Layng quietly in fields

Layng quietly in fields
Glstening lights

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Get me outta this box.

Today's Tids Issue 3,192
Opening Stuff:
 
One of the great things about the Internet is that it lets innovators, often muffled in the past, escape from the clutches of the self anointed controllers of culture.
 
Too often writers are compared to other writers, when it would be best for the reading public if they were to be accepted for what they are themselves.
 
The NHL* Season is starting this week. Don’t worry if you miss a few openers because they don’t start playing for real until May. Yikes!   *That’s Hockey.
 
The Social Security admin came out over the weekend saying that “the retirement financial woes are vastly overstated” This is easily believed since the initiators of the hysteria seem to be those trying to sell financial packages to retirees and savers for retirement. Lack of savings isn’t the biggest problem for the retirement system; it’s the mistakes and risk taking by over-zealous wizards of Wall Street that kill savings in portfolios.
 
Just in case you are interested, Ben Bernanke was just refused mortgage refinancing by his bank. He guesses that perhaps his new credit restrictions were a little too harsh.
 
The Question:
I’m finding that many people I know have fond memories of learning to play instruments as kids like the trumpet or clarinet. Name the ten all-time masters of those two instruments.
 
The Headlines:
--Texas Ebola Case Deteriorating; Authorities Have Close Eye On People Who Were In Contact.
--Netanyahu Praises “O” For Airstrikes; Says US Prez Is Dead Wrong About Settlements.
--Hong Kong Prodemocracy Protests Dwindling.
--Germany Factory Production Down 5.7%.
--US VP Apologizes To Saudi Prince For Confusing Bidenisms.
--South Korea Sees Positive Step In Surprise Visit From Small Group From NK.
--Pro Latvia Group Holds Power Over Pro Putin Forces.
--Three US Airmen Washed Out To See In Japan Typhoon.
--Jaguar Introduces New Car To Go Directly At BMW 3 Series Market.
--Hewlett-Packard To Split Into two Companies; PC/Printer Business Will be One; Corporate Hardware And Services to be Second Entity.
--Hitmen Say they Killed 16 Of 23 Missing Mexican students; 28 Mutilated Corpse Found In Shallow, Mass Grave..
--In Alacante Spain US Volvo Racing Boat Avimedica Under Guidance Of Local Sailor Charles Enright Wins First In-Port Race Prior to Race Around The World Start Next Week.
 
The Doc told me I needed an operation. But, I couldn’t afford it so I told him to Photoshop the XRays.
 
The Market went up over 200 points on Friday after the jobs additions and dropped unemployment numbers report. You have to wonder if they’re holding in reserve to support a profit taking sell-off today the associated report about the 315K rise in people dropping out of the job seeking markets which equaled the drop in unemployment.
 
Rhode Island is the perfect Thanksgiving state. We grow the largest Pumpkins in the country, and have the most turkeys in the general assembly -- gobbling up tax payer dollars for the benefit of cronies and relatives.
 
I think that many football reporters are looking for the downfall of Bill Belichick. Mainly it those who think the game is about them, while the most successful NE coach thinks it’s more about team. So when he doesn’t answer their Questions nicely, they pound him. But when you think about it, any knowledge that gives another team an edge, ever so slight, is bad knowledge to put out in the press.
 
NE Pats wake up Sunday night.
 
Let’s see, we have ISIS, Ebola, Putin, Wall Street Bears, Hong Kong protests, Baseball playoffs, savage murders in Mexico, senseless US crime in the streets, Beheadings --- and I’m having trouble thinking of something to say. Maybe it’s news saturation sogging my brain.
 
The Answer:
For Trumpeters, I looked ast several lists and those on all of them were Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Maurice Andre, and Miles Davis. Chet Baker and Wynton Marsalis were on a couple as were Phil Smith and Maynard Ferguson. Some other top ten were Adolph Herseth, Harry James, Rafael Mendez, Herbert Clarke, Clifford Brown, Wayne Bergeron and Paolo Fresu. The standouts in clarinet are Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Artie Shaw. One of the hot new players is Julian Bloiss who studied under another acknowledged star Sabine Meyer. Kenny G is also popular. Other noted greats are Richard Stoltzman, Eddie Daniels and Bernard Izen.
 
A good friend put me on to the old recoding below of Sugar Blues by trumpet player Clyde McCoy. Clyde came in somewhere around 50 on the All Time list, but htis recording was a favorite of mine and many in the mid 40’s. Get the old toes tapping for the week an=head.
 
Ebola sounds like the name of a small country in a movie starring Peter Sellers.
 
I think my mind went into hibernations over the weekend with the bears and the raccoons.

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