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Monthly Archives: January 2021
Ethan Iverson with Alex Ross: In music, there were no victories
A piece from NYT in summer 1995, that presages Ross becoming a genius of writing about classical music, the rest is noise etc: bw TEN MINUTES DRIVING AROUND PALO ALTO IN MY DAD’S OLD LEXUS LISTENING AS IF FOR THE … Continue reading
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If not now, Venn
Few people realize that John Venn Neumann, the inventor of the Venn diagram, lived here in Palo Alto. He used to play poker with other notable geniuses like Dr Richter, the inventor of the Richter scale, Nathan Oliveira, who invented … Continue reading
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Ben Franklin VS Chuck Berry
One said we have a republic, if we cnn keep it.The other said it’s got a back beat you can’t lose it.Something like that. @Adobe abode, in terms of my concert series at Cubberley, I did have an artist … Continue reading
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Amber Navran, reeds and vocals
I said below that I was going to turn out 500 sax players.Amber Navran of Moonchild, sings, sax — this is a clarinet though. No, sax.In a previous life I had a blue spiral notebooks with the names of 1,000 … Continue reading
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Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears
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My dream deferred
In 1993, because my parents were supporters of Anna Eshoo, I was able to use a ticket to go to DC and watch Clinton being sworn in. I went with a college roommate, whose father worked in the Kennedy administration, … Continue reading
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Detail of Mark Weiss painting
From April, 2013 — he is Mark S. Weiss to my Mark B. Weiss and thanks to Erik Lawrence for mensch-chinning this…
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Forty years of fear and loathing
Somehow I am watching NFL football and listening to Dick Gregory in January 1972 at UCLA, but was dictating to my handheld Hunter S. Thompson about the Washington football team and Richard Nixon, Edward Muskie, Edward Bennett Williams, Dave Gurgin, … Continue reading
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Joy Hackett (Spalding)>>>Ben Davis(Brubeck)
Bw one more for the road This was a reiteration of a previous post that was about Keith Jarrett but digressed to a query about an unknown artist out of San Jose, Joy Dawn Hackett, who is doing a livestream … Continue reading
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Sweded two minute take on San Jose’s Joy Dawn Hackett doing bubble version of Esperanza Spalding ‘Ebony and Ivy’
While this was loading I was checking out the original versions: reminds me of early Stew and The Negro Problem which became “Passing Strange” plus Enorchestra Brian Eno “Taking Tiger Mountain” plus Nicole Mitchell / Lisa Harris “Earth Seed” based … Continue reading