Saturday Music Club: late shift

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Ben Riley: "Round Midnight"


The Duke Ellington Orchestra: Night Creature Second Movement: "Stalking Monster"


The Charles Mingus Band: "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"


Billie Holiday and The Sound of Jazz band: "Fine and Mellow"


Zero: "Mr. Broadway"


Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright: "Winter Ballad"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise"


Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane Quartet: "Crepuscule with Nellie"

Friday's Not Too Forgotten Book Guest Post: Mildred Perkins on 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Mildred reported on her reading the King novel to the Horror List at Indiana University:

I finished reading this book, and though the content is only marginally horror, the author can stand a little more discussion I guess.  The first two hundred pages are interesting and occasionally exciting, and the last two hundred pages the same.  The middle three hundred, however, was a real slog.  It was an important set up to the end, of course, but man that was difficult.  I’m sure most of you know the premise, that a thirty-something Maine English teacher decides to save the world by using a hidden time portal to go back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination.  In an epilogue, King says that he wrote the treatment for the thing (14 single-spaced pages) in 1972, but didn’t have the resources for needed massive research and felt that it was just too close to the event and so he shelved it for most of a half century.

The end of the book was not exactly what I expected.  Some of it I had been predicting for about five hundred pages, and even though I knew the action surrounding the assassination would be tight, I was still impressed with that part.  Very tense.  Well done.  But then the denouement…  It was both what I expected and then a whole lot more.  Basically he took it a lot further than I thought he was going to, and the very, very end (after Jackson’s “end” of The Return of the King, it behooves one to say which ending you’re talking about) actually was very poignant.  I don’t remember ever feeling that with a King novel before, so bravo.

I actually find myself wishing they’d make a movie or mini-series from this.  And it also makes me want to find my copy of It and read it again for the first time in years and years, because he spends some time in Derry, and that was one of my favorite parts.

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Saturday Music Club, Music Savings Time edition: Better 1? Better 2?

Betty Everett: "You're No Good"


Dee Dee Warwick: "You're No Good"


Dinah Washington: "Soulville"


Aretha Franklin: "Soulville"

Fairport Convention: "Si Tu Dois Partir"


Bob Dylan: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"


The Hollies: "I Can't Let Go"


Linda Ronstadt: "I Can't Let Go"

Glenn Miller Orchestra with Ray Eberle: "Serenade in Blue"


Glenn Miller Orchestra with Pat Friday (singing for Lynn Bari): "Serenade in Blue"


The Bangles: "Dover Beach"


Charles in Charge theme

Saturday Music Club: some bands with singers, some singers with bands...

Carmen McRae with Brubeck, Morello and Wright: "Oh So Blue" 


Diahann Carroll and the Modern Jazz Quartet: "La Cantatrice"


Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "All About Ronnie"


Abbey Lincoln: "Love Has Gone Away"


Aretha Franklin: "Deeper"


Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan: "Watermelon Man"


Ana Tijoux Live in Berlin


Carmen McRae Quartet: Jazz Casual

Saturday Music Club returns, still tardy, now

Jawbox: "Apollo Amateur"


Thievery Corporation: "All That We Perceive"


Ana Tijoux (con Jorge Drexler):  "Sacar la voz"

http://www.halftheskymovement.org/30-songs-30-days

Nina Simone: "Backlash Blues"


Ion Bogdan Stefanescu and Horia Maxim: "Blue Shadows In The Street"


David Amram large band: "Tompkins Square Park Consciousness Expander" 

Ran Blake Quartet: "Short Life of Barbara Monk" 

FFB: THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, 20th Series, edited by Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday 1973); THE BEST FROM FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Gordon Van Gelder (Tor 1999)

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1973, hc)

• · Shaffery Among the Immortals · Frederik Pohl · ss F&SF Jul ’72
• · A Different Drummer · Raylyn Moore · ss F&SF Feb ’71
• · The Deathbird · Harlan Ellison · nv F&SF Mar ’73
• · Born to Exile [Alaric] · Phyllis Eisenstein · nv F&SF Aug ’71
• · Thus Love Betrays Us · Phyllis MacLennan · ss F&SF Sep ’72
• · The Animal Fair · Alfred Bester · nv F&SF Oct ’72
• · Is It the End of the World? · Wilma Shore · ss F&SF Mar ’72
• · The Bear with the Knot on His Tail [Stardust] · Stephen Tall · nv F&SF May ’71
• · Birdlime · B. L. Keller · ss F&SF Mar ’71
• · The Problem of Pain · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Feb ’73
• · Sooner or Later or Never Never [Crispin Mobey] · Gary Jennings · nv F&SF May ’72
• · Cartoons · Gahan Wilson · ct F&SF

The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology ed. Edward L. Ferman & Gordon Van Gelder (Tor 0-312-86973-8, Oct ’99 [Sep ’99], $24.95, 381pp, hc) Anthology of 21 stories that appeared in the magazine from 1994-98. Authors include Kate Wilhelm, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bruce Sterling, and Gene Wolfe.

• 13 · Introduction · Gordon Van Gelder · in
• 15 · Last Summer at Mars Hill · Elizabeth Hand · na F&SF Aug ’94
• 64 · Maneki Neko · Bruce Sterling · ss F&SF May ’98; originally published in Japanese in Hayakawa S-F Magazine.
• 81 · No Planets Strike · Gene Wolfe · ss F&SF Jan ’97
• 92 · Sins of the Mothers · S. N. Dyer · ss F&SF May ’97
• 106 · The Finger · Ray Vukcevich · ss F&SF Apr ’95
• 112 · Lifeboat on a Burning Sea · Bruce Holland Rogers · nv F&SF Oct/Nov ’95
• 140 · Gone · John Crowley · ss F&SF Sep ’96
• 154 · First Tuesday · Robert Reed · ss F&SF Feb ’96
• 172 · The Fool, the Stick, and the Princess · Rachel Pollack · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’98
• 183 · A Birthday · Esther M. Friesner · ss F&SF Aug ’95
• 200 · Sensible City · Harlan Ellison · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’94
• 209 · All the Birds of Hell · Tanith Lee · nv F&SF Oct/Nov ’98
• 233 · We Love Lydia Love · Bradley Denton · nv F&SF Oct/Nov ’94
• 258 · Paul and Me · Michael Blumlein · ss F&SF Oct/Nov ’97
• Plumage from Pegasus:
  ___ 275 · Have Gun, Will Edit · Paul Di Filippo · cl F&SF Aug ’96
• 280 · Forget Luck [Tony Manetti] · Kate Wilhelm · ss F&SF Apr ’96
• 294 · Quinn’s Way · Dale Bailey · nv F&SF Feb ’97
• 326 · Partial People · Terry Bisson · vi Bears Discover Fire, Tor, 1993
• 329 · The Lincoln Train · Maureen F. McHugh · ss F&SF Apr ’95
• 344 · Another Fine Mess · Ray Bradbury · ss F&SF Apr ’95
• 353 · Solitude · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv F&SF Dec ’94

Actual review forthcoming!

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