# life: don't worry folks! Mr Donald will not run again in 2028. Anzicheforse?

<< In September, Donald Trump said he would run for president again in 2028 if he didn't win this week's general election. >>️

<< But on Tuesday, Donald Trump won the vote to become the 47th president of the United States. So, can he still run for office in 2028? >>️

<< And just a few months before that, at the NRA's annual meeting in May, Trump mentioned running for a third term. >>️

<< Here's what to know about term limits and if Trump can run for president a third time, now that he's won twice. >>

<< The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution ... >>️️

Lianna Norman, Joyce Orlando. Can Trump run for president again in 2028? Here’s what to know about term limits. USA TODAY NETWORK, Florida. Nov 7, 2024. 

https://eu.floridatoday.com/story/news/2024/11/07/trump-run-again-term-limits-22nd-amendment-constitution/76087581007/

Also: Mr. Donald, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, Donald, potus, potus race

# life: Potus race, Kamala knows her jazz

<< a video showing Harris emerging from a record store in Washington DC has recently gained massive traction on social media. The footage, taken in May 2023, shows her engaging with journalists while displaying and talking about the records she had purchased. This video clip was notably shared and reposted among the European jazz community – not people you’d necessarily think would be hugely interested in the musical tastes of US presidential candidates. >>

<< Harris’s purchases included three classic jazz albums by notable African American artists: Charles Mingus’s 1972 album Let My Children Hear Music, Roy Ayers’ 1976 Everybody Loves the Sunshine, and the 1959 collaboration of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on Porgy and Bess. >>️

<< Liking and knowing jazz, in some circles at least, suggests sophistication, intellectualism, and a leaning towards advocacy for cultural unity through diversity. The improvisational and creative elements found in jazz might also translate to a degree of flexibility in her politics. >>

<< The love of music is not necessarily an electoral strategy. But it would be interesting to find out which approach resonates most with voters ahead of the coming US election: scattergun and with no particular demographic focus, or targeted and consistent. >>

Haftor Medbøe, Jose Dias. US election 2024: Kamala Harris knows her jazz – why this could count with voters. theconversation.com. Aug 9, 2024.

https://theconversation.com/us-election-2024-kamala-harris-knows-her-jazz-why-this-could-count-with-voters-236344

Also: jazz, RAG-time, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, potus, potus race, jazz, RAG-time

# life: landing on a swinging perch: peach-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis) prefer extremes.

<< Birds frequently must land safely and accurately on moving branches or power lines, and seemingly accomplish such maneuvers with acrobatic precision. To examine how birds target and land successfully on moving supports, (AA) investigated how peach-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis) approach and land on a swinging perch.  >>️

<< In support of (AA) hypothesis for stable landings, lovebirds timed their landings in a majority of trials (51.3%), when the perch was approaching either extreme of its motion with its velocity nearing zero (27.5% in the same direction as the bird’s approach – SDs, and 23.8% in the opposite direction to the bird’s approach – ODs). As a result, lovebirds exhibited a robust bimodal strategy for timing their landing to the phase of the swinging perch. Less commonly, lovebirds landed when the perch was moving at high velocity either toward the bird’s approach (12.3%) or in the same direction as the bird’s approach (11.5%); with the remainder (21.9%) of trials distributed over a broad range of swing phases. >>️

Partha S Bhagavatula, Andrew A. Biewener. Landing on a swinging perch: peach-faced lovebirds prefer extremes. biorxiv.org. Oct 8, 2024.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.21.604435v2

Also: behav, birds, extreme, jazz, Mr. Jelly Roll Morton, in: https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, birds, extreme,  behavior, behaviour, jazz, Mr. Jelly Roll Morton

# life: fast-and-flexible decision-making with modulatory interactions

<< Multi-agent systems in biology, society, and engineering are capable of making decisions through the dynamic interaction of their elements. Nonlinearity of the interactions is key for the speed, robustness, and flexibility of multi-agent decision-making. >>

AA << introduce modulatory, that is, multiplicative, in contrast to additive, interactions in a nonlinear opinion dynamics model of fast-and-flexible decision-making. (..) Modulatory interactions introduce an extra source of nonlinearity that greatly enriches the model decision-making behavior in a mathematically tractable way. >>

AA << model provides new tools to understand the role of these interactions in networked decision-making and to engineer them in artificial systems. >>

Rodrigo Moreno-Morton, Anastasia Bizyaeva, et al. Fast-and-flexible decision-making with modulatory interactions. arXiv: 2410.00798v1 [math.DS]. Oct 1, 2024.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00798

