iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe searching for new "third countries" to which the US can send ICE detainees

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 13h

Jazz OTD: The first date of recording for bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding's memorable "Chamber Music" was October 8, 2009. Gretchen Parlato joins her on vocals; the piece is a composition by Spalding with her co-producer, Gil Goldstein. #jazzsky

youtube.com

Knowledge Of Good And Evil

YouTube video by Esperanza Spalding - Topic

073

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 13h

Jazz OTD: I think the original Bobby Hutcherson (vb, marimba, bells) album "Color Schemes" (recorded October 8, 1985) is out of print, but it's available on the "Vibe Wise" collection. With Mulgrew Miller (p), John Heard (b), Airto (perc.), and Billy Higgins (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

Second-Hand Brown

YouTube video by Bobby Hutcherson - Topic

071

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 14h

Jazz OTD: This is a terrific album, but I mostly like featuring Tom Varner's "Jazz French Horn" - recorded October 8-9, 1985 - to juxtapose the title and cover with those for Andrew Hill's "Compulsion!!!!!" With Jim Snidero (as), Kenny Barron (p), Mike Richmond (b), and Victor Lewis (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

So Sorry Please

YouTube video by Tom Varner - Topic

112

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 15h

Jazz OTD: It's hard to pick the best of Andrew Hill's uniformly excellent 1960s Blue Note recordings, but "Compulsion!!!!!" - recorded October 8, 1965 - is certainly among the most memorable, for the intensity of the compositions and its varied instrumentation. The remarkable closing track. #Jazzsky

youtube.com

Limbo (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

YouTube video by Andrew Hill - Topic

0104

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 15h

Jazz OTD: This track, recorded on October 8, 1959 for the brilliant album "Change of the Century," was, appropriately, among those chosen for the "Five Minutes that Will Make you Love Ornette Coleman" feature in the New York Times back in 2022. With Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins. #jazzsky

youtube.com

Ornette Coleman - Una Muy Bonita

YouTube video by jazzhole13

0122

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 20h

For all the loony visuals and set-pieces, it’s really the quiet scenes of dialogue that tip this into “who thought this was a good idea?” territory

110

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 20h

Predators actually was more realistic

100

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 20h

I actually liked that - didn’t love it but thought it worked in fits and starts. But I’m not a die-hard fan of it.

110

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, it’s hard not to admire its insane ambition but also impossible to find anything sufficiently non-ridiculous to be compelling

320

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 20h

I like Adrian Brody. He was great in Predators!

100

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 20h

Just started watching Megalopolis and I’m convinced yet again that the most pervasive and successful gaslighting campaign of the 21st century has been the conspiracy to convince people that Adam Driver is a good actor.

static.klipy.com

Cesar Catilina with Crystal Ball in Megalopolis

ALT: Cesar Catilina with Crystal Ball in Megalopolis

262

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow, f*** this guy. Like David Brooks but more aggressively wrong-headed www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...

From the unlettered pen of Thomas Edsall:

The gender gap is a relatively simple comparison of the differences between men and women in their votes for Democrats or Republicans, or the different levels of support for such policy issues as military and welfare spending.

In the case of women in particular, the intragender gap is more subtle. But before going there, let me register a note of caution and frustration.

In comparison with scholarship on, say, voting or polarization, a disproportionate share of academic work that might provide objective analysis of gender and politics for a lay writer like me is riddled by advocacy in place of research. Fortunately, much of the work on hypermasculinity and femininity, while sometimes jargony, does not suffer these evidentiary weaknesses, with claims often backed up by polling and other data.

000

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Here's the title track from Cécile McLorin Salvant's consistently surprising album "Ghost Song." It's an original composition from one of the most original, unmistakable figures in jazz today. October 7, 2020 was the first day of recording. #jazzsky

youtube.com

Ghost Song

YouTube video by Cécile McLorin Salvant - Topic

041

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Here's a lively version of the Ralph Freed and Friedrich Hollaender chestnut "You Leave Me Breathless" by Toronto's Grant Stewart from his album "+4," featuring Bill Charlap (p), Joe Cohn (g), Paul Gill (b), and Willie Jones III (d), recorded October 7, 2004. #jazzsky

youtube.com

You leave me breathless

YouTube video by Grant Stewart - Topic

011

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You don't think Fugitive Caesar actually gave a guy a $40 tip on a $15 meal?

020

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Branford Marsalis recorded one of his most reflective albums from October 7-10, 2003, with "Eternal," dedicated to a set of influences and heroes, from Elvin Jones to Steve Lacy. With Joey Calderazzo (p), Eric Revis (b), and Jeff "Tain" Watts. #jazzsky

youtube.com

Dinner for One Please, James

YouTube video by Branford Marsalis Quartet - Topic

041

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When I evaluate whether I was wrong about something that was blindingly obvious at the time, I like to quote a little someone named Ruth Bader Ginsberg, you may have heard of her, and focus on the few things I didn't get embarrassingly wrong.

001

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jazz OTD: I'm featuring as much of the work by the recently departed bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa as possible, and this is, I believe, his first collaboration among many with Kenny Barron. "Images," recorded October 7-8, 2003, with Stefon Harris (vb), Anne Drummond (fl), Kim Thompson (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

Hallucinations

YouTube video by Kenny Barron - Topic

021

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli, a longtime mainstay of the New York hard bop scene, recorded his fine album "Always There" on October 7, 1997. On this spirited track, he's joined by Gary Smulyan (baritone sax), Jim Snidero (as), Dennis Irwin (b), and Kenny Washington (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

Joe Magnarelli J.J.'S BUSRIDE BLUES

YouTube video by fedele alla linea

141

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Pianist George Cables's combination of percussiveness and lyricism is on full display on his album "Why Not," recorded October 7, 1975 with Tony Dumas (b) and Carl Burnett (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

Rita I and II - Her Spirit / Her Soul

YouTube video by George Cables - Topic

021

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, it’s pretty great, huh? Somehow I hadn’t heard it til the other day.

