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European Motorcycle Night at Historic Haymarket in Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska is held every first Wednesday of April to October. Riders of Euro-cycles, scooters, and dual sport adventures gather in 8th Street from ‘P’ to ‘Q’ in the heart of Haymarket to showcase their fabulous rides.
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First of all, I cannot apologize enough for coming up with such a long title for a short post like this. My precious little sense of “less-is-more” has been taking a long vacation (Where? Where? I am guessing she is at the North-pole by now) to avoid the frontal confrontation with that merciless Heat-Index that has been hovering around 110F for days. Secondly, this post was supposed to be a...
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When browsing through an interesting tread in The Jazz Guitar Forum about Nicolas Slonimsky's monumental work Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns in a local café this afternoon, I just had to get my second cup of Americano to drum up my musical audacity to face again this gargantuan topic. Phew, what a book! In the field of modern Jazz, Slonimsky's Thesaurus has been the Gigantor among all twentieth-century pattern...
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The KoKo session was one of those just-about-supernatural recording dates seemingly shrouded with overflowing magical elements.....The impact of this recording session was far-reaching as the commercial release of Parker’s music soon accelerated the revolution of modern jazz. Teddy Reig, the producer of this recording date, comments on the influence of the release, stating that “in maybe six months it was like The Bible.”
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I have some unexplainable affections toward print/publication-goodies from Japan and European countries. I adore cute illustrations found in Japanese novels and have spent hours browsing through works by artists belonged to Tokyo Illustrators Society. Seriously, it'd take at least three X-large African bush (savanna) elephants to tow me away from Japanese paperback novels section in a specialty bookstore, as I'd be happily camping in front of them for two light-years. ...
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Jazz music, during its comparatively brief history of one hundred years, has continuously manifested its unparalleled energy by progressively reinventing itself and generating new variants that directly or indirectly reflect the development of music in general; the advancement of music technology, and the social interactions, conflicts, and inevitable transformations. Bebop, in particular, exhibits a substantial impact that antagonizes its community internally and consequently challenges the identity and value of the subordinate social groups and their collective assembly.....
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