Muniini K. Mulera

Stanley Turrentine: That’s Where It’s At

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicAugust 15, 20210 comments

#Turrentine #Blue #Note #Tone #Poet #Jazz

Stanley Turrentine: That’s Where It’s At Blue Note BST 84096 Recorded January 2, 1962 Released September 1962 Blue Note Tone Poet Series B0031592-01 Format: Vinyl LP, 180 gm Remastered by Kevin Gray Produced by Joe Harley Released September 11, 2020 Musicians: ...

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 (Eroica)

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicAugust 13, 20210 comments

#Beethoven #Eroica #Bruno #Walter

“Before Beethoven music was written for the immediate: with Beethoven, you start writing music for eternity.” – Albert Einstein Enjoy one of my very favourite symphonies – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 55 (Eroica). ...

McCoy Tyner: Expansions

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicAugust 11, 20210 comments

#McCoy #Tyner #Jazz #Expansions #Blue #Note

McCoy Tyner: Expansions Blue Note BST 84338 Recorded August 23, 1968 Released June 1970 This reissue: Blue Note Tone Poet Series vinyl LP B0033004-01 Released: August 6, 2021 Musicians: McCoy Tyner – Piano Woody Shaw – Trumpet Gary Bartz – Alto saxophone & ...

All smiles because of good news from Uganda and South Africa

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 9, 20210 comments

#Aspen #Covid19 #Uganda #Chemutai #Cheptegei #Zuma #Mkhize #Akii #Bua #Ssali #Ndanguza #Kigezi

Last week was a great one for Africa. The good news from South Africa and Japan put a bounce in one’s step and a smile on one’s face. On July 26, South Africa’s Aspen Holdings, a global pharmaceutical company, announced the release of the first supplies of the Johnson ...

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicAugust 8, 20210 comments

#Beethoven #Kempff #Berlin #Philharmonic #Piano #Concerto #No #1 #Leitner

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 Soloist: Wilhelm Kempff (Piano) Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner Recorded: June 29, 1961 Venue: UFA-Tonstudio, Berlin, West Germany Label: Deutsche Grammophon 138774 SLPM The Second ...

Uganda's political history of no smooth transition of power

By Arinda Bright ArnoldUganda Uganda PoliticsNovember 1, 20220 comments

Given the history of East Africa and particularly the original East African bloc Countries that is Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, there is clearly good reason to presume that since all the three countries share in the same past of colonisation, but ever since post colonial ...

Ugandan MPs need to get to work, as do teachers and nurses.

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 3, 20211 comments

#Uganda #parliament

Chris Obore, the Director for Communication and Public Affairs of Parliament, took issue with last week’s letter in which I commented on the greed of Uganda’s parliamentarians. My comments were prompted by the allocation of Sh. 200 million (US$56,000) to each of the country’s ...

Suite Española, Op. 47 by Isaac Albeniz - Essential Classical Music record

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Classical MusicAugust 4, 20210 comments

#Albeniz #Suite #Espaola

Title: Suite Espanola, Op. 47 Composed: 1886 Composer: Isaac Manuel Francisco Albeniz y Pascaul (May 29, 1860 – May 11, 1909) Conductor: Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos (September 15, 1933 – June 11, 2014) Orchestra: New Philharmonia Label: DECCA – SXL 6355 Recorded: July ...

Ugandan MPs self-indulgence not new

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 27, 20210 comments

#Uganda #MP #parliament

Uganda, still in the grip of a second and more dangerous wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, is like a group of malnourished wanderers in the desert. They lie down to rest their exhausted bodies. Their breaths, shallow and barely enough to sustain life, do not register sounds. Their ...

Aggrey Awori was honest about his mischief

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 13, 20210 comments

#Awori

Even in death, Aggrey Siryoyi Awori was an enigma. Hours after he had died, there was a debate about which side of life he was. A fake post declaring that the news of his death was fake was doing the social media rounds. People’s love affair with forwarding anything and everything ...

Did Louis Armstrong, who died 50 years ago today, visit Uganda?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJuly 6, 20210 comments

#Jazz #Armstrong #Satchmo

Born in New Orleans on July 4, 1901, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong died in Queens, New York in his sleep on July 6, 1971. He was a giant among the giants of Jazz music. His cornet, trumpet and voice influenced the shape and course of Jazz in a way that very few did. Armstrong’s ...

Uganda at 58 (2): Repudiating Order – Normalising Chaos, Mayhem, and Impunity – How It Happens –

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaJuly 3, 20210 comments

Repudiating Order – Normalising Chaos, Mayhem, and Impunity – How It Happens – (Written soon after 9 October 2021) “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.” ― William Golding, Lord of the ...

Memories of Edward Disani Nsubuga Wilson (1953-2021)

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 29, 20210 comments

#Edward #Wilson

Another week of widespread sorrow. The novel coronavirus continues its killing spree, inflicting grief on families and friends. One braces oneself for the next report of a dear one’s death. There is hardly an opportunity to mourn before turning one’s attention to the next. ...

A Tale of Two Crimes: of Mayhem and Wanton Theft

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaJune 27, 20210 comments

A Tale of Two Crimes: of Mayhem and Wanton Theft (Written a few days after 9 October 2020) “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies THAT SAME OLD FEELING Around this time four years ...

My personal experience with Covid-19 - By Dr. Aggrey Tisa Sabuni

By Muniini K. MuleraSouth Sudan South Sudan Health MattersJune 27, 20210 comments

#Tisa #Sabuni #Covid19

As I share what follows below, I want to thank the Almighty God, who through His Grace, gave me a second chance of life. Possibly to do a few things that I have so far neglected to do and also to share with others what follows below. Putting it in a layman's language, I want ...

Dr. Samuel Kisakye Mutumba was a children’s surgeon with a soft heart

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 21, 20210 comments

#Mutumba #Masiira

The tears do not dry. Many people known to me have died in the last week alone. Families are burying people within days of a previous death of a member. The darkness is oppressive, with no end in sight at the moment. As I write, news just came in that Enid Kazeire, my beloved ...