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iMac wont take keyboard or mouse input.
Hi all, my 20 month old iMac 24 3Gz has started some odd behaviour with symptoms that are almost like no input from either mouse (other than simple movement) or keyboard is being accepted.
Start-up now runs like this normal Apple boot up screen followed by a blue screen. From this there is no further change but pressing the on button briefly will bring up the normal display. However, then the dead keyboard symptom is present. To clarify, moving the mouse over an apps icon does not make the apps name appear as usual it literally is as though the iMac will accept no input at all.
A couple of times it has been ok for a minute or so after booting before the symptom recurs
However, Ive seen it do a Time Machine backup, re-acquire the WiFi and it will happily act as the print server for a couple of MacBooks, so inside, it does seem to be functional however, I have absolutely no control I cant shutdown using the mouse nor try a disk repair/OS reload in fact, I darent now load a DVD just in case I cannot eject it afterwards.
Im going to try the remove-plug-hold-power-button-in-for-5-secs ploy tonight to see if that has any effect.
Other than that any ideas? Or is this a back-to-Apple jobbie? Fortunately I have a 3 yr warranty package with just over a year to go.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
I was going to suggest booting with your install media and do a verify and repair routine for the hard drive. Or, run the Apple Hardware Test from your DVD.
However, if you fear the DVD will not eject, that doesn't leave us much to work with. Since your iMac is still covered by Apple care, it may be best to make an appointment with the genius bar at your local Apple store and have them check it out.
Call Support, only solution was to re-install the OS but at least no hardware failure.
Fault has gone since the reload and have restored back all of what I needed to (thank gawd for Time Machine) plus re-installed some apps - so.... all ok again.
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Milton Borens, Jr., 68, of Merritt Island, FL passed away on Sunday, June 29, 2008. He was a retired Educator for Brevard County Public Schools. He taught at Cocoa Beach High School successfully, approximately 25 years, developing a choir called the Sinfonic Chorale Society. Milton pushed them to a performance level that annually rewarded them with gold, silver, and bronze medals in several categories of international music competition including, Rome, Hawaii, Paris, London, Greece, Holland, Mexico and Switzerland. He completed his 35 years of teaching at Gardendale Elementary Magnet School where he was lead teacher for the School of Performing Arts.
Milton also had a strong passion for church music. Milton was commuting to Orlando to serve as music director with his sister, Janice Carter at Carter Tabernacle C.M.E. Church. He organized their Mass Choir some years earlier during his father's Pastorate; the late Rev. Milton H. Borens, Sr.
Together they directed an annual concert called the "Alleluia" for 24 years. Milton was an excellent music teacher, he was able to motivate students and church choirs to perform to perfection.
He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Ruby Williams Borens ; two children, Janita Wiggins (Mark) and Milton H. Borens , II (Kevia); mother, Mable W. Borens ; brothers, Rev. John J. Borens , Jonathan Borens (Sylvia); sister, Janice Carter (Lemuel); favorite aunt, Beulah Douglas; three grandchildren.
Obituary credit: Orlando Sentinel

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Dec 14 2006
No, Really. I Suck.
You already know how much I adore browsing through my referring URLs and discovering how random visitors make their way to this website. I've seen my share of disturbing Google searches leading here—everything from "how to pull a nutsack" to "camera woman kick balls" to "breasts hanging to ankles" (God help me)—and have often found myself looking off into space, repenting of my sins and questioning what on earth I possibly could have done to attract such riff-raff.
As unsettling as those revealed Google searches have been, nothing has given me as much pause as one of my most recent referring URLs. Following the link from my site meter, I eventually wound up on a message board, where I happened to be the subject of a small thread. That I was even being discussed anywhere on this earth by anyone other than my four children clamoring for their next meal was puzzling enough to me since I'm still not entirely convinced that any real humans actually take the time to visit this website. But in this case, it was the manner in which I was being discussed that left me most bewildered.
"I like her blog," the message board post read. "But I think little butterflies and pretty little birds must flitter around her all day long. She's just so happy and her life seems so sickeningly perfect."
Fortunately, the next person who responded stated that she had never really gotten the same feeling from my site, and I'm quite confident 99.9% of you fall into that same category. And really, the original post was not meanspirited at all; it was just chit chat, kind of like when I lament to my sister how perfect Angelina Jolie's boobs are. But still, the rest of the day, I alternated between hysterical laughter and generalized discomfort that anyone possibly could have regarded me or my life as "perfect", when I do nothing on this website but cite all evidence to the contrary.
I'm many things, a couple of which could be regarded positively. But—using the above quoted material as a basis—here's what I'm definitely, absolutely, unquestionably not:
On Top Of Things
Having eliminated all of those qualities, and wanting to make a sincere effort at honest self-reflection and full disclosure, here are some things I am:
Optimistic, usually
Confident, unless I'm naked or singing
Unmotivated, unless it's something I'm extremely interested in
Creative, but only sometimes
Forgetful, to a fault
Scared of Flying
Dirty (Not really. Well, at least not today.)
Real, most of the time
So there it is. I really do value all of you, and just in case you are all actually people and not just apparitions I've created in my mind as a result of living an isolated country life, and just in case even one of you might possibly share one iota of the message board poster's sentiments, I just couldn't let another moment go by without setting the record absolutely straight.
If you are apparitions? Groovy! Come on over and we'll play Ring Around the Rosy with all my other imaginary friends. I'll paint your toenails pink and you can tickle my back. We'll go on a nature hike and I'll push you down the hill and throw you in the pond. I'll throw rocks at you. Then you'll get really mad and cut all my hair off. Then I'll light my horse on fire and ride him toward you, screaming, "Fresh horses for the men! We ride at dawn!" Then you'll cry and say you want to go home. I'll say, "You can't. The road is flooded." Then you'll paint my toenails red and we'll make pigs in a blanket and eat them under the stars. And watch Muriel's Wedding and call Toni Collette and hang up when she answers.
No, really. I suck.
51 Comments
Robin On Thursday, December 14 at 6:07 am
Ree, don't worry, sugah! They had you confused with Snow White! She's NOT real, she lives at Disney World for heaven's sake, the only place on planet earth–outside of cartoon utopia–where "butterflies and pretty little birds flitter around all day". That person clearly wasn't wearing her glasses the day she saw the picture of you and Missy on the bar stools…don'tcha see? She mistook all those horns stickin' out all over the place for birds & butterflies. E A S I L Y explained.
Just to make you feel better, I for one, a very real person (at least it hurt when I pinched myself to make sure), have NEVER thought you were perfect. Quite simply a Drama Queen (it takes one to know one ). ..with very engaging writing skills.
Lord, chile, people are gonna be blowing some SERIOUS air up your skirt all day today. You MIGHT just have some butterflies flittin' after all!
And, btw, there's no such thing as bad press ;).
CindyDianne On Thursday, December 14 at 6:47 am
HA HA! Funny Ree!
I think you are charming, but not charmed. And no one, not a single living thing, that lives on a working ranch can possibly have butterflies and pretty little birds flitting around them all day long! Not possible!
Brian On Thursday, December 14 at 7:17 am
I was crushed last week when I discovered that I am being attacked and derided by people at one such board. But then I realized that anyone who doesn't take the time to read my posts and understand me, are not worth the time of day.
I know who my friends are, and who matters in my life.
