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"Dezron Lamont Douglas is an American jazz double bassist, composer, and producer. He has produced Louis Hayes, and Brandee Younger. Biography Douglas was raised in Hartford, Connecticut and studied tuba and bass at the Hartford Conservatory of Music. He attended The Hartt School at the University of Hartford majoring in African American Music and History under the tutelage of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean..He is the nephew of drummer and composer Walter Bolden. Douglas has released six albums as a leader. His 2012 debut record, Live at Smalls, earned a positive review in the New York Times, which wrote: "Learned as it may be, this is living-language music — jazz as it’s practiced, more than as it’s studied." As a sideman, Douglas has recorded with Cyrus Chestnut, Michael Carvin, Louis Hayes, Steve Davis, George Cables, Papo Vasquez, Enrico Rava, Eric Reed, Abraham Burton, Eric McPherson, Tomasz Stanko, Makaya McCraven and Brandee Younger.. In April 2019, Douglas' playing was featured in the documentary Homecoming, by Beyoncéhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt10147546/soundtrack. The recording used was from an NPR Music field recording released in 2013. He is longstanding member of the Ravi Coltrane Quartet and the Louis Hayes Jazz Communicators. In 2019, Douglas was the winner of the Downbeat critics poll in the category of "Rising Star bassist". Douglas was featured on DownBeat magazine's July 2020 cover along with Brandee Younger and six other artists. DiscographyAs leader= *2012: Underground, Independent *2012: Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Venus Records *2012: Ganbare Nippon, Venus Records *2013: Dezron Douglas Live at Smalls, Smalls Live *2016: DE3: Live at Maxwells, Sunnyside Records *2017: Soul Jazz, Venus Records *2018: Black Lion, Independent *2019: Solomon Grundy, Independent =As sideman= With Cyrus Chestnut *2007: Cyrus Plays Elvis *2010: Journeys *2010: The Cyrus Chestnut Quartet *2010: Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul: Live at Dizzy's with Eric Reed *2011: Moonlight Sonata *2013: Soul Brother Cool With Brandee Younger *2011: Prelude, Independent *2014: The Brandee Younger 4tet, Live at the Breeding Ground, Independent *2015: Supreme Sonacy, Blue Note Records / Revive Music *2016: Wax & Wane, Independent/ Revive Music *2018: A Day In The Life: Impressions of Pepper, Impulse! *2019: Soul Awakening Independent With Steve Davis *2008: Outlook *2011: Images *2019: Correlations With Louis Hayes *2014: Return of the Jazz Communicators *2014: Live at Cory Weeds Cellar Jazz Club *2017: Serenade for Horace With Makaya McCraven *2018: Universal Beings *2020: Universal Beings E&F; sides References External links * Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American jazz double-bassists Category:African-American jazz musicians Category:University of Hartford alumni Category:Musicians from Hartford, Connecticut "
"Resonancia is the twentieth studio album by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori and first studio album to be released during the 2000s. It was released on 22 May 2002 under the Universal Music Japan label. The album includes lead singles It's Brand New Day and The Heat: Music Fiesta. The album includes Akina's original written song Deseo under pseudonym Miran:Miran. PromotionSingles= It consists of two previously released singles. It's A Brand New Day is the fortieth single written and arranged by Adya. It was released on 31 May 2001 under indies label "@ease". It was her only single to be released in that year. The single wasn't released as a regular CD, but instead digital single through music service Music Nifty operated by Nifty Corporation. The single was included only in the compilation album Utahime Densetsu: 90's Best. The single was later re-released in the CD format as a live goods in the live tour "All About Akina: 20th Anniversary IT'S BRAND NEW DAY". The Heat: Music Fiesta is the forty-first single written by Adya and Uru. It was released on 5 May 2002, it was her only single to be released in that year. In the media it was promoted as a monthly (May) theme song to the TBS television program Wonderful. The original version of single was included in the compilation album Best Finger 25th anniversary selection and All Time Best: Originals. The single debuted at number 20 on the Oricon Single Weekly Charts. =Music Home Video= On 10 July 2002, was released Nakamori's second music home video Apasionado. The disc includes music videoclips of single The Heat: Musica Fiesta and album track Missed U, making footages and interview. Stage performances It's A Brand New Day has been performed in the anniversary live tour "All About Akina: 20th Anniversary IT'S BRAND NEW DAY". The album tracks Missed U, Carnaval, Carmesi and The Heat: Musica Fiesta has been performed once in the live tour Music Fiesta Tour in 2002. Chart performance The album reached at number 15 on the Oricon Album Weekly Chart charted for the 4 consecutive weeks with the sales of 31,000 copies. Track listingReferences Category:2002 albums Category:Japanese-language albums Category:Akina Nakamori albums Category:Universal Music Japan albums "
