It is news to me — great news, in fact – -that Frank Gehry is designing a new home for the non profit jazz venue The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles. This was announced about a month ago but I am out of the loop.

I also read that Jeff Gauthier of Cryptogramophone Records is their artistic director, working with Ruth Price. Andy Gilbert the great Bay Area writer was also once on team Ruth.

I went there in 2000 to check out another show with Rachel Z, Allison Miller and Miriam Sullivan, and continue to read about it at least if I haven’t been back there much.

But gives me hope that something good could happen in Palo Alto, at 456 University or somewhere nearby. Someone suggested to me just this week that maybe Arrillaga will tap Gehry to design his complex at 27 University, top of the tangent squared.

Speaking of complexes, story in LA Times said Sydney Pollack who made the movie about Gehry and his shrink, would take Gehry to jazz shows there. I like talking about this movie and the part about all these frustrated architects going to the same shrink and saying “Can you fix all my problems so I can be as good as Frank Gehry?”

For me Frank Gehry is tied in with the fact that my first job out of college was an intern for Chiat Day SF and Jay Chiat was an early supporter of Gehry and I visited not long after that the old Chiat Day which had Gehry furniture and conference room shaped like a fish. I have not actually seen the new Gehry designed Chiat building, with the Oldenburg in front.

writing about music is like dancing about architecture the maple kind