You do exist for your own sake, but it's fun to exist for the sake of someone else's pleasure, and your own.

If you're into that kind of thing.

If not, that's cool, don't stress. But I gots me a woman and she has nails done, hair done, all that jazz -- and I dig it to the break of dawn. And she's obsessed with it and that's okay. We're both moderately successful and creative, so the extent of our obsessions are not the measure of our self worth.

Yo man, birthday cheer (goin' for the gold!)-Also born on April 8, one of my fav-o-rite architects Richard Neutra (flat-slate roofs, lotsa glass, check his shit it's uber-retro-hip)-Also, this wonderful woman, one of the high priestesses of Jazz, Dame Carmen McCrae-Yer in hip company....

Thought you might fancy a bit of smooth jazz http://youtu.be/QDvt5q6bt1s

Excellent article CE. As someone who misses reading knowledgeable liner notes and critiques of form and structure, and listens to a well-balanced slathering of all kinna sounds, including Norwegian death metal, trad jazz, rockabilly, or forty-minute Ravi Shankar jams...Even dig me some traditional hymns and marching band from time to time. Fuck, I'd sing that Muslim adhan from a minaret in Morocco if they'd let me make-up my own words.

Good jazz helps the world go round...

Hooray!! KIDS NEED MORE JAZZ INFLUENCE!

From the article:
For Barnes, the device needed to be able to take cues from the human body. The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles. By tensing his biceps, Barnes controls a small motor that changes how tightly the prosthetic arm grips the drumstick and how quickly it moves, vital skills for a drummer.

The researchers then added another layer of complexity: a second, autonomous drumstick on the robot arm (see photo). This second stick, controlled via its own motor, uses a microphone and an accelerometer to sense the rhythm Barnes is playing, as well as music from any nearby musicians. An algorithm then produces a new beat with a complementary rhythm and melody, modelled on the music of jazz greats like John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.

With this extra artificial intelligence, human and machine combine to make Barnes a kind of "superhuman drummer", Weinberg says.

Jazz!

ME and my roommate were discussing the lack of 'soul' in some musicians, and were using examples like Steve Vai vs. Frank Zappa and say, Yngwie Malmsteen vs. Buckethead, etc (for guitarists) and he brought up the whole Japanese fascination with jazz vs. a lot of her practitioner's technical skills relative to their lack of 'soul' and I was trying to think of an example of a Japanese musician WITH some soul, and could not remember this woman's name as I used her as an exception to the 'soulless', technical performer-

Thanks again Kulpims (pretty sure you first turned me on to this artist here), this woman has the whole soul + technical prowess package²

A whole bunch of Jerome Kern's tunes were popular 20+ years after they were written-Mostly jazz, see how many you recognize...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jerome_Kern_songs

Cindy Blackman (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman-Santana,[1] is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman is best known for recording and touring with Lenny Kravitz. Wife of Carlos Santana.
That count? Are you headed to NY for a fedora feeding frenzy? Take pics please!

'plays' not played, but yeah, there's probably a butt-load of female grannies who play the drums in the U.S., -There were a handful of all-female Jazz Band in the 30s-40s but their drummers were to young to have been grannies...OR perhaps too gay to want any offspring-Here's one of the hippest on film, Viola Smith....Maybe this was Vega's Granny??


MY GAWD, Frances Carroll (bandleader)....what a LOOKER!

*nibbles on brim of felt coxwain's...

One of the many things I love about Japanese culture...Their embrace of America's polyrhythmic legacy....Show me ONE American granny who plays Jazz drums in a band, and I'll eat hat after hat on the A-train baby....

Hmm, maybe the *jazz channel?

Adding video to channels (Jazz) - requested by dingens.