Jazz 'You call this jazz?' Jazz Fest celebrates 50 eclectic yearsAssociated Press - By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated PressNEW ORLEANS (AP) — If your tastes are eclectic, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival poses a problem: Which of a dozen acts do you want to hear? Earth, Wind & Fire, Alanis Morissette, or Taj Mahal
Writing Book Outline: 7 Easy Ways To Outline Your Bookfirebrandpublishing.com - Amy Think of book outline as a blueprint or roadmap for a story. It’s a very useful tool that helps authors stay focused on their story or book based on …
Photos Dave Heath’s Breathtaking Dialogues with Solitudefeatureshoot.com - Miss Rosen At the age of 16, Dave Heath was paging through a 1947 issue of LIFE magazine when he came upon “Bad Boy’s Story: An Unhappy Child Learns to Live at …
Jazz Bill Evans | Evans in Englandmfmmedia.nl - Written by admin| Resonance Records, recently announced that it will issue Evans in England, a vibrant, previously unreleased set of recordings featuring music by Bill …
Startups Voiceflow, which allows anyone to make voice apps without coding, raises $3.5 millionTechCrunch - Sarah PerezThe market for voice apps has opened up — Amazon Alexa’s platform alone has more than 80,000 skills as of earlier this year — and there’s little sign of that growth slowing now that smart speakers have
Rembrandt Louvre bids to buy Rembrandt masterpiece from Rothschild collection in Francetheartnewspaper.com - Vincent Noce The Louvre is planning to buy Rembrandt van Rijn's The Standard Bearer (1636) afterFrance's culture minister Franck Riester announced that is has been …
Play buttonBob Marley Lost Bob Marley live recordings rescued from hotel basementThe Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondentLive recordings of Bob Marley and the Wailers, which were found by chance after spending 40 years in a damp hotel basement, are to appear at auction. The reel-to-reel analogue tapes were recovered during
Trump Tower A sketch Donald Trump made of the Manhattan skyline is up for auctionThe Washington Post - By Emily HeilThe oeuvre of Donald Trump the artist is more extensive than we thought — another sketch by the president has surfaced, and it’s on the auction block. Trump’s 2004 doodle of the Manhattan skyline, in (shocker!)
Ethereum A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring MillionsWIRED - Andy Greenberg Last summer, Adrian Bednarek was mulling over ways to steal the cryptocurrency Ethereum. He's a security consultant; at the time, he was working for …
Play buttonMusic 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' The Anthem For A Generation That Didn't Want OneNPR - Joel RoseThis story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem. There's a grainy video of the first time Nirvana played Like
Culture In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like YouNPR - Heller McAlpinThere are certain authors I read no matter what they write. Ian McEwan is one of them. Over the course of more than 40 years and some dozen and a half books — including Amsterdam, Atonement, and The Children
The Lives of Female Art Historical Figures Will Now Be Transcribed and Available Onlinehyperallergic.com - Karen Chernick Diary page from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney papers, 1851-1975, bulk 1888-1942 (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)Teddy Roosevelt …
Dramatic Decaying Flowers in Tiffanie Turner’s Solo Show “What Befell Us” Challenge Notions of Beauty and Perfectionthisiscolossal.com
Play buttonMusic Jazz For Beginners: 20 Essential Albums For An Introductory Guideudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers And Charles Waring Some jazz fans can be snooty about the music they love – they try to turn it into a club that refuses to admit new members. But a guide to jazz for …
Art Kirigami: The Ancient Art of Paper Cutting and How Artists Are Keeping It AliveMy Modern Met - Kelly Richman-AbdouWhen you think of Japanese paper crafts, origami is likely the first art form to come to mind. If you’re familiar with this age-old practice, you know that a work of origami art is created by manipulating
Campervans 10 things to ask before buying your first camper vanCurbed - Megan BarberThings to consider before you go all-in on a purchase Maybe you saw a cool rig on Instagram, or maybe you want to relive childhood memories of camping in a vintage Volkswagen bus. After months of browsing
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBooks Do We Write for Others or Ourselves?kenyonreview.org Last year, I wrote a piece for this blog about Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Secret Miracle,” arguing that it was the ultimate consolation for …
What is it and How Much is it Worth?worthpoint.com - WorthPoint Do you have anything in your collection that looks like this?This ceramic clock sold for $39.99 in January 2019.Or this?This old set of Melmac …
Horns Why is jazz unpopular? The musicians 'suck', says Branford Marsalissmh.com.au - Rachel Olding After earning acclaim as a jazz musician, Marsalis has set about bravely exploring almost every genre outside of jazz, earning him a CV that is …
Huge congratulations to Shane Bauer! American Prison won the 2019 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism!tumblr.comHuge congratulations to Shane Bauer! American Prison won the 2019 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism! 🎉🎉 @nypl (thanks to @books_baking_brews for this beautiful photo!) #bookstagram
Street Photography Bruce Gilden on “Gangster Types and Tough Guys”thephoblographer.com - Joy Celine Asto Whether you like Bruce Gilden or not, listening to him speak about one of his most fascinating works is still worth your while. It’s always …
Cannonball Adderley: A Night in Tunisiatumblr.com Cannonball Adderley is featured on this all-star version of A Night In Tunisia from a 1958 New York telecast. The band includes Nat Adderley, Billy Taylor, Ed Safranski and Ed Thigpen. -Michael Cuscuna
Pharoah Sanders: Spirit Ascendingtumblr.comScott Gutterman in Brooklyn Rail delivers an utterly fascinating essay on the wonders and powers of Pharoah Sanders in the context of his ever evolving 55 year career. A thought-provoking and original
zzzze:tumblr.com FRANCIS WOLFF Thelonious Monk in the early 1950s, location unknown. Gelatin silver print
Dan Morgenstern on Duke Ellington and Moretumblr.comFrom jazzlives. here is another installment of the precious Michael Steinman interviews with Dan Morgenstern. In this interview, Dan expounds at great length on his love of Duke Ellington’s music, explaining
