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Today’s jazz fan could only dream of a line-up like this: Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz. Yet those are just a few of the artists who performed at the first Newport Jazz Festival July 17-18, 1954. Newport is the granddaddy of the […] When J.M.G. Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize for Literature last October, he unwittingly became part of an international ruckus. Just the month before, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the prize jury, said the United States was “too isolated, too insular” when it came to literature. That “ignorance,” Engdahl said, exists in part because […] Bulletin Board Check out the South Dakota Jazz Orchestra, playing every Monday night at Skelly’s Pub (h/t South DaCola). Achievement Awards MobyLives returns to capturing headline of the week: Next up: Amazon applies for patent on concept of lips moving while reading. Bookish Linkage The National Book Foundation has started a book-a-day blog on the […] Any doubt in my mind that our air transport system is broken beyond repair came in the last 36 hours as I began checking prices for a one-way ticket for my daughter to get to UMass this September. The travel web site I went to offered me 106 different flight options but the results are […] The Friday Follies were delayed today due to the ongoing college trip. And it has produced one of the biggest follies I’ve encountered, but that is the subject of a separate post tomorrow. That said, here’s this edition of the follies: “A super-secure federal prison ruled that two books written by President Obama contain information […] |
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