I picked up on the the *reclusive* bit. Funny though how we both blog.
swampmitch On Thursday, December 14 at 7:18 am
As Julie would say, "Girl, you gotta quit smokin' those pencil shavings. (I know, you don't do that anymore.) What was in your Wheaties this morning? Instead of butterflies and pretty little birds, isn't it mosquitoes the size of Rhode Island and buzzards that are even bigger?
Lynn On Thursday, December 14 at 7:20 am
No matter what people say…the old childhood saying "words can never hurt me" is absolutely not true. They sting and they do hurt. In your case though you just observed 2 people who obviously didn't know what entertainment you are to the rest of us! It looks like you are worrying over a case of some chit chat without the chat and alot of chit. They did not know what they were talking about. Anyone (99.9%) of your readers love you and love reading about your life and seeing your beautiful photos. Yes, you are a drama queen out of the closet! KEEP IT UP.
swampmitch On Thursday, December 14 at 7:20 am
And no, I didn't mis-spell my name, I'm now,'Sing Along with SwampMitch" at Julie's place.
Pam On Thursday, December 14 at 7:24 am
Ahhhh, it's tuff being the Queen. The Queen of All You Survey. Someone's always gotta bring ya down. So glad it wasn't me that had to topple you off your pedestal. Much better that you did it yourself. Then everyone can add "humble" to your list of attributes.
Reclusivity is born out of isolation.
So…fess up, what/where was this aforementioned chat/message board? And like Robin said, press is press baby.
Pioneer Woman On Thursday, December 14 at 7:24 am
Oh, and to clarify: I didn't perceive the message board post as meanspirited at all, nor did I take offense at it. It was just chit chat.
Think I'll go add that to the post.
Teetotaled On Thursday, December 14 at 7:33 am
It is definitely bizarre/fun/creepy to be the fly on the wall when others are chatting about you. You could always create a fake screen name and get in on the convo! I always enjoy reading your blog and yesterday it brought me great joy to scare the bejesus out of my husband by showing him a picture of calf nuts from this site. I hope I did not traumatize him for life!
Pass the Torch On Thursday, December 14 at 7:34 am
I, for one, am simply a figment of your highly -evolved imagination;)
Christie On Thursday, December 14 at 7:51 am
I've been reading your blog for a while now and really love it. I think the fact that you enjoy yourself, your family and the world around you comes across very clearly. But I've never once found it syrupy. Sounds like they somehow missed all of your sarcasm and self-deprecating comments.
Janice On Thursday, December 14 at 7:56 am
I have been a lurker for sometime now and you have become my morning wake-up call.
I had to comment this morning because I think those people really like you and your website. Actually, the reason I am finally commenting is because I want to be that apparition who comes over and gets to do all those fun things with you!
Oh, and I think I have Googled you before.
cecedon On Thursday, December 14 at 8:11 am
You know sometimes people say things about other people because they are jealous. While you may not be perfect, and I fully understand why the thought of that may bug a person, you are a very good writer. I can see how people could be jealous of that. You have a beautiful way with words and you are funny. Perfect? I don't know, what is a perfect mom? I certainly do not fall into that category (even if I do have some of the qualities on that list you posted, some of which I am not proud).
Hey and I saw my name in your post today and I got nervous at first and then I read it and realized it's just a name.
AzureHeather On Thursday, December 14 at 8:18 am
Okay, if anyone's life is perfect than I am Santa.. no really… come over and see my reindeer here in Texas. Gads….
They obviously missed the entry about the colt dying…. and the entry about the kids missing grandma ect ect ect…
Jenni in KS On Thursday, December 14 at 8:20 am
Maybe they mistook the cow shit and calf nuts for butterflies and pretty little birds. Man, I'd hate to live in *their* world!
I've never thought of you as a perfect person. From the first list, I only would have chosen beautiful (and it's the soul that counts most there–I bet you have a beautiful soul) and motivated. I only say motivated because there are things you've done that I planned to do (like blogging) but just haven't gotten around to, and it seems you are very motivated about those things you're interested in.
The thing I like best about this blog is an item from the second list–you are so very real. Yes, you have been blessed in many ways, but life isn't all sunshine and roses. You take the good and the bad and allow us to laugh and, occasionally, cry along with you. (Oh, crap! Now I'm singing "The Facts of Life" theme song!)
That's probably more than enough "air up your skirt", LOL, but I've got one more thought. It's something I've been considering a lot lately. When we talk about "perfect" people, it seems we don't really mean it and that "perfect" is somehow seen as a flaw in itself. What we're really saying is untouchable, too good to be true, and possibly fake. And what we really *mean* is that we ourselves are insecure or uncomfortable because we've compared ourselves to someone else and found ourselves lacking. But we rationalize our own faults by saying that these "perfect" people are just lucky or that they aren't real like us or that they're shallow or that they only appear to be perfect on the outside. Something you said once about a friend who complained about the cheerleaders because of her own self esteem issues sticks out in my memory. Unfortunately, many of us never fully grow out of that high school girl mentality. I'm working on it.
Oh crap (again)! There's more, but I should have blogged this instead of hijacking your blog (again).
Mad Jenny Flint On Thursday, December 14 at 8:21 am
Okay, while we're all playing kiss-up, let me just say that your best quality has been missed in others' descriptions. It is your sense of humor. You think things are funny that other, more normal people, like me, don't readily see as such. Like, if I wake up in the morning and the sewer has backed up into my house, I will not think that is funny. But durned if you wouldn't write a hilarious blog entry about the same incident. Oh, what I wouldn't give to be so lighthearted, or easy-going, or ditzy (pick one). What IS your secret?! Seriously. I need some of those pencil shavings.
dadia On Thursday, December 14 at 8:22 am
Hi. My name is dadia and I am an NOT an apparition, although I've probably been accused of that & much worse.
Anyway, I would like to come over & have some of those pigs in a blanket & watch Muriel's Wedding – just PLS don't throw me in the pond 'cause I have red nail polish & I ain't afraid to use it!
I agree w/Lynn that the post you read was just a lot of "chit".
Just FYI…Ethel Merman herself never sounded more confident than your own rendition of 'There's No Business….'
Have a nice day & try to steer clear of those strange URL trails for awhile…
Kristie On Thursday, December 14 at 8:25 am
While I doubt that you're perfect, I do think you're pretty darn close.
Or at least your blog is, which is why I visit every single day, like a damn stalker, who only signs in once in a while. (Don't you hate lurkers like me?)
I am curious, though … how exactly do you track the visitors to your site? I'm pretty new to the blogging via Blogger world, and I know it's not possible on my old site. Is it a service you sign up for somewhere? Like you, I think it would be interesting to see how people get to my site as well. Normally, I get to YOUR site through a bookmark, because I have you bookmarked, baby, bookmarked! (That's my really dorky way of telling you that seriously .. I like your blog.)
DAJ On Thursday, December 14 at 8:26 am
Some people see the negative in everything…some people are jealous…don't change a thing about your site or yourself…this is my guilty pleasure every morning!!!
Stacie On Thursday, December 14 at 8:30 am
Could be worse I guess….I love your blog. Love it. I just think your REAL!! So many people romanticize the ranch life, myself included sometimes that they think it must be the PERFECT life, but what they don't realize is the hard work, the dirty work, the dusk till dawn work, is not always all it's cracked up to be. Butterflies and birdies…Yeah…we all wish life was like that. We all think someone else has it, until we get a peek into someone else's life. That's why I like your blog so much…you ARE real.
