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club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce: The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland. After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias "Impossible Interview" come true. As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky. Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck. They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo - over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked. Parker didn't just happen to…

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

I spend the whole dang first part of my career saying that comparisons between the modern United States and the late Roman Republic are often misleading and facile, and then...he just mints it right out...

POET Technologies:
Whales + Institutions = Velocity
Entire float of ~91 million shares turned over in two days.
PO’s soon; seatbelts required.

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

That’s me!

Those Bette Davis eyes…

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

Speak up for those
who have no voice,
for the justice of all
who are dispossessed.
Speak up, judge righteously,
and defend the cause of
the oppressed and needy.
—Proverbs 31:8-9

I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets shorturl.at/I0Ywf

Art

POET inside. Deployment soon.

Outstanding out-of-the box thinking.

Excellent! More, please!

Excellent! More of this please!

Went to a Quinceañera (Salvadoran 🇸🇻) last night. Big and loud and chaotic and multi-generational and so much incredible food and music and dancing.

Let's have more of this in the United States, please. Not less. MORE.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Sunday Musings On rage, faith, grass, and trees

Today's psalm:

Do not fret because of evildoers;
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.

For they shall soon wither like the grass,
and like the green grass fade away.

Refrain from anger, leave rage alone;
do not fret yourself; it leads only to evil.

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Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Jinx the tabby bobtail looking at the camera and appearing to singing

Singing the song of my people at 5:00 AM.

Today's the feast of St Francis of Assisi, C13 Italian friar, mystic, stigmatist and founder of the Franciscan order. One of the most popular of all medieval saints, he stands on the right, St Blaise on the left on the screen at Hempstead, Norfolk.

More: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hempstead/he...

Beautiful Art Deco chandelier at the Carnegie Library in Reims, France

Beautiful Art Deco chandelier at the Carnegie Library in Reims, France

RYOBI RLPH18 18V ONE+ Hybrid Panel Light Instruction Manual Learn how to safely and efficiently operate the RLPH18 18V ONE+ Hybrid Panel Light with these product usage instructions and information from the user manual. Designed for indoor use only, this panel ...

In the Minnesota Northland the last two months. Want a flashlight that will light-up your path like daylight? Forget the expensive 18650 Olights of the world. Their advertised lumens rapidly ramp down so you don’t burn stuff up.
No, you want this; 3,000 constant lumens:
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Tell that to China. It’s a race, and China, with their power generation overcapacity, may win. The only way the U.S.will win this is to be smarter, better (Nividia) & more energy efficient (i.e. silicon photonics).

Jazz in color!

Under-appreciated art.

Obituary: Gaming icon Ernie Stevens Jr. oversaw record-breaking growth in tribal gaming The chair of the Indian Gaming Association died suddenly on Friday, Sept. 26 just weeks after being honored for his legacy.

A champion of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, a vital piece of legislation empowering the health, economic progress and well-being of tribal nations throughout the U.S.

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YouTube video by Quantum Silk Route 1,000× Faster Than Silicon? The Photonic Chip Revolution Explained.

Silicon Photonics: Arriving at Your Local Data Center Soon.
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