Also: behav, network, ai (artificial intell), in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, decision-making, modulatory interactions, behavior, behaviour, network, ai, artificial intelligence

# life: Future You

<< AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self. By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You is aimed at reducing anxiety and guiding young people to make better choices. >>️

<< Have you ever wanted to travel through time to see what your future self might be like? Now, thanks to the power of generative AI, you can. >>️

Adam Zewe. AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self. MIT News. Oct 1, 2024.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-simulation-gives-people-glimpse-potential-future-self-1001 

Pat Pataranutaporn, Kavin Winson, et al. Future You: A Conversation with an AI-Generated Future Self Reduces Anxiety, Negative Emotions, and Increases Future Self-Continuity. arXiv: 2405.12514v4 [cs.HC]. Oct 1, 2024. 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12514

Try Future You  https://futureyou.media.mit.edu/

Also: ai (artificial intell), are you ready for all this?  in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, ai, artificial intelligence, are you ready for all this

# life: oops! AI - artificial intelligence - now beats humans at basic tasks.

<< Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report. >>️

Nicola Jones. AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report. Stanford University’s 2024 AI Index charts the meteoric rise of artificial-intelligence tools. Nature. doi: 10.1038/ d41586-024-01087-4. Apr 15, 2024. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01087-4

<< Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. >>

️

THE AI INDEX REPORT. Measuring trends in AI. 

https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

Also:  "qui non e' impossibile immaginare ..." (here it is not impossible to imagine ... ). In: FonT. Dec 31, 2015. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2015/12/rmx-s-gst-anomalous-formation-of.html

Also:  artificial intell, analogy, nfulaw,  oops, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, ai, artificial intelligence, analogy, nfulaw

# brain: apropos of wars ... VR plus tDCS to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (in military veterans).

<< Key Points. Question. Can therapeutic exposure using virtual reality (VR) be augmented with simultaneously applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? >>

<< Meaning. These findings suggest that the use of combined VR exposure plus tDCS could be a promising treatment for warzone-related PTSD. >>️️

Mascha van’t Wout-Frank, Amanda R. Arulpragasam, et al. Virtual Reality and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.5661. Mar 6, 2024.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2815835

Also: brain, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, war, brain, VR, tDCS, PTSD, veterans

# life: Hollywood movies revisited, you'll have to be very careful, a cycle of panic and neglect (e.g. about an 'Entity X') is beginning to repeat.

<< Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies,

Dear colleagues and friends, (..).

I thank Your Highnesses for your hospitality, for your steadfast support for the World Health Organization and global health, and for the opportunity to address you today.  >>️

<< On the 12th of February 2018 – exactly six years ago – I stood on this stage and said the world was not prepared for a pandemic, and expressed my concern at that time that a pandemic could happen anytime. >>️

<< As you remember, less than two years later, in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and indeed, the world was not prepared. >>️

<< Today I stand before you, in the aftermath of COVID-19,

With millions of people dead,

With social, economic and political shocks that reverberate to this day, >>️

<< The cycle of panic and neglect is beginning to repeat. >>️

<< It may be caused by an influenza virus, or a new coronavirus, or it may be caused by a new pathogen we don’t even know about yet – what we call Disease X. >>️

WHO Director-General's speech at the World Governments Summit – 12 Feb 2024.️ WHO. 

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-speech-at-the-world-governments-summit---12-february-2024   

Also: sars, covid, 1or2achoos, virus, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: sars, covid, 1or2achoos, virus, disease X

# life: hypothetical 'subtle variations' about three ancient neuro-cognitive models, the nomadic explorer, the nomadic owner, the farmer.

<< Prehistoric humans underwent three major migration events across Eurasia, influencing the genetic diversity of present-day Europe. These include the arrival of hunter-gatherers approximately 45,000 years ago, the expansion of Neolithic farmers from the Middle East around 11,000 years ago, and the rise of animal husbandry when steppe pastoralists migrated from the Pontic Steppe approximately 5,000 years ago. Each of these events represents a crucial period in human history that has shaped the genetic diversity observed in present-day Europe, although specific genetic and demographic details remain poorly characterized. >>️

Michael Attwaters. Ancient migration and the modern genome. Nat Rev Genet 25, 162. Feb 5, 2024. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-024-00702-4

Also: nomad, ctz entity, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: life, hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, farmers

# life: it’s time to admit that ...

<< For too long, scientists have been content in espousing the lazy metaphor of living systems operating simply like machines, (..) Yet, it’s important to be open about the complexity of biology — including what we don’t know — because public understanding affects policy, health care and trust in science.  “So long as we insist that cells are computers and genes are their code,” writes Ball, life might as well be “sprinkled with invisible magic”. But, reality “is far more interesting and wonderful”, as he explains in this must-read user’s guide for biologists and non-biologists alike. >>️

Denis Noble. It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life. Nature. 626, 254-255 (2024). Feb 5,  2024. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00327-x

Philip Ball. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Pan Macmillan (2024). 

