I live in Silicon Valley, but promote my concerts using 18th century tactics

COUPA CAFE PALO ALTOApril Jazz Madness by Earthwise Of Palo Alto 

April 4 Realtime Collective

               Rabiah Kabir

@ MITCHELL PARK CENTER

April 17 Mads Tolling

                  Larry Ochs

@ ART CENTER

April 18  Adam Klipple

@LYTTON PLAZA 

Featuring: Tammy L Hall Kristen Strom Sylvia Cuenca Ruth Davies Rabiah Kabir Ethan Buck Mads Tolling Sam Reider Larry Ochs Ben Davis Fred Lonberg-Holm Adam Klipple

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2 music dudes 1 of whom is appearing Monday at The Palo Alto Art Center

Ralph Alessi SPONSORED BY EARTHWISE

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Wendy Red Starr one blue bead v ‘Girl who cried pearls’

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Abe added to Alessi

Earthwise has added Abe Mamet to its next show, Monday, March 23 at Palo Alto Art Center. Abe plays the French horn, and is influenced by the late Robert Northern (a former Dartmouth professor). Abe is from DC by way of Denver. He is visiting friends in Palo Alto next week .

Ralph Alessi is a trumpet player based in NYC by way of Marin.

Collaborators on recordings for Ralph Allesi include Don Byron, Uri Caine, Fred Hersch, Kris Davis,  David Gilmore, Jason Moran, Sam Rivers, Mark Turner, Andy Milne and Hank Roberts.

Ralph’s band includes Ralph Alessi trumpet Adam Benjamin piano Richard Giddens bass and Mark Ferber drums.

Ralph was in residence at Cal Art, according to the social media feed of Petra Haden (Charlie’s daughter):

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Thai Bui sketches of Edu Ribeiro, Noah Garabedian

Adam Klipple, Vinicius Gomes

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I forgot to mention that the drummer I’m promoting Tuesday won a Grammy

EDU RIBEIRO

  • 2008: Best Contemporary Jazz Album – Randy in Brazil (Randy Brecker).
  • 2013: Best Latin Jazz Album – Song for Maura (Trio Corrente and Paquito D’Rivera).
  • 2014: Latin Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album – Song for Maura (Trio Corrente and Paquito D’Rivera).
  • 2016: Best Latin Jazz Album – Made in Brazil (Eliane Elias).
  • 2017: Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album – Dance of Time (Eliane Elias).

be Sylvia Cuenca and Essiet Essiet at Obelisk Santa Clara

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Foxes!!!

Kira Goodkind and Jeff Goodkind, Redwood City, March 3.14.2026

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Greetings to Trueblood from The Donnas ‘95

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Eventbrite w Earthwise

I have 11 shows on my books. I have had about 180 shows in my history with Eventbrite. All since 2018. (I’ve been producing shows since fall of ‘94 with roughly 500 in my history I lost count)

I got a message from the CEO of EventBrite saying that she’s moving on and she sold the company for roughly 500,000,000$.

If I sold all the tickets for all these shows, I would gross about $50,000.

I am hesitant to list all my shows on the platform on the because of the chance that the company will go out of business by the time Hannah Lux, her base

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Xgau says ‘Dartmouth…’

At Dartmouth I hung out with the tiny bohemian clique insofar as they tolerated me, and they hipped me to jazz. By the time I was out of college I played pop radio all the time and also occasionally visited jazz clubs, where Thelonious Monk was my special fave.

who is the other guy?

geoffrey stokes wrote a book about commanding cody

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