan, picking out pivotal moments and tracing a line from 1919 to today in his new book, A Century Downtown: A Visual History Of Lower Manhattan. He looks at the rise of Wall Street and Newspaper Row, the battle between FDR and Robert Moses, the construction of the Twin Towers and the communities it offset, 9/11 and the battle to control its legacy, and the current economic boom. ..."
Incredible Photos Trace The History Of Lower Manhattan (Video)
NY Times: 5 Sites That Show How Much Lower Manhattan Has Changed
When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’ By Matt Kapp
amazon

John Zorn’s Naked City – The Marquee Club, New York City, NY, 1992-04-09

"John Zorn’s Naked City April 9, 1992 The Marquee Club, New York, NY pro-shot (a neckey – voltarized upgrade) Personnel: John Zorn: Alto Sax Bill Frisell: Guitar Wayne Horvitz: keyboards Fred Frith : Bass Joey Baron: drums Yamatsuka Eye: vocals 01–opening titles 02–sunset surfer 03–asylum 04–terkmani tepee 05–party girl (false start)/party girl (right version) 06–shock corridor 07–speedfreaks 08–poisonhead 09–bonehead 10–blood duster 11–the catacombs (aka the vault or the inferno) 12–thrash jazz assassin 13–hellraiser 14–dead spot 15–sack of shit 16–metaltov 17–snagglepuss 18–the yodel (Big John Patton/Grant Green) 19–bone orchard 20–the list of adrian messenger (Jerry Goldsmith) 21–a night in tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) 22–blood is thin 23–blunt instrument / end titles"
NeuGuitars (Video)

2009 March: John Zorn, 2010 August: Spillane 2011 October: Filmworks Anthology : 20 Years of Soundtrack Music, 2012 September: Marc Ribot, 2013 January: Bar Kokhba and Masada, 2013 September: Masada String Trio Sala, 2014 January: Full Concert Jazz in Marciac (2010), 2014 March: "Extraits de Book Of Angels" @ Jazz in Marciac 2008, 2015 June: The Big Gundown - John Zorn plays Ennio Morricone (1985), 2015 July: News for Lulu (1988), 2016 March: Film Works 1986-1990, 2017 March: John Zorn Is Rolling The Stone From Avenue C To The New School, 2017 September: Naked City (1990), 2019 July: The Book Beri’ah (2018)

Horace Silver - Doin’ The Thing (1961)

"... One of the hottest live sessions ever recorded by van Gelder on his portable equipment, at the Village gate before an appreciatively hip audience. RVG achieves that 'front seat in the club' atmosphere again, and the playing is astonishing. Junior Cook is cast as the young Mobley, his tone and swagger is so similar I’m not sure I could tell them apart. Silver’s solo really gets into the groove in a boogie-woogie pastiche which is head-shakingly rhythmic, whipping up the audience, who sound their appreciation. Forget 27 choruses of Diminuendo and Crescendo at ’56 Newport, Filthy McNasty ’61 is truly… nice. ..."
London Jazz Collector (Audio)
W - Doin’ The Thing
Discogs (Video)
amazon
YouTube: Doin' The Thing (Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 6 videos

2017 March: A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 - Art Blakey (1954), 2017 September: Sabu (1953), 2018 June: Song for My Father (1962)

The Plague - Albert Camus (1947)

The dance of death the careless and the careful.
"Usually a question like this is theoretical: What would it be like to find your town, your state, your country, shut off from the rest of the world, its citizens confined to their homes, as a contagion spreads, infecting thousands, and subjecting thousands more to quarantine? How would you cope if an epidemic disrupted daily life, closing schools, packing hospitals, and putting social gatherings, sporting events and concerts, conferences, festivals and travel plans on indefinite hold? In 1947, when he was 34, Albert Camus, the Algerian-born French writer (he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature ten years later, and die in a car crash three years after that) provided an astonishingly detailed and penetrating answer to these questions in his novel The Plague. ..."
LitHub: What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague
Open Culture: Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Novel the Coronavirus Has Made a Bestseller Again
W - The Plague
amazon

2011 October: Albert Camus on Nihilism, 2014 November: Albert Camus: Soccer Goalie, 2015 May: LISTEN: New Cave And Ellis Soundtrack, 2016 April: Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche, 2016 April: Algerian Chronicles (2013), 2017 November: The Stranger (1942), 2018 July: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960), 2019 September: Les Pieds-Noirs: Algeria’s Forgotten Footballers

This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 13 – 21

"... Betelgeuse is rebrightening. After bottoming out at about V magnitude +1.64 in early to mid-February, Orion's Betelgeuse was up to +1.3 as of March 8th, and the brightening seems to be speeding up a bit. The change from minimum is quite clear now to the eye; use Orion's other shoulder star, Bellatrix, as a comparison. During Betelgeuse's minimum brightness they appeared essentially equal. See The Fall and Rise of Betelgeuse. ... Saturday, March 14. Right after dark, five carnivore constellations stand upright in a row, from the northeast to south. They're all seen in profile with their noses pointed up and their feet (if any) to the right. They are Ursa Major the Big Bear in the northeast (with the Big Dipper as its brightest part), Leo the Lion in the east, Hydra the Sea Serpent in the southeast, Canis Minor the Little Dog higher in the south-southeast (lit by Procyon), and bright Canis Major the Big Dog lower in the south (lit by Sirius). ..."
Sky & Telescope