• RE-ENACT ‘68
  “Armed with speeches, costumes, period props, rhetorical fireworks and a healthy sense of historical discourse, we will reclaim the art of historical re-enactment, long the purview of Civil War buffs.”
  (tags: chicago politics history)
• newsobserver.com | Minister of history
  “Because we don’t look at our history honestly, our conversations about race are often filled with false clichés… What we need to do is start thinking about what kind of community we want our children and grandchildren to grow up in.”
  (tags: race history north_carolina booktagged book:isbn=9781400083114 filmtagged film:imdb=tt1210039)

• Op-Ed Columnist - It’s the Economic Stupidity, Stupid - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
  ‘Last weekend, the resolutely analog candidate told The New York Times he is at last starting to learn how “to get online myself.” Perhaps he’ll retire his abacus by Election Day.’
  (tags: john_mccain election_2008 economics politics)
• Theres Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
  “With the introduction of the 3G iPhone, the original is officially yesterday’s gadget, which should mean that its resale value is plummeting. But it turns out that because of some unusual factors, demand for those phones is holding up surprisingly well
  (tags: iphone)
• Once Naked For Nirvana, Now A Teen Spirit : NPR
  “Life in general isn’t quite as “cool” as it was when he jumped naked in the pool in the early ’90s, though, he says. These days, his peers are too stuck on the Internet and video games.”
  (tags: music history)
• Freedom Road: “Blood Done Sign My Name”
  “The story focuses on the 1970 murder of an African American veteran in Oxford, North Carolina, and the fallout from this injustice. Recently, the book was optioned as a movie and it has now begun shooting. Very cool!”
  (tags: race history north_carolina booktagged book:isbn=9781400083114 filmtagged film:imdb=tt1210039)

• Around the clock, around the block — chicagotribune.com
  Pleased to see Chicago Tribune and EveryBlock teaming up to map crime stories, but the map numbers indicating the number of incidents are misleading. Several stories are essentially repeated 2,3, even four times. I’m sure they’ll work it out.
  (tags: chicago journalism crime mapping everyblock)
• TiVo and Amazon Team Up - NYTimes.com
  “The move highlights TiVo’s attempt to shift from being a creator of set-top boxes, competing with copycat devices, to being an advertising innovator that is trying to develop advertising technologies for the television industry.”
  (tags: tivo advertising amazon)
• Bomba Charger: Library Paternalism
  “Excuse me, sir, but that website you’re looking at is clashing with our color scheme.”
  (tags: ohio libraries freedom via:chrisbreitenbach)

I’ve been relistening to this show as I prepare this post, which I don’t often do, and I have to say that I had a few nice finds today.  The Susie Ibarra Trio track is particularly cool.  I was also very impressed with the attractive booklet to the Sam Rivers-Tony Hymas collaboration, illustrated by Moebius.

I also realized that after a few weeks of getting used to it, I’m starting to take the program name seriously, hence the new post title.  The reference point, of course, is the title track to the David Holland album of the same name. It’s a great name, first because I love the album and especially the composition, but also because most mornings as I walk from the train to the station, I get to hear my own conference of the birds in verdant Evanston.  It’s also kind of nice to let the air-quoted “jazz” go from the program title, even if the programming isn’t set up for any radical change.

complete program (134 MB, 2 hrs 24 min)

Artist: “Track” - Album (Label)

Free Fall: “Halfway” - Furnace (Wobbly Rail)
Paul Bley Trio: “And Now, the Queen” - Closer (ESP)
Eric Dolphy: “Jitterbug Waltz” - Conversations (Metrotone)
William Parker Quartet featuring Leena Conquest: “James Baldwin to the Rescue” - Raining on the Moon (Thirsty Ear)
Eri Yamamoto and William Parker: “Subway Song” - Duologues (AUM Fidelity)
Muhal Richard Abrams: “Linetime” - Song for All (Black Saint)
Susie Ibarra Trio: “Magandang Araw” - Radiance (Hopscotch)
Karl Berger & Edward Blackwell: “We Are” - Just Play (Emanem)
Northwoods Improvisers: “Desireless” - Star Garden (Entropy Stereo)
Louie Belogenis/Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz/Kenny Wollesen: “Shanir” - Unbroken (Tick Tock)
Dollar Brand and Sathima Benjamin: “A Prelude to a Kiss” - Archive Africa: Jazz, Jive and Jibe (Afribeat)
Sonny Rollins: “There Is No Greater Love” - Way Out West (Contemporary)
Shorty Rogers and his Giants: “Martian Lullaby” - Portrait of Shorty (RCA)
Olaf Ton: “Einstein’s Dreams” - Olaf Ton (Leo)
Dave Douglas: “The Ghost” - Magic Triangle (Arabesque)
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: “Stranger” - Jo’Burg Jump (Delmark)
Sam Rivers-Tony Hymas Orchestra: “Dimanche 5 mars 1984” - Eight Day Journal (Nato)
Dewey Redman/Cecil Taylor/Elvin Jones: “Spoonin’” - Momentum Space (Verve)
DKV Trio: “Complete Communion Suite, Pt. 1” - Live in Wels/Chicago ‘98 (Okkadisk)

