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The sheer lack of inventory that was created by high demand over the past 24 months made all of our jobs more difficult and the transaction often more problematic due to the exporting and importing of aircraft to satisfy our clients' and prospects' needs. This will be more of a trickling of new aircraft for resale and not wholesale dumping of new products into our market. This measured addition of product should blend nicely into for-sale totals and keep preowned jet pricing steady.
One important thing to consider and was reinforced as I made my calls to colleagues this week was that the strength we experienced over the past 12 months in terms of activity and pricing is not what we went through in the years leading up to 2008. We spent the last year with flat residual values, which I always said would feel like the new up. Unlike the runup to 2008, we never got to an unhealthy bubble with pricing where actual premiums were being paid for preowned aircraft. That is very positive and will protect us, even with a bit more inventory, from suffering huge corrections in pricing.
So, the bottom line is drink plenty of water, exercise, and smile. I do believe this hangover will go away quickly and you will not have a lingering flu. I look forward to continuing to celebrate a very solid and confident marketplace. Let’s find ways to talk more often, share market data more often, and be open to a growing year.
Jay Mesinger discovered a passion for flying when he was in high school. In college, he learned he had a gift for business. In 1982, he combined his love of flying with his business acumen to create what is now Mesinger Jet Sales.
David Hajdu is the music critic of The Nation. Hajdu is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written on the arts for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. As an editor and magazine writer, Hajdu has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award several times, and his articles and essays have been selected for a number of anthologies, including Best Music Writing, Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times Arts & Culture Reader, and Best American Comics Writing.
Hajdu is the award-winning author of four books: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña; The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America; and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. He is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award. Hajdu is presently at work on a history of popular music, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
A monumental achievement in high musical drama, Wolfe’s new piece Fire in my mouth is already one of the year’s best performances.
A striking number of this year’s most potent albums give voice to the disorientation, anxiety, and rage that infuse the human experience today.
Their new album is an impeccably accomplished and deeply satisfying collection created largely through free improvisation.
This expansive work follows a cast of characters caught up in the massive upheavals happening in Germany between the world wars.
Use whichever white fish fillets you can get your hands on for this stunning Thai curry made with either yellow or red curry paste.
Place a large non-stick wok or wide frying pan or over a medium-high heat. Add the oil and stir-fry the sliced shallots for 5-8 minutes, or until golden-brown and crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
Return the pan to a low heat, add the coconut cream and the curry paste and cook for one minute, stirring constantly. Pour over the coconut milk and stir in 100ml/3½fl oz water. Bring to a gentle simmer.
Put the lemongrass on a board and cut in half. Bash with a rolling pin to bruise and flatten the stalks – this will allow their flavour to escape more easily into your curry. Add the lemongrass, lime leaves, nam pla and sugar to the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes more, or until the sugar dissolves, stirring.
Add the pea aubergines and simmer gently for eight minutes, stirring occasionally until almost tender. (If using green beans, cook for three minutes instead.) Stir in the peppers and cook for five minutes more, stirring regularly. The coconut curry sauce needs to be bubbling gently but constantly to cook the vegetables.
When the aubergines are tender, taste the curry sauce and add more Thai fish sauce if necessary. It needs to have a good balance of hot, salty, sour and sweet. At this point the curry sauce can be removed from the heat and left to stand before the fish is ready to be cooked.
Cut the fish pieces into 3cm/1¼in chunks and season with ground black pepper. Stir the fish and mangetout into the curry and cook for a further five minutes. Turn the fish in the sauce every now and then at the beginning of the cooking time, but stop as soon as you see it beginning to flake.
The fish should look opaque rather than translucent when cooked and the curry should be thick and creamy but not so thick that it begins to burn on the bottom of the pan. If it does reduce too far, simply add a little extra water.
Scatter the crisp shallots, coriander leaves and roughly torn Thai basil on the curry and serve immediately with cooked rice.
REDLANDS – Hero is a term often heard. Firefighters qualify, especially this year in California where three wildfires caused widespread damage and killed 88 people.
But does heroism end with firefighters? Could a hero not be a high school teacher/coach who educates our youth and provides for his family? Might a stay-at-home mom also qualify?
