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

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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Flat Stanley, Stanley Jordan, Christopher Tin and Sandra Bae

Posted on March 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Brian Moore and Liam Moore, from Springfield, IL, called me this morning to check on their friend Flat Stanley. I texted a photo of Flat Stanley, myself, and Mayor of Palo Alto Nancy Shepherd back to them. But I had … Continue reading →

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Tale of Two Gits: Mia and Ren

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed a week-old New York Times magazine, in my dad’s to-recycle basket, and rifled thru it: the cover story was about Silicon Valley, from the perspective of a grad student working a summer job at a hot new generation … Continue reading →

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Two real mothers for ya

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86

JD Optekar is a Dartmouth-trained engineer (class of 1991, Th’92) out of Wisconsin, holding down the guitar slot in and c0-leading a pretty decent regional blues-soul outfit, celebrating a cd release at Buddy Guy’s in Chicago this spring, I noticed … Continue reading →

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Those mother palo alto hips

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Above photo by Andrew Quist in 2011 courtesy of Fast Atmosphere Mother Hips website. Hips are celebrating 20 years as a rock and roll band, and extended family or brotherhood. Off the top of my head, I can think of … Continue reading →

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It will be interesting to see if these four Palo Altans can indeed carve a livelihood out of these events, and do so without losing their dignity

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Let’s rab. Continue reading →

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Bumping into Doorframe, a music biz memoir by Mark Weiss

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

To the extent that  “Plastic Alto” is a memoir of the concert series I produced in Palo Alto, 1994-2001, I am influenced by Danny Goldberg’s “Bumping into Geniuses”. He says he’s kinda smart but had a talent for surrounding himself … Continue reading →

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Run from Daylight by Jim Harbaugh

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

During my stint last fall as a “junior historian” at Guy Miller Archives of Palo Alto Historical Association at Room H-5 at Cubberley Community Center the former high school (NFL’s Art Kuehn played for the Cougars there), I turned over … Continue reading →

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