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/philip-ball/42387

Also: disorder, disorder & fluctuation, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html  

Keywords: life, disorder, fluctuations

FonT: this point of view, published in the 70s-80s, would have made a damned impression. 

# life: a new exception within the FDA Cures Act Informed Consent, the intriguing concept of 'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations'.

<< The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to implement a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act). This final rule allows an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects. The final rule permits an institutional review board (IRB) to waive or alter certain informed consent elements or to waive the requirement to obtain informed consent, under limited conditions, for certain FDA-regulated minimal risk clinical investigations. >>️

Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations. A Rule by the Food and Drug Administration on 12/21/2023. federalregister.gov 

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/21/2023-27935/institutional-review-board-waiver-or-alteration-of-informed-consent-for-minimal-risk-clinical

FonT:  'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations (MRCI)': here are intriguing both (i) the scientific formalization of the operational methods decided (case by case) by the FDA about MRCI and (ii) the possible strategies - if at least one exists - for avoiding the 'multitude of unaware' from this type of interception.

Also: Are you ready for all this?, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also: evitare (avoid), in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)  https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=evitare

Also: avoid, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=avoid

Also: Robert F. Kennedy's opinion on the issue https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1752126207821271080  

Keywords: life, FDA, informed consent, risk, minimal risk, minimal risk clinical investigations, avoidance, 1or2achoos, are you ready

# life: simnotrelvir, a Chinese pill anti covid-19

<< A drug called simnotrelvir speeds up recovery from mild to moderate COVID-19 by about 1.5 days, relieving symptoms such as fever, cough and runny nose.  >>

<< Whether it can help people who are at high risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 is still unclear. >>️️

Saima Sidik. Potent new pill provides COVID relief for the masses. Nature. doi: 10.1038/d41586-024-00117-5. Jan 17,  2024. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00117-5

Bin Cao, Yeming Wang, et al. Oral Simnotrelvir for Adult Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Covid-19. N Engl J Med 2024; 390:230-241. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2301425. Jan 18, 2024.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2301425

FonT: if it is (another) 'pastroky', you can redirect yourself towards an alcohol plus peroxide solution... just to put the classic patch on it. 

Also:  a proposito di '1or2achoos' (da Wuhan (?)), qui la cronologia. FonT. Oct 4, 2023. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2023/10/life-proposito-di-1or2achoos-da-wuhan.html

Also: 1or2achoos, sars, covid, virus, pastroky, in:   https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: life, virus, flu, coronavirus,  sarscov2, covid19, 1or2achoos, mask

# gst: scanning inside a granular raft

<< Rheology of macroscopic particle-laden interfaces, called “granular rafts,” has been experimentally studied in the simple shear configuration.  >>️

<< Close to the walls of the rheometer cell, one can observe regions of large local shear rate while in the middle of the cell a quasistatic zone exists. >>

<< Measuring the probability density functions of the instantaneous local shear rate, (AA) provide evidence of a balance between positive and negative instantaneous local shear rate. This behavior is the signature of a quasistatic region inside the granular raft. >>️

️

J. Lalieu, A. Seguin, G. Gauthier. Rheology of granular rafts. Phys. Rev. E 107, 064901. June 29, 2023.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.064901

Also: Bavand Keshavarz, Michela Geri. Mandelbrot granular raft. Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 110506. Nov 16, 2023.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.110506

Also: grain, particle, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: << l'invasiva scorribanda /

sull' oramai alla deriva lacerata randa. >>️ in: Schismi da vibrati di tangone. Notes. March 23, 2005. (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/03/1608b-schismi-da-vibrati-di-tangone.html

Keywords: gst, raft, particle, grain, granular raft, life

# life: POTUS race 2024, Native voters could make a difference

<< There are predicted to be at least 5 million Native and Alaska Native-identifying voters in the U.S. in both rural and urban communities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — although estimates are expected to be an undercount. >>️

<< Native Americans are incredibly influential and have the ability to really swing those elections on the margins, >> Jacqueline De Leon.

