On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned…

later folks...

Memory Loss Requires Careful Diagnosis, Scientists Say nytimes.com/2024/02/09/hea…

Very sad news: Damo Suzuki, the former Can frontman and fearless sound carrier has died.
electronicsound.co.uk/news/rip-damo-…

We had 15 presidential debates in the last election, and not one time did they have a 30-minute conversation on how presidential candidates would address poverty and low wages. Poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in this country. It is a moral and political issue.

Graffiti artists broke into downtown Los Angeles’ Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper development earlier this month and tagged over 27 floors with bright, bold letters. bit.ly/49puant

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Deleted Scene - Flute of Destiny youtu.be/NvOazGZcheU?si…

Marshall Allen also served in the Army:

Stumbled again across this sketch Lenny Bruce wrote (and never performed?) where he name drops my father...

1975 ad in DownBeat: Dizzy knows his congas!

Do you own a Herbie Hancock Mwandishi sextet t-shirt? bonfire.com/mwandishishirt/ proceed benefit Equal Justice Initiative

Late hot take: if Oscar Peterson’s music is a perfectly cooked French omelette, Then the music of Charles Mingus is Eggs Rancheros with beans and cheese and hot sauce.

Re-upping this departure thread as think I’ve finally worked up the chutzpah/cohones to burn this account down and split for good. instagram.com/tech_def?igsh=…

More announcement than question:

(Esta indecisión me molesta)
(Si no me quieres, librarme)
(Dígame que tengo ser)
(Sabes que ropa me 'quedrá'?)
(Me tienes que decir)
(Me debo ir o quedarme?)

It was fun and then it wasn’t.

My feature debut for The Guardian on the indomitable Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra!

🇬🇧☄️🛸🚀🪐🔭✊🏾
theguardian.com/music/2024/feb…

Happy birthday to Stan Getz, who was born on this day in 1927.

Here I am with him in a Stanford music classroom back in 1983.

You can see it in my face—I'm trying to soak up as much as I could learn from him. There's no substitute for experiencing creative greatness up close.

'Essman recalled one of the last conversations she had with her mother[....] “She was like, ‘I saw the show last night. Does anybody watch that? It’s horrible. And you’re hardly in it, and when you are, you’re not very good.’”nytimes.com/2024/02/01/art…

Dr. Patrice Rushen has spoken.