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Concrète Dschungel: Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps At 40

“Feral musicians emerging from the rubble of bombed-out West Berlin and creating themselves out of their own blood and guts very much feels like a tale from another age. In a world of coffee shop startups, utilitarian computer software and ersatz bedroom electronica as aural wallpaper, building your own percussive instruments from scrap might seem primitive, complex, redundant even. But in 1981, when Einstürzende Neubauten made Kollaps, it was revolutionary. For the briefest of moments they tried to be conventional, but it didn’t last long. The Moon Club in Berlin on April 1st, 1980 was the scene of Naubauten’s first ever show, after Blixa Bargeld overheard a promoter telling somebody else that an act was needed for the following Tuesday night; he formed the band there and then and blurted out the name - ‘collapsing new buildings’ - to give them something to put on the poster. ...”

The Quietus

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Discogs (Video)

YouTube: Kollaps [Live], Kollaps (1981) [full album]

2010 September: Einstürzende Neubauten, 2012 September: Imaginary Sounds Feature, 2013 September: Alles Wieder Offen (2007)

Whirlpool Galaxy

Whirlpool Galaxy (M51A or NGC 5194), the smaller object in the upper right is M51B or NGC 5195

“The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 31 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy and its companion, NGC 5195, are easily observed by amateur astronomers, and the two galaxies may be seen with binoculars. The Whirlpool Galaxy has been extensively observed by professional astronomers, who study it to understand galaxy structure (particularly structure associated with the spiral arms) and galaxy interactions. What later became known as the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered on October 13, 1773, by Charles Messier while hunting for objects that could confuse comet hunters, and was designated in Messier's catalogue as M51. ...”

Wikipedia

2020 May: See Spring's Finest Spiral Galaxies

When J.R.R. Tolkien Worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and “Learned More … Than Any Other Equal Period of My Life” (1919-1920)

“When J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings appeared in the mid-1950s, its first critical readers held some diverging views on the books’ quality. On the one hand, there was praise for the revival of fantasy for grown-ups, and comparisons to great epics of the past. On the other hand, Tolkien’s prose was excoriated for its wordiness, length, and seemingly inexhaustible obsession with obscurities. Both perspectives seemed to miss something important. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) remains an indispensable reference for scholars of language and literature, but it is not itself a typical academic text. ... The experience as an OED lexicographer prepared Tolkien for his lifelong career as a philologist. It also informed his literary technique, argue Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner, the authors of Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary and former OED editors, all. ...”

Open Culture

amazon: The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

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2018 February: Oxford English Dictionary

2010 January: The Lord of the Rings, 2018 January: An Atlas of Literary Maps Created by Great Authors: J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & More, 2019 January: The Largest J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit in Generations Is Coming to the U.S.: Original Drawings, Manuscripts, Maps & More, 2020 January: Hear Christopher Tolkien (RIP) Read the Work of His Father J.R.R. Tolkien, Which He Tirelessly Worked to Preserve, 2020 August: The Complete Guide to Middle-earth - Robert Foster (1971), 2021 September: When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings...

Assassin's Creed Ambience- The Most Beautiful music from AC 1 to AC: Odyssey

“Here you can find the most beautiful music you will ever hear. Some of the tracks can be classified as classical or ethnic music. Remember... the music tells a story... a story that is more powerful than any hand-written text. Words are weak and often meaningless. Words can describe different objects and events. But can they directly transfer feelings? Here comes the music. The music itself is one complex collection of emotions. All you have to do is just to listen and feel... feel every sound you hear, feel every story that's behind these sounds. I managed to collect the most beautiful and the most emotional tracks from all of the main Assassin's Creed games (that exist until this moment). Tracks are sorted according to the game release dates. In the video I labeled all of the historical periods and places that tracks represent. ...”

