>Is that "Charlie Parker Is God?" trailer new? If not I was slow to notice it. And IAC, we are in complete agreement (even if we are in disagreement about the current Sopranos season ;) ). On one level I am uncomfortable with describing any mortal as a god. OTOH maybe someone or something did touch CP on the shoulder. There was no rational reason to think a man with his background would become such a giant.
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>He's going on the stereo right now, starting with the Savoy sessions. Be-bop!
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>This is going to seem like a weird segue, and probably is. Years ago there was a discussion on the Compuserve FoxForum about the best music to code by. The participants in the discussion were practically a Who's Who of FoxPro developers. The most popular answer was probably Silence. The other answers were quite interesting, befitting such a diverse community. It was everything from classical to jazz to country, with the various genres of rock dominating the vote. Pat Adams said one of the few things I ever agreed with her about [lol] -- Creedence is great debugging music.
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>FWIW, lately the embedded CD in my car has been T-Bone Burnett's compilation, "Twenty Twenty". Most music fans know him, if at all, as the producer of "O Brother Where Art Thou" and "Walk the Line". Before that he had a great recording career himself. He just wasn't mainstream, and would never want to be, but he made some great records.
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>Back to "best music to code by" -- thoughts?

For me Parker, Miles, Tom Harrell, Art Blakey, Bud Powell etc are listening music, not coding music. That's the stuff I listen to in order to cool down and get centered again. For coding, I want to keep things moving, so I like to listen to the really old stuff. The classic jazz of Goodman's small groups, Mugsy Spanier, Lionel Hampton, Art Tatum, Eddie Condon's vrs groups, Mary Lou Williams; that kind of stuff. It keeps the adrenaline going and it keeps my mind kicking.