The blue seats in Germany’s parliament are being moved to match voters’ choices https://www.byteseu.com/847912/ #berlin #Elections #Europe #FriedrichMerz #GeneralNews #Germany #GermanyGovernment #GlobalElections #InternationalNews #JuliaKlckner #NormanFoster #Politics #RaceAndEthnicity #voting #WestGermany #WorldNews

Oscar Peterson Trio, 1961 Cologne Gürzenich Concert Hall, 2011 on Jazzline

Part of a series of Jazzline releases called WDR The Cologne Broadcasts, which collects concerts recorded by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (German public radio), including this 1961 appearance of the classic Oscar Peterson Trio with Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown.

Recorded at the Gürzenich on April 11th, 1961 by an unkown recording engineer and mastered by Thomas Sehringer for release in 2011 on 180g vinyl. As with most (all?) Jazzline recordings in the WDR series, liner notes in German and English.

They fill out side two of the second LP with songs from other Jazzline releases: John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, and Modern Jazz Quartet recordings from 1960 and 1959 in West German cities. (Better than having an etching of the Gürzenrich or something on the fourth side).

Great sounding concert – wonderful versions of “My Funny Valentine” and “Con Alma” in particular.

My copy via private sale.

#1960s #1961 #2011 #Cologne #EdThigpen #jazz #Jazzline #OscarPeterson #OscarPetersonTrio #RayBrown #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WDROriginalMasters #WestGermany #WestdeutscherRundfunk

there is a significant difference in approval of #farright #afd between #eastgermany and #westgermany; this went so far as that afd was leading only but in every former #gdr state

I feel I have been neglecting #mastodon of late, so here is a #photo of the #spiderman that my dad painted in my bedroom back in #1980. We had just returned from #WestGermany the first time I had been out of the country. I took this photo a couple of years ago on the day we sold the house. I hope it is still there.

Lockheed F-104C Starfighter 56-0910 #photography #airplanes #avgeek #aviation #wingsovertherockies #highlight #wingsmuseum #f104starfighter #lockheed #centuryseries #coldwar #unitedstatesairforce #kellyjohnson #mig15 #mig17 #generalelectricj79 #nato #westgermany #canada #netherlands #belgium #japan #italy #aeritalia #florida #starfightersinc (Flickr 05.06.2017) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/35097616386

reminder:

#HomeOwnershipRate in #Germany is low because after the #war ONLY the state could house that many homeless people:

"It worked. Home-building boomed, thanks to a combination of direct subsidies and generous tax exemptions available to public, non-profit and private entities. #WestGermany chopped its #HousingShortage in half by 1956."

https://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates

We're now 50 years into reversing that trend & forcing people into buying #homes.

And it DOESN'T WORK. For 50 fucking years!!