So you could only communicate by selecting various songs to play.

That was a plot point in the Transformers movie. Really.

That was a plot point in the Transformers movie. Really.

Huh. I should totally become a Hollywood screenwriter. Or, you know, write stuff for the SciFi Channel....

Hi all. Not to barge in on a thread I don't usually read, but I figure you all would know if anyone would. I am listening to "Blue Monk," a John Coltrane/Thelonius Monk collaboration at Carnegie Hall (don't know the date), and I can hear someone humming tunelessly in the middle of one of the solos, and hissing through his teeth elsewhere. Would that be Coltrane, or Monk, or someone else?

It doesn't bother me; I also have Glenn Gould's Bach recordings, where he accompanies himself with noodly whispers of singing, and I think it's neat. I just, would like to locate this instance of noodling in proper context.

Monk hummed along with his solos. There's a neat story behind that album, which was recorded in 1957, if you want to hear it.

Do tell!

I started to write it down, but here's a better telling from All Things Considered.

All Things Considered, October 5, 2005 - One day in late January, Larry Appelbaum was thumbing through some old Voice of America audiotapes about to be digitized at the Library of Congress when he made a discovery that would stun him and many other jazz fans.

Eight 10-inch reels of acetate tape were labeled "Carnegie Hall Jazz 1957." One of the tape boxes had a handwritten note on the back that said "T. Monk" with some song titles.

Appelbaum, a jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, got excited at the prospect of finding unpublished materials by the jazz master Thelonious Monk. Then he heard another distinctive sound. "I recognized the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane and my heart started to race," Appelbaum says.

The Nov. 29, 1957, concert was recorded by the Voice of America but never broadcast. For years, the recordings were lost and forgotten. Now, thanks to Appelbaum's discovery, Blue Note Records is releasing them.

Oh, cool. I just have this one track, and I've listened to it 10 times before without noticing the humming till today.

Huh. I should totally become a Hollywood screenwriter. Or, you know, write stuff for the SciFi Channel....

Step 1: Strike like crazy

Step 2:

Step 3: Be successfull.

Totally and completely random question - a John Lennon song has the lyrics "War is over if you want it." Does that seem awkward to people? Wouldn't "War is over if you want" or "War is over if you want it to be" be better? (Except, of course, he was constrained by having to come up with two groups of four syllables.)

"If you want it, here it is, come and get it..."