Meet Redlands East Valley High School teacher and basketball coach Bill Berich and his wife Kate Berich. They are the parents of four grown children, including 28-year-old Billy, a severely Autistic young man who lives at home and will continue to do so for as long as his parents are ambulatory.
The Berich family lives in a sprawling ranch house in Redlands Heights. Several homes on the block fly American flags as befits this All-American existence.
Inside the home only Billy’s occasional shrieks and cries interrupt the tranquility. It is frustrating not being able to communicate — Billy does not speak — especially when two invaders from the media are snapping photos and asking questions.
But ever alert is the 6-foot-1 Bill, there to soothe and comfort his son.
Bill, a former Covina High basketball standout, taught with Kate’s brother Scott Adams at Yucaipa Middle School in the early 1980s. Scott later became the longtime Thunderbirds golf coach.
Besides Billy the couple have three other grown children — Carly, 29, a United Airlines flight attendant; Blake, 23, a freshman in law school at UCLA; and Adam, 21, who attends Crafton Hills College.
Billy? He enjoys the trampoline, swimming, going to the park, videos and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, neatly cut into fourths.
Kate, who shares the same birthday with Bill – Feb. 24, two years apart – has no regrets.
Bill is cordial and witty off the court but serious as a tax audit during games.
“Dribble drive. Patience. It doesn’t have to be the first shot!” he barked during a recent 71-54 victory against Carter, marking the team’s 18th consecutive victory.
His teams had won 437 games and four league titles in his career heading into Saturday night’s showdown with Cajon.
The Wildcats have been to the section semifinals twice and the championship game once — in 2015, when they lost to Compton by 15.
Though Berich has his critics, he’s popular in the coaching fraternity – especially with a tight circle of friends that includes Summit High School’s John Romagnoli, Colony’s Jerry DeFabiis and Great Oak assistant coach Mike Young.
Memorable was Berich taking the trio out from his Dana Point slip on his 30-foot boat and nearly sending everyone down to Davy Jones’ Locker.
DeFabiis, like Romagnoli, admires Berich – not only for his coaching acumen but for his giving nature.
Notable: Berich is a History major with minors in Biology and English Literature … During his college days took a break from the University of La Verne to play basketball for College of St. Paul and St. Mary in England … Had lunch and later visited the home of the late UCLA coaching legend John Wooden through Mike Harms, a Covina High friend … Was the Yucaipa High coach for seven years and assisted Gary Smith at the University of Redlands for four years … Has visited Vietnam three times … His boat is fittingly named “Time Out!” … Credits wife Kate and REV athletic director Rhonda Fouch for their staunch support.
Last July, US President Barack Obama set the spark for his Power Africa programme that will help sub-Saharan African countries build power production and transmission projects and double their electricity access. President Obama announced in Cape Town, South Africa, his plan to mobilize $16 billion for investments that will generate 10,000 megawatts of electricity. With Nigerian billionaire and philanthropist Tony Elumelu pledging $2.5 billion towards that amount, it appears that Obama’s turn towards Africa is energizing the continent’s new philanthropic elites who can play a critical role in social enterprise, build capacity and pilot new technologies.
Before accompanying President Obama to tour the Ubongo power plant, near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Mr. Elumelu had also joined Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a US charity, to announce the establishment of the Impact Economy Investment Fund that will provide start-up capital for young entrepreneurs for jobs-creating projects. Like Mr. Elumelu, other top African philanthropists also appear to be changing tactics, focusing on investments in areas likely to accelerate Africa’s prosperity in addition to their interventions in humanitarian crises such as floods.
At a roundtable discussion last October at the UN headquarters in New York—one of the side events during the UN General Assembly debate—Mr. Elumelu, who is chairman of Heirs Holdings, an investment firm; South Africa’s Precious Moloi-Motsepe, the co-founder of the Motsepe Foundation; the Sudanese mobile communications entrepreneur and billionaire, Mo Ibrahim; Toyin Saraki, founder and president of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a charity devoted mainly to children’s and women’s affairs, discussed philanthropy in Africa and the role of the private sector. Mr. Elumelu urged African philanthropists to focus on socioeconomic development and making people self-reliant.