YouTube: Assassin's Creed Ambience- The Most Beautiful music from AC 1 to AC: Odyssey 3:01:45

Smoke - Wayne Wang and Paul Auster (1995)

“Smoke is a 1995 American independent film by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster. The original story was written by Paul Auster, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by Greg Johnson, Peter Newman, Kenzo Horikoshi, and Hisami Kuroiwa. Among others, it features Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing, Harold Perrineau Jr., and Forest Whitaker. The film follows the lives of multiple characters, all of whom are connected via their patronage of a small Brooklyn tobacconist store managed by Auggie (Harvey Keitel). Brooklyn Cigar Co. was located on the corner of 16th Street and Prospect Park West. Auggie has been taking photographs of the store from across the street at 8:00am every morning and has been collecting all his photos in albums. A recently-widowed writer Paul Benjamin (William Hurt) spends an evening with Auggie, during which Auggie tells Paul of his photographs, which he describes as his ‘life's work’. ...”

Wikipedia

Criterion (Video), amazon

YouTube: Smoke Official Trailer 1, Smoke, Auggie's Photo Album, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story 13:07

2017 May: The New York Trilogy (1986)

Louder in Lagos

“In the shadow of Nigeria’s 61st Independence Day, Africa Is a Country radio stops over in Lagos on its tour of African club cultures inspired by the Ten Cities book project. ... That narrative is one that focuses on individual artists’ success, propelled by a general surprise around Africans’ access to wealth, itself fueled by a long tradition of single African stories. At a time when Wizkid has sneaked his way into our daily subconscious via the banal stream of mainstream radio, even making it on to that holy commercial grail of US black radio that black international stars have been trying to crack for decades, we would be wise to remember that the push and pull dynamics of national history that have shaped the Lagos music scene (and its urban environment in general) are inseparable from the music itself. Take a listen on Worldwide FM or below via Mixcloud, and if you have an account there, go ahead and hit follow to keep up on all the latest episodes. ...”

Africa Is a Country (Audio/Video)

Extending the Family at Fazunchar Festival in Portugal with Isaac Cordal

“It’s a curious pleasure to meet some of the extended members of the Isaac Cordal businessmen after all these years, isn’t it? For a decade or so you’ve been seeing his balding men in rumpled suits installed on ledges and window sills – contemplating their ennui, reviewing their rotten deeds, realizing they had wasted their lives playing the stock market only to feel empty. Now it’s time to meet the family? Now the Spanish street artist expands the circle as he attends the Fazunchar Festival in Figueiro dos Vinhos in Portugal, and you are seeing his new sculptures perched in new spaces throughout the village. ...”

Brooklyn Street Art

2011 May: Isaac Cordal, 2014 August: Cement Eclipses, 2015 July: Social Isolation, Isaac Cordal, and Neighbors (Sasiedzi) in Łódź

My frame is true: new wave posters – in pictures

“Andrew Krivine began collecting music industry flyers and posters in 1977 on his annual trip from the US to see family in London. ... By the time he’d finished college in the early 80s (spending a year in the UK as well as studying in Chicago), he’d amassed around 5,500 items of memorabilia for punk and new wave LPs, gigs and clubs. The finest of these have now been collected in the book Reversing into the Future (published by Pavilion on 14 October, £35). In a time before Spotify and YouTube, poster art was key to a band selling their sound to an audience. ...”

Guardian

amazon: Reversing into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977 - 1990

Anni Albers on How to Be an Artist

“Anni Albers revered experimentation. During her early days studying under Paul Klee at the Bauhaus school, in the 1920s, she set out to expand the scope of weaving by using new, daring methods and materials. ‘I heard [Klee] speak and he said take a line for a walk,’ she once recalled to Nicholas Fox Weber, director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. ‘And I thought, I will take thread everywhere I can.’ In her textile practice, Albers ecstatically mingled organic and synthetic fibers; loom-weaving and hand-weaving; representation and abstraction; art and utility. The resulting lively, bristling compositions revolutionized weaving and helped shape the burgeoning traditions of abstraction. ...”

