Category Archives: jazz

skronk, swing, miles davis, ornette, john ellis, my list of 1,001 sax players, new artists on tour, people who book their own tour but will talk to me for 45 minutes when i cold call, nina simone “save me…yeah” project, compositions, instruments, artists, recordings, labels and people

PA(tch): or, PA!!!

Posted on May 2, 2011 by markweiss86

leonard koppett, who is in the sportswriters’ wing of the baseball hall of fame, in semi-retirement from the new york herald, was our editor in chief. mario dianda the editor of the daily news was a county reporter. ray ratto was a sports columnist and would take naps on koppett’s couch. Continue reading →

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Pinetop Perkins, 1913-2011

Posted on April 21, 2011 by markweiss86

pinetop’s boogie woogie came through palo alto’s cubberley center when he was 86 Continue reading →

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Don Cherry at Dartmouth

Posted on April 20, 2011 by markweiss86

don cherry at dartmouth; a shorter version of this appeared in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine circa 2006 Continue reading →

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Ming us, Al Young us

Posted on April 10, 2011 by markweiss86

myself when i am unreal Continue reading →

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MY name is Oscar

Posted on April 9, 2011 by markweiss86

i never died said he Continue reading →

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I remember NOLAthing

Posted on April 6, 2011 by markweiss86

if you go to new orleans make sure you visit THE mardi gras Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Dave Douglas

Posted on March 24, 2011 by markweiss86

I got this from NPR (while searching in futility in a hurry for the thing about the DC club promoter): http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/03/23/134804991/happy-birthday-dave-douglas I was thinking of Dave recently because I am hoping to steal trumpet player and musicologist and griot Jack … Continue reading →

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Calling I.C.O.B.O.P.A.

Posted on March 2, 2011 by markweiss86

I hereby call the International Congress of Buskers of Palo Alto. (I.C.O.B.O.P.A., pronounced EYE co BOW PA). Watch (and listen) for more details. Mark Weiss Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto (earwopa@yahoo.com) “Plastic Alto” blog (https://markweiss86.wordpress.com) Wednesday, March 2, 2011 8:55 … Continue reading →

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Richter’s ‘halo’ effect on Frisell and yours truly

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

best minds of my gen destroyed by microscopes Continue reading →

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Burning thing ring of friends, fire and Memphis Bar Mitzvah

Posted on February 23, 2011 by markweiss86

burning thing and it makes a firery ring bound by wild dao-sire Continue reading →

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