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

Wild Cohenolas

Posted on March 17, 2014 by markweiss86

What do you call a tribe of wild Swedish, Jewish, Irish, black Indians? Wild Cohenolas? Wild Cohen-Olafs? Wild Cohen-NOLAS? Wild Cohen-NOKAS? Flogging Mohel-ies Poincare Vieux Carre conjectures? Seeking Prime (or corned beef) on the Zeta Landscape (Garden District)? Hey Poincare … Continue reading →

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Zion I and I and I (and Steve…and Peggy)

Posted on March 13, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m cleaning out my storage space to create room, physically and psychically for more experience, and music, and indeed I and I and Zion I and Steve and Peggy get with it plastic alto style in the real (not media) worlds. Continue reading →

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Matt Haimovitz at CBGB [credit: Harry DiOrio]

Posted on January 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Hi. I wrote a long essay on the history of jazz in Palo Alto and included Matt Haimovitz as a footnote, sparked to do such because Ropeadope had included on its blog a link to an item on Matt in … Continue reading →

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A Casebook on the BEAT by Thomas Parkinson casebook

Posted on January 21, 2014 by markweiss86

If I rifle is seen hanging over a fireplace in the first act, then it should be fired by the third.* 1. A couple weeks ago I was at Temporary Main Library (former council chambers, former Palo Alto Cultural Center … Continue reading →

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Eugene Robinson rookie card: he’s got it

Posted on October 28, 2013 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge deserves recognition for cultural contributions to our fair city, Palo Alto. He and his family managed The New Varsity for many years, and he was encouraging to the small group that tried to reclaim the historic and beloved … Continue reading →

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Fox says “Ding” in Palo Alto

Posted on October 13, 2013 by markweiss86

FOX SAYS DING IN PALO ALTO Dog goes “woof” Cat goes “meow” Bird goes “tweet” Frog goes “croak” Ducks say “quack” Fish goes “blub blub” And the seal goes “ow ow ow” What does the fox say? Ding-ding-ding-ding-dingering Ding Ding … Continue reading →

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‘Palo-centrism’ explained and Big Beat exhumed by Corry

Posted on October 10, 2013 by markweiss86

Palo-centrism and The Big Beat research Kudos to Grateful Dead scholar and fan “Corry342” for all his work, in his blog “Lost Live Dead,” and for finding the location of the Big Beat Acid Test, at 998 San Antonio, on … Continue reading →

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Jazz time travels or jazzscribe contrafacts: from full faith and credit to fregulia and back

Posted on September 27, 2013 by markweiss86

The Geography of Hep, Palo Alto’s influence on Jazz, via music education, guest concerts(Monk, Steve Lacy) and our all too rare gifts to jazz world in terms of artists like Stanley Jordan and executives like Danny Scher, Jason Olaine, plus Herb Wong, James Benham, Ted Gioia, plus Akira Tana, venues like The Bandbox and The Varsity, and all that jazz Continue reading →

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Talking Harbaugina

Posted on September 20, 2013 by markweiss86

The Guy: If you are here tonight for “The Harbaugina Monologue” you may be disappointed. “The Harbaugina Monologue” is taking a break, on injured reserve, if you will. Instead we have a new feature called “Talking Harbaugina.” Instead of actually … Continue reading →

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Go see Cal, in heaven

Posted on September 10, 2013 by markweiss86

Cal Worthington was an American legend, a car dealer, country music promoter and friend of critters large and small. He bought Key Chevrolet in Cupertino, in 1988, then sold it to Jerry Davidson in the early nineties. It was his … Continue reading →

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