Administrative

A new look for the fall here at Soundslope. Those of you who only read the RSS feed won't see the difference unless you click here to see the front page.

Other than the new visual look, I also added a couple of new features. Recent comments now show up in the right sidebar, and I also instituted a basic captcha for comments to weed out the humans from the robots who had been plaguing me with comment spam.

Let me know if you notice any snafus or oversights on my part in the redesign. There are a few posts that look funny due to some changes in the style sheets, but nothing that drastically affects readability.

More soon.  

Greetings - I've changed the permissions so that people can post comments without having to create yet another otherwise useless account on the internet. I hadn't realized it was set up that way because I'm always logged in, but I saw that this was the case and have adjusted the setting accordingly. So let me know what you really think.

Just so this post isn't completely boring, I leave you with a video from the Jazz Piano Workshop, recorded in Berlin in 1965, featuring Earl Hines and Jaki Byard on piano, with Alan Dawson on drums.