"The Uunartoq disc is an artifact discovered in the ruins of a Norse Greenland homestead. It is widely believed to be an early Norse sun compass. right Discovery The disappearance of the Norse Greenlanders at some point in the 15th century remains one of the great historical mysteries. In 1948, Danish archaeologist Christen Vebæk was excavating the ruins of the Norse site Ø149 located on the western shore of a fjord known to the Norse as Siglufjord and is today called Uunartoq ("the hot"), a name that denotes both the fjord and the islands at its mouth. One of the islands is the site of geothermal hot springs well known to the Norse and the Inuit and is today a popular destination among tourists. Hot springs on Uunartoq, formerly called Siglufjord by the Norse. The Uunartoq disc was discovered on the north shore of this fjord, in the center background. The ruins at site Ø149 include a church and it is generally accepted to be the colony's Benedictine Convent referenced by Ivar Bardarson, a Norwegian priest who lived in the colony in the mid 14th century as a representative of the Archdiocese of Nidaros and the Norwegian crown.Helge Ingstad, Land Under the Pole Star (New York: St. Martin's, 1966), pg. 250-253 Among other artifacts, Vebæk discovered a fragment of a wooden disc with triangular notches chip carved around the perimeter and a hole in the centre. It was fashioned from softwood, likely larch or spruce (some sources indicate oak)Carl Sølver, "The discovery of an early bearing dial" (Cambridge: The Journal of Navigation, 1953) 6, 294 and measured just 7 centimetres wide, 1 centimetre thick and the central hole 1.7 centimetres in diameter.C.L. Vebæk et al, "The Church Topography of the Eastern Settlement and the Excavation of the Benedictine Convent at Narsarsuaq in the Uunartoq Fjord" (Copenhagen: Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. 14 1995) pg. 65-70 A modern speculative replica of the Uunartoq disc, considerably larger than the original.Danish marine captain and naval historian Carl V. Sølver examined the notches and deliberate scored lines on the disc and pronounced it to be a sun compass used to determine true north, with the hole in the centre intended for a handle that housed a horizontal directional pin and a vertical pin to cast a shadow.The Church Topography... pg. 65-70 Sølver drew a speculative illustration from which a replica was fashioned, and this explanation was ultimately accepted by Vebæk.The Church Topography... pg. 70-71 The discovery of the artifact prompted increased interest among historians about the possible use of navigational instruments by the Norse, as many experts assumed that they relied solely on non-instrumental resources such as celestial bodies, landmarks or intuition.George Indruszewski, "Maritime skills and astronomic knowledge in the Viking Age Baltic Sea" (Studia Ljubljana: Mythologica Slavica, 2006) pg. 16-18) The magnetic compass does not appear to have been in use in Europe until the early 13th century.Alan Gurney, Compass: a Story of Exploration and Innovation (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004) While the North Star had become an important navigational tool by the time of Pytheas and regarded as the "Ship-star" by the 10th centuryRichard H. Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (New York: Dover, 1963), mariners on the open ocean out of sight from any landmark would have had great difficulty in precisely determining true north during daylight hours. While some scholars continued to argue against the theory of Norse marine instrumentationSoren Thirslund, "The Discovery of an Early Bearing-Dial – Further Investigations" (Cambridge: The Journal of Navigation, 1993) 46,1 pg. 33-48, the discovery of a similar artifact with gnomonic lines in a Polish archaeological site near Wolin in 2000 has given further credence to the sun compass theory, particularly since the site dates from a period when the Norse had considerable impact in the region.Maritime skills and astronomic knowledge...pg.28-29 Method of Use Like a sundial, a sun compass features a vertical pin. The sun's rays cause the pin to cast a shadow which is longer in the morning and late afternoon and shortest at solar high- noon, and this shadow is used to create gnomonic lines. The disc is placed in a fixed level position and an observer regularly marks the shifting position of the pin tip's shadow across the disc during the course of the day. When these position marks are connected, the result is a west-to-east gnomonic line that comes closest to the vertical pin at high-noon. In the northern hemisphere, a straight line drawn from the base of the pin to that closest high-noon position will point directly to true north, which will then serve as the compass' north index mark. The gnomonic line will be essentially straight during the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and downward concave at the summer solstice. Modern replica showing gnomonic lines for the summer solstice (bottom), vernal and autumnal equinoxes (middle) and winter solstice (top). The original Uunartoq disc does not feature a line corresponding to the winter solstice, which would likely have been impractical during the limited daylight and low sun angle in Greenland at that time of year. Once these lines have been inscribed on the face of the compass, it can be used during travel. The user holds the device level and rotates it until the pin tip's shadow touches the appropriate seasonal gnomonic line, and the index mark will point to true north. Sølver noted that the Uunartoq disc appeared to have gnomonic lines consistent with