Artsy

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MoMA Anni Albers

Tate: How to Weave like Anni Albers (Video)

Impulse Records: Music, Message and the Moment

“Those of us for whom Impulse has been as important a part of our cultural lives as Blue Note, perhaps even a more important one, will not be satisfied until the label reissues its entire catalogue on remastered CDs and audiophile vinyl. In the meantime, it would be churlish to do anything other than applaud such signs of Impulse's rejuvenation as its signing of reed player Shabaka Hutchings and welcome every tickle of its back catalogue such as this mostly well compiled, thoughtfully annotated 4xLP / 2xCD compilation marking the label's 60th Anniversary. ...”

All About Jazz

Discogs (Video)

amazon

YouTube: Impulse! Records: Music, Message & The Moment - Physical Unboxing

Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans

“When the Hirshhorn Museum told Laurie Anderson that it wanted to put on a big, lavish retrospective of her work, she said no. For one thing, she was busy. She has been busy now for roughly 50 years, hauling her keyboards and experimental violins all over the world to put on huge bonanzas of lasers and noise loops and incantatory monologues that she delivers in a voice somewhere between slam poetry, an evening newscast, a final confession and a bedtime story. Although Anderson plays multiple instruments, her signature tool has always been her voice. Words emerge from her mouth deliberate and hyperenunciated, surrounded by unpredictable pauses. She piles up phrases the way van Gogh piled up brush strokes. ...”

NY Times (Video)

2008 June: Laurie Anderson, 2009 December: Personal Service Announcements, 2011 February: Home studio (late 80's), 2011 March: I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, And You Cheated Me Out of It, 2011 October: Big Science, 2011 October: Delusion, 2013 June: United States Live

Brew: A Brief History of Coffee

“To some, their morning coffee is an elixir from heaven, their wake-up in a cup, or simply… necessary to carry on. With its energizing properties and storied past, it has an interesting history that deserves to be remembered. This is original content based on research by The History Guy. ...”

YouTube: Brew: A Brief History of Coffee

2010 September: Espresso, 2013 April: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, 2013 May: Coffeehouse, 2015 June: Barista, 2015 August: Coffee Connections at Peddler in SoHo, 2015 November: The Case for Bad Coffee, 2016 January: 101 Places to Find Great Coffee in New York (2014), 2017 June: How Cold Brew Changed the Coffee Business, 2017 September: Our 7 Favorite Literary Coffee Shops, 2017 October: Clever Literary Coffee Poster, 2017 October: Coffee as Existential Statement: A Crisis in Every Cup on Valencia Street, 2018 February: The Trencherman: A Tale of Two Coffee Shops, 2020 April: Unfair trade, April 2020: A (Very) Brief History of NYC Espresso, 2020 May: The Islamic History of Coffee, 2021 January: The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup, 2021 June: Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard, 2021 July: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?, August 2021: The Birth of Espresso: How the Coffee Shots The Fuel Our Modern Life Were Invented

Chasing New Revenue, FIFA Is Considering Major Move to U.S.

FIFA officials toured the United States in September, visiting possible host cities for the 2026 World Cup.

"Looking to expand its global footprint beyond its cloistered headquarters next to a zoo on the outskirts of Zurich, soccer’s governing body, FIFA, is studying the feasibility of moving its financial engine, the commercial operation that produces billions of dollars in revenues for the organization, to the United States. The possible move will be determined by technical factors including the suitability of locations on both coasts, the ease of acquiring work visas for overseas staff members and tax rules, according to an official with direct knowledge of the discussions who declined to speak publicly because a final determination had yet to be made. The operations involved represent a vital part of FIFA’s business: They oversee FIFA’s sale of sponsorships and broadcasting rights, which represent some of the most lucrative properties in global sports. ..."

