Music and Brain: I’m your puppet blog
You know I am a big fan of John Ellis even though we have not spoken in five years — our management-client relationship ended in a less than perfect fashion — although he did end up with three cds on Hyena (and thanked me in the credits to the first).
Likewise I am a fan of yours (this is a letter to Alexis Cuadrado, a Spanish-born bass player now bassed in New York/Brooklyn, who sent his list a link to TINO which had a modest blurb on his upcoming gig there with Donny McCaslin and Dan Tepfer) and am always happy for you to hear news of your doings, although I have been a little shy about saying so.
Buena suerte a Alexis y John y todos de los revolucionarios de jazz de brooklyn y nueva yorke los que llevan los knitcaps. si se puede. viva espana. viva puyol. copa mundial!! viva bardem y almodovar y cesar manrique aunque murio en un choque como en “broken embraces” en frente de su esculputura….
ok, if they post the item about Jacob Sacks in the neurology blog i will report back…
mbw
— On Thu, 10/7/10, Alexis Cuadrado <info@alexiscuadrado.com> wrote:
From: Alexis Cuadrado <info@alexiscuadrado.com>
Subject: Re: AC Trio @ Bar Next Door tomorrow Thursday.
To: “mark weiss” <earwopa@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 11:37 AM
Hi Mark
She called him Jacob Sacks, who is a NY piano player.
Yeah, music and the brain… overwhelmnig topic
Great to hear from you
Take care
Alexis
On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:06 PM, mark weiss wrote:
| Hey, Alexis.
I looked at your tweet and was wondering about your comment on Bach helping your brain. Also, what did you and Matana talk about — her tweets are private. I am guessing that she called him “Oliver Sax” and you corrected her. My friend Dr. Brian Moore has a neuropathology blog but I try to get him to mention music topics — for instance, he blogged about Woody Guthrie and Huntington’s disease. Also, his boss the Dr. Doug “Scout” Shevlin has a folk music blog — they like music in this one lab. I was curious enough to submit a message to Matana, who I do not know. (I met you when I use to manage John Ellis). (NB: they lived in the same building in Brooklyn.) Good luck on your gigs and cds. Mark Weiss Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto hi, matana. i’m a fan in san francisco. this is kinda dumb but: can you reveal or repeat your pun on “oliver sacks” that is referenced on alexis cuadrado’s twitter feed?” My buddy dr brian moore has a blog of neurology and I am always trying to get him to blog on the arts there. his boss, dr. doug shevlin actually has a music (folk and rock) blog so maybe we can get your and AC’s little joke on both blogs. I am assuming you said “Oliver Sax” which would make sense. AC was tweeting about how working on Bach was helping his brain…mark weiss in palo alto say hi to donny. he is west coast dude. santa cruz. my girlfriend’s sister took classes in high school with donny’s father, who was also a street musician (xylophone). Donny tells a great story of the day he decided to become a musician while hanging with dad and friends. — On Wed, 9/29/10, Alexis Cuadrado <info@alexiscuadrado.com> wrote: From: Alexis Cuadrado <info@alexiscuadrado.com> Subject: AC Trio @ Bar Next Door tomorrow Thursday. To: “Alexis Cuadrado INFO” <info@alexiscuadrado.com> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 3:06 PM Hello Friends, hope this email finds you well. I’m playing a nice trio gig tomorrow with the great Donny McCaslin on Tenor and Dan Tepfer on keys. Should be great fun… Hope to see you all there. My very best, Alexis When: This Thursday October 30th. 2 sets at 8:30 and 10:30 NB: He probably meant Sept 30…but check back later in the month Where: Bar Next Door at La Lanterna 129 MacDougal St New York, NY 10012 Tel: (212) 529-5945 How Much: $12 cover for all 2 sets, with 1 drink minimum per set. TIme Out NY wrote this about this gig Contact & Links Website alexiscuadrado.com email me: info[at]alexiscuadrado[dot]com Follow me on twitter Become my Facebook Fan My Myspace Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Brooklyn Jazz Underground Collective what’s funny is that I haven’t figured out how to add links to this blog… |
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
Besides the exercise in postmodernism, the genesis for this is that I was thinking of searching my Yahoo mail for a message from Peter Apfelbaum in which he complied with my request for his set list from the Freight and Salvage show, about two summers ago. I had interviewed him via phone at KZSU and wanted to write something as a follow up. He did a GREAT SHOW. There, that wasn’t so hard.
Further, I could’nt help but watch a little of Esperanza Spalding Tiny Desk concert from NPR this a.m. and maybe I was stuck on bass players. She did a piece in which she sings a William Blake poem “Little Fly” while playing a tune she set it to. She is helped by a fine band including a violin player named Sara Caswell.
I had previously sketched an outline for a blog topic responding to an NPR review that referenced the band The Go-Betweens. Look for that in future editions of “MarkWeiss86 blog”
Footnote/Epilogue: Matana (Mah ta NAH) Roberts wrote back to say she had never heard of the person she accidentally mentioned when referring to Oliver Sacks…
this deserves its own entry but here is my exchange with leah garchik on this:
three shows in brooklyn with the venerable The Negro Problem (featuring Stew and Heidi of “Passing Strange” Berkeley Rep fame) in Brooklyn and then four shows with Steve Lehman including one at SFJazz — that’s a big week — shame on you for not mentioning this in your column..
go giants.
go giants of jazz.
mark weiss
ps. did he take lessons from Mal Sharpe?
(i do)
— On Mon, 11/1/10, Garchik, Leah wrote:
From: Garchik, Leah
Subject: RE: swordfish trombone
To: “mark weiss”
Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 4:03 PM
Thanks Mark. Jacob just played here last week in SFJAZZ, with Steve Lehmann octet. Very proud mom,
Leah Garchik
San Francisco Chronicle
—–Original Message—–
From: mark weiss [mailto:earwopa@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 4:00 PM
To: Garchik, Leah
Subject: swordfish trombone
you look too well preserved for anyone to guess you gave birth to a trombone…
mark weiss
Because this post also has a mini list of notable Spanish people — my pantheon of Spanish heroes — I am mentioning here that Terry went to a lecture yesterday at Stanford about the imminent commission of the great Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. I did not know his name previously but did see his water-spewing-spitting wall of video-face at Millenium Park in Chicago last year.
http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/plensa-lecture.html
footnote Esperanza Spalding won the Best New Artist Grammy….