Fitz Gitler

Watch Kool & The Gang performing Summer Madness on The Midnight Special in 1975 - so cool
▶️📺 youtu.be/iv55Ug6gEDo?...

I like “never drive a car when you’re dead” —Telephone Call from Istanbul.

YouTube video by Pat Boone - Topic Crazy Train

I instantly think of Pat Boone doing Crazy Train with a big band… youtu.be/sl7rkIc9b24?...

Later he did an Art Blakey tribute album… great and omnivorous musical mind.

YouTube video by Cactus Chef Ozzy Osbourne Cheers Up The "Late Night" Staff | Late Night with Conan O'Brien

RIP Ozzy youtu.be/F9QoZgW-Qa0?...

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...

youtube.com/watch?v=Vhgq...

YouTube video by CBS Stephen Colbert's Super PAC approved by FEC

Thinking of this today… youtube.com/watch?v=XdPC...

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s…

The whooping cough vaccination rate for Washington state kindergartners in 2023-2024 was 90.2%, slightly below the U.S. rate of 92.3%.

But in 4 counties, the rate for children ages 19-35 months was around 30%.

In one county, it was below 12%.

(Published April)

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

FEMA didn’t answer thousands of calls from Texas Flood survivors because Kristi Noem had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Seeing as it's 44 years since Ghost Town hit number AND it's scorching out, once again here's some test clips from my long-stagnating documentary Ghost Stories.

The song's producer John Collins explains why he associates it with Walton On The Naze, and reminisces about working with drummer Brad

More spoonerized band names:
Soot Zims
Run Sa
Hillie Boliday
Diles Mavis
Pud Bowell
Wom Taits
Holeman Cawkins
Ronny Sollins
Charlie Christian

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

This coming week at the Village Vanguard: the Billy Hart Quartet with Walter Smith III, Ethan Iverson, and Ben Street

Unless you ride NJ Transit…

Artists/bands with the most records in my collection (double digits on each:
Miles Davis
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Yusef Lateef
Sun Ra
Tom Waits
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
William Parker

I’m sure there are more but these come to mind rt now.

Artists/bands with the most records in my collection (double digits on each):
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Anthony Braxton
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Earth, Wind & Fire
Fela Kuti
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Motörhead
David Murray
Ivo Perelman
Matthew Shipp
Cecil Taylor

From the local library…. Miles Davis graphic novel. With permission/cooperation from Erin Davis & the estate. 2023…

Shades (shapes) of Delaunay…

The Most Americans Are On Unemployment—Nearly 2 Milllion—Since Pandemic Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.

Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Art Blakey

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Art Blakey www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/a...

That date makes sense. Three days before my 11th birthday, lol.

I don’t feel this graphic does the human side of what is going to happen real justice.

Do you happen to know if there is video or audio of a concert Miles played in Pompeii around 83 or 84? I was there!

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

We live in the richest country in the history of the world. No one should go hungry.

But food insecurity is on the rise in every single state.

And the Republican budget bill would make this situation far worse.

Here’s what food banks are warning will happen if it passes ⬇️

And Vonnegut published Player Piano in the 1950s… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_...

WTF does remastering of Free Your Mind sound like? Because that assignment seems destined to unbalance any audio engineer.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid