Category Archives: jazz

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This is Oakland, almost

Posted on December 8, 2018 by markweiss86

  bw This is a weird Segue but  I was at Gunn for a jazz concert and I picked up the Oracle a paper I edit it for two years in a row And clipped a tearsheet about a collaborative … Continue reading →

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Twenty-four Weiss dispatches for Palo Alto Patch, circa 2011 (or pre-‘Plastic Alto’), and 2 other notes on our rights

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

  I said to someone apropos of my meeting Palo Alto Patch’s Aaron Selverston at the unveiling of the James Moore Bill Bliss bike monument at Baylands, that I subsequently filed a dozen articles there. It’s actually 24. Also a … Continue reading →

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Three photos I’ve published of my rabbi Akira Tana, plus one of my wife and muse, Terry Acebo Davis, and I (I’m sort of in the selfie with Akira, at Gunn@50, 2014)

Posted on December 1, 2018 by markweiss86

Although Wim Wenders says we are in all the photos we take, not just the selfies:

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Feeling his presence

Posted on October 30, 2018 by markweiss86

And

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Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom rattles Mitchell Park Center in Palo Alto, Thurs., Oct. 18, presented by Earthwise Productions

Posted on October 8, 2018 by markweiss86

People can email me at earwopa@yahoo.com or if you can figure out how to post a comment below to RSVP or COD cash on delivery but otherwise it’s cash at door. The room is pretty big we should be fine. … Continue reading →

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Super John John

Posted on October 4, 2018 by markweiss86

I met John Shifflett (1953-2017) at Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto in July, 1996 when Medeski Martin and Wood sold clean the room and, on the advice of Charlie Hunter, I booked as support Will Bernard, John Shifflett, Rob … Continue reading →

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Criss cross: Darren w Harold Lopez-Nussa

Posted on September 18, 2018 by markweiss86

edit to add: ok, the guy owns a piano bar in LA, called Tramp Stamp Granny’s and made a video of himself playing and singing “Desperado” so this is a natural collaboration, four hands even. He also went to St. … Continue reading →

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Eddie Gale ‘Black Rhythm Happening’ w Brother Thelonious Belgian style abbey ale

Posted on August 20, 2018 by markweiss86

Brother Thelonius is from North Coast Brewing in Fort Bragg and I’m pretty certain they sponsored a tour by Helen Sung Whose cousin married a dear friend of mine and who’s reed player is my former client. Whereas Eddie Gale … Continue reading →

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Cage w. Moe

Posted on August 14, 2018 by markweiss86

(and I am indebed-tah to The Wedge and a KFJC guy Thursday named Max Levell for this itemizer) So, John Cage is the guy who brought our ears training to the ambient sound in a room and for example when … Continue reading →

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I woke up in a big yellow taxi, counting crows and pondering dense housing

Posted on June 25, 2018 by markweiss86

I woke up in a SoHo doorway, a police man knew my name. Twenty years in the Tin Pan, Lord there’s got to be another way. That’s a pretty close to direct quote of a famous song by a famous … Continue reading →

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