A $6.3 million donation last year to flood victims in Nigeria established Mr. Elumelu as one of Africa’s top philanthropists. According to Forbes, a US business magazine, other pacesetters include Africa’s richest man, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, whose charitable contributions totaled $35 million last year, Mr. Ibrahim, Zimbabwe’s Strive Masiyiwa, Kenya’s Naushad Merali, and Mrs. Moloi-Motsepe who was named Africa’s most influential woman by Forbes in 2012.
In the manner of billionaire Warren Buffet, who gave away a substantial chunk of his fortune to charity in 2006, South Africa’s Francois van Niekerk transferred 70% of his equity in Mertech Group, a company he founded, to the Mergon Foundation, a charity he now manages. The stake is valued at $170 million.
Those skeptics who see few practitioners of philanthropy on the continent misunderstand the cultural context, argue Halima Mohamed and Bhekinkosi Moyo in their article in Alliance magazine, a leading publication on philanthropy. The emphasis on formal philanthropic institutions “is far from what philanthropy in Africa actually is—where giving emerges across socioeconomic classes; through individual and communal channels (formal and informal), often not involving money,” the writers maintain. In explaining Africa’s peculiar climate of philanthropy at the UN discussion round table, Ms. Moloi-Motsepe gave the example of ubuntu, a South African concept meaning “I am because you are: my success is intricately linked to yours.” The ubuntu concept is a family value that encourages giving back to society, she said.
Africans have a culture of giving and mutual support even if only a few formal charitable organizations exist, declared Toyin Saraki, founder and president of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a charity devoted mainly to children’s and women’s affairs. At the UN event, Ms. Saraki reinforced the point that Africans have a culture of giving and mutual support even if only a few formal charitable organizations exist. Citing a study by Adams Bodomo, a Ghanaian academic, the BBC reported last April that Africans in the diaspora remitted $51.8 billion in 2010 compared to $43 billion from traditional Western aid donors. Therefore, the anecdote of four philanthropic institutions in a country with 150 private jets fails to tell the full story.
With most philanthropic activities neither documented nor promoted in Africa, organizations like African Grantmakers Network have stepped in to facilitate experience sharing among philanthropists and to promote their activities. Along this line, Mr. Dangote recently pledged to enhance the public information aspect of his philanthropic work.
Mr. Elumelu’s model, which emphasizes investments in sectors that promote development such as the pharmaceutical and startup sectors, is an example of the link between business and charity. Stressing the need for investments in critical development sectors, he highlighted the billions of dollars his company was going to invest in sub-Saharan Africa’s ailing power sector. Former Ghanaian president John Kufuor took issue, pointing out that philanthropy involves giving without expecting something in return. Investments and philanthropy are not the same thing, he said, and Africa needs the former more than the latter.
While Ms. Saraki and Mr. Elumelu shared their views on how business can support socioeconomic development at the U.N. Roundtable, at other forums they have termed their approach strategic philanthropy, meaning solving problems at their source. For example, they believe that by providing education to women, philanthropists can help women avoid many reproductive health problems.
Africa’s poverty, exacerbated by a decline in official development aid, brings strategic philanthropy into sharper focus. The UK government’s assistance to South Africa, worth about $64 million in 2003 and down to about $30 million this year, will cease by 2015. The US-based Center for International Grantmaking reported that there had been a 4% decline in international giving by American foundations in 2010 following the 2009 global economic downturn. As a result, many foundations were unable to continue their work in Africa, creating an urgent opportunity for the continent’s philanthropists.
Launched in April this year, the African Philanthropy Forum (APF) has a peer-review component that will likely address those concerns. An affiliate of the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF), the APF was founded to promote strategic philanthropy in Africa. In announcing the APF’s launch, Jane Wales, president and CEO of the GPF, said that even as poverty persists in Africa, there are generous African men and women, “many at the height of their careers,” who are eager and “determined to change this reality and ensure that the benefits of economic opportunity are more evenly shared.” Ms. Wales may have had in mind Africa’s 55 billionaires, who were touted by the Nigeria-based financial magazine Ventures as having a combined wealth of $145 billion.