<< Hanging in the balance is control of House, Senate and the Oval Office in 2024. In a country in which turnout can make or break campaigns, organizers said courting Native voters can dictate a candidate's success. (..) Organizers argue Native voters are increasingly a coalition to watch, even if parties have not fully recognized them yet. (..) Here are some of the states where Native voters could have a significant impact on 2024 races for Congress, the Senate and for president. >>️️

Ximena Bustillo. Sometimes overlooked by campaigns, Native voters could decide major elections in 2024. NPR. Nov 21, 2023. 

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/20/1213525361/native-voters-influence-2024-elections-arizona-montana-wisconsin 

Also: potus, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=potus

Also: transition, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=transition

Also: edge, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=edge

Also: margine, in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=margine

Keywords: potus, potus race, Native, Native voters, life, transition, edge, margin

# life: a painted texture glimpsed through 25 words

<< If you want to understand the complicated nature of the United States in 2023, ask Americans to define their country themselves. In the past year, the American Communities Project did just that. It visited four different counties and asked passersby to define 25 words, including America, and the responses showed a range of opinions. >>️

<< The media tends to explain the divides in United States in binary terms — red/blue, left/right, urban/rural. News stories discuss war between two conflicting “cultures” in the country. Sometimes included is a third option for “independents” or “centrists.” But look closer and the picture is far more complicated, marked by fault lines that can be hard to see. >>️

Dante Chinni, Ari Pinkus. New Survey Breaks Down America’s Complicated Landscape. American Communities Project/Ipsos. Oct 26, 2023. 

https://www.americancommunities.org/new-survey-breaks-down-americas-complicated-landscape

Also: 

Immediate 'shot', the three second time window in art, music, poems and language processing. FonT. Apr 30, 2021.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2021/04/gst-immediate-shot-three-second-time.html

Effetto Northridge. Notes. Sep 26, 2005.

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/09/1887-effetto-northridge.html

Keywords: life, self-perception

# life: call for four Parrondo's paradox peacekeeper players

<< US President Joe Biden has said world history is at "an inflection point" as he made the case for a "smart investment" of ... >> Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.

️

Holly Honderich, Sarah Smith. Biden seeks 'vital' (..) aid for Israel and Ukraine. BBC News, Oct 20, 2023. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67164900

Also: Switch to three players within the Parrondo game. FonT. Jun 11, 2022.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/06/gst-switch-to-three-players-within.html

Also: Parrondo, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also: "Parrondo"[TIAB], in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Also: Parrondo, in https://arxiv.org/search/?query=Parrondo&searchtype=abstract&abstracts=show&order=-announced_date_first&size=50

Keywords: life, game, Parrondo, Potus, war, nfulaw

# life: a proposito di '1or2achoos' (da Wuhan (?)), qui la cronologia

a proposito di '1or2achoos' (da Wuhan (?)), qui la cronologia di inizio dei 6 flu|covid che ho contratto dal gen2020 ad oggi con i relativi tempi di 'smorzamento' dell'infezione, trattati nebulizzando una miscela di alcool e H2O2 ( https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/07/life-aproposito-di-1or2achoos-da-wuhan.html )

(1) 2020.04.11-16:04 ~12h (non vaccinato)

(2) 2021.09.01-07:40 ~12h (non vaccinato)

(3) 2022.06.11-08:26 18-36h (+1mese post vaccino, 3dosi)

(4) 2022.12.24-07:52 ~24h 

(5) 2023.02.28-12:09 ~24h 

(6) 2023.04.08-09:32 24-36h 

I tempi necessari per 'spegnere' questi  flu|covid sono tutti notevolmente inferiori (~80%) rispetto alle pregresse forme di flu che ho contratto delle quali ho memoria.

Invece non ho altre parole da aggiungere per commentare i diversi argomenti associabili a '1or2achoos' dal febbraio 2020 ad oggi.

Potrei (e.g. expectedepidemic, lockdown, greenpass, indicatori, statistiche, accademieacucciabili, sadichepredazioni, bucodibilancio, pastroky, ...) nelle bizzarre forme della poetica quasistocastica ( https://inkpi.blogspot.com/ ), ma mi astengo.

