Category Archives: jazz

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The royal Nonesuch

Posted on December 16, 2020 by markweiss86

I bought a Sam Gendel cd on bandcamp both download and on vinyl, because he was in a year-end LA Times story. It looks like he got signed to Nonesuch — a supreme imprimateur — through a chance association and … Continue reading →

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Steve Lacy twice

Posted on December 7, 2020 by markweiss86

I’m not going to fault Veronica DeJesus for embellishing Steve Lacy’s resume: “played w/Muddy Waters”. I don’t think Steve played with Muddy — the person who might know is Bob Margolin, or Eric Hanson. More people think of Steve as … Continue reading →

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Two hundred posts later, I wish more people had noticed the free Clarinet Thing concert from June or February

Posted on November 11, 2020 by markweiss86

June: 41 postsJuly: 42 postsAugust: 45 postsSeptember: 33 postsOctober: 28 postsNovember: 15 postsBut I am making sticky something I posted in June, a photo of Beth Custer and I, at her Clarinet Thing concert here in February, and the recording … Continue reading →

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Stanley Crouch, 74

Posted on September 17, 2020 by markweiss86

“I affirm whatever I think has the best chance of working, of being both inspirational and unsentimental, of reasoning across the categories of false division and beyond the decoy of race.”   bw  

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Still grooving on, intrigued by Nicole Mitchell Lisa A. Harris ‘EarthSeed’ oratorio and tribute to Octavia Butler

Posted on September 10, 2020 by markweiss86

It’s a complex work, but it’s chipping away at me. I’ve bought two Octavia Butler books, and noted that both Veronica DeJesus, the visual artist, and Rebecca Eisenberg, the activist, feel her. I was streaming it from a link provided … Continue reading →

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Belgian drummer with cool tattoos revealed, released

Posted on September 2, 2020 by markweiss86

BLUF good luck to About Raf Vertessen and his new cd and sorry about the gratuitous reggae reference courtesy of or to Fully Altered I mention below or above (I forget – which way you scroll or which way history flows, … Continue reading →

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Who knows ‘Why The Sax Player has Cyrillic on his t-shirt’?

Posted on August 24, 2020 by markweiss86

There’s a media group called Black Palm that did a No Use For a Name Tony Sly tribute with all Slavic female leads, plus a Clint Mansell doubledate Slavic or Russian looking couples video plus California Dreaming with the late … Continue reading →

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Five oh one saxophone blues

Posted on August 13, 2020 by markweiss86

In a former life, we used to have a notebook in which I wrote the names, date of birth of 1,001 saxophone players that I had culled from three different music reference books, all music guide, a British one, and … Continue reading →

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Monk America Monk again

Posted on August 11, 2020 by markweiss86

I’m only kidding about the janitor actually being an FBI agent, but a lot of the press about Danny’s (Scher) concert with Monk does describe the timing of the event during an era when MLK had been shot and East … Continue reading →

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COINTELPRO in Palo Alto, fall 1968 legend

Posted on July 28, 2020 by markweiss86

Yoshi Kato in PAW and Almanac has the scoop that the Thelonious Monk Palo Alto live concert produced by Danny Scher then a senior at Paly has been shelved, because of an injunction by Verve’s Record’s rivalry with another label. Not … Continue reading →

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