Category Archives: music

if you can hear it and it does not grate your ears, ambient or intentitional with a story melody or not, major and minor chords, the community rather than the industry if possible; if not the answer then a pretty good guess, and the people who live it; basie miller satchmo and the king of all sir duke

Street fair as shaggy dog story

Posted on June 16, 2014 by markweiss86

The Weekly baited me into telling them how I really feel. Surprise, surprise. I almost never do this: I would say this is the cultural equivalent of government surplus cheese. It’s nice that the police got paid some overtime, however, … Continue reading →

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Puzzling evidence in Palo Alto

Posted on June 11, 2014 by markweiss86

  (under construction: time to eat the donuts….)   edit to add: Holy canoli! Did he say “Silicon Valley” at 1:40???

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Matt Nathanson in San Jose in 2009

Posted on June 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Opening the time capsule that was my Canon camera which I had not touched since 2009, I also found this so-so photo of Matt Nathanson Music in the Park in San Jose. I tried to give Matt a copy of … Continue reading →

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I am writing something in reaction to Bob Leftsetz, Van Dyke Parks and David Carr

Posted on June 9, 2014 by markweiss86

i am writing something about bob lefsetz, van dyke parks and david carr but so far, 266 words in I am mainly cutting and pasting. And not reading the source material much either. And in exactly 13 minutes we are either driving to the City at 3:30 or taking the 6 p.m. Caltrain to see the 7:15 Giants game, Vogelsong v. Stroberg of the Matt’s Nats. Continue reading →

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Last call at Happy Donuts

Posted on June 6, 2014 by markweiss86

I am writing this post remote from Happy Donuts, its last day, last 9 hours. 1. This is admittedly a weird place to start even a lyrical essay about the rise and fall of Palo Alto’s Happy Donuts, but I … Continue reading →

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Manos arriba for the Alvins

Posted on June 5, 2014 by markweiss86

News out of Memphis and Hayward is that blues slinger Alvin Youngblood Hart is changing his stage name to Alvin Workmaster Jr. He thinks its a better draw. edit to add: but does it come in Illinois Blues?

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Congrats to Corey Harris on new book (on Toure) and documentary

Posted on June 4, 2014 by markweiss86

Congrats, blessings, greetings, namaste and mazel tov to Corey Harris on first, a book he has written on Ali Farka Toure and, second, a documentary about Corey’s work. The video is from “Zion Crossroads”the 2007 Telarc release that I still … Continue reading →

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Ben Goldberg Bay Area Gigs: BAGBAGs

Posted on June 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Bay Area: Friday June 6, 8 pm: Michael Coleman and Ben Goldberg play Hocus Pocus! with ROVA and Johnston/Shelton Quartet Community Music Center, 544 Capp St., SF Saturday June 7, 5:30 pm Myra Melford / Ben Goldberg duo part of Myra’s program … Continue reading →

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Siberian Front next big band out of Lagunita-Santa Teresa

Posted on June 3, 2014 by markweiss86

I spent $2 today to vote, at Tresidder, for parking. I took out the Mediterranean Special from CoHo, with hummus pita et al. And I et all. I will edit to add the name of the cross streets around Tresidder, … Continue reading →

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In the spirit of Sister Gertrude Morgan

Posted on June 2, 2014 by markweiss86

Two points about this: when I first wrote this, in June, 2014 it was post number 666; but then I decided it was lame to post this overly eager letter to some young researcher I met, even a Yale-educated musicologist. … Continue reading →

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