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Google Wave. Not just vaporware.

What if email were invented today, instead of 40 years ago?  How would it work?  This is Google's attempt to answer that question.

This will be the next big thing.  Google are going to make it open source, and want to enlist the help of developers.

Website here.

Video demo here.  

This far, it has been develped in Sydney, Australia.

Jazz greats on YouTube.

I hope to build this list up to 100 clips.  Some of the early stuff is simply piano rolls or recordings fronted by a still image.  But still ...

Aphabetical surname order.

Louis Armstrong - when The Saints Go Marching In  Distracting video but great improv..

Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump sample.

George Benson - Here Comes The Sun.  And displaying serious guitar chops playing Take Five.  And giving On Broadway a deep funk.

Eubie Blake plays Black Keys on Parade and Lovie Joe. Newport 1960.

Charlie Christian - Stompin' at the Savoy.

Duke Ellington at The Cotton Club.- Jungle nights in Harlem, Saratoga Swing, Haunted Nights.  -

Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong - Umbrella Man. 

Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing.  A big band classic with Gene on drums and harry on trumpet.  And an even better arrangement and  audio vesion here.

Lionel Hampton - Tom Tom solo.  He's playing a show off party piece here.  His better known vibe work here - Flying Home.

Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra - The Stampede.  78 r.p.m.  This is also notable for featuring the Victrola disc player.

James P. Johnson plays Bleeding Hearted Blues.  Piano roll.

Etta Jones - Crazy he Calls Me.

Scott Joplin plays Maple Leaf Rag.  Piano roll cut by Joplin, perhaps the playback tempo is a bit too andante.

Jelly Roll Morton plays and sings Mamie's Blues.  78 r.p.m.

Mark Murphy - On Green Doolphin Street.  Way out there.  But he still has the instrument @ 76.  His  Eleanor Rigby from the 1970s is the best jazz version I ever heard.

Original Dixieland Jass Band - Livery Stable Blues.

Kid Ory - Tiger Rag

Django Reinhardt - Sweet Geogia Brown.

Joe Williams with Count Basie - Well Alright, Okay, You Win.  Cookin!  Not jazz, but Here's To Life.  And What a wonderful World. 

Teddy Wilson - Love 

 

 

Under consideration for inclusion:

Paul Whiteman

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If Ella Fitzgerald was singing with Joan Sutherland and Dinah Shore chipped in, what would they sing?

They would sing Three Little Maids From School.

I actually stumbed across that curiosity when I was searching for this:  a fine blues medley duet by Ella and Dinah.

And then there is one of the most unlikely pairings in the history of music to be preserved for posterity.  Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown do It's A Man's World.

Older people look like being more immune to swine flu.

Due to exposure to long-ago active strains for influenza throughout the 20th century, it looks like people born before 1957 have some immunity to the swine flu virus.

New York Times story here.

"The image above of the newly identified H1N1 influenza virus were taken in the CDC Influenza Laboratory"

The images below of the newly identified H1N1 influenza virus were taken in the CDC Influenza Laboratory

Here is the World Health Organization's swine flu page (in English).

"26 May 2009 -- As of 06:00 GMT, 26 May 2009, 46 countries have officially reported 12 954 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 92 deaths."

Here is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) H1N1 page.

Here is the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing's page on swine flu.

Davy Crockett: Not just on the wild frontier, now in outer space.

Davy Crockett when I was a kid:

Davy Crockett now, remixed by They Might Be Giants:

New lyrics here.

Algiers: Interior View of the New Post Office (GRI) [ 1919 ]

Algiers: Interior View of the New Post Office (GRI), originally uploaded by Getty Research Institute.

Best looking post office I've ever seen.

You couldn't borrow a book because of ... WHAT?

Edward is doing very well in the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge.  To make progress we rely on his ability to borrrow some of the required books during his single weekly library period on Thursdays.

Me:

"So, Edward, were you able to borrow a book from the library today?"

Him:

"No Dad.  I couldn't because every single computer in the school was down."

No computer. No book.  Stymied progress. 

Go figure.

The story of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.

A bit over 5 minutes, but worth it.

French language education resources.

I'm taking some French lessons.

Here's couple of useful resources.

Or, 

Voici quelques ressources de langue françaises.

Un dictionnaire.

Un traducteur anglais français.

Texte à l'artifice de discours.  Spoken here.