NY Times

Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist: To “Create Dangerously” (1957)

“Literary statements about the nature and purpose of art constitute a genre unto themselves, the ars poetica, an antique form going back at least as far as Roman poet Horace. The 19th century poles of the debate are sometimes represented by the dueling notions of Percy Shelley — who claimed that poets are the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’ — and Oscar Wilde, who famously proclaimed, ‘all art is quite useless.’ These two statements conveniently describe a conflict between art that involves itself in the struggles of the world, and art that is involved only with itself. In the mid-twentieth century, Albert Camus put the question somewhat differently in a 1957 speech entitled ‘Create Dangerously.’ ...”

Open Culture

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, 2020 March: The Plague (1947), 2020 September: An Animated Introduction to Albert Camus’ Existentialism, a Philosophy Making a Comeback in Our Dysfunctional Times

Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety’

“John Tye, the founder of Whistleblower Aid, a legal nonprofit that represents people seeking to expose potential lawbreaking, was contacted this spring through a mutual connection by a woman who claimed to have worked at Facebook. The woman told Mr. Tye and his team something intriguing: She had access to tens of thousands of pages of internal documents from the world’s largest social network. In a series of calls, she asked for legal protection and a path to releasing the confidential information. ... On Sunday, Frances Haugen revealed herself to be ‘Sean,’ the whistle-blower against Facebook. ...”

NY Times

NY Times: Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them

YouTube: Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview

WSJ: The Facebook Files, a Podcast Series (Audio)

******NY Times: Facebook Whistle-Blower Urges Lawmakers to Regulate the Company

How Gramercy Park became the only private park in Manhattan

“The story begins in 1831, when Samuel B. Ruggles, a New York City lawyer and real estate investor, had an idea. The metropolis was growing fast, pushing past its Lower Manhattan borders and creeping up to 14th Street and beyond. The builders of all the new houses and commercial buildings didn’t always care much about urban planning, and Manhattan’s naturally hilly topography was being leveled and turned into streets and building lots. Ruggles knew that elite New Yorkers would pay big to reside in a different kind of setting, even if it was somewhat north of the posh sections of the city. ‘He recognized the value of centering residences around inviting open spaces within Manhattan’s strict city grid,’ stated the National Parks Service. ...”

Ephemeral New York

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Jan. 6 Was Worse Than We Knew

“However horrifying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in the moment, we know now that it was far worse. The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Mr. Trump himself. In the days before the mob descended on the Capitol, a corollary attack — this one bloodless and legalistic — was playing out down the street in the White House, where Mr. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and a lawyer named John Eastman huddled in the Oval Office, scheming to subvert the will of the American people by using legal sleight-of-hand. ...”

NY Times

2021 February: 77 days: Trump’s campaign to subvert the election, 2021 February: First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack., 2021 February: A Small Group of Militants’ Outsize Role in the Capitol Attack , 2021 March: Police Shrugged Off the Proud Boys, Until They Attacked the Capitol, 2021 March: ‘We’ve Lost the Line!’: Radio Traffic Reveals Police Under Siege at Capitol, 2021 April: Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds, 2021 May: Trump Is Marching Down the Road to Political Violence, 2021 June: Senate Report Details Security Failures in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, 2021 July: Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol, 2021 July: ‘A hit man sent them.’ Police at the Capitol recount the horrors of Jan. 6 as the inquiry begins., 2021 September: Among Those Who Marched Into the Capitol on Jan. 6: An F.B.I. Informant

Van Dyke Parks: Enjoying the Distraction of Collaboration

“A chance to talk with the man who penned the line ‘columnated ruins domino’ in the Beach Boys’ epic song ‘Surf’s Up’? Yes, please. His recent collaboration, Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America – Solo en América, is a sonic treat, featuring Verónica’s vocals and harp and Van Dyke’s unique arrangements, and is well worth checking out. A conversation with Van Dyke is a rollicking affair of big words, grand statements, history lessons, piano tinkling, and unabashed humanitarian positivity. ...”