Anche: "Ricordo che quando si era ragazzi". in: "il pino di takata matsubara". Notes. Apr 1, 2011. https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2011/04/2157-il-pino-di-takata-matsubara.html

Anche: "e Da-Li' si sparse pell'aere". in: "cracker tendenziali". Notes. Apr 4, 2008. https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2008/04/cracker-tendenziali-around-matter.html

Anche: "in attesa del beffardo tsunami". in: "onda di carambola". Notes. Nov 29, 2004. 

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2004/11/1619-onda-di-carambola.html

Anche: "aproposito di '1or2achoos' (da Wuhan (?)) ...". FonT. Jul 13, 2022. https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/07/life-aproposito-di-1or2achoos-da-wuhan.html

Anche: 1or2achoos, sars, covid, virus, pastroky, in: 

https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: life, virus, flu, coronavirus,  sarscov2, covid19, 1or2achoos, mask

# life: declining towards turbulence, thus ecstatic (detotuthec)

(1/3) for our birthdays on July 11th (*1th) and July 25th (*9th) ... forever Nomads (*), curious, young.  

https://www.inkgmr.net   https://www.inkgmr.net/tammi

@flashontrack  11:36 11lug21

https://twitter.com/flashontrack/status/1414156586889748482

(2/3) (*) e.g. exotic, maverick, agnostic,  track seeker, meta-mechanic pulsating manipulator, ockhamistic, erratic, chaotic, #detotuthec (declining towards turbulence, thus ecstatic), ab-normal ...

@flashontrack 11:37 11lug21

https://twitter.com/flashontrack/status/1414156987240173569

(3/3) with mindfulness, compassion and tenacity, where also vengeance consists in (try) saving others (whatever 'others' means).

@flashontrack 11:38 11lug21

https://twitter.com/flashontrack/status/1414157124318507008

Keywords: detotutech, detect thou

# life: exponential post-Donald (without Donald), how AI could interfere (drive) next political elections.

<< Recent news that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has used an AI-generated video to criticize Joe Biden shows how likely AI is to transform our upcoming elections. >>️

<< Through templates that are easy and inexpensive to use, we are going to face a Wild West of campaign claims and counter-claims, with limited ability to distinguish fake from real material and uncertainty regarding how these appeals will affect the election. >>️

<< In the coming year, response times may drop to minutes, not hours or days. AI can scan the internet, think about strategy, and come up with a hard-hitting appeal. >>️

<< AI provides an inexpensive way to generate instant responses without having to rely on highly-paid consultants or expert videographers. >>️

<< AI enables very precise audience targeting, which is crucial in political campaigns. >>️

<< AI likely will democratize disinformation by bringing sophisticated tools to the average person interested in promoting their preferred candidates as well. People no longer must be coding experts or video wizards to generate text, images, video, or programs. They don’t necessarily have to work for a troll farm to create havoc with the opposition. They can simply use advanced technologies to spread the messages they want. In that sense, anyone can become a political content creator and seek to sway voters or the media. >>️

Darrell M. West. How AI will transform the 2024 elections. May 3, 2023.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/05/03/how-ai-will-transform-the-2024-elections/

Also: 'ai', 'analogy', 'Potus', 'RAG-time', 'CTZ', 'Donald' in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: life, ai, analogy, potus, RAG, CTZ, Donald

# jazz: that was his backup band.

<< Before Belafonte (Harry Belafonte)  could even open his mouth he was joined onstage by bassist Tommy Potter, drummer Max Roach and saxophonist Charlie Parker. Unbeknownst to the young newcomer, the all-star quartet wanted to make sure his first gig was a success. >>

<< “That was my backup band,” Belafonte remembered of the surreal experience. “A little bit later Miles Davis stepped in somewhat reluctantly, but he didn’t want to miss anything … he didn’t miss much anyway. But this is how I was launched into the music business.” >>️

Keith Murphy. Harry Belafonte’s singing career started as an intermission filler at a jazz club.  Only a few years later, he became the first solo artist to sell a million copies of a record. @murphdogg29. April 28, 2023 

https://andscape.com/features/harry-belafontes-singing-career-started-as-an-intermission-filler-at-a-jazz-club

<< By the 1950s, Belafonte was also singing, finding gigs at the Blue Note, the Vanguard and other clubs — he was backed for one performance by Charlie Parker and Max Roach — and becoming immersed in folk, blues, jazz and the calypso he had heard while living in Jamaica. >>

Hillel Italie. Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96. April 25, 2023. 

https://apnews.com/article/harry-belafonte-dead-2d8cbdf0043e4383a6c4a85c862cdbe1

Also: 'jazz' in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: jazz, life