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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI watched the news this morning ...
for less than a half hour; then, turned off the TV and turned on my Miles Davis CD rotation: The Essential Miles Davis, Kind of Blue, Miles & Quincy-Live at Montreux, and ending with, A Tribute to Miles by Hancock, Shorter, Carter, Roney and Williams. (Yes, I still have a CD player!)
As I was doing my alternate morning routine, I appealed to the Universe that it be revealed to the world's "leaders", that:
A climate for Peace is not developed by creating widows, widower, and orphans, even with the violence being called/justified as self-defense or revenge.
ETA: Today will be a "news-less" today.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)brer cat
(24,579 posts)K&R for peace.
Blue Owl
(50,439 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)Great Expectations...
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)This evening WILL/SHOULD be big fun ... After dining out with Mrs. 1SBM, we're going to see (auditioning) two bands for my organization's Valentine's Day Charity Gala!
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)i think he needs to Get Up With It.
BeyondGeography
(39,375 posts)So chill.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Dizzy, Coltrane, Parker.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 25, 2014, 01:36 PM - Edit history (1)
Coltrane and Parker ... and Monk and Jamal!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)playing 'So what'..amazing.
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=diHFEapOr_E
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Applan
(693 posts)You really should add Bitches Brew to your rotation
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Funny story ...
BabyGirl 1SBM came home one evening about 7 years ago to tell me about this "crazy song" (Miles Runs The Voodoo Down) that (she) heard in school by some guy named "Miles". She wanted me to take her to the store, right then, because, "Dad, I've got to have it."
I told her to save her money ... and she marched out of the room, to her bedroom, before I could tell her to look in the CD rack. So I just dropped it in and cranked it up. (We were friends again!)
Applan
(693 posts)Bitches Brew was the first jazz album I bought. When I first played it I thought what the heck. It sat on my CD rack for 15 years until I watched the Ken Burns documentary and really got onto jazz. Now it's one of my favorite jazz albums along with A Love Supreme and some other live Coltrane.
Great story by the way.
calimary
(81,326 posts)Love it! She probably didn't realize what great musical taste her own father had until that moment!
Good thread. Sometimes I just have to put a DVD on, or my kid's band's music, or the Food Network (unless that annoying obnoxious guy fieri is on), or "Pawn Stars" or some such, and turn the news OFF for awhile. Or go take the dog to the dog park or something.
OR, my new favorite game these days that I play - "what would I do if I were made president of MSNBC or NBC News..."
Sometimes it just makes one CRAAAAAZYYYY!!!
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)My Dad is a music lover and I know my own tastes were strongly influenced by the music he played when we were young. It's one of the things I love about him, I'm sure your daughter will feel the same way about you.
Oh and the other happy side of the coin is when she brings you new music,
'Dad, I think you'll like this' and you do...
randr
(12,412 posts)Here is what came my way today
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead in 1970: Hear the Complete Performances http://zite.to/1tvb5qm
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Enough filters in through here and facebook. what a sad, sad world. It doesn't have to be this way.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I read somewhere that peace is NOT the absence of war.
I remember Kucinich saying he would create a Department of Peace in the government. I think that is a splendid idea.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)LoisB
(7,208 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)Every day, nearly all day, either music of movies or books. So much to listen to or read in our too-short lives!
panader0
(25,816 posts)I love the older Miles, but when BB came out I played it non stop for days.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I get it here, or osmose at work/with friends.
That's why I haven't had much to say, lately.
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1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)for revenge, is no better.
Someone/everyone has to stop the killing, period.
Boomerproud
(7,956 posts)You are a wise man. Remember when JFK said if more politicians were poets and more poets were politicians the world would be a better place. We need some sanity-pronto!
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)as we speak?
Much of the filming was done in Cincinnati in the last few weeks.
As I recall, it will not be a full-fledged biography, but a film that depicts a slice of his life.
I don't recall the details, but perhaps Google will tell you more.
I was a fan of Miles Davis back to the mid-1950's. - Loved "Blue Again."
Think I'll pull it up on Youtube.
Thanks
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)And with Don Cheadle behind it ... It's gonna be good.
robbob
(3,534 posts)Opps, did I say "Bitches"? Hope my post doesn't get hidden!
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,142 posts)I still have my dad's record album of this (and yes I still have a couple turntables ) -
I was always fascinated by the cover although I've seen other iterations of it. Dad was also a Coltrane fan and I have at least one of those and the "Song for my Father" Horace Silver (who just passed last month) album. Lots of Stan Getz in the collection too.
Edit to add that he was a big B.B. King fan and even had at least one reel-to-reel that he recorded back in the '50s or '60s that unfortunately got recorded over almost 45 years ago (by yours truly for need of a tape for a middle school "electronic music" class).
I hear ya about stepping away to reflect until the bleeding leading begins receding.
Don Cheadle IS Miles. No doubt about it. He has the gravitas to make the production and the role a winner.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Art Blakey and the JMs was the second live concert I attended (the first was Ray Charles) ... Mommy and Daddy 1SBM took me along for both!
I hate liars
(165 posts)SBM: Along with Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, and a handful of other albums from that era, it's what keeps me sane when I listen to the drivel on national news, today.
An occasional news-less day is good for the soul.
Peace.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Weather Report.
As part of my best friend's Bachelor Party, we took him to see (What turned out to be) their "Farewell" Concert to Cleveland.
That was quite the night!
Blanks
(4,835 posts)In the morning I turn off the TV and sit there in silence.
I really hate the stupid morning shows. Everything is so dramatized. I can't believe people actually watch that stuff.