Vicki On Thursday, December 14 at 8:37 am
On our imaginary trip to your house you left out that if we get scared and want to go home you will give us a loaf of wonder bread to roll into balls and eat one at a time.
good post
Sally On Thursday, December 14 at 9:10 am
My original blog was called Human Oddities and Mishaps. I got TONS of google searches for "human oddities" or "Human mishaps." Also, when I mentioned in a post that I'd heard a myth/rumor that Shania Twain had a fake leg, I got a steady stream of hits from that for years!
Once you start looking at your hits and discover who's talking about you, you are seriously chancing a look at the seedy underworld of the Internet. If you mention the word "foot" or "feet", you start getting hits from foot fetishists. No post is as innocent as it seems once a sicko has found it with one of his twisted internet searches.
But don't let THEM change who you are. I like you, that's why I keep coming back. Anyone who thinks your life is "sickeningly perfect" has their own major issues and is probably a bit jealous.
Pamela (ME2) On Thursday, December 14 at 9:32 am
And a very merry un-birthday, to you, and you!!!!
Pamela (ME2) On Thursday, December 14 at 9:34 am
I so relate with your list of "real" things.
except Tall.
But, sometimes at night I dream tall.
Stacey On Thursday, December 14 at 9:39 am
There's a discussion board like that? Wow. So many thoughts so little time. At least they think your life is interesting enough to discuss. I came here because I heard about your wonderful pictures (love,love,love them!) and keep coming back for the shits and giggles.
Heidi On Thursday, December 14 at 9:44 am
I'm a real person too!!!!
That's the trouble with this whole blog/ internet thing: we think we really know each other. Well Ree, what I do know about you, I like.
Keep up the good work.
catalinakel On Thursday, December 14 at 9:47 am
Of course you suck. I suck too. We all do. Um, isn't that the point of the whole Jesus is the reason for the season deal? duh?! Ya know, born to be a Savior and all that? God and sinners reconciled…. Merry Christmas, Ree. Sing a few on me.
Love ya! and MM and gee and wetsy and that pesky brother in law of yours and those cowboy babies…. My first born wee bairn turns 10 today. TEN! I think she and your first would be great pals together…..they share the same fashion sense……maybe we can visit the old homestead someday on our way to somewhere else.
Stephanie On Thursday, December 14 at 10:10 am
Oh, Ree!! Your life really IS like an ABBA song!!!
Doc On Thursday, December 14 at 10:16 am
I forgot to add:
You won't rock as much as ME until someone bans you from their site.
b. On Thursday, December 14 at 10:43 am
Well, after your last paragraph on aparitions….you are a little weird…..that's okay, me too!
Joan in Mississippi On Thursday, December 14 at 11:01 am
Hey, somebody has to live in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma — may as well be you! But the best part is — your writing makes the middle of nowhere Oklahoma seem like heaven! I'm a "real" person and your photos, kids, family and adventures keep me coming back. I don't really know you, but I like you — I really like you! And get this — I like your singing too. I appreciate any other weirdo like me who for some strange reason, knows all the lyrics to all the songs from Broadway. I REALLY appreciate someone who doesn't mind singing to the entire blog world! You put the smile in my day and I know you put a smile in the hearts of MM and your kids. You are perfectly imperfect!
DebR On Thursday, December 14 at 11:07 am
You think I'm an apparition? Hey, wait…I thought YOU were an apparition! Not a perfect one though. You'd be boring if you were perfect and you aren't boring.
sasha On Thursday, December 14 at 11:46 am
Ree! But of course people are thinking about you…you provide so much food for thought. I for one have caught myself referring to you as "this woman I know" when turning others on to your blog here in my neck of the woods.
It's a fascinating emerging medium, this blogging thing…letting each other have a peek into another world and another's thoughts is to my mind, an exchange of gifts. My world expands every time I add another peephole to my "blogs" bookmark.
I enjoy your contribution to the blogosphere thoroughly! And although you may get out of describing yourself as "ethereal" or "organized" there's not a soul who's seen your pictures here who wouldn't describe you as beautiful.
Nan On Thursday, December 14 at 12:34 pm
Butterflies?? LOL!
I like you so real. People like Miss. Message Board don't understand writing for the exercise of creative muscles… they understand blogs to be personal diaries where they spill the beans about all of their deepest darkest feelings all of the time. (Um. I'm implicating myself. My own blog is a hodgepodge of writing for writing's sake and personal meanderings so I have no room to talk! LOL!)
YOU are a writer. An artist. The 8th wonder of the world. (so I easily get carrie away.)
:^D Can you tell I think highly of you? Oh and I hate flying too. Yuck.
Kim On Thursday, December 14 at 12:56 pm
You don't used the words "happy" or "contented" on either of your lists, but I suspect they should go on your AM list. Happy, contented, real, irreverent…sounds like "perfection" to me! Love your spirit…
Denise On Thursday, December 14 at 1:26 pm
Girl, there is NO way your life is perfect when you live so far away from Starbucks.
And you are beautiful and funny, so just own it, sister!
Lawyerish On Thursday, December 14 at 1:29 pm
Are we the same person? I think we might be. Your list describes me to a T.
I am not an apparition, although I am ghostly pale. With freckles.
momto3cubs On Thursday, December 14 at 1:32 pm
I enjoy your blog so much that my day is no longer complete without it. Yesterday I was busy non-stop until after midnight, but I HAD TO come here before calling it a day and going to bed.
No, I haven't thought of your life as "perfect". You do have a wonderful life and family, but not annoyingly so, LOL. I find your ranch life to be quite interesting, since it's different than anyone else's I know. And since your blog varies so much day to day, that keeps it interesting. Plus MM is just HOT, LOL.
You do such a great job on your blog each day that I can't believe you aren't organized and efficient. You fooled me!
Willowtree On Thursday, December 14 at 2:39 pm
Damn Ree, why did you have to burst my bubble? I've always pictured you with Butterflies and pretty little birds frittering around you all day. Now I'll have to go with the Calf nut ear-rings image.
It could be worse, you could have some bonehead from South Africa making a big deal about a possible misquote.
And on another matter, this would have been a better post to link to me from, seems like more people read it;)
Yer Pal On Thursday, December 14 at 3:03 pm
Speaking as her pal, I have to say that she really IS perfect, at least my kind of perfect. Except for all those irritating butterlies and birds that congregate around her.
hezzysab On Thursday, December 14 at 3:14 pm
I think you are GREAT! Keep up the blogs…they make me laugh.
Ree On Thursday, December 14 at 5:04 pm
Oh, crap, you all. I just got back from a funeral and logged on to see all your (nice? wonderful? generous? sweet? there are no words…) words. I didn't mean to solicit such kind, thoughtful sentiments with this post today. I half expected you to say, "Perfect???? Are you friggin' NUTS? You're a psychotic loon bizarro freak."
Which you basically said, but in a reeeeeally nice way.
You guys are…are…crack cocaine. Oh, I'm sorry. Cappucino. Chocolate. Whatever feels the best. That's what yous guys are.
