Swinging Swede

It seems they have instituted something called Jazz Thursdays. Henceforth new jazz concerts will appear each Thursday. The remainder of July will be dedicated to the 1964 Newport Jazz Festival. In the list below you can also see what will be made available the coming two Thursdays this month. 7/2/64 (WV release date of 7/8/10) Newport All-Stars 7/3/64 (WV release date of 7/15/10) Sister Rosetta Tharpe George Russell Sextet Count Basie & His Orchestra Mose Allison Joe Williams Rod Levitt Octet Stan Getz Quartet Ethel Ennis 7/4/64 (WV release date of 7/22/10) Oscar Peterson Trio Max Roach Quartet J.J. Johnson Quartet Dave Brubeck Quartet 7/5/64 (WV release date of 7/29/10) Freddie Hubbard Ruby Braff Ben Webster Oscar Brown Jackie Moms Mabely Dizzy Gillespie Sarah Vaughan Jimmy Smith Edit: The two items in red were listed in advance, but didn't turn up.

Original Michigan Jass Band

Ella Fitzgerald sang about a new rhythm called "Rock and Roll" already in 1937, with Chick Webb's orchestra. "So won't you satisfy my soul with the Rock and Roll" (after about 1:05 and again after 2:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgpfmi5tAOk

That is the surprising but correct answer!

Quick question: Which was the only undefeated team in the World Cup?

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Iniesta resembles Lucky Millinder?

By the way, when Cardoza missed the penalty kick for Paraguay, the referee should have let it be retaken, since several Spanish players had already run into the penalty area when Cardoza hit the ball. This was the very reason the referee let the second penalty kick, where Alonso scored, be retaken, but it should have been done also for Cardozo's penalty kick, as the replay clearly showed. 1-0 for Paraguay there and we would have had a very different match situation.

No, he isn't. As I already pointed out, both he personally and his team are in a better position than if he hadn't stopped the ball with his hands. He is not paying any consequence whatsoever; on the contrary, he will now play the final or the bronze match instead of already being on a plane home.

But he wouldn't have been able to play the next round anyway since Uruguay would have been eliminated!! So let's compare the two scenarios: 1) Suarez follows the rules and doesn't stop the ball with his hands. Uruguay is eliminated. No more matches for Suarez. 2) Suarez breaks the rules and stops the ball with his hands. Uruguay advances. Suarez can't play the semifinal in this scenario either, but he might play the final or the bronze match. In every respect scenario 2 is better both for Suarez personally and for his team. So where is the punishment?

They have such a rule in ice hockey. If the puck is going towards an open goal and a player stops it by throwing a club, it will count as a goal, even though the puck never actually entered the goal. Football should have a rule like that too in a case like this. It would have been a goal if Suarez hadn't stopped it with his hands and Uruguay would have been out. Now Suarez has become some sort of hero for taking Uruguay to the semifinal by stopping the ball with his hands. It is laughable to see the red card as a punishment in this case.

Sepp Blatter is 74 years old. He will not remain president forever.

Wow! Germany must now be held as the favourite to win the entire tournament.

Another huge referee error. Argentina gets 1-0 against Mexico, but it was a very clear offside and the Mexicans were running up to the referee protesting. They will have to start using instant replay or goal area referees soon. These things cannot continue to happen.

Both Lord and Jazzdisco.org say that those two tracks first were released on a Japanese 4-LP set called Mercury 40th Anniversary V.S.O.P. Album. Lord also mentions that they aren't included in the Mosaic set - which then is a serious oversight on Mosaic's part.

Don't mention the score!

What a first half!

And to get in the right mood for the England-Germany battle today, here is Daily Mirror's notorious 1996 front-page (with Stuart Pearce and Paul Gascoigne in the picture):

Post 9: Post 10: I believe we have an illegal sequence here, since Tadd Dameron didn't play on Blue Train. All posts after post 9 are therefore invalid. -_-

Clarence Williams

And here is the best tune of them all from that gig. Farrell really digs into Gingerbread Boy:

Time may have been up for Trane, Bird and Bix when they died, but someone I now and then wonder what he would have done is Clifford Brown.

Bunny Berigan first cut I Can't Get Started with a small group for Vocalion in 1936. But it is the extended 1937 big band version for Victor which is his acknowledged masterpiece.

I'm certain that Charlie Parker himself considered his 1951 Mercury/Clef version of Lover Man superior to the original 1946 Dial version.