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

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand? (Rubin Carter 1937-2014)

Posted on April 21, 2014 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8Wn1Mwwwk

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Giant Steps from Stanley to Ted to Plastic Alto

Posted on April 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Stanley Jordan’s “Friends” cd, from 2011 on Grosse-Point-based Mack Avenue features he and Mike Stern (with Kenwood Dennard restricting himself to the pacing) working thru a unique arrangement of “Giant Steps”, the prodigious contribution to the canon by John Coltrane. … Continue reading →

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Earthwise Spylist: Average Joes, of Nashville and Atlanta (on Plastic Alto)

Posted on April 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Noah Gordon, of Sparta, Illinois outside St. Louis, Southern Illinois, if you think Miles Davis and Walt Frazier more than Muddy Waters and Ron Santo, has a label in Nashville and Atlanta called Average Joes. I wanted to see what … Continue reading →

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Hurray For the Riff Raff at Independent in SF on April 22 Earthday

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I only heard of this band via The New Yorker, but they are on ATO and apparently have sold out The Independent for a show on April 22 which is also, for some people, Earth Day. Hurray for Hurray For … Continue reading →

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A dose of kudos for Dan Fagin

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to Dan Fagin ’85, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth. What I remember most about his directorate was them sitting around the lounge in Robinson Hall watching “The McLaughlin Group”and their banter and discussion would soon escalate to drown … Continue reading →

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Too longish lift of Yardley on Gioia: Or, The History of Jazz/Palo Alto ctnd.

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

“Jazz has always been a music of fusion. ‘Nothing from New Orleans is ever pure’ — so goes an old throwaway phrase. But even by Crescent City standards, early jazz was an especially complex melange. The Southern mentality that obsessively … Continue reading →

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Motema Jazz Funeral for Stanford Scientist Leonard Herzenberg (1931-2013)

Posted on April 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Lynne Arriale and several other jazz musicians played a tribute concert at Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford campus in February, 2014 in honor of the famous scientist Leonard Herzenberg, of the Herzenberg Lab, who died last fall. Herzenberg’s daughter is … Continue reading →

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Fo Flash Mob flash

Posted on April 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Forrest Bryant, the KZSU jazz deejay and author, reviewed Anton Schwartz’ recent release “Flash Mob”, the tenor’s fifth, all on his own diy label. I had heard a track — and was digging it — a few days ago on … Continue reading →

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God and yam at Yale

Posted on April 10, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m glad that William F. Buckley was not around to hear about this.

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Don’t let Hollywood wreck your West Marin weekend (Jerry Hannan at Rancho Nicasio)

Posted on April 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Sixty-nine miles to West Marin to see NorCal legend Jerry Hannan paid off for us thanks to the music, the food, the weather, a judicious serving of Sierra Nevada and our lucky stars. It was my first visit to Rancho … Continue reading →

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