11/06 is National Saxophone Day
~~ Saxophone
It is the birthday of Adolphe Sax, who invented a variety of instruments, but, principally, the Saxophone. That is a saxophone pictured above. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can it really say "sax"? I don't think so, here's some sax.
NB: Those who play the sax are neither saxists or saxophonies, but saxophonists, got it?
On this day in history:
1528 -- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca stumbled across what would someday be Tejas ***
1856 -- George Eliot submitted "Scenes of Clerical Life" for publication
1865 -- The CSS Shenandoah finally surrendered to the US
1913 -- Mohandas Gandhi was busted for leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1935 -- Edwin Armstrong presented FM to the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1943 -- The Red Army recaptured Kiev from the Nazis
1944 -- Plutonium was first produced at Hanford for use in Fat Man against Nagasaki
1947 -- Meet the Press made its TV debut
1962 -- The UN condemned South Africa's apartheid and called for a boycott by members
2012 -- Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay US Senator
*** Perhaps his name, Head of a Cow, is what doomed the state to fill up with cowpokes and cowtowns?
Some people who were born on this day:
The capitalist knows that his acts are irrational, but they are necessary episodes in the economic process which this society has brought forth.
~~ Harold Ross
1558 -- Thomas Kyd, playwright
1692 -- Louis Racine, poet
1753 -- Jean-Baptiste Breval, cellist and composer
1814 -- Adolphe Sax, invented the Krummhorn Saxophone
1833 -- Jonas Lie, author, poet, and playwright
1854 -- John Philip Sousa, invented sousaphone, wrote marches, honorary Python
1861 -- James Naismith, invented basketball
1892 -- Harold Ross, journalist, co-founder of The New Yorker
1916 -- Ray Conniff, composer and conductor
1921 -- James Jones, novelist
1923 -- Don Lusher, trombonist and bandleader
1932 -- Stonewall Jackson, cw singer and songwriter
1937 -- Eugene Pitt, doo-wop singer
1938 -- P. J. Proby, singer and songwriter
1938 -- Diana E. H. Russell, activist and author
1939 -- Michael Schwerner, activist, civil rights martyr
1940 -- Ruth Messinger, activistv
1941 -- Guy Clark, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1941 -- Doug Sahm, ditto, also plays bajo sexto
1945 -- Lani Hall, singer, lyricist and author
1946 -- George Young, guitarist and songwriter
1948 -- Glenn Frey, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1949 -- Arturo Sandoval, trumpet player, pianist and composer
1955 -- Maria Shriver, jurnalist, author
1961 -- Florent Pagny, singer, songwriter and actor
1962 -- Annette Zilinskas, singer and bass player
1964 -- Corey Glover, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1964 -- Greg Graffin, singer and songwriter
1966 -- Paul Gilbert, guitarist and singer
1976 -- Mike Herrera, singer, songwriter and bass player
1976 -- Jodi Martin, singer, songwriter and suitarist
1988 -- Conchita Wurst, singer, Eurovision winner
Some people who died on this day:
“Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.”
~~ David Brower
1632 -- Gustavus Adolphus
1816 -- Gouverneur Morris, wrote the preamble to the US Constitution
1893 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
1965 -- Clarence Williams, singer, songwriter and pianist
1970 -- Agustin Lara, singer, songwriter and actor
1989 -- Dickie Goodman, half of Buchanan and Goodman
2000 -- David Brower, Sierra Club founder
2000 -- L. Sprague de Camp, author
2005 -- Miguel Aceves Mejia, King of the Falsetto
2007 -- Hank Thompson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
2014 -- Rick Rosas, bassist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Malaria Day in the Americas
National Saxophone Day
Today's Tunes
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Jean-Baptiste Breval
Adolphe Sax
John Philip Sousa
Harold Ross
Ray Conniff
Don Lusher
Stonewall Jackson
Eugene Pitt
P. J. Proby
Guy Clark
Doug Sahm
Lani Hall
George Young
Glenn Frey
Arturo Sandoval
Florent Pagny
Annette Zilinskas
Corey Glover
Greg Graffin
Paul Gilbert
Mike Herrera
Jodi Martin
Conchita Wurst
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Clarence Williams (with Sidney Bechtet and Louis Armstrong)
Agustin Lara
Dickie Goodman
Miguel Aceves Mejia
Hank Thompson
Rick Rosas
Bonus:
Special Swan Lake Update
Doug Sahm (Texas Tornados)
Doug Sahm and friends
Rick Rosas
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Cabeza de Vaca, George Eliott, Gandhi, Tammy Baldwin, Adolphe Sax, John Phillip Souza, Rick Rosas, Doug Sahm, Augustin Lara, Tchaikovsky, James Jones, Annette Zilinskas
Comments
Good morning...
Remember when saxiphoney Clinton traded his sexophone for a whoremonica?
Well, happy Sax day anyway!
Mulching day here. Hoping for a predicted Friday rain.
Thanks for the OT and music. Have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
that's a good one Ha!
whoremonica rates right up there with
"Those who play the sax are neither saxists or saxophonies"
It seems odd there is no push this year for early voting or
paper ballots as in recent years. The state used to send out
ballot explainers. If it weren't for the roadside
*elect me* signs littering the landscape, one could completely
miss the process tomorrow.
cheers!
Good morning QMS. Funny, California doesn't seem to be
having any more statewide elections this year. Except there should be, but there is no information on the web suggesting that there will be, other than local and county, like county school board, etc.