• Wonderland - Yeondoo Jung - Very Short List
  “If you have kids,you’ve probably had to fake an appreciative understanding of their early artistic efforts. Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland series of photographs re-creates children’s drawings as high-concept, elaborately staged, sweetly surreal photo shoo
  (tags: art photography children)

• Harvard University Press: The Selma of the North : Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee by Patrick D. Jones
  “Jones tells a powerful story important for its insights into civil rights history: the debate over nonviolence, the meaning of Black Power, the relationship between local and national movements, and the dynamic between southern and northern activism.”
  (tags: race milwaukee booktagged book:isbn=9780674031357)

• Watchmen: Watch How Faithful Watchmen Will Be
  “Now we can see just how faithful Snyder is being to the original ourselves, as the trailer is online for everyone to view”
  (tags: watchmen film filmtagged film:imdb=tt0409459 comics)
• Main Page - Pojmanym
  “A pojmanym is an uncapitalized word that is derived from a proper noun. The word is itself a pojmanym as it refers to brothers Jim and John Pojman who first used the word in 1975. A pojmanym is similar to, but not the same as, an eponym and a toponym.”
  (tags: language via:emckean)
• Crooked Timber » Norm Enforcement is Hard, But People Do It Anyway
  ‘“How does it hurt you?” That, my friends, is the coolly rational voice of homo economicus. While H.E. has his virtues, and can often help you think straight, sometimes you just have to tell him to fuck off.’
  (tags: culture iphone via:levistahl)
• Very Short List: Western Spaghetti
  1. Pre-heat oven. 2. Add Rubik’s Cubes and Pick-Up Sticks. 3. Enjoy! A delicious video recipe for pop-cultural pasta
  (tags: video fun)

• Boston Dynamics: The Leader in Lifelike Human Simulation
  "BigDog is being developed by Boston Dynamics with the goal of creating robots that have rough-terrain mobility that can take them anywhere on Earth that people and animals can go." • Be sure to watch the video…”
  (tags: robot video)
• Op-Ed Contributor - The Joy of Selling Franks at Ebbets Field - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
  "If the fork or the mustard stick fell on the ground, no problem — you wiped it off with your handkerchief. The water that the hot dogs were sitting in would often turn mustard-colored in the tray, and on hot summer days you’d be sweating into it."
  (tags: memoir baseball newyork)
• Axiotron : Home
  "Axiotron’s innovative design and manufacturing process integrates an Apple® MacBook® computer, state-of-the-art Wacom® pen-enabled digitizer technology and Axiotron’s own proprietary hardware and software components into a complete tablet solution."
  (tags: mac hardware apple)
• Flickr: Photos Geotagged at House on the Rock
  over 1000 Flickr photos which people have mapped as being at House on the Rock
  (tags: photography wisconsin)

• Where does the "terrorist fist jab" come from? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
  "It’s often asked, "Where does stupid stuff on the Internet come from?" In this instance, I think probably it came from me. Although I didn’t originate the conceit, I’m pretty sure that I’m the one who put it in circulation. Er, sorry."
  (tags: barack_obama election_2008 internet meme)

Unfortunately, something went wrong again this week with my archiving process, so you’ll have to use your imaginations to hear this one. It might have to do with the fact that our transmitter was funky so my show got started late. Anyway, this week’s winner is “Poppa’s Gin in the Chicken Feed”, which you might have guessed from the title.  That Triptych Myth album has been around for a while and I’ve liked it since it was new, but I don’t think I’d really caught on to that track somehow.   

Artist: “Track” - Album (Label)

Trevor Watts Moiré Music Drum Orchestra: “Medley: Ahoom Mbram/Tetegramatan/Free Flow/Tetegramatan Reprise” - A Wider Embrace (ECM)
Rail Band: “Kankoun” - Belle Epoque, Vol 2: Mansa (Sterns)
Triptych Myth: “Poppa’s Gin in the Chicken Feed” - The Beautiful (AUM Fidelity)
Eri Yamamoto (with Hamid Drake): “Midtown Blues” - Duologue (AUM Fidelity)
Abdullah Ibrahim: “Zimbabwe” - Zimbabwe (Enja)
Per “Texas” Johansson: “Stadsmås” - Alla Mina Kompisar (Kaza)
Eight Bold Souls: “Furthest from My Mind” - Ant Farm (Arabesque)
Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band: “Hidden Haiku” - Myth Understanding (Creative Nation Music)
Marty Ehrlich Quintet: “Johnny Come Lately” - Side by Side (Enja)
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges: “Going Up” - Side by Side (Verve)
Never Enough Hope: “Des Moines” - The Gift Economy (Contraphonic)
Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: “The Prevaricator” - American Agonistes (Leo)
Jane Ira Bloom: “Pacific” - Sometimes the Magic (Arabesque)
Jackie McLean: “Riff Raff” - Destination… Out! (Blue Note)
Yuganaut: “Missing Limbs” - This Musicship (ESP)
The Vandermark Five: “License Complete (for Julius Hemphill)” - Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
Hamiet Bluiett: “Black Danube (James Brown in 3/4 Time)” - If You Have to Ask… You Don’t Need to Know (Tutu)