The Thought Criminal

"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall Trio - Song Of The Wind

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Jimmy Giuffre - Clarinet Jim Hall - Guitar Wilfred Middlebrooks - Bass Update:  Afternoon  Jimmy Giuffre, clarinet, Paul Bley,...

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Duncan Black is too lazy to effectively troll anyone.  He couldn't even sustain it with "the Snitchens" when he was a lot youn...
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Charlie Hebdo Est Toujours Puant

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A pparently there was an abortive attempt to make the Associated Press decision to not publish the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo cover o...

It's More Than Just Playing Yard Goods - Improvisation Isn't The Same Thing As Noodling

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A pparently the same dim dolly who thinks that Christianity -  the very culture in which counterpoint and triadic harmony were invented - at...
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One for Duncy - Dinah Washington - You've Been A Good Old Wagon But Daddy You Done Broke Down

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Update,  Apparently Erin thinks that toodling on a pentatonic scale or banging a brainless back-beat is improvising. 
Friday, January 8, 2016

Johnny Costa - Fine and Dandy

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I love Johnny Costa's playing.  Incredible technique and an improvisation style of his own. Blusette 

Steve Swallow - Bite Your Grandmother

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Steve Swallow, bass Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone Tom Harrell, trumpet, flugelhorn Mulgrew Miller, piano Jack DeJohnette, drums I don...
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The Politics of Total Depravity Here And Now

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T he shame of Maine, that locus of viral hate, Paul LePage has done it again, he's exposed what a vile example of human being my state h...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Hate Mail

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Hey, I invited Duncan Black to delete the lies Simels, JR, etc. told about me on his blog, I've been inviting him to do that for years. ...

Johnny Costa - Holiday for Strings

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Lounge music isn't necessary louche Yes, Fred Roger's piano player was a very fine jazz musician.  This is fun and fun is go...

Hate Mail - Not Only Is It A Word It's You To A Tee

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Simps is mocking my use of the word "unwisdom" implying that it isn't a word. Well, Simps, imagine you having a career in wr...
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Steve Kuhn Trio - Two by two + Remember

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Steve Kuhn, piano Steve Swallow, bass Billy Drummond, drums I was looking for the Steve Swallow piece, Remember (at about 7:00 on th...
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Catholic Saints Unknown And The Unwisdom of Modern Canonization

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F or a change Religion Dispatches is about the best of religion instead of an opportunity to promote the alleged death of Christianity.   Th...
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North Korea And The Amoral Insanity That Marxism Was In Reality Instead of On Paper

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A nother thing I remember from the 1970s, as the new left was sinking into political powerlessness, was hearing an old lefty, one of those w...

Update

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My brother corrects me that it wasn't Weather Report who played Icarus, it was Oregon, another group I wasn't that hot on.   They we...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Nothing Says The 70s To Me Like Icarus

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Ralph Towner, 12-string guitar Gary Burton, vibes I can't believe this is 40 years old.  It sounds as fresh as I remember it sound...

Carla Bley & Steve Swallow - Major - Heineken Concerts - 2000

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Simple Song 

Head In The Sand Science Can't Be Sustained Forever

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T he pretense of scientism is that science is the supreme means of discerning an absolute and objective truth.   But the truth is that scien...
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Family Issues Are Keeping Me Occupied So I'll Knock Over A Hornet's Nest

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Rupert and Charles Eisenstein talk about the foundations of science, both as an institution and as a path to knowledge. Like all the institu...
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Monday, January 4, 2016

Hate Mail

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"He's an anti-Semite shithead." In Simelspeak that means someone who regrets that more Jews weren't allowed to live in t...
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