Links of the Week

To tide you over until I have something useful to add:

• Science highlight: cool study about infantile music appreciation
• Speaking of cool: JJarnow interviews Trey (not sure who's cooler)
  
• Political season is starting to warm up. Personally, I think it's time we give experience and competence a try. My early support is for Bill Richardson, until someone gives me a reason to believe otherwise. Love this ad.
• Liffy fleshes out those shows we saw last weekend with some videos.
• Can't spread enough love for the Bad Plus and their new album: Prog. Just lurving it after repeated listens
  
• Stream at their myspace page.
  
• Check out a smattering of sweet videos here, here (When the Levee Breaks), here (Physical Cities), here (Flim).
• Download a set (and other stuff) here.
• Dave King featured in this mix. Ethan Iverson in this one.

So, I've been listening to Prog and other Bad Plus quite a bit this past week, piquing the interest of one LJ, who of course, does them justice.

LJ: I like this music. But it's not like rocking out music. You usually like rocking out music.
Dad: It's jazz. It's kind of like rocking out music.
LJ: It's like a lullaby. A really loud lullaby.
Dad: That's true. The band is called the Bad Plus.
LJ: They're joking, though, right?
Dad: What do you mean?
LJ: The Bad Plus, they're joking! They're not bad, they're good!

Dad: That's true.LJ at the Bad Plus, 8/21/2003, City Hall Park