Jennifer On Thursday, December 14 at 5:48 pm
You don't suck but you are hilarious and I don't read this blog because all you write is about your perfect life. There is no such thing and anybody who thinks that is nuts. So anyway, you don't have to set the record straight with me. Please keep posting because your adventures are my daily bread and butter.
celestialhunter On Thursday, December 14 at 7:59 pm
Hi, Ree. I'm not new to your site, I read it every day, the minute I wake up. Seriously, I'm addicted. I've never commented before, but just wanted to say…I wish I had a tenth of your writing power and out look on life! Keep it up.
wetsy On Thursday, December 14 at 9:22 pm
Now that it's late I can say what I want and no one will read it. This is the best way I can describe your imperfection. Last time I was at your house, Baby T spilled a huge cup of orange juice. It flew. It was all over the floor. I scurried around trying to find a dish towel. When I didn't find any in the drawer, I called to you in the other room. You breezed through, stopping by the laundry to grab a dirty bath towel. Then, ever so flippantly, you tossed it down onto the orange juice puddle…and walked away. You had no other plans for the mess. You had better things to do. The End.
Gee On Thursday, December 14 at 9:23 pm
Great on the lists of adjectives Ree!
I'm betting tomorrow's post is a Sally Field: "You like me….you really like me!!!"
Everyone needs a Ree in his/her life; too bad there's only ONE…but we're willing to share via the blogosphere!
n.b. On Thursday, December 14 at 9:48 pm
Ree, you don't really need my two cents, with all the silver dollars of wisdom piled up here in the comments before me! But as Brian mentions happening with him, I once discovered that there was a thread discussing me and my work on some e-board (whatever these things are called) and it was very distressing and unnerving to see oneself discussed in that way by total strangers. This was even before my blog, so I had never once invited people to dance, or to stop in at the at-home or whatever analogy you can come up with. Anyway, as Brian says, I too eventually realized that it meant nothing, had very little to do with me actually, it was more about this group of people needing a topic of discussion and wanting to impress each other with their opinions/insights/bon mots and I just got over it. Although it is tempting to see what people are saying, stick to your comments page! (We think you are wonderful!)
stephanie On Thursday, December 14 at 10:35 pm
I get some effed up search referrals too. I write the word penis in one heading and it's, like, on.
Ree On Friday, December 15 at 7:45 am
Just hafta say another thank you, everyone, for your sweeeeeeet, encouraging words even though I suck.
And a special thanks to the lurkers who delurked just to say something nice.
I like you.
Laura On Sunday, December 17 at 11:43 am
One of the phrases my blog is found with is "fat woman in a hole". I don't get that one at all. I haven't tried to investigate, I just don't want to know.
Lani from The Wooden Porch On Friday, March 2 at 1:39 pm
I am so totally in love with you. You are the coolest person on earth. I love you, love you, love you.


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Before the kids arrived at the daycare business she ran out of her Mountain View home, Gabriela Castellanos would take a walk around outside, making sure there were no used condoms, syringes or human feces on the ground. The property next door, an empty foreclosed home, had become a hangout for drug dealers, prostitutes and stray animals.
"Cats, dogs, rats—it was like the San Diego Zoo," she said. She laughed, then added, "It sounds very dramatic, but I'm not exaggerating."
The house was vacant for only about six months, but that was long enough to put an end to Castellanos' daycare business. Someone was killed in the house, and a home behind hers, also vacant, caught fire and parents got scared.
Castellanos said she complained to police—as did other neighbors—and was told it was the bank's responsibility to clean up the house.
"We are working families," she said. "We try to contribute to society, but the banks are destroying our safety."
A study released in June by the Center on Policy Initiatives, a San Diego think tank that focuses on economic- and social-justice issues, estimated that between 2008 and 2012, there will be roughly 57,000 foreclosures in San Diego alone, costing local government between $134 million and $855 million for police, fire and code-enforcement services. Homeowners, too, will take a hit—the study estimates $19.2 billion in lost property value.
In tracking foreclosures by zip code, the CPI study highlighted the fact that the neighborhoods hardest hit are the city's poorest and most densely populated—City Heights, Southeast San Diego and Otay Mesa—where folks don't always complain for fear of retaliation if the home's been overrun by the sort of people Castellanos encountered.
Meanwhile, the city's Neighborhood Code Compliance Department is at its lowest staffing level in seven years, and a position created specifically to deal with vacant properties was eliminated in 2010, said Bob Vacchi, the department's deputy director. Right now, Vacchi has only 11 inspectors to handle all housing- and building-related issues citywide.
CPI and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a group that advocates for low-income communities, think they've found a solution. Similar to laws in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Chula Vista, a proposed Property Value Protection Ordinance (PVPO) would require banks to register a property with the city—and pay a fee—within 30 days of issuing a notice of default, the first step in the foreclosure process, whether the property's vacant or not. The fee's not been set, but other cities charge around $150. Should a bank fail to register a property within that time period, there would be a fine starting at $100 a day. Additional fines would be levied on lenders who fail to maintain vacant properties or don't file with the city a document promising to repair, rehab or demolish the property.
"It punishes bad actors and provides a revenue stream for the city," said David Lagstein, an organizer with ACCE.Since implementing its foreclosure ordinance in 2008—a law that's been held up as a model—Chula Vista's been able to hire five additional code-enforcement officers from fee and fine revenue, said Corinne Wilson, the CPI researcher who authored the foreclosure study. Though a home is likely to still be occupied when a notice of default is filed, the registry, which would require an update if a bank sells a home's mortgage to another lender, makes it easier for the city to figure out who's responsible for a property if and when it becomes a problem, Wilson said.
"Our intent is to give code enforcement the ability to figure out who the responsible party is without hours of work put into it," she said. It's not unusual for a loan to change hands and become difficult to track.
Long Beach, Wilson pointed out, originally required a home to be registered only once it became vacant but last month expanded its ordinance to require registration once a notice of default is issued.
"The core piece of what our ordinance is about is the foreclosure registry," Lagstein said. "This will be a benefit to code enforcement."
But with so many notices of default going out each year, there are questions about whether a registry, even if it comes with more staff, is the best use of resources.
"There are thousands of those [properties], and probably most will never be a problem," Vacchi said. "If the opportunity to add staff for vacant properties became available, I would prefer to add a couple of field staff to do some targeted proactive work on existing vacant properties rather than adding administrative staff to compile and monitor a registration list."
Since 1996, the city has had a vacant-property ordinance, but lawmakers acknowledge there's a loophole. The ordinance applies only to structures that are "vacant and unsecured or boarded," meaning not much can be done about vacant structures that still have all their doors and windows but have become neighborhood nuisances—where the property's lot, for instance, has become a dumping ground, or a perpetually abandoned building doesn't reach the level of nuisance but is nevertheless an eyesore. At the request of City Councilmember Todd Gloria, whose district includes the long-vacant, unsightly Pernicano's restaurant in Hillcrest, the city's been working for nearly two years to update the vacant-property ordinance to include not just unsecured and boarded structures but all vacant structures and lots.
But advocates of the type of ordinance that CPI and ACCE envision think the city needs both: The registry, they say, puts banks on notice that a property's being monitored. And, the fees the registry generates mean code enforcement can do more than just respond to complaints."More proactive code enforcement is something the community's said they want," Wilson said. At a recent mayoral candidates debate, in response to a question about blighted foreclosed properties, Bob Filner and Nathan Fletcher said they'd like to see the city implement an ordinance similar to Chula Vista's.
