Monday, January 22, 2018

Gene Norman Presents a Charlie Ventura Concert 1949


Wardell Gray Quartet - Twisted



Personnel: Wardell Gray (tenor sax), Al Haig (piano), Tommy Potter (bass), Roy Haynes (drums)

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Joe Pass - "Ain't Misbehavin'"


Bird plays Lester Leaps In



 Charlie Parker, alto sax; Mundell Lowe, guitar; Walter Bishop, Jr., piano; Teddy Kotick, bass; Max Roach, drums;


Gene Ammons - Jammin' With Gene



Gene Ammons - Jammin' With Gene Gene Ammons - Tenor Sax Donald Byrd, Art Farmer - Trumpet Jackie McLean - Alto Sax Mal Waldron - Piano Doug Watkins - Bass Art Taylor - Drums

75 years ago today

75 years ago today the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began.  The Jews fought to save their lives.

Today, we have American citizens marching with the NAZI flag, while others damn the anti-fascist movements (lumped together as "Anti-Fa").  All our fathers, grandfathers, uncles, etc., etc., etc. who fought Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, etc., were ANTI-FA.  All the partisans, who fought against the Fascists were ANTI-FA.

Today we have all sorts of folks who either deny The Holocaust, or are, in some way, attempting to rehabilitate Hitler.  Many claim to be "TRUE AMERICANS"   ----   they are not.  They reject the spirit of our USA, they reject our embrace of the downtrodden, they reject the concept of free Public Education.  They have forgotten all the values that made America great.  In addition they have lost the will to keep America great.  They spout slogans but will not spend a dime on infrastructure (unless it's a damned wall) while our roads and bridges crumble.

We don't need more Norwegians  --  we need AMERICANS.

Monday, January 15, 2018

FLU

I'm a little late  --  but, Happy New Year.  I've been out of action with the flu for the last while.    Have been feeling like crap.  Hopefully I'll be starting to post stuff again  ---  soon.