Before the APF’s launch, individuals such as Mr. Ibrahim were already implementing activities that promoted economic growth and responsible political leadership. In 2007 the Mo Ibrahim Foundation began awarding annual prizes to African leaders who, while in power, developed their countries, lifted people out of poverty, paved the way for sustainable and equitable prosperity and did not attempt to bend existing laws to extend their term. Winners receive $5 million over 10 years, $200,000 per year for life and another $200,000 for a charity of their choice. Previous winners include former presidents Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Festus Mogae of Botswana but there has been no winner since 2011.
Uganda’s Ashish Thakkar spent $1 million last year through his Mara Foundation to “make wealth through capacity building, mentoring and peer networking”. The foundation provides financing for start-up businesses or already existing business with high risk but high growth potential, renovate dozens of Ugandan high schools, provide scholarships to destitute East African students and offer free training to startup entrepreneurs.
The APF must now take African philanthropy to a higher level. Capturing the mood at the private sector forum on Africa, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Africa can and will determine its own fate.” With leadership from the current crop of indigenous wealthy financiers, the small but growing number of African philanthropists may be ready for this task.
Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectures become more modular, distributed, volatile, and interdependent; applications have become much more difficult to manage, and the need to proactively monitor and manage applications proactively has become stronger.
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Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement, and Long Island Progressive demonstrated on Sunday against a fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at the beachfront home of billionaire David H. Koch (house on right) in Southampton, N.Y.
President Obama’s reelection campaign continued to blast Mitt Romney on Sunday for offshore financial holdings and renewed its call for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to release additional tax returns.
The pressure followed a week of news reports about a Bermuda company Romney owned and transferred to a trust in the name of his wife, Ann, on the day before he became Massachusetts’ governor in 2003.
The existence of the company, Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd., and other foreign assets — including investments in the Cayman Islands and a Swiss bank account maintained until 2010 — was not known to the public until Romney released his 2010 tax return and an estimate for 2011 in January.
“The one thing he could do . . . to clear up whether or not he’s done anything illegal” is to release more tax returns, Robert Gibbs said.
Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs suggested Sunday that Romney might have broken the law; at a minimum, Democrats say, Romney is guilty of secrecy and of betting against the country he aspires to govern.
Gibbs’s claim that “every other presidential candidate” has released “a series of years of their tax returns” is not quite accurate. In 2008, GOP nominee John McCain released only two years of returns.
And the Obama campaign’s demand that Romney release 23 years of tax returns — the number he shared with McCain while being vetted as a potential running mate — is unprecedented. According to a list compiled by PolitiFact, no presidential candidate since 1976 has released more than 12 years of tax returns.
“Mitt Romney had a successful career in the private sector, pays every dime of taxes he owes, has given generously to charitable organizations, and served numerous causes greater than himself,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement.
The significance of Romney’s foreign assets is unclear. Though it has used Romney’s offshore holdings to paint him as an out-of-touch rich man hoarding his wealth abroad, the Obama campaign and its surrogates have struggled to articulate why the investments are relevant to the election.
In a video posted online Sunday, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt levied no direct charges against Romney but made his points with innuendo. “What taxes would Romney have paid if his money was invested here in America?” LaBolt asked.
Moving Sankaty to his wife’s trust would not have allowed Romney to omit the company from his annual statement of financial interests. Presumably, he left Sankaty out because it was worth less than $1,000. If the company was worth more, Romney might have broken the law by not disclosing it, but the Obama campaign has not made such a specific accusation.
Despite the vagueness of the Obama campaign’s attack, Romney’s team appears uncomfortable discussing the candidate’s foreign assets. Debating the issue with O’Malley on ABC, Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana and a possible vice presidential pick, repeatedly ducked questions from host Terry Moran.
Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPDTM) are 20×20 cm2 MCP-based photodetectors that are capable of psec-level time resolution and sub-mm position resolution. I will discuss applications of the correlated space-time measurements in particle physics ranging from particle identiﬁcation by time-of-ﬂight to searches for neutrinoless double decay. I will report on the present status of the development of LAPPD. In particular, I will focus on the Gen-II LAPPD that has a monolithic ceramic detector base with an anode capacitively coupled through a thin metal ﬁlm to an application-speciﬁc readout pattern outside of the vacuum package.
