Jazz for aficionados
Schubert, Thanks for posting the article on Haiti A Long Decent To Hell I will check it out. Here is the link for anyone else interested: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/14/haiti-history-earthquake-disaster |
mary_jo thanks for all the music. You must have finally gotten a break from work! I liked the Sade live video. I had never seen that before. Sade has a huge "cult following" here in America. since 2000 she has released just 2 studio albums yet she will sell out stadium and large venues here. I started listening to Sade in the 80;s when the songs "Smooth Operator" and "Sweetest Taboo" were getting lots of radio play and I have everything she has ever recorded including live DVD's and Blurays. She has one of the most unique voices in any genre of music. And she is very classy when performing on stage. |
Rok, you're a smart person, so I'm going to ask you a question that only a smart person would know the answer to; "Who is really running things"? Is it the visible government in Washington DC, or is it the invisible "alphabet government"; meaning CIA, FBI, NSA, and on and on; that some people call "Deep state"; "Who is in charge"? |
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That book (Atlas Shrugged) was written in 1957, and I can not think of a more "Irrelevant" book. "The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations." That sentence alone prevents me from even opening the book. In this corporate government with "no regulation", there is no way I'll even eat the "cold cuts" I used to love; without regulation, they might contain "road kill". |
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You must have finally gotten a break from work!Nope. Picking olives (I've been enjoying the fresh air of a countryside lately, that's way I talk a lot) and at the same time preparing for the next season at work, setting engines in full power. I hope you are well and enjoying the good music. For you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygUqoaeaaug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8cWbFNHUw |
Mary Jo, I saw Sam Myers 10-20 times in the 90's with Anson Funderburgh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZPRaFhyOag |
John Lee Hooker feat. Van Morrison - Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
https://youtu.be/fsJgE_oLQVs John Lee Hooker- I Wanna Be Your Puppy https://youtu.be/fbVKI14CaA4 Lightnin' Hopkins - It's A Sin To Be Rich, It's A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor https://youtu.be/6xTQxSkTXww |
mary_jo those 2 James Carter songs you posted are excellent selections. He can play with as much soul and feeling with any other saxman past or present and those 2 songs are just more proof. He is a technical virtuoso and, IMHO, the best sax player alive today. Here is one of my favorite JC blowing hard fast and funky songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe97sBPSev8 And JC’s awesome album "Jurassic Classics"(complete) with his take on some of the classic standards. The 3rd song, Thelonious Monk ’s Epistrophy, is my favorite from the album. He recorded this album at 30 years of age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91RZC6pGIoI |
Rok, in my entire life, I have only met one person who did not want to work, he wanted to smoke pot all day. I've met people who smoked pot all day but worked; they had mastered the art and smoked pot while working. A person can not get a car, an apartment, or a house without a job; what Mow-ron would not want a job? That's pure fiction you made up for your own self centered reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mawh5xWYnxc |
rok,0-10 and other vets . If USA must do what NATO was made for they better pray these guys are on their flank . Band is a form of jazz . https://youtu.be/jjLxULSmVIs?t=2 https://youtu.be/lwhQQxT7j-A?t=2 These troops will take other vital positions . |
orpheus10, with all due respect this statement is wrong: "A person can not get a car, an apartment, or a house without a job; what Mow-ron would not want a job?" In the state of NY we have the Department of Social Services (welfare) and other housing programs. The best of these is called "section 8" An example: A young woman gets pregnant at 18 and has a baby. At 22 she has another and at 24 another all with different fathers. She first applied for welfare at 18 after baby #1. After baby "2 she applies for section 8. By the time baby #3 is born she is granted section 8. Section 8 gives you a 3 bedroom house rent free. The owner of the house gets a check for the rent every month directly from section 8. Usually one of the fathers moves into the house and either works but has no bills to pay, or deals drugs with no bills to pay. I can drive through many of the poor "welfare neighborhoods" and see brand new BMW's in the driveway of the house paid for by the state. (Joe taxpayer). An appropriate song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSabADNvxjk |
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Mary Joe, funny, always thought that Van Halen is your favourite player. Rok, all said about welfare is true, but...I, mean,really big but.... Here is the link from Guardian....about US bank bailout that costed....much https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/28/bank-bailout-cost-taxpayers In fact, if I do not know better, after reading this, I would say that you live in 'sociailism' because its only there possible that an individual losses so much money without responsability and that later his debts are paid by public. https://youtu.be/U4Geq8dM13k As for other things ('fighting, etc) you said, you should try to visit Europe again, you might be surprised to find out that public opinion about old adversaries has changed and very much so during last 15 years, due to role of Us foreign policy |