TapeOp

Episode #145 — Orchestrator Extraordinaire Van Dyke Parks (Audio)

Discogs: Van Dyke Parks Orchestrates Verónica Valerio – Only In America Solo En America (Video)

amazon

2012 July: Van Dyke Parks, 2015 December: Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove (1998), 2016 November: Song Cycle (1967), 2017 March: Jump! (1984), 2017 April: Orange Crate Art - Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks (1995)

VF Live: Jayson Wynters

“Broken beat, house, and techno records from his Birmingham HQ. In VF Live, our favourite DJs take you inside their homes, record stores, and studios, for intimate mixes and performances.DJ, producer, and Cafe Artum founder Jayson Wynters makes his VF Live debut, playing Broken beat, house, and techno records from his Birmingham HQ. First cutting his teeth in the garage scene as an MC in the late ’90s, Jayson has continued his musical journey weaving through different scenes in his hometown, as well as further afield – in the UK and across the globe. ...”

VF (Video/Audio)

Soundcloud (Audio)

Yale Says Its Vinland Map, Once Called a Medieval Treasure, Is Fake

The Vinland Map was unveiled in 1965 by a Yale team that believed it was made in 1440. A new team found a titanium compound used in inks first produced in the 1920s.

“Doubts crept in around Greenland, which looked so good it was frankly suspicious, and questions soon spread all over the map: about the wormholes, the handwriting and, most important, the weirdly crumbling ink. For over half a century, scholars have fought over the authenticity of the Vinland Map, which Yale University unveiled to the world in 1965; at the time, calling it evidence of Viking explorations in the western Atlantic, the first European depiction of North America and a precious medieval treasure. Yale now says someone duped a lot of people. ...”

NY Times

Jah Lloyd - “No Tribal War/Ark Of The Covenant” (1975)

“... Released in 1972, this single is one of the very first to be released by Teem, the label of Patrick Lloyd Francis, Jah Lloyd's birth name. Francis began his singing career with the Mediators in the mid-60s. At the end of the decade, he recorded for Rupie Edwards and Lee Perry. For a while, Francis became their record salesman, frequenting the studios and getting closer to King Tubby, with whom he studied the technical aspect of music. In the early 70s, Pat Francis started producing and founded his Teem label. Inspired by U-Roy, Big Youth or Dilinger, he took the name Jah Lloyd and recorded his first Deejay style productions at Randy's Studio - with the support of Edwards and the help of Perry. ...”

Holland Tunnel Dive

Holland Tunnel Dive: Ain't No Sunshine / Drifting Away

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Discogs

YouTube: No Tribal War/Ark Of The Covenant, Zion Rock, Channel One

YouTube: Soldier round the corner - Album 32:57

The 12 Defining Scenes of ‘The Sopranos’

“A word of warning: Your favorite scene from The Sopranos is probably not on this list. Yes, that one—the scene whose absence immediately invalidates everything you’re about to read. Poor you. The thing about lists of great moments from canonical shows is that they’re always wrong. Still, the futility of the exercise comes with its own form of validation. You could probably ask 100 die-hard fans to each list the key scenes from The Sopranos and get minimal crossover: This shows not only the sheer number of high points the series hit during six (and a half) seasons, but also the multitudes it contained. ...”

The Ringer (Video)

The Ringer’s Definitive ‘Sopranos’ Episode Ranking (Video)

2011 June: The Sopranos, 2012 March: The Family Hour: An Oral History of The Sopranos, 2013 June: James Gandolfini, 2015 April: David Chase Reveals the Philosophical Meaning of The Soprano’s Final Scene, 2019 January: Television Learned the Wrong Lessons From The Sopranos, 2019 June: Don’t Stop: The Sopranos ends, 2020 July: The Sopranos - Season 1, 2020 July: Season 2, 2020 August: Season 3, 2020 August: Season 4, 2020 September: Season 5, 2020 December: Season 6

Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’

“The setting is a ballet class, and the year is 1974. George Balanchine throws up his arms in exasperation at the sight of a dancer executing a step incorrectly at the barre. ... The new film ’In Balanchine’s Classroom,’ directed by Connie Hochman, focuses on the teaching of the groundbreaking choreographer — and how it instilled his dances at New York City Ballet with articulate, musical brilliance. It’s both enthralling and heartbreaking. To love Balanchine is to love this film; to love this film is to love ballet, specifically Balanchine’s kind and his kind of dancer: daring, fast, strong, free, at one with the music. Each is different from the next. That mattered to him. ...”

