Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Alice keeps a food diary detailing every morsel that passes her lips. She is not on a diet, she says, but is “cutting down” on food because she wants to lose some weight from her stomach and thighs. She rarely has more than an apple for breakfast and for months her lunch has consisted of a diet cola drink and a Kit Kat.
FAQICA (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
ICT notes by Andrew Hill05 November 2009 Posted by Andrew Hill at Labels: , , , 0 comments: Subscribe to: faqica??Frequently asked questions I can answer. I used to have piles of notes about all sorts of ICT things that I needed for classes but nowadays there doesn't seem to be much of that sort of training so most of the time I'm answering individual questions about how to do this or that. Often I'll...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The ridiculously named Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2009 has gone to Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (see The Penguin Press publicity page , or get your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk ), and Andrew Hill reports on the prize and winner in the Financial Times , in Echoes from history .
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Consider, for a moment, the sideman. The best ones have strong ideas of their own. And those ideas just keep growing as the sideman works with strong leaders.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The Charles Tolliver Big Band The Iridium Jazz Club New York, NY October 17, 2009 Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds. The Big Band played a four night stand at the Iridium Jazz Club and I was fortunate to catch the second set on Saturday night. The Iridium is situated in Midtown Manhattan, just a few blocks away from...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Source of graphic: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below. (p. A1) Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is the newest fossil skeleton out of Africa to take its place in the gallery of human origins. At...
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Andrew Hill is giving his classmates at Central Junior High School the chance to help needy children in the area stay warm this winter. With help from The Salvation Army, the 13-year-old has organized a coat drive at the school at 601 Taylor St. Any new or gently used coat collected will be donated to the agency's Coats for Kids program.
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has been getting much well deserved publicity for this new trio album, where he explores a wide range of compositions by various musicians and a few originals as well. He is joined on this album by Stephen Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums. With everyone contributing structural information, the group acts much more as an organic unit than soloist with accompaniment....
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown (482 Music, 2008), the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet. Inspired by the avant-garde innovations of such late 1960s Blue Note recording artists as {{Eric Dolphy = 6340}}, {{Andrew Hill = 7627}}, {{Bobby Hutcherson = 7844}}, {{Jackie McLean = 9283}}, and {{Grachan Moncur III = 12401}}, Adasiewicz continues to explore the tenuous...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts. {{Eric Dolphy = 6340}}'s Out To Lunch (Blue Note, 1964), {{Ornette Coleman = 5818}}'s Tomorrow Is The Question (Contemporary, 1959), and {{Andrew Hill = 7627}}'s Point Of Departure(Blue...
Heavenly Worldliness (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
No-one can argue that Calvin's five hundredth birthday has not been well and truly marked in this year. Another three Calvin things for you to digest. 1. Last Sunday we were invited to join Andrew Hill and the folk over the hill at Highgate Road Chapel to hear Garry Williams on the subject "Is the world out of control?". I think we were about twenty. With consummate skill Garry eschewed and...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
From Science: Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor--and it is full of surprises. Although the creature, named Ardipithecus ramidus, had a brain and body the size of a chimpanzee, it did not knuckle-walk or...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note 1963 John Coltrane / Archie Shepp New Thing At Newport Impulse 1965 Bobby Hutcherson Head On Blue Note 1971 {{Bobby Hutcherson = 7844}} is now comfortably ensconced in jazz history as one of the great vibraphonists of the post-Milt Jackson generation. He has amassed a large discography that demonstrates his melodic and compositional skills and flawless technique....
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The world’s oldest and most complete skeleton of a potential human ancestor — named “Ardi,” short for Ardipithecus ramidus — has been unveiled by an international team of 47 researchers.Their unprecedented, 17-year investigation of Ardi is detailed in a special issue of the journalScience. Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor–and...
Science Now (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Follow our full coverage of , and check out our on Friday, Oct 2 at 12pm EST for a live question-and-answer session with Science correspondents Ann Gibbons and Elizabeth Culotta, who covered the story.
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