Monthly Archives: March 2020

RIP McCoy Tyner (1938 – 2020)

McCoy Tyner was an American jazz pianist.

What links McCoy Tyner to the Jahsonic 1000?

Let me tell you.

Among Tyner’s most critically acclaimed albums is Trident (1975).

On that Trident album there is a musical composition called “Impressions” which features a bassline by Ron Carter which was sampled throughout the “The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)” (1991) by Black Sheep. The sample is well-known in hip hop midst because in fact it is the spine of that song. It is also in the Jahsonic 1000.

 Impressions  by John Coltrane interpreted by McCoy Tyner. In this song, the Black Sheep sample in at 3:03.

The song “Impressions” is an interpretation of Coltrane’s composition Impressions (1962).

“The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)” (1991) by Black Sheep. The bassline if featured throughout.

The power of women

A series of publicity shots from A Fool There Was (1915). My World Photography Classic is the upper shot.
A series of publicity shots from A Fool There Was (1915). My World Photography Classic is the upper shot.

I am writing a review of The Madness of Crowds and as is so often the case, I get sidetracked quite easily.

One way to deal with this sidetracking is my encyclopedia, which allows me to store every single trope, meme, lemma, phrase or idea quite easily. No thought is lost.

Now in Murray’s book, there is a chapter on women which mentions the “Women Mean Business” conference. Murray is present and he witnesses young, smart, attractive women.

This started a digression on my part into the power of women wich made me watch A Fool There Was (1915) yesterday evening. This made me research The Vampire painting by Jones and its accompanying poem by Kipling. Both of 1897.

All morning!

I have to stop now.

In this phase I have reached the publicity shot for that film which shows Bara sitting behind a skeleton, now #99 in my series World Photography Classics. See above.

I really have to stop now.

‘Card Catalogue’ – Alistair Ian Blyth

During an online life of more than 25 years, it would be strange not to run into kindred souls.

One such soul is the translator and writer Alistair Ian Blyth.

Card Catalogue
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It so happens that Alistair has a new novel out. Its title is Card Catalogue and it is due to be published or already published.

In Alistair’s own words:

Card Catalogue features ruminations on the metaphysics of dust, oneiric libraries, an exhaustive catalogue of mentions of the cockroach in the classic Russian novel, and, of course, the Marlbrough Theme.