But getting revisions made to the city's current ordinance—let alone a property registry—could prove challenging.
San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce policy coordinator Mike Nagy, who was on a committee that reviewed the revised vacant-property ordinance, said that among other issues, an expanded definition of what constitutes an abandoned property could be a slippery slope. He used Pernicano's as an example.
"Yes, the property owner's not doing anything with it; however, he is keeping it to code—but it's still considered an eyesore to some people. At what point do we start telling property owners, 'We don't like what you're doing; it could be nicer'? At some point, it comes down to a property-rights issue."
Both the property-value-protection ordinance (PVPO) and the revised vacant-property ordinance were given a side-by-side comparison at a meeting of the City Council's Land Use and Housing Committee last week. Sherri Lightner, the committee's chair, said more information's needed about what the PVPO will cost and how other cities have implemented theirs. She asked the City Council's Independent Budget Analyst to report back in January.
Like Vacchi, Lightner questioned whether the PVPO could be more targeted.
"Conceivably, [we could] identify zip codes that have a high foreclosure rate," she said. She'd also like to see residents be more proactive with complaints, which, in turn, could further underscore the need for additional code-enforcement resources.
"It may be something where we have workshops for the community," on filing complaints, Lightner said, "and then just draw attention to it until it's taken care of."
As Gloria emphasized at the committee meeting, without additional resources for code enforcement, simply filing a complaint doesn't solve the problem, as was evident with a foreclosed property behind his City Heights condo.
"There were squatters, prostitution and drug dealing," he said. "I'm a City Council member and I couldn't get it solved for months and months and months."
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One of the dogs, Feo (Spanish for "Ugly") holds a special place in our hearts. A stray for most of his life, and named by the people in town, Feo was taken in by Larry and provided a safe and loving place to call home. He's in his twilight years now, and has experienced a life full of hardship. But despite his past maltreatment by humans, Larry said, "He never gave up on us." Feo has poor eyesight and chronic infection in his mouth, but is the sweetest and happiest dog in the yard. What a gift to have a person like Larry to love animals like Feo.
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The Muhlenberg County community is remembering nine members of the Watson family who were killed in a house fire early Thursday morning.
Police said the mother, Nikki, and eight of her children died in the fire.
The father, Chad, and daughter, Kylie, both escaped and are in critical condition at a Nashville hospital.
Experts said people can have little time to react in a fire.
Sometimes families can have as little as two minutes to get out of the house after the smoke alarm sounds.
"I think it's more an illustration of how fast fire can overcome people," Dr. Susan Pollack, the head of Kentucky's Pediatric and Adolescent Injury Prevention Program, said.
Fire investigators said the Watson family was running a baseboard heater in one of their three bedrooms and that's what started the fire.
"Space heaters often run at a very high temperature," Pollack said. "So if you have a blanket that gets slipped off a bed and is sitting on a heater, it can catch fire and you don't get very much time to get out."
Pollack recommends keeping space heaters at least three feet away from combustible objects.
She also said to have a working smoke detector in the home and a plan of how to get out of the house if a fire should happen.
"I think all of those family members would not have died in vain if we can at least prevent anymore people from dying that way," she said.
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The church's pastor, Timothy Burden, said Chad Watson is also a pastor.
Burden said Watson preached this past Sunday on the topic of family and marriage.
"We welcome the family with open arms and they've been a major blessing to this church," Watson said.
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Jazz Masterpieces: Part 2
In 1934, H. L. Mencken dismissed jazz as "undifferentiated musical protoplasm, dying of its own effluvia. . . . Its melodies all run to a pattern, and that pattern is crude and childish." Similar statements were made by many American cultural commentators in the 20's and 30's; even those who affected to admire jazz tended to see it less as an art form than as a symptom of reaction against what had come to be known as the "genteel tradition." When F. Scott Fitzgerald titled one of his collections of short stories Tales of the Jazz Age, it was the sex life of the flappers, not the music of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke—about which he knew nothing—that he had in mind.
Today, the emergence of jazz is rightly ranked among the most significant musical events of the 20th century. But the speed with which jazz evolved into an art form comparable in interest to American classical music—an evolution that was already well under way by the mid-30's—has inevitably outpaced the best efforts of critics and scholars. Even now, despite the fact that most college music departments in the U.S. offer courses in jazz, there is still no first-rate full-length scholarly history of the music's first century, and no widely accepted "canon" of major jazz recordings.1
As a step toward the formulation of such a canon, I have compiled a list of 65 recommended works, the first installment of which appeared last month. As with my earlier COMMENTARY series on modern classical music, which appeared in the April, May, and June issues, I chose these pieces not for their historical "significance"—though many are highly significant—but because I believe them to be masterpieces of permanent interest. Taken together, they comprise a representative cross-section of recorded performances by the greatest jazz musicians of the century, not all of whom are now generally recognized as such.
This second installment runs from the early years of the swing era—the decade in which New York-based dance bands dominated American popular music—to the rise of the "cool jazz" of the early 50's, when the epicenter of creativity moved (briefly) from New York to California. I have listed individual works, not full-length albums, since nearly all the titles included in this installment were originally released as 78 r.p.m. singles; in each case I have also listed the best available CD anthology containing the recording in question.
Last month's installment took us from 1923 to the beginning of 1937 and up to number 20 on my list of 65 masterpieces. Herewith the next 25 recordings:
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21. Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Blue, Turning Grey Over You
Louis Armstrong (see Nos. 2, 3, 8, and 12 in the November issue) was the first great jazzman to win fame as an entertainer—a singing comedian who also played jazz. He was followed by Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-43), the composer of such standards as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose" and a leading exponent of the ragtime-derived style of jazz piano known as stride (his students included Count Basie). Starting in the early 30's, Waller began singing as well, specializing in low-grade commercial ditties which he enlivened with his sardonic lyric readings. But he continued to play piano, and this delightful instrumental version of one of his best songs is an example of 30's combo jazz at its most engaging.
Many of Waller's most characteristic performances are included along with "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" on Ain't Misbehavin': 25 Greatest Hits (ASV Living Era CD AJA 5174).
22. Bob Crosby Orchestra
South Rampart Street Parade
Most of the dance bands of the 30's and 40's played in a style derived more or less directly from Fletcher Henderson's arrangements for his band and, later, the orchestra of Benny Goodman (see Nos. 13 and 20 in the November issue). Among the few exceptions was a band nominally led by Bob Crosby, Bing's younger brother, whose arrangers, most notably the bassist-composer Bob Haggart (1914-98), created a big-band version of New Orleans ensemble jazz—the style later known as Dixieland. Though the Crosby band also employed such outstanding soloists as the tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Eddie Miller, the trumpeters Yank Lawson and Billy Butterfield, and the pianist Bob Zurke, it was Haggart who shaped the group's musical identity with compositions like the high-stepping "South Rampart Street Parade," which deftly evokes the spirit of a New Orleans jazz parade.
South Rampart Street Parade contains an excellent selection of recordings by the Crosby band (Decca Jazz GRD-615).
23. Teddy Wilson Orchestra
Jungle Love
When not playing for Benny Goodman, the pianist Teddy Wilson (1912-86) directed for the Brunswick label a series of pickup groups that eventually included nearly every well-known jazz instrumentalist of the 30's and early 40's as well as the influential vocalist Billie Holiday. "Jungle Love" features three major soloists: Bobby Hackett (1915-76), a soft-spoken cornetist who blended elements of the playing of Armstrong and Beiderbecke into his own personal style; Johnny Hodges (1906-70), who spent most of his adult life as Duke Ellington's urbanely bluesy solo alto saxophonist; and Wilson, whose graceful playing was always a highlight of his small-band recordings.