those produced during the summer solstice and the equinoxes (which in 1990 were microscopically shown to be deliberately double traced)The Church Topography... pg. 71 and also noted that the disc had 8 triangular dial increments per quadrant, for a total of 32, corresponding with the traditional mariner's compass. In addition to its gnomonic lines, it also had a round dimple on the 9th increment that corresponds with east, where the lines end with the setting of the sun in the west. Modern replica showing how a course of Northwest by West may have been plotted by the Uunartoq disc's user around the time of the summer solstice. The traveller rotates the disc while keeping it level until the vertical gnomonic pin tip's shadow touches the summer solstice gnomonic line (1), which reveals the direction of true north (2). The traveller then turns the horizontal directional pin five compass points to the west for NWbW, and adjusts course to match the direction of the pin (3). In 1984, Norwegian author and explorer Ragnar Thorseth led an international expedition in a replica of a Norse merchant ship, the Saga Siglar. For the passage between Iceland and Greenland, the crew had been given replicas of the Uunartoq disc to test against the ship's modern magnetic compass, and the deviation between the two was described as "negligible" and "...results were far better than the navigators had expected..."The Church Topography... pg. 69 Possible Use as Latitude Reader In 2013, researchers from Eötvös University in Hungary argued that the Uunartoq disc could have also been used to determine a traveller's latitude.Balázs Bernáth et al, "An alternative interpretation of the Viking sundial artifact" (London: Proceedings Of The Royal Society, 2013) pg. 13 The researchers pointed to a series of very short inscribed lines stacked atop one another on the disc's north index mark, whereas gnomonic lines by necessity run from west to east across the sun compass's face. Under this theory, the disc's user would have made a reference point at the north index mark at high-noon just prior to departure and then made subsequent high-noon marks during the course of the journey, and compared these against their home's reference point. If the journey's marks were in the same position as the home reference point, it meant that the user had been maintaining a consistent latitude. A high-noon mark coming in below the home reference meant that one was further south (although travellers also would have had to make allowances for the constant seasonal changes of the sun's position at high-noon). Sólarsteinn Iceland Spar Whether the Norse used these sorts of devices primarily as compasses or latitude readers, both relied on the sun. It is believed that on overcast days, Norse mariners made use of a sun stone, likely clear Iceland Spar (Calcium Calcite) which can be used as a polarization analyzer to find the sun's position through the clouds.Gypsey Teague, "Early Norse Navigation Tools" (Columbus: 105th Annual Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, 2015) presentation There are references to the possible Norse use of sun stones in two Icelandic Sagas; Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar ("The King looked about and saw no blue sky...then the King took the Sunstone and held it up, and then he saw where the Sun beamed from the stone") and the Saga of St. Olaf ("Olaf grabbed a Sunstone, looked at the sky and saw from where the light came, from which he guessed the position of the invisible Sun").Guy Ropars et al., "The sunstone and polarised skylight: ancient Viking navigational tools?" (Contemporary Physics: Volume 55, 2014) Issue 4 In addition to their work demonstrating the Uunartoq disc's possible use as a latitude reader, the Eötvös University researchers also argued that if the disc was used with a pair of sun stones, it might have been possible to detect true north up to 50 minutes after sunset, thus serving as a "twilight compass" as well.Balázs Bernáth et al, "How could the Viking Sun compass be used with sunstones before and after sunset?" (London: Proceedings Of The Royal Society, 2014) pg. 1-18 A 2018 study by different researchers at Eötvös found that "sky-polarimetric Viking navigation is surprisingly successful at spring equinox and summer solstice even in cloudy weather..." Dénes Száz and Gábor Horváth, "Success of sky-polarimetric Viking navigation: revealing the chance Viking sailors could reach Greenland from Norway" (London: Proceedings Of The Royal Society, 2018) 5, 4 Appearance in Popular Culture In the History Channel's television series Vikings, a sun compass very similar in appearance to the Uunartoq disc was a significant plot device in the first season, as it allowed the Norsemen to maintain a consistent latitude while sailing west on the open ocean to raid Britain, though it was shown floating in water rather than hand-held as envisioned by Sølver. External Links Image of the Uunartoq disc Satellite view of the Norse Greenland archeological site Ø149, where the Uunartoq disc was discovered. A replica of the sun compass, based on a Carl V. Sølver's speculative illustration. "Errors on Viking sun compass hint at alternative purpose" "The Viking Sunstone Revealed?" A dramatization of the sun compass as a latitude reader References Category:Greenland Category:History_of_Greenland Category:Archaeology of Greenland Category:Viking Age Category:History of navigation "