An article in the New York Times suggests that suburbanites and their townships are beginning to notice the disproportional impact they're living is having on the environment and the changes they're making.
An article in the New York Times suggests that suburbanites and their townships are beginning to notice the disproportional impact they’re living is having on the environment and the changes they’re making.
The problem with suburbs, many environmentalists say, is not an issue of light bulbs. In the end, the very things that make suburban life attractive — the lush lawns, spacious houses and three-car garages — also disproportionally contribute to global warming. Suburban life, these environmentalists argue, is simply not sustainable.
She was just on RuPaul's Drag Race last week!
And the hits keep coming because today it was announced that the "Dirrty" singer is PAPER magazine's April cover star.
For the full article, head over to PAPER.
So much potential! Live in the heart of Red Hook in this 2 family home with a mix of homey eateries, quirky bars, edgy art galleries and boutiques which proliferate along Van Brunt Street, the main artery and of course Fairway Market is nearby. The first floor features a walk-in apartment with 1 bedroom, separate living room, bathroom and kitchen that leads to the private back yard. Earn rent to help pay for the mortgage and expenses. The second floor and third floor features the owner’s duplex with a spacious open living room, large kitchen, full bathroom and 4 bedrooms. The master bedroom has an ensuite bathroom. This unique property has a very large car garage with separate community access through an alley in the back of the house. There is room to grow if you want to increase the size of this home. Great opportunity for developer/investors to take advantage of the R5 zoning to convert this 2 family into a 4 family home in a great neighborhood. Feel the vibe! Call for a showing.
The former Supreme Court judge's appointment comes five years after the Lokpal Act received the President’s nod on January 1, 2014.
Justice Pinaki Ghose on Saturday took oath as the first Lokpal of India — the national anti-corruption ombudsman. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi were present on the occasion. The former Supreme Court judge’s appointment comes five years after the Lokpal Act received the President’s nod on January 1, 2014.
A high-level selection committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, the panel’s “eminent jurist member”, cleared Justice Ghose’ name at its meeting on Friday.
Justice Ghose was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in March 2013 and retired in May 2017. Before being appointed as Lokpal, he was a member of the National Human Rights Commission.
Former Chief Justices of different high courts — Justices Dilip B Bhosale, Pradip Kumar Mohanty, Abhilasha Kumari — besides sitting Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Ajay Kumar Tripathi were appointed as judicial members in the Lokpal.
Former first woman chief of Sashastra Seema Bal Archana Ramasundaram, ex-Maharashtra chief secretary Dinesh Kumar Jain, former IRS officer Mahender Singh and Gujarat cadre ex-IAS officer Indrajeet Prasad Gautam are the Lokpal’s non-judicial members.
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, which envisaged the setting up of a Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas for the states, to inquire into allegations of corruption against public functionaries was enacted in 2013 and received Presidential assent on January 1, 2014.
*** KENNY BARRON AND MINO CINELU, "Swamp Sally," Verve. Barron's odyssey through the varied territory of jazz (he seems to have played with almost everyone) continues in this duet album with percussionist Cinelu. The combination is magical, with Barron producing some of his most unusual piano playing.
*** ORNETTE COLEMAN, "Sound Museum Three Women" and "Sound Museum Hidden Men," Verve/Harmolodic. An odd pair of CDs that provide alternate takes of the same tunes. On the plus side, Coleman's pieces and sax playing harken to the energy and innovation of his earliest performances.
**** MILES DAVIS & GIL EVANS, "The Complete Studio Recordings," Columbia (six CDs, $110). Just about everything anyone could ever want to know about the classic Davis and Evans Columbia studio recordings is included in this comprehensive boxed set. The encounters between Davis' sensual trumpet and Evans' gorgeous orchestra textures on the "Miles Ahead," "Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain" albums are well worth the price of admission.