An Introduction to Teddy Wilson: His Best Recordings, 1935-45 contains 22 solo, small-group, and orchestral recordings, including "Jungle Love" (Best of Jazz 4044).
24. Coleman Hawkins
Body and Soul
Coleman Hawkins (1904-69), jazz's first great tenor saxophonist, lived in Europe from 1934 to 1939, the years when Lester Young, his chief rival (see No. 18 in the November issue, and below under No. 34), won fame as a soloist. Within weeks of his return to the U.S., Hawkins recorded this leonine version of "Body and Soul," a summa of his aggressive, arpeggio-based style. Not only did it immediately reestablish him as the foremost saxophonist of the day, but it even became—improbably enough—a jukebox hit. Though Young's lighter-toned playing would be more influential in the long run, Hawkins remained a powerful voice in jazz to the end of his life, and "Body and Soul" still appears on every short list of key jazz recordings.
Body and Soul contains 21 tracks recorded between 1929 and 1941 in which Hawkins joins forces with such noted contemporaries as Henry Allen, Benny Carter, Django Reinhardt, Pee Wee Russell, and the pianist Art Tatum (Topaz Jazz TPZ 1022).
25. Benny Goodman Sextet
Till Tom Special
Throughout his long career as a bandleader, Benny Goodman featured small groups drawn from his big bands. From 1939 to 1941, these groups included Charlie Christian (1916-42), among the first guitarists to amplify his instrument electronically and the first major jazz instrumentalist to be influenced by Lester Young. Christian spun out long, harmonically adventurous melodic lines that in turn influenced the beboppers with whom he jammed after hours; he also wrote most of the originals recorded by the Goodman Sextet, including "Till Tom Special," a dapper minor-key theme whose tightly voiced riffs (repeated rhythmic figures) are typical of small-group jazz in the swing era. Also heard are the vibraharpist Lionel Hampton (b. 1908), a celebrated Goodman sideman who later led his own exuberant big bands, and the elliptical piano of Count Basie (see No. 18 in the November issue), a frequent recording-studio guest with the sextet.
"Till Tom Special" is on An Introduction to Charlie Christian: His Best Recordings, 1939-1941 (Best of Jazz 4032).
26. Duke Ellington Orchestra
Duke Ellington came into his own as a composer at the end of the 30's, and the recordings he made for Victor from 1940 to 1942 (some of which were written in whole or part by Billy Strayhorn) are, taken together, the most important group of big-band compositions in the history of jazz. He employed a spectacularly individual array of sidemen—among them Johnny Hodges, the clarinetist Barney Bigard, the tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, and the trumpeter Cootie Williams—from whose solos he plucked many of the melodies that later went into his pieces. "Ko-Ko," a tumultuous minor-key blues of exceptional harmonic richness, includes a "talking" solo by Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton (1904-48), whose tightly muted trombone was one of the most pungent colors in Ellington's orchestral palette; also soloing briefly is Jimmie Blanton (1918-42), whose big-toned, unprecedentedly virtuosic playing influenced every jazz bassist thereafter.
Beyond Category (see No. 10 in the November issue) contains "Ko-Ko" and other recordings by the 1940-42 Ellington band, including Ellington's "Cotton Tail" and "Concerto for Cootie," Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge," and two superlative small-group recordings from the same period: Strayhorn's "Passion Flower" and Mercer Ellington's "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," both featuring Hodges.
27. Chocolate Dandies
I Can't Believe that
You're in Love with Me
The Chocolate Dandies was the generic name for a series of studio-only black combos of the 30's and early 40's. This 1940 incarnation included Coleman Hawkins; Roy Eldridge (1911-89), the raspy-toned trumpeter whose bold playing later enlivened the big bands of Gene Krupa and Artie Shaw; and Benny Carter (b. 1907), a uniquely suave alto saxophonist who was equally accomplished as a composer and arranger (in which capacities he will appear in next month's installment). The piano-less rhythm section is led by Sid Catlett (1910-51), by common consent the finest drummer of the pre-bop era, whose irresistibly swinging style can be heard on recordings by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie (see below under No. 32).
"I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me" is on Body and Soul (see No. 24, above).
28. Bud Freeman and His
Famous Chicagoans
In the early 20's, a group of teenagers from the suburbs of Chicago, including the guitarist Eddie Condon (1905-73), the tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman (1906-91), and the drummer Dave Tough (1908-48), fell in love with jazz, learned how to play it, and ultimately began to record it themselves. Their brand of improvised ensemble playing—a brash blend of New Orleans jazz and Bix Beiderbecke's cooler style—became known as Chicago-style jazz. In 1939, Condon, Freeman, and the brilliantly eccentric clarinetist Pee Wee Russell (see No. 13 in the November issue) formed a septet called the Summa Cum Laude Orchestra whose recordings are a vade mecum of Chicago style. The following year, they recorded with the great Texas trombonist Jack Teagarden (1905-64), whose blues-drenched, technically innovative playing set new standards for his instrument. "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble," drawn from the repertoire of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, has solos by Freeman, Russell, and Teagarden, faultlessly accompanied by the subtly varied drumming of Tough, Sid Catlett's only peer.
"Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble" is on Lost Chords, along with two other performances by the Summa Cum Laude Orchestra, "Jack Hits the Road" and a radio broadcast of "Ja-Da" (see No. 1 in the November issue). The complete Summa Cum Laude studio recordings are on Bud Freeman, 1939-1940 (Classics 811).
29. Artie Shaw Orchestra
Suite No. 8
The clarinetist Artie Shaw (b. 1910), an incomparable virtuoso with an astonishingly well-developed high register, led a series of big bands—each one with a different style—that served as showcases for his distinctive musical conceptions. In 1941, he put together a 32-piece ensemble ingeniously juxtaposing the bluesy trumpet playing and vocals of Oran "Hot Lips" Page (1908-54) with a fifteen-piece string section and Dave Tough on drums. Paul Jordan's "Suite No. 8" exploits the full tonal range of the band to unusually sophisticated effect.
Shaw chose "Suite No. 8" for inclusion in Personal Best: The Bluebird/Victor Years (1938-45), a collection of eighteen of his favorite recordings that also contains a 1945 performance of Eddie Sauter's "The Maid With the Flaccid Air" and seven live radio broadcast performances by Shaw's great 1938-39 band, featuring Buddy Rich (see below under No. 33) on drums (Bluebird 61099-2).
30. James P. Johnson
Mule Walk-Stomp
James P.Johnson (1891-1955), Fats Waller's teacher, was the most admired stride pianist of the 20's, as well as a composer whose works ranged from standards like "Charleston" and "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight" to a lengthy series of concert pieces (now mostly forgotten or lost) that sought to fuse jazz and classical music. "Mule Walk-Stomp" is a vivid portrait of a Harlem nightspot where he worked in 1913, playing for dancers who had just migrated to New York from the South. "The dances ran from fifteen to thirty minutes," he recalled, "but [the dancers] kept up all night long or until their shoes wore out—most of them after a heavy day's work on the docks."