010

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, yeah, the interview is filled with that nonsense. As I said, not worth reading. I'm just always glad to see any takedown I can of Vance, particularly from voters/voices he probably needs in his camp.

020

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Samuel Alito's new memoir is yet another reminder that he is one of my fellow Italian-Americans whom I never want to hear from or read anything about

Alito seeing justice and decency and getting angry about it

Alphonse D'Amato trying to think of obscenities to scream at the photographer

Antonin Scalia smiling, thinking about how he's going to condescend while destroying democracy

Gwen Stefani smiling as she imagines what it must be like to be able to sing well

240

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This conversation between the Times's John Guida and Reason magazine's Stephanie Slade is way too boring and free from anything resembling original insight to be worth reading it in its entirety, but I enjoyed seeing her take every chance to throw shade at JD Vance. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...

Most Americans really do want to find a way to share their country peacefully with their neighbors even if they disagree. Most Americans really do believe that everyone deserves equal treatment under law. Most Americans were horrified by the excesses of wokeness as well as the white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet and now finds expression from more mainstream voices such as JD Vance, Eric Schmitt and Bo French.

Guida: Can the Republican Party emerge from Trumpism to become fusionist again? It seems a long way from that right now, no?

Slade: It has drifted a long way, yes. And Trump’s current heir apparent, Vice President Vance, is an open proponent of anti-fusionist, Dissident Right ideas. So I don’t see this intellectual divide having a clean resolution anytime soon. But I do think it’s a live debate, and those who count fusionists out have jumped to a premature conclusion.

111

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great choice! But it raises the question of whether there is anything Sade Adu could do or wear that she wouldn’t make stylish.

010

Reposted by David Leheny

Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am again struck at the number of Noh plays about human trafficking. Today's find, Jinen koji, is about a girl (boy) who brings a kimono to a temple to get it blessed, unravelling the story. Hagoromo is also like this, with a feathered cloak as stolen passport of a celestial being. Heartbreaking.

the-noh.com

Noh Plays DataBase : Jinen-Koji : Synopsis and Highlight

192

Reposted by David Leheny

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

21584154

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Weird that a network named for genocidaires has some unsavory elements

070

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just kidding. I’m a Jets fan so it’s not like I’m talking from a position of arrogance. But good clip!

000

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A poorly coached football team?

100

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's a risk that voters will be so overwhelmed by the charisma of these two that there won't be any focus on substantive policy.

120

Reposted by David Leheny

Bobby Broom @bobbybroomguitar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

CLIFTON ANDERSON: Today I'm wishing a happy birthday to trombonist Clifton Anderson. We spent a lot of time on the road together in Sonny’s band, where I developed a fondness for this gentleman. Wishing him the best in his musical endeavors and the rest of life. HBD, Tones! 📸: John Abbott

053

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't feel bad. It's important to remind people of what sexual assault means and leaves behind for the victims. Just because you're doing well now doesn't make it any less brave or admirable.

140

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m so sorry to read this. And, not for the first time, I’m impressed beyond words by who you are.

160

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, whose zone is usually in adventurous Woody Shaw-style post-bop, stretched stylistically with his evocative album "Balance 38-58," recorded October 6, 2014. W/ David Binney(sax), Adam Rogers (g), John Escreet (p, kb), Matt Brewer (b), and Eric Harland (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

Yragon

YouTube video by Alex Sipiagin - Topic

031

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Organist Mike LeDonne debuted his "Groover Quartet" (tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, guitarist Peter Bernstein, drummer Joe Farnsworth) on the album "Groover," recorded October 6, 2009. Great playing, ricocheting from Michael Jackson covers to sprightly originals like this. #Jazzsky

youtube.com

Mike LeDonne - Bopsolete

YouTube video by Jazz Everyday!

072

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jazz OTD: Thelonious Monk recorded two tracks, including this great solo version of a chestnut first made famous by Rudy Vallée, on October 6, 1964. It appeared on his album "Monk." #jazzsky

youtube.com

I Love You (Sweetheart of All My Dreams)

YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic

0101

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jazz OTD: More so than on his Blue Note studio albums of the era, pianist/composer Horace Silver was able to develop longer ideas with his group at this sparkling live performance in Paris, October 6, 1962. With Junior Cook (ts), Blue Mitchell (tp), Gene Taylor (b), and Roy Brooks (d). #jazzsky

youtube.com

Sayonara Blues (Live)

YouTube video by Horace Silver - Topic

091

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm planning to write a novel about a world-weary but kind-hearted detective, and I've decided that I need to set it in a city where I can provide authoritative descriptions of its sites/cuisine/dialects so that it feels real. Which should I choose? A) Des Moines B) Morioka C) Hoi An D) Ogallala

170

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A possibility for Vivek Ramaswamy would be to not perform in public settings exactly as one might expect a con man would.

Vivek performing Eminem during his "Irony Is Dead 2024" tour

000

David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good time for his defenders to point out that he's a "counterpuncher," and that maybe if those cities hadn't voted against mostly against him in the presidential election, he wouldn't have to invite their nuclear annihilation.

010