Thanks to Rich for a taste of pure jihadi heaven with Madhubala: Teri Mehfil Mein Qismat Aazmakar from Mughal-e-Azam. But if the jihadis fail, this is where they may find themselves.   more »

Madhubala: Teri Mehfil Mein Qismat Aazmakar from Mughal-e-Azam:

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Only 4(8) days and counting, and G.W. Bush will finally return to his ranch/compound outside of Waco Texas, where he will await the Rapture with his millennialist Christian neighbors.... The thought of him soon departing keeps me humming this tune. If you never saw Pops perform then watch closely, he's the real thing!    more »

Despite its obvious legs, Kind of Blue exists in many ways as a mysterious, transitory moment in time. By its official release in August of 1959, Coltrane had recorded his own groundbreaking Giant Steps (another album with a Jimmy Cobb credit); Chambers and Adderley had quit the band over monetary disputes (a recurring theme with Davis); and Bill Evans, already on the outs, would soon be completely gone as well, upset (with good reason, it appears) over not receiving songwriting credit on "Blue in Green" and "Flamenco Sketches." Though Cobb remained in Davis's employ until just prior to 1963's Seven Steps to Heaven, the constant personnel changes may very well have contributed to Kind of Blue's seemingly atemporal state, transcending a mere two days spent within an Eastern European cathedral turned recording studio. "I don't know if he ever played all of those tunes off of that record live like that," Cobb says.   more »