Hot Piano contains "Mule Walk-Stomp" and 23 other solo and small-group performances recorded by Johnson between 1921 and 1945 (Topaz Jazz TPZ 1048).
31. King Cole Trio
Easy Listening Blues
Nat "King" Cole (1917-65), who was, with Frank Sinatra, the most popular balladeer of the 50's, started out as a piano player. Initially influenced by Earl Hines (see No. 8 in the November issue), he developed into an innovative stylist now regarded by connoisseurs as one of the half-dozen greatest jazz pianists. The King Cole Trio, which also featured Oscar Moore (1916-81) on electric guitar, was a polished, deeply swinging ensemble that served as the ideal setting for its leader's light-filled solos. Cole sang on most of the trio's recordings, but the all-instrumental "Easy Listening Blues" leaves no doubt of his singular gifts as a pianist—or his wonderfully relaxed way with the blues idiom.
Eighteen instrumental sides by the King Cole Trio, including "Easy Listening Blues," "The Man I Love," "Body and Soul," and "What Is This Thing Called Love?" are on The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio: Instrumental Classics (Capitol Jazz CDP 98288).
32. Dizzy Gillespie and His
All Stars
Shaw 'Nuff
Starting in 1944, a number of younger jazz musicians who felt constrained by the increasingly cliché-ridden language of late swing began to record in a purposefully "modern" style known as bebop. Bop soloists like the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie (1917-93) and the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-55) tossed off unevenly accented, triplet-flecked unison lines at alarmingly fast tempos, incorporating chromatically altered harmonies into their improvisations. Some older musicians were appalled by bebop, but others took it in stride—the drummer on "Shaw 'Nuff" is Sid Catlett, who demonstrates no trouble in keeping up—and what at first seemed impenetrably arcane soon came to dominate the language of jazz.
"Shaw 'Nuff" is on Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection (see below under No. 35).
33. Woody Herman Orchestra
Your Father's Moustache
One of the first dance bands to play bebop was that of Woody Herman (1913-87), a fine swing-era clarinetist and singer who had an uncanny knack for putting together first-rate bands. Herman's "First Herd" played simple, riff-based arrangements with youthful fire, sparked by the drumming of Dave Tough, one of the earliest swing-era musicians to take an interest in bop. "Your Father's Moustache" is a loose, raucous romp on the chords of "I Got Rhythm" that offers another glimpse of vibraharpist Red Norvo (see No. 19 in the November issue). The hard-driving Buddy Rich (1917-87), here filling in for the epileptic Tough, played with Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and Harry James before starting his own band in 1966; he is widely (but not universally) regarded as the greatest big-band drummer in jazz.
In addition to "Your Father's Moustache," The Thundering Herds, 1945-1947 contains seventeen other performances by the First and Second Herds—a mere fraction of their best performances on record. A comprehensive reissue of Herman's Columbia and Capitol recordings from this period is urgently needed (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CK 44108).
34. Lester Young
These Foolish Things
Lester young's style changed noticeably after World War II, partly as a result of his alcoholism: his tone grew thicker and coarser, his solos less rhythmically poised. Although the melancholic cast of his playing eventually grew enervating, in 1945 he was still capable of such memorable efforts as this haunting, darkly lyrical version of "These Foolish Things" (in which the melody is never stated, a then-rare practice that has since become a commonplace). The difference between Young's harmonically oblique playing and Coleman Hawkins's more straightforward style can be seen by comparing this recording to Hawkins's "Body and Soul."
The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young contains "These Foolish Things" (and its companion piece from the same recording session, the equally fine "D.B. Blues"), four drummer-less trio sides from 1942 in which Young is exquisitely accompanied by Nat Cole, and an inconsistent but generally rewarding selection of other postwar small-group sides (Blue Note CDP 32787, two CD's).
35. Charlie Parker Septet
A Night in Tunisia
"A Night in Tunisia," whose exotic minor-key harmonies and faux-African beat made it one of the best-known bop tunes, showcases Parker the revolutionary. The four-bar break through which he hurtles at the end of the first chorus—a polished set piece that he would play more or less in the same way for the rest of his short life—neatly encapsulates his contribution to the language of postwar jazz. In addition, "A Night in Tunisia" introduces the trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-91), still fresh out of Juilliard, who would become the most influential jazz musician of the 50's and 60's.
Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection is not quite the "ultimate" anthology of Parker's recorded work—among other things, it includes the wrong take of his classic 1947 performance of "Embraceable You"—but no other collection generally available in the U.S. contains a larger number of important performances by the master of bop saxophone, including all the recordings on this list in which he figures as leader or side-man (Rhino R2 72260, two CD's).
36. Kenny Clarke and His
52nd Street Boys
The boppers made no harmonic discoveries that had not already been foreseen by Beiderbecke, Ellington, or Art Tatum. Instead, they emphasized their chromatically altered harmonies, putting them at the center of compositions rather than using them for purely coloristic purposes. "Epistrophy," composed by the pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-82), is a typical example of this strategy—so much so that in this performance, the players are forced to improvise on a less abstruse set of chord changes than those used in Monk's theme. The leader, Kenny Clarke (1914-85), was a dominant figure in early bop, the first drummer to break decisively with the swing-era style; also heard is Bud Powell (1924-66), whose coruscating right-hand solo passages became synonymous with bop piano.
"Epistrophy" is on RCA Victor 80th Anniversary: Vol. 3, 1940-1949 (RCA Victor 09026-68779-2), a collection of swing and early bop recordings released on RCA during the 40's. It can also be heard on Bud Powell: The Complete 1946-1949 Roost/Blue Note/Verve/Swing Masters (Definitive DRCD11145), an imported collection of 24 of Powell's best recordings that can be found in well-stocked record stores.
37. Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra
At its best, Dizzy Gillespie's big band uncompromisingly translated bebop into orchestral terms, never more memorably than in "Manteca," a Gillespie composition in which bop harmonies and a soaring trumpet solo are superimposed on the churning beat of Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo (1915-48). This "Afro-Cuban" synthesis, which became a hallmark of Gillespie's later style, foreshadowed the absorption of the Brazilian bossa nova beat into American jazz beginning in the 60's.
Greatest Hits contains "Manteca" and a representative selection of other big-band and small-group performances recorded by Gillespie for Victor in the late 40's (RCA Victor 09026-68499-2).
38. Thelonious Monk Quartet
I Mean You
Thelonious Monk's splintery, primitive-sounding piano playing was as original as his angular compositions. Opinions vary on his effectiveness as a soloist—he became increasingly repetitive from the late 50's on—but his first recordings of such pieces as "I Mean You" still have a freshness that a half-century of familiarity has done nothing to diminish. In this quartet version, he is joined by the vibraharpist Milt Jackson (b. 1923), whose liquid playing would later grace the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Thelonious Monk 1944/1948 contains Monk's earliest recordings as a leader, plus four sides he cut as a member of Coleman Hawkins's quartet (Jazz Archives 159502).
39. Benny Goodman Septet
Stealin' Apples
Contrary to widespread belief, bebop was not a departure from jazz tradition but an extension of that tradition. Most of the older boppers, including Gillespie and Parker, had played with big bands and were fully conversant with the language of swing-era jazz. This witty recasting of a Fats Waller theme, for example, teams Benny Goodman with the tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray (1921-55), one of the first musicians to add bop inflections to a Lester Young-derived style, and the trumpeter Fats Navarro (1923-50), whose playing was warmer and more unabashedly lyrical than Gillespie's. The three players—even the notoriously prickly Goodman—sound comfortable with one another, and their contrasting styles prove nicely complementary.
