Category Archives: jazz

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Zasu Pitts at the New Varsity, circa 1988

Posted on August 20, 2014 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge is the Les Blank of Palo Alto, and his New Orleans is the New Varsity. He has about 500 films of acts and artists performing live music there, 456 University, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when … Continue reading →

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What do you see in this image?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

I see: 1. colors 2. a shape, bunny rabbit? New England state known for leaves turning in fall? 3. numbers, letters, not quite words. Qwerty? Hazbot? Nimby? 4. Is this a reference to Raushenberg, Switters, Walker Evans or what? (it … Continue reading →

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Mads Tolling Highlights the Twilight, August 16 in Palo Alto

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

Mads Tolling Quartet plays the City of Palo Alto parks concert series, The Twilight, Saturday August 16. To my mind, as someone who has run Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto for 20 years, and produced more than 200 shows here, … Continue reading →

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Hudba to Terri Hinte

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Not much of an item but I had a nice brief chat with publicist Terri Hinte of Richmond, Cali. She works for, among many, many others, Mimi Jones. Mimi Jones, also known as Miriam Sullivan. Miriam Sullivan, born in the … Continue reading →

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Class act Naylor in Goldberg fix

Posted on July 31, 2014 by markweiss86

Class act Jacqui Naylor, a jazz singer, lives in a dwelling in SF that once was home to Rube Goldberg, the inventor of oblique feng shui strategy, and builder of better traps-of-mouse. Sam Whiting and Brand Chr says: (and imagine … Continue reading →

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Matt Haimovitz at CBGB [credit: Harry DiOrio]

Posted on January 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Hi. I wrote a long essay on the history of jazz in Palo Alto and included Matt Haimovitz as a footnote, sparked to do such because Ropeadope had included on its blog a link to an item on Matt in … Continue reading →

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Greetings from Sarah Manning

Posted on December 10, 2013 by markweiss86

  Hi Mark, Thanks for the note. Hope you’ve been doing well out there in the Bay. Sure, you can repost, although I ask that you take out my contact information (the PO Box address). And if you repost Scott … Continue reading →

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Jazz time travels or jazzscribe contrafacts: from full faith and credit to fregulia and back

Posted on September 27, 2013 by markweiss86

The Geography of Hep, Palo Alto’s influence on Jazz, via music education, guest concerts(Monk, Steve Lacy) and our all too rare gifts to jazz world in terms of artists like Stanley Jordan and executives like Danny Scher, Jason Olaine, plus Herb Wong, James Benham, Ted Gioia, plus Akira Tana, venues like The Bandbox and The Varsity, and all that jazz Continue reading →

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San Ho

Posted on June 13, 2013 by markweiss86

Brian Ho is playing tonight in San Jo, at Hotel De Anza but I hope to trek only as far as Los Altos to check out Foreverland, a Michael Jackson tribute featuring Morty Okin (of Morty and Connie fame). I … Continue reading →

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Alden Van Buskirk news flash

Posted on April 30, 2013 by markweiss86

BEYOND THE NEWS In-depth coverage and analysis of recent significant items in the news, produced by our news department. 8:00 THE POEMS OF RATTRAY AND VAN BUSKIRK Poet David Rattray reads from his own work, and that of Alden van … Continue reading →

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