NY Times

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YouTube: IN BALANCHINE'S CLASSROOM - official US trailer, Balanchine PBS Documentary 1:54:27, I, George Balanchine (2018) 44:02

Minor Threat

Downtown Pulaski, Virginia.

“Derek Craft, a six-foot-eight right-hander out of east Texas, carefully guided his 1995 Toyota pickup through the final winding miles of his journey to Pulaski, Virginia. Worn-out after a long day driving north from Florida, Craft felt a spike of adrenaline as the night enveloping Draper Mountain gave way to the bright lights of Calfee Park. Perched proudly above the darkened town of Pulaski like a citadel, the stadium has lit up summer nights there for more than eighty years, immune to the forces that have eaten away at this once prosperous textile and railroad town. It was the spring of 2019, and Craft, a sixteenth-round draft pick, had been assigned to pitch for the Appalachian League’s Pulaski Yankees. ...”

Harper’s

Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)

“... One particularly fine example is the Astronomia deck. Transcending the earthly concerns of betting and regal motifs, this pack focuses exclusively on the heavens. From the collection of card aficionado Melbert Cary, which contains another lovely celestial spread from c. 1717, the Astronomia pack — printed in London in 1829 and reissued in 1831 — recalls the mystical origins of playing cards. Whereas the Tarot tradition followed astrology into occult realms, this deck remains soberly astronomical. Above the skyscape on each card is a table of cosmological data for particular extra-terrestrial objects: its distance from the sun, orbital eccentricity, and progression-per-hour are displayed on decorative curtain swags. Were you to fan them across a table, it would be like gazing through fifty-two windows onto outer space, framed by classical stone columns. ...”

Public Domain Review

Will We Remember the Victims of the Kabul Drone Strike?

Graffiti denouncing US drone strikes in Sanaa, Yemen in 2014.

“As a parting shot, on its way out of Afghanistan, the United States military launched a drone attack that the Pentagon called a ‘righteous strike.’ The final missile fired during 20 years of occupation, that August 29 air strike averted an Islamic State car-bomb attack on the last American troops at Kabul’s airport. At least, that’s what the Pentagon told the world. Within two weeks, a New York Times investigation would dismantle that official narrative. Seven days later, even the Pentagon admitted it. Instead of killing an ISIS suicide bomber, the United States had slaughtered 10 civilians: Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a US aid group; three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Ahmadi’s cousin Naser, 30; three children of Ahmadi’s brother Romal, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6, and Hayat, 2; and two 3-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya. ...”

The Nation

The Lenox School of Jazz 1959

Percy Heath

“1959 was the year Ornette Coleman broke into the jazz consciousness, a big bang event that forever changed the perception of what jazz is and the esthetics of the genre. In May of that year, while still in the west coast, he recorded his debut on Atlantic Records, the milestone album The Shape of Jazz to Come. In November he opened a two week engagement at the Five Spot Café in New York City, which expanded to ten weeks and generated a heated debate about his music. In between these events, that watershed year also included a period of three weeks that gave Coleman a flavor of what’s to expect from the jazz community, in particular fellow musicians. ...”

The Music Aficionado

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amazon: The Lenox School of Jazz: A Vital Chapter in the History of American Music and Race Relations

Discogs: Featuring Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry And Kenny Dorham – Lenox School Of Jazz Concert, 1959 (Video)

amazon: Lenox Jazz School: Concert August 29 1959