"Stealin' Apples" is on Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron, together with four sides by a Bud Powell-led quintet featuring Dameron on trumpet, and other recordings in which Navarro and Gray can be heard with the composer-pianist Tadd Dameron (Blue Note CDP 33373, two CD's).
40. Charlie Parker's All-Stars
Parker's Mood
Some boppers had little or no interest in the blues, but Charlie Parker, for all the proliferating complexity of his up-tempo playing, was also a superbly idiomatic bluesman, perhaps the best of his generation. "Parker's Mood," in which the saxophonist's "dirty" solos are effectively contrasted with the gentle piano of John Lewis (b. 1920), who later became famous as the music director of the Modern Jazz Quartet, is the quintessential bebop blues—indeed, one of the finest blues recordings in any style.
"Parker's Mood" is on Yardbird Suite (see above under No. 35).
41. Lennie Tristano Sextet
The overt intensity of bebop proved unattractive to some progressive-minded jazz musicians, who opted instead for a more intellectualized approach bearing much the same relationship to the Parker-Gillespie style that Young had to Hawkins, or Beiderbecke to Armstrong. The blind pianist and teacher Lennie Tristano (1919-78), among the first of these players, put together a sextet that included two of his students, the alto saxophonist Lee Konitz (b. 1927) and the tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh (1927-87). Tristano's "Wow," though cast in the bop idiom, departs unmistakably from its orthodoxies: the melodic lines are longer and more rhythmically even, the instrumental timbres cooler. Out of such performances came a style known, logically enough, as cool jazz.
Intuition contains all seven sides recorded by the Tristano sextet for Capitol in 1949 (Capitol Jazz CDP 52771).
42. Miles Davis Orchestra
Concurrent with his work with the Tristano sextet, Lee Konitz also appeared with a nine-piece group led by Miles Davis, another musician seeking a cooler alternative to the Parker-Gillespie style. John Lewis and the baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan (1927-96) also wrote for and played in Davis's band, whose unusual instrumentation—alto and baritone saxophones, trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba, and rhythm section—was devised by the group's mastermind, the arranger Gil Evans (1912-88), who had previously written for the influential big band of Claude Thorn-hill. "Israel," a blues composed by Johnny Carisi, shows off the pastel timbres of the nine-piece Davis ensemble to arresting effect.
The Complete Birth of the Cool contains all twelve of the group's studio recordings, plus ten live performances recorded in 1948 at the Royal Roost, a bebop-oriented Manhattan nightclub (Capitol Jazz CDP 94550).
43. Shorty Rogers and His Giants
Powder Puff
Though the recordings of the Davis group sold poorly, they influenced countless younger musicians, many of whom lived in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco. These players—most of them admirers of Lester Young and the Count Basie band—began to develop a broadly similar style in which Basie was emphasized over bebop. The trumpeter-composer Shorty Rogers (1924-94), an alumnus of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands, was the first to record as a leader, assembling an eight-piece group that featured the alto saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-82), the tenor saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre (b. 1921), the pianist Hampton Hawes (1928-77), and the drummer Shelly Manne (1920-84), all of whom would become distinguished leaders in their own right. Rogers's "Powder Puff," a light-textured swinger with a Latin bridge, is a locus classicus of what soon became known as West Coast jazz.
Shorty Rogers and His Giants contains "Powder Puff" and other performances recorded in the early 50's by Rogers-led groups (BMG 74321609892).
44. Dave Brubeck Quartet
In 1951, the California pianist-composer Dave Brubeck (b. 1920), a pupil of the French classical composer Darius Milhaud, started a quartet that featured the intensely lyrical playing of Paul Desmond (1924-77), one of the very few postwar alto saxophonists whose style owed nothing to Charlie Parker. Brubeck's quartet performed regularly on college campuses, thereby building a young following that made it the most popular jazz group in America. (In 1954, Brubeck became the second jazz musician—after Louis Armstrong—to appear on the cover of Time magazine.) With the addition in 1956 of the drummer Joe Morello, the quartet's playing became louder and more extroverted, but in performances like "Stardust," recorded at an Oberlin College concert, Desmond's wryly nostalgic solos and Brubeck's complex yet lucid harmonies add up to a style that remains attractive to this day.
"Stardust" is on the Brubeck Quartet's Jazz at Oberlin (Fantasy OJCCD-046-2).
45. Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Five Brothers
After Davis, the most successful alumnus of Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool" band was Gerry Mulligan, who in 1952 moved to Los Angeles and started a piano-less quartet with the trumpeter Chet Baker (1929-88). The unorthodox instrumentation proved eminently suitable to such Mulligan compositions as "Five Brothers," which makes striking use of both written and improvised counterpoint, and the absence of a chordal accompanying instrument throws the quietly swinging solos of Mulligan and Baker into high relief. Though the quartet broke up after just two years, it is still among the best-remembered bands of the 50's.
Jazz Profile: Gerry Mulligan contains a wide-ranging selection of performances by the quartet; by a 1953 ten-piece group that played Mulligan's own compositions and arrangements; by a later quartet featuring the valve trombonist-composer Bob Brookmeyer; and by the great mid-50's sextet that included Mulligan, Brookmeyer, and the tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, another distinguished Woody Herman alumnus (Blue Note CDP 54905).
To be continued
All of the CD's mentioned in this piece can be purchased on line at www.commentarymagazine.com.
1 By far the best short treatment is Max Harrison's article in the 1980 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, also available separately as part of The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz (Norton, $16.95 paper). The best-written popular history is Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz (Oxford, $15.95, paper).


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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors opted again to do nothing after their two-day meeting, remaining pat despite clear evidence of a slowing in the economy and a miss on their two mandates, on maintaining full employment and price stability.
This post is going to read like a re-run, because we've seen this several times before. The Fed indicates in their statement that the economy has "decelerated somewhat" since their last meeting in June, with slow employment growth, an elevated unemployment rate, slower growth in household spending, a housing sector that "remains depressed," and a lower inflation rate.
This is a description of an economy in chaos. If you were air-dropped into America from a planet that had sound economic understanding, you would know that this is a catastrophic situation requiring major intervention from policymakers.
And while the standard techniques of monetary policy, including the blunt instrument of the federal funds rate, are currently restrained by the zero lower bound, there are actions the Fed could take, including entering the municipal bond market and reducing borrowing costs for local government to reduce the bleeding in budget cutbacks, or purchasing mortgages directly and clearing the middlemen to get those low interest rates directly into the hands of homeowners who need them. That's not even getting to the idea of communicating a higher inflation target or other options.
But the Fed did nothing. Even though their outlook showed only slow growth in coming years, and only modest improvement in employment, even though they acknowledged downside risks from Europe and other market turmoil, even though they admitted that "inflation over the medium term will run at or below the rate that it judges most consistent with its dual mandate," they only maintained the status quo monetary policy that has brought us to this point. The FOMC plans to keep its federal funds rate at virtually zero through the end of 2014, and continue "operation twist" through the end of the year, as it announced in June. As for anything else, you can chew on this and see if it will give you nutrition:
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