Category Archives: jazz

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Of his 49 projects this year, Matt Merewitz works with at least four that I have strong sense of

Posted on November 2, 2015 by markweiss86

Of his 49 projects this year, Matt Merewitz works with at least four that I have strong sense of. The artists, if not these new works. Not yet. One, is Dave Douglas, for “Brazen Heart” a quintet that features Jon … Continue reading →

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Killing my Lobster plus Mostly Other People Do the Killing mashup: or weird review of Charles Rumback, considered as a band leader

Posted on October 29, 2015 by markweiss86

(maybe ain’t nobody home, dove ventured — UPDATE: if this post were about lobsters and not jazz music I would add information about lobster references in “South Pacific”, “Ah, Wilderness” and the works of David Foster Wallace; and or, I … Continue reading →

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Foolish Wallace

Posted on August 19, 2015 by markweiss86

perhaps it was reading Huck Finn that sent me spelunking as in Hannibal MO into the Earthwise storage catacombs unearthing a press clipping IRA call from years ago about one of my favorite bands to it and it’s actually a … Continue reading →

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L Sax L

Posted on July 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Pat Labarbera (1944) Steve Lacy (1934-2004) Guy Lafitte (1927-1998) Oliver Lake (1942) Ralph Lalama (1951) Byard Lancaster (1942-2012) Harold Land (1928-2001) Brian Landrus (1978) Don Lanphere (1928-2003) John Laporta (1920-2004) Prince Lasha (1929-2008) Yusef Lateef (1920-2013) Christof Lauer (1953) Azar … Continue reading →

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Taylor Eigsti, Brad Cooper, situation summer, 2015

Posted on June 19, 2015 by markweiss86

I heard Taylor Eigsti on the radio yesterday morning, with Alisa Clancy of KCSM and was moved to call in and purchase a pair of tickets for his show Sunday at Filoli in Woodside, featuring Gretchen Parlato, the vocalist. Filoli … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Mr. Plastic Alto: Ornette Coleman, 1930-2015

Posted on June 12, 2015 by markweiss86

(When City of Palo Alto and Stanford University in 2006 combined to create the two-field soccer complex, the Mayfield Site, at corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino, I remember tripping on –figuratively — the little rubber pebbles that … Continue reading →

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Quodlibet w. litany

Posted on May 22, 2015 by markweiss86

Everybody saw the sun shine, but I saw a dragon fly, while Gretchen said “butter fly” and Eva shook her tuckas, rising towards heaven — posted, May 22, added June 22 Latin what plus it pleases I got to indirectly … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto jazz piano prodigy

Posted on May 15, 2015 by markweiss86

Discovered in Jakarta, Indonesia, about three years ago, Joey Alexander moved with his parents to New York last year, with the help of jazz luminaries like the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who called him “my hero” on Facebook and with whom … Continue reading →

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CBC

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Yeah i hear you, I’ve written since 2010 1,400 posts (not all about music, certainly not all about jazz) but have probably been to less than 100 shows. I’ve only produced 10 shows, down from 30 a year in my … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Williams bass

Posted on March 22, 2015 by markweiss86

The Sunday night guy on KCSM says that in 1941 a bass player named Chocolate Williams, along with a nearly equally now obscure vocalist Ollie Potter, recorded “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” with Art Tatum. He was working on a … Continue reading →

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