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Fact: Germany defeated the Polish armed forces in 4 weeks in 1939 Fact: Germany defeated the low countries of Netherlands, Holland, Belgium, and France in 6 weeks in 1940 Fact: The German armed forces in the Second World War were second to none in combined arms warfare and war of rapid maneuver which historians call blitzkrieg. Fact: At this point it was just the Brits and Churchill alone against Germany and they were never going to defeat Germany alone regardless of winning an air war over the UK - The Battle Of Britain. Fact: Germany lost the war in 1941 when Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union. By December 30 Operation Barbarossa had failed 60 kilometers from Moscow and the Soviet counteroffensive drove the Germans back 150 kilometers, the United States had entered the war and it took 3 world powers with a ratio of manpower and resources of 10:1 over Germany to beat them. Fact: Germany, because of its central location in Europe and limited natural resources could never win a long war of attrition. They needed to win quick victories to take resources from their occupied territories. When the war in the east with communist Russia, denying the Germans the recourses they required, specifically the oil fields of the Caucuses (Baku) stalled into one of positional warfare instead of maneuver their fate was sealed. Fact: The Germans were the best at the tactical and operational level but strategically they were inept. They won many battles by wide margins but could never win the war because of their short sightedness. You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. |
While the USSR, Great Britain, and the United States were destroying the German war machine great strides were taking place in jazz music. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and a young guy called Miles Davis being the most important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYO6_t4d08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuItUv9xZc |
Must have been nice for the victorious American Servicemen to come home to NY and hit 52nd Street at night. Check out Parker smiling at Buddy Rich in the 3rd link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxibMBV3nFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgxyyrqZ-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr7q7sibSIE |
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81583FACT 1920 Polish Army alone in 1920 turned back the Invincible Red Army with women, old men and boy scouts left to fight in the Warsaw borders , which they did and many died doing it . As the Great tactical Polish Generals routed from both flanks the Red Army which would otherwise would have taken all of Europe . Fact in 1628 The Christian Polish Army did the impossible , with 100,000 men they turned back the 300. 000 Ottoman Turks at the gates of Vienna with tactics still studied in military schools world wide . Had they not , you might be speaking Arabic . Fact 6 out of your 7 facts are not facts . Fact This crap should not be on here , Bye . |
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rok, I see I was mistaken there but my figures are correct and your 10,000 is an underestimate. The Poles fought hard but were overwhelmed. In my original post I stick to the facts that Germany had the best general staff of officers, NCO's, and enlisted men at the tip of the spear they were unequaled. It is not the foot soldiers fault when the politicians in charge of strategy and achievable goals are at fault. From the book "Victories Are Not Enough" Despite the passage of some 60 years, German doctrinal concepts such as Auftragstaktik and examples of battles and campaigns are still studied at military educational institutions, and some are included in U.S. Army doctrinal and instructional materials. The title of Colonel T. N. Dupuy’s Book, A Genius For War ..., seems to best sum up the rationale for many military writers’ fascination with German military practices. The fascination with German military prowess is not just a “military thing,” a fascination by soldiers about other soldiers. Indeed, serious historians, pseudo historians, and military buffs have added, seemingly weekly, to the bulk of studies on the Army fielded by the Third Reich, causing the shelves of respectable military libraries to creak from the sheer weight of these publications. The intrigue with the successes, leadership, and tactics of the German Army also has been shared by the military establishments of other nations, providing a student of German military history The importance of national political and military leaders responsible for higher levels of strategy, developing logical and sequential plans and strategies. The first 80 years of Germany’s existence indicate that, no matter how proficient a nation’s forces are on the battlefield, if senior political and military leaders have not done solid strategic planning and have not developed achievable goals, the efforts of its military forces will likely fail to produce the desired results. |