Glad you liked my saxophonist nomenclature line.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning Lookout. Thanks for the historical vignette.
Good luck with the mulching and rain.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I am in a DITHER
about which guy or woman I want to support genocide. Trump? Gabbard? Kennedy? West?
Have a great Monday, everyone. I am open to suggestions about the presidential election.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning OTC, thanks for reading. When the time comes
I shall abjure the duopoly and look for an independent pacificst if there is any. Peace and freedom party might toss one up there.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
There must not be any profits
to be made in peacetime, although the US only has 16 years experience with that. Maybe we might take another stab at it, just to make sure.
I have vacation brain. One of the concerts we will attend is a gig with Gary P. Nunn. I am wearing one of his t-shirts, an Adios Amigos shirt, complete with the Mexican decorative skull. My clients complimented it this morning. Perhaps dressing to look professional isn't necessary?
Dear One calls the little cottage where we will be staying The Love Shack. He thinks it is funny to run me out of the house by blaring out this song:
Let me know if this causes you to get some jogging out of the house exercise, ok?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
still working on the irrigation system, no jogging, lotsa
slogging, especially since it rained overnight
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
love the shack
driving a boat the size of a whale
with a bunch of dancing gals in the back?
don't get much better than that
remember your juke box money!
Ugh!
Hope you have help and that the project will be finished asap.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
What a surprise. Not everyone at the State Department is
batshit crazybeholden to Israel like Blinken is.but we are not beholden to Israel
and exlensky doesn't dictate our security funds
and, and EU were our friends ..
just another message from the dix in charge
Cooler heads in the Senate will prevail. LOL
the wording is a bit off in that piece
the reality is if the US and IS expand the war
then Iran is the target. Not Hamas, not Syria,
not Hezbollah, but Iran?
The amount of US troops and war equipment moving into
Syria and Jordan may be an indication of what is in store
for the Arab nations. Humanitarian aid is not even close.
Pentagon sees this as an opportunity to gain control of the
Mideast, using a distant conflict as an excuse.
BTW -
World religions indicate something.
Christian: 2.4 billion people
Other: 5.3 billion souls (not including Judaism ~ 14 million)
Oh, and Iraq is 98% Islam and 1 % Christian.
Pleasant surprise
...this morning, when a couple I hadn't seen for years showed up unannounced. They have been living in various places in Colorado, not too far from Aspen. They were on their way back to Colorado. She's from South Korea, her husband had been stationed there years ago. Husband later actually served in Afghanistan but as a civilian. While he was away they would see each other in Dubai. We met them here about twenty years ago at the old Korean community church.
They let us stay in their home here during the first month, after our home was wrecked by the flood, (it was vacant at the time). At that time, we received so much help from family, friends, and community, that's really the only way we could have endured. They never sold their old house nearby, when they moved out a few years back. Their son used it when working in the area. They plan to move back in a year. Too bad Ms. So missed them. She probably told them to come here and check on me, while they were in town. They left us a gift of Colorado honey.
Really enjoyed the diverse musical selection EL, thanks! I'm a Charley Parker and Dave Brubeck fan. Enjoyed the New York, New York video for mid twentieth century memories. The Abraham Lincoln video was great for its historical reminders. I will try to refrain from making disparaging comments about our barbaric heritage.
I used to read the Conan series among others during adolescence, so I looked at L. Sprague de Camp's bio in wiki, after recognizing his name. Never realized he was so prominent a figure. Traveled in rarified circles of genius apparently which included Isaac Asimov and Richard Heinlein, two other great writers.
I found the characterization of Sprague de Camp's childhood revealing. No wonder fantasy and the Conan character attracted him. Young males dreaming of omnipotence?
I'm moved by Tim's posts about Korean participation in the Nov. 4 demo in support of Palestine, and the common national dream of peace in "our lifetime."
Here's a Chu Hyun-mi oldie, with an alluring saxophone theme=
They say Tears' Blues, I think of it as crying blues. This is the google AI translation-
On a night when five-colored neon lights tempt me as if whispering, the sound of a saxophone that cries out as if it stirs my heart Ah, it makes me cry Because you will leave after this moment passes, I hide my wet eyes while holding you in your arms Ah~~ Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, player, music. Don't stop. As if the five-colored neon light is beckoning, the sound of the saxophone that tempts me like falling rain. Ah, it makes me cry. Because you will leave after this moment, I bury my face in your chest and hide my wet eyes. Ah, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, player. don't stop the music
AI is so funny. It's blues not Bruce.
語必忠信 行必正直
God evening Soryang. Thaks for reading and dropping in.
Glad you liked the tunes. I too am a fan of Brubeck and Bird, though I have very eclectic tastes. Thanks for the video, the bruce are good in any language.
be ell and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Monday Monday
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Hi all, Hey EL!
Hope it's all good out there!
Hat tip for the Paul Gilbert, he is an incredibly great guitar player.
Figured I wouldn't stoop to posting a clip of the Benny Hill outro with Yackety Sax, to go with the Souza Monty Python.
I suppose this began after atomic detonations, agent orange, and depleted uranium? Oh wait, the DU is still good to use... Maybe the military didn't get the war memo?
I can only guess this is not celebrated in the US? Never heard of it, but great to hear about. Certainly the way we in non-war time we use seabird nesting islands for target practice, and the super loud sonar with reckless abandon, damage in war hardly seems to be a concern of America.
Thanks for all the great sounds man!
be well, have a good one all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein