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Earthwise welcomes Naomi Moon Siegel Quartet tonight Thursday, February 27 at Palo Alto Art Center

Posted on February 27, 2025 by markweiss86

Tickets at Eventbrite or $20 at door. Eight pm show. An award-winning trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator, Naomi Moon Siegel uses the trombone as a vehicle for sonic expression colored by breath, spit, and physicality. Moving beyond conventional genre norms, … Continue reading →

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Tricoastal Consortium to debut in Mitchell Park residency by Earthwise: Steven Bernstein, slide trumpet; Wayne Horvitz, piano; James Singleton, bass — Thursday, November 21 thru Saturday, November 23

Posted on November 15, 2024 by markweiss86

Earthwise welcomes a jazz summit with stalwarts of the scenes, in the Bay Area, New York, New Orleans and Seattle: Steven Bernstein, slide trumpet; Wayne Horvitz, piano, and James Singleton, upright bass and pocket trumpet. Performing as: Tricoastal Consortium, Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Sphere versus Earthwise

Posted on May 18, 2024 by markweiss86

I saw James Dolan speak at a music conference in Los Angeles in February. He owns the Knicks and the Rangers, and Madison Square Garden, but was talking about Sphere, a venue in Las Vegas. It’s more than a venue, … Continue reading →

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Woodshedding fantasy for this summer and early fall based on Ethan Iverson’s post today: canons, fugues, looping and more

Posted on April 28, 2024 by markweiss86

Voices please enter one at a time singing the same tune from the top. Terry and I were at Fort Mason Saturday for the art fair and on our way back cut through the Presidio and I noticed this cannon … Continue reading →

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I see hawks at Johnson Park in October

Posted on April 24, 2024 by markweiss86

I have barely started rolling out my spring outdoors season but I now know that the last show of the year will be under the oak at Johnson Park with Karl Evangelista guitar and Alexander Hawkins quartet on Monday, October … Continue reading →

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Earthwise piano series set to jump

Posted on March 5, 2024 by markweiss86

ETHAN IVERSON MONDAY APRIL 1; TUESDAY, APRIL 2 MARTA SANCHEZ MONDAY, APRIL 1; 20 TUESDAY, APRIL 2; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3; THURSDAY, APRIL 4; FRIDAY, APRIL 5 DICK FREGULIA trio THURSDAY, APRIL 4 DICK CONTE trio THURSDAY, APRIL 4 MOTOKO HONDA … Continue reading →

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In search of Keith Mackey

Posted on February 20, 2024 by markweiss86

Fumi Okiji sang at Earthwise at Palo Alto Art Center last week, Valentines Day, with her husband Ben Davis (cello) plus Ben Goldberg (clarinet) and young blood Jordan Glenn on the traps. Fumi mentioned her actual name but I could … Continue reading →

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Be quick but don’t hurry: four more concerts, with a total of nearly 800 unsold seats

Posted on October 31, 2023 by markweiss86

  This is a bit redundant of Tuesday’s post, if you are a serial reader of Plastic Alto: I have four more productions, and a total of five shows coming up. Things are a little slow at the box office. … Continue reading →

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A November to remember

Posted on October 29, 2023 by markweiss86

Four final shows for Earthwise Earthwise culminates its year with four final productions in November. On Friday , November 3, at the Palo Alto Art Center, Jovia Armstrong Eunoia Society presents a cd release show. On Saturday November 11, at … Continue reading →

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Overcoming attraction

Posted on August 18, 2023 by markweiss86

I do not know or have not met to my recollection, the singer Fay Victor, but for the fact that I sponsored during the Covid shutdown a recording by Dave Douglas called “over come”. We are discussing bringing her to … Continue reading →

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