International Fleurette Africaine Day

Hello, everybody, I'm back from riding around a crazy ice floe with Frankenstein's monster. I'm posting this because Chris over at black2com/blogtocomm (click on the header) recently reviewed this classic album.



Ellington/Mingus/Roach*

Here is Vijay Iyer's version, from his recent album "Solo" (ACT 9497-2)



A project with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd:



Harlem Stage • Wed, Feb 10, 2010 • 7:30 pm • A work-in-progress showing by composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and poet/performer Mike Ladd, with Iraq veteran/poet Maurice Decaul. Featuring Pamela Z, Guillermo E. Brown, Okkyung Lee, Kassa Overall, and Liberty Ellman

*Hey, it's Max Roach's birthday on Monday (01/10). It's also mine. I will be turning 17 for the 3rd time.

National Stupidity Day

April 15th, as well as being the date that income taxes are due in the U.S., is also National Stupidity Day, according to a calendar produced by some old friends of mine way back when, and the day we had the funeral for another friend of ours, the musician, artist, and writer Keith Busch, also known as Dag Nabbit.



That's him, at the beginning of the clip..."Nothing's funny anymore..."
Maybe true, with police beating people for skipping down the sidewalk, or
blowing by corpses on the side of the road at 40 mph, and calling them in as
roadkill...