**** BILL EVANS, "Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings, June 1980," Warner Bros. (six CDs, $90). This set was recorded shortly before Evans' death in September 1980, and he was still at the top of his form. His performances here are filled with the blend of emotional intensity and romantic lyricism that was essential to his music. A must-have collection for jazz piano fans.
*** 1/2 STAN GETZ, "A Life in Jazz: A Musical Autobiography," Verve. An entrancing survey of rich and diverse music produced by the tenor saxophonist over more than three decades. Among the high points: Getz's collaboration with Eddie Sauter in the quasi-classical piece "Focus"; "Corcovado," from the bossa nova years; and a moving duet with Kenny Barron on "Night and Day," recorded three months before Getz's death in 1991.
*** 1/2 DEXTER GORDON, "The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions," Blue Note (six CDs, $90). Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "Round Midnight" (1986). But, as these solid performances from the '60s make clear, he also was a tenor saxophonist who played with brusque force, a dark, immediately identifiable sound, and a propulsive sense of swing.
*** 1/2 HERBIE HANCOCK, "The New Standard," Verve. Pianist Hancock is still captivated by the songs of pop, but here he uses them well, starting with songs by Peter Gabriel, Kurt Cobain, Prince and Lennon & McCartney and winding up with some of his most outward-bound, pure jazz improvising.
**** STAN KENTON, "The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton 1943-47," Mosaic ($96; call 327-7111 to order). The Kenton band of the '40s was an enigma: popular yet controversial. And this seven-CD, 10-LP set reveals the ensemble's frothy pop music as well as its compellingly adventurous, if not always successful, attempts to create a massive orchestral jazz style.
*** 1/2 ELLIS & BRANFORD MARSALIS, "Loved Ones," Columbia. Originally planned as a solo ballad outing, pianist Ellis Marsalis decided, instead, to add his son's tenor saxophone to the mix. The result is a delightful, continually intriguing musical rendezvous between two generations of jazz's first family.
*** BRANFORD MARSALIS, "The Dark Keys," Columbia. Marsalis takes a big chance on this one, working on the saxophone with only the accompaniment of bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. But his gift for triggering solos that vary quick, melodic fragments with stretched-out virtuosic displays produces enticing music.
*** 1/2 GERRY MULLIGAN, "The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet With Chet Baker," Pacific Jazz (four CDs, $60). Mulligan's pianoless West Coast group of the '50s is presented in detail. Forty years later, the music is still pleasingly melodic, the playing overflowing with imagination and surprise.
*** 1/2 DON PULLEN, "Sacred Common Ground," Blue Note. Recorded less than two months before Pullen died of cancer in April 1995, this is an extraordinary composite of music, blending the rhythmic flow and the improvisational spontaneity of jazz with the insistent percussion of Native America. The mortar binding it all together is Pullen's own deeply insightful piano playing.
*** JOSHUA REDMAN, "Freedom in the Groove," Warner Bros. Yes, the recording has its commercial moments, and there's no denying Redman's desire to reach a wider audience. But there's also a lot of fine blowing here, as well, from a saxophonist who looks to be the most successful jazz artist of the decade.
**** MARCUS ROBERTS, "Portraits in Blue," Sony Classical. Pianist Roberts' interpretation of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is an inventive rethinking of the composition, filled with a jaunty drive and dominated by Roberts' articulate and colorful approach to both the written and the newly improvised passages.
*** JACKY TERRASSON, "Reach," Blue Note. Terrasson's piano work with drummer Leon Parker has the same kind of interactive fascination offered by Bill Evans' relationships with his various bass players. Despite some eccentric interpretations, Terrasson and Parker constantly bring new perspective to the familiar jazz repertoire.
**** MEL TORME, "The Mel Torme Collection, 1944-1985," Rhino ($55). Torme was very good from the beginning, capable of moving easily from jazz-tinged rhythms to string-saturated commercial ballads. Although the program notes can be confusing, this is an otherwise beautifully produced look at the career Torme describes as "a work in progress."
To the jaded hacks at @work, it often seems there are as many job-search experts as actual people looking for jobs. While some of their counsel is terrific, it’s rare to find an expert whose advice is novel and tangible. So much career counseling tends to be one or the other — or neither.

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