Trombones and information
23 September 2005 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Yesterday I heard Kai Winding’s trombone playing Time Is on My Side on 45blog.com. Loved it!
Steve Turre is probably the best known trombone player today - and certainly the best known conch shell player. A funky and etherheal composer, arranger, and leader. Funky and ethereal, particularly his Lotus Flower cd.
For some of the tracks on the In the Spur of the Moment cd, he uses a quartet with one of his employers, Ray Charles, on piano. This is one of them:
"Do you know why John Roberts will have an easy time getting confirmed, and you won’t?", I asked my daughter. Sometimes my daughter thinks about becoming a judge one day.
"He doesn’t have your blog."
Yes, I was teasing her. But I wonder about a future where a much greater percentage of us has a public record. Some of that record is being published intentionally, although maybe casually - blogs, comments, news groups. As privacy erodes in the name of security and/or efficiency, that record may be fleshed out by joining data sources initially believed private (email) or just inconsequential (My Amazon store), into a rich history. For better or worse.
I think for better. More information will mean a more competitive market. We will become more sophisticated shoppers as we evaluate those to be elected/confirmed/indicted. I think it will be harder for those marketing politicians to use an isolated quote or other snippet to define the history of a candidate or the candidate’s opponent. And the absence of information will become a bigger, redder flag. What was he doing while in the National Guard?
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