Comments on: Making good on Kerouac’s promise

By: N.J.

N.J. — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:11:13 +0000

Yup, Shearing has not only been a major force in jazz, but in jazz/classical fusion, bringing jazz to a lot of the classical community that would often turn up their nose at jazz, in the same way that Segovia took an instrument that most classical musicians thought was a quaint and odd folk instrument and turned it into a common classical instrument, that originally had to rely on transcriptions of music written for other instruments, to having a rather large amount of classical music written for it alone. There are few people who dare to cross lines in music, and Shearing is one of them.

By: @@

@@ — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:33:07 +0000

jewcowboy:

Fortitude? make that limited time.

Had you simply ended by saying “I have” that’s one thing. It was the false accusation that invited my return.

Your 10:24 is the thanks I get for conceding?

This reaching across the aisle stuff isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Oh well…

By: I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-(

I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-( — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:52:23 +0000

The nation has lost 5.7 million jobs since the recession, the longest since World War II, began in December 2007. The nationwide unemployment rate stands at 8.9 percent, the highest in a quarter-century.-Urinal

It’s a good thing for us that Obozo saved 4 million jobs, we are so blessed!

Yay, Obozo!

By: Bud Wiser

Bud Wiser — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:32:02 +0000

I hereby dedicate this song to the slobbering masses; have a good holiday weekend all, and remember what, why and who it is for.

By: jewcowboy

jewcowboy — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:24:09 +0000

@@,

“Mail call four flights down, jewcowboy.”

If you don’t have the fortitude to stick to a conversation, and just do a hit and run, I’ve no time for you.

This, “I’m done with you,” garbage then responding back is not credible. We all have things that go on; the blog is not our life. But if you close a conversation, have the decency to let it stay closed. After all, it’s rodeo time!

By: jewcowboy

jewcowboy — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:14:57 +0000

Mrs. Godzilla,

I LOVE YOU! Aaron Copland’s Hoedown From Rodeo is one of my all time favs! Damn Beef Council! Thanks for an uplifting evening.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:58:52 +0000

Shearing was very good but my favorite of all time is Bill Evans. He died in 1980. One of the greatest jazz pianists in our time. Saw him live in a smoke filled dive in San Francisco in 1978. The jazz piano man in the Fabulous Baker Boys was Dave Grusin, another of the great ones.

By: Hillbilly Deluxe

Hillbilly Deluxe — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:29:28 +0000

This is a blog, Hillbilly….we can’t see your “oiece.”

Maybe I should start my own website for that?

An old 40’s country song that touches on what Memorial Day is really all about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRaRxSN4V2M

By: TW

TW — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:17:00 +0000

“ANNAPOLIS, Md. – President Barack Obama promised graduating midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday that, as their commander in chief, he will only send them “into harm’s way when it is absolutely necessary.”

Sad is the day when the CIC needs to reassure the military of what was once a given.

By: TnGelding

TnGelding — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:05:00 +0000

RIP:

Wash. state has first death under new suicide law

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – A 66-year-old woman with terminal cancer has become the first person to die under Washington state’s new assisted suicide law, an advocacy group said Friday. Linda Fleming, of Sequim, died Thursday night after taking drugs prescribed under the “Death with Dignity” law that took effect in March, said Compassion & Choices of Washington.