Saturday, December 03, 2005

Since the Real book lead sheet to Tadd Dameron's "If You Could See Me Now" doesn't seem to have the melody quite right, here is a Bill Evans Trio performance that seems closer to me. This is from the Riverside OJCCD-434-2 CD, "Bill Evans Trio - Moonbeams" with Paul Motian on drums and Chuck Israels on bass, recorded in New York in May of 1962, but I edited the version here, down to 2:24 from 4:30 or so.

Elsewhere in the news, for all you political junkies, Tom Delay's initial statement about his indictment is already considered a classic of political invective, but it could still use some tuning.
If you want to help I've provided a webpage with a "Madlibs" style fill-in-the-blanks form that you can use to tighten up Mr. Delay's statement to the press. You, too, can be a Press Secretary!!

Today I turned to channel 99, CBC, because it was time for my favorite thing to watch on the tube, World Cub downhill ski racing. They were at Lake Louise up in the Canadian Rockies. There was one shot of the course where you would see the skier go flying over a shoulder of the mountain and in the background a couple miles away was the silhouette of another precipitous ridgeline, cloaked in clouds that changed every time another skier hurtled past. Halfway through, this young lady from Vail named Lindsey Kildow up and wins the thing, but only after plunging through a near whiteout that suddenly wrapped the middle of the course. It was pretty darn exciting, and as you can see here she is quite a scope also. Way to go Lindsey!

1 Comments:

Blogger shrimplate said...

Thanks for stopping by.

Mingus used to say of really sharp-brained people that they could "hear around corners." May you get that.

Me. I'm a classical dog, gotta have it written out for me. Guiliani, Sor, and all those guys. But I can hear the jazz guys.

Bass-wise, Charlie Haden is my #1, with Jaco a parallel 2nd, a different universe thing. I've always been into the way the bottom end moves things. But Jaco could play it like a horn.

Sun Dec 11, 11:19:00 PM EST  

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