typically associated with jazz, but could be any non-orchestra over a certain size (more)

Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical during the same year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis (more)

The Either/Orchestra (E/O) is a jazz group formed by Russ Gershon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1985. E/O is configured as a "small big band", with three saxes, two trumpets and one or two trombones. E/O's is characterized by a heavier and more orchestrated sound than that of a smaller jazz combo, but remains more streamlined and Improv-oriented than most Big Band-s... Drawing on leader Gershon's experience on the Boston rock scene coupled with the diverse musical backgrounds of its members, the outlines of the Either/Orchestra were influenced by Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Either/Orchestra (more)

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, pianist, composer, big-bandleader, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history,[1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Herbie Hancock. Mingus' compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus

Tim Bray on Charles Mingus. (more)

The Big Band Golden Age is Now. The economics and logistics of keeping a dozen or more musicians on the road were never sustainable. Add in the fact that dance music – and the big bands were first and foremost dance bands – was drifting towards the burgeoning rock’n’roll sound, and the demise of the big band was inevitable. Ellington and Basie kept going well into the 1970s, but big bands became less important as the small ensemble ethos of be-bop and post-bop became the prominent vehicles for jazz. (article profiles a number of current bands, with embedded youtubes to check out) (more)

"They're Doing It Out of Love": The Big Band Rises Again. There are plenty to choose from these days. Quietly, beneath the radar of even most jazz lovers, the big band has been charging back. For a long time, the large ensemble has seemed a clunky vestige of American music’s past — outmoded since bebop supplanted swing in the 1950s — but a bumper crop of enterprising, conservatory-trained composers sees it differently: as a vessel of grandiose possibility (more)

What Does A 21st Century Big Band Sound Like? A variety of big bands dotted the jazz landscape at the turn of the millenium: revivalists like Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, jazz-funk outfits like Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, bands with star crooners like Michael Bublé, and composition-forward ensembles like the Maria Schneider Orchestra. More recently, a number of younger, forward-thinking big bands have emerged, offering fresh visions of how a modern big band should look, sound, function, and fit into the broader world of jazz. Get to know five ensembles that are bringing big band music into focus in the 21st century with this primer. (more)

Writing Dashboards | Documentation | Steampipe. A Steampipe dashboard uses a combination of HCL and SQL to visualize data in a variety of ways. This dashboards as code approach makes it easy to create and combine charts and tables, style them, and make them interactive. Use your favorite text editor, receive immediate feedback as you type, and manage your dashboards on GitHub with all your other code artifacts. (more)

Defying death: Jazz big bands strike back into the spotlight. I’m defining jazz orchestra broadly (see discography) to include rock- or blues-oriented groups with at least three horn players who improvise to show the large form’s ongoing influence. (more)

Adrian Hon: Playing With Wikis. Back when “transmedia” was an innovative new term... about 15 years ago – there was a brief craze of “second screen” experiences to accompany TV dramas. (more)

A decisional balance sheet or decision balance sheet is a tabular method for representing the pros and cons of different choices and for helping someone decide what to do in a certain circumstance. It is often used in working with ambivalence in people who are engaged in behaviors that are harmful to their health (for example, problematic substance use or excessive eating),[1] as part of psychological approaches such as those based on the transtheoretical model of change,[2] and in certain circumstances in motivational interviewing.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decisional_balance_sheet decision-making thinking tool (more)

Google Workspace turns to "smart chips" to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together. Google is launching a slate of new features for its Workspace productivity suite today, starting with new “smart chips” that connect Google Docs to other products. Just like you can tag people with an @ symbol, starting today, you can use it to specialize links inside docs that hook up other files or meetings. They’re part of what Google is calling the “smart canvas,” a new initiative that promises to increase the cadence of product improvements for Workspace. (more)

a Mind Map that isn't a strict Hierarchal Structure. (more)

Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.[1][2][3] Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic, and unlike many other programming languages, Prolog is intended primarily as a declarative programming language: the program logic is expressed in terms of relations, represented as facts and rules. A computation is initiated by running a query over these relations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog

Andrew Binstock interviews Alan Kay. (more)

RDFa or Resource Description Framework in Attributes[1] is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based document types for embedding rich metadata within Web documents. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) data-model mapping enables its use for embedding RDF subject-predicate-object expressions within XHTML documents. It also enables the extraction of RDF model triples by compliant user agents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa (more)

anthropologist professor https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/kultur/personen/professorinnen/goetz-bachmann (more)

HashiCorp is a software company[2] with a freemium business model based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides open-source tools and commercial products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and connect cloud-computing infrastructure.[3] It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar... HashiCorp provides a suite of open-source tools intended to support the development and deployment of large-scale service-oriented software installations (SOA). Each tool is aimed at specific stages in the life cycle of a software application, with a focus on automation. Many have a plugin-oriented architecture in order to provide integration with third-party technologies and services.[9] Additional proprietary features for some of these tools are offered commercially and are aimed at enterprise customers. The main product line consists of the following tools: Vagrant; Packer; Terraform; Consul; Vault; Nomad; Serf; Sentinel; Boundary; Waypoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashiCorp

Service Oriented Architecture (more)