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

Viva Cepeda

Posted on April 28, 2014 by markweiss86

  b/w Tribelines by Eric Hanson (Nina Simone’s former agent), annotated by The Editor, with a little help from Who’s Who in Baseball, 2014 Tribe not swept since late last summer Happens here, would be a bummer* Hopes that we, … Continue reading →

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Herb Wong (1926-2014)

Posted on April 26, 2014 by markweiss86

(We last saw Herb Wong at Sam Smidt’s birthday party. They were neighbors. Terry knows or knew Sam well, while I have only met him a few times. I reminded Herb who I was and gave him a not too … Continue reading →

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I am not working on my blog because there are this many things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be

Posted on April 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I am not working on my blog because there are this many — 12 — things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be. At Printer’s Inc, Cafe, Palo Alto, with about 90 minutes to be “productive”. … Continue reading →

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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
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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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