Notices by Allen Michie (allenmichie@jazztodon.com)

Jazztodon artist of the week: Bill Evans!

“Jazz is a remarkable discipline. For people that are considered to be the most unstable, undisciplined members of society, the fact is that they bring to bear a kind of a discipline on their work that is practically unparalleled. And you can’t, like if you compose, you could sit down, if you don’t feel like it today, come back tomorrow, and after six months you might have ten minutes of music. But in jazz, it’s gotta be “bing” and that’s it.

So, I love the idea of it. I think it locks into a kind of a creative mental process that has implications far beyond the people that even are doing it are aware, because the longer you do it, and the more you develop that art, the more you’re locking into an almost subconscious process.”

What are your favorite Bill Evans albums?

#jazz #billevans

Trolling level: Ninja.

And the Latvians renamed the street, so their letterhead is “Russian Embassy, Ukrainian Independence St.”

"Matt Gaetz is a private citizen. Congress should not investigate a private citizen."
-- Mike Johnson

"It doesn't matter that Hunter Biden is a private citizen. The American people deserve to know. Congress needs to investigate to the fullest extent possible."
-- Mike Johnson

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump said.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
-Liz Cheney

“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” Trump turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”

https://apple.news/ANYYEKELkR3W7OOtSP2-kbA

Basically every Republican calling for federal aid after Hurricane Helene voted to shut down the federal government … checks notes … last *Wednesday.*

@RickiTarr Cast the first stone. Hard. And don’t apologize.

When you’re famous, they let you do it.

@therobburgessshow Zero to say on the actual issues, as usual. Nothing but adolescent name-calling.

@TechDesk Here's a president actually DOING something about an actual problem.

@georgetakei Those sweater vests don't come cheap.

Lots of people are signing up today on the Mastodon instance for jazz people, jazztodon.com, thanks to this great new article appearing today on All About Jazz. We'd love to have you join us if you'd like to migrate over or set up another Mastodon account! Come join the conversations.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-virtual-community-for-jazz-on-mastodon

#jazz #instances