555 new trumpet players

Aaron Mutchler • Aaron Shragge • ABQ • Adam O’Farrill • Afro Brass Assembly • Ahmed Abdullah • Alejandro Berti • Alicia Rau • Allison Philips • Ambrose Akinmusire • Amir El Saffar • Amy Horvey • Andrew Oom • Angeleisha Rodgers • Asphalt Orchestra • Atse Theodros • Avishai Cohen • Baikida Carroll • Baldvin Oddson • Banda de los Muertos • Bart Miltenberger • Ben Holmes • Ben Neill • Ben Syversen • Benje Daneman • Bill Dixon • Billy Buss • Birgit Ulher • Bobby Bradford • Brad Henkel • Brad Mason • Brandon Lewis • Brandon Ridenour • Bria Skonberg • Brian Lynch • Brian McWhorter • Britton Theurer • Brooklyn Brass Quintet • Bruce Harris • Bruce Lee • Carlos Abadie • Carter Yasutake • Casey Tamanaha • Cecil Bridgewater • Chad Mccullough • Charles Tolliver • Chris Bubolz • Chris DiMeglio • CJ Camerieri • Claudio Roditi • Cody Rowlands • Corey Wilkes • Cuong Vu • Curtis Ebey • Dan Blankinship • Danny Gouker • Danny Jonokuchi • Darren Barrett • Dave Ballou • Dave Chisholm • Dave Douglas • David Adewumi • David Buchbinder • David Glukh • David Krauss • David Smith • David Taylor • Dennis Gonzalez • Dolf Kamper • Douglas Detrick • Dr Mark Harvey • Duane Eubanks • Ed Carroll • Eddie Allen • Eddie Henderson • Eli Asher • Emilio Martinez • Eric Biondo • Eric Vloeimans • Ernesto Montoya • Erol Tamerman • Ezana Edwards • Forbes Graham • Frank London • Franz Hautzinger • Gabe Medd • Gareth Flowers • Geoff Chirgwin • Giveton Gelin • Glenn Makos • Gordon Allen • Graham Ashton • Graham Haynes • Greg Bobulinski • Greg Glassman • Greg Kelley • Gregory Rivkin • Herb Robertson • High and Mighty Brass Band • Hugh Ragin • Hugo Moreno • Igmar Thomas • Ingrid Jensen • Itaru Oki • Jack Walrath • Jackie Coleman • Jacob Varmus • Jacob Wick • Jaime Branch • James Zollar • Jared LaCasce • Jason Palmer • Jason Price • Jean Caze • Jean Luc Capozzo • Jean-Jacques Avenel • Jeff Beal • Jeff Kaiser • Jeremy Pelt • Jesse Neuman • Jesse Selengut • Joe Drew • Joe McPhee • Joe Moffett • John Betsch • John Blevins • John Carlson • John Lake • John McDonough • John McNeil • John Raymond • Jon Crowley • Jon Malko • Jon Nelson • Jon Owens • Jonathan Finlayson • Jonathan Powell • Jonathan Saraga • Jordan McLean • Josh Berman • Josh Deutsch • Josh Evans • Josh Frank • Josh Lawrence • JP Carter • Kate Amrine • Kelly Oram • Kelly Rossum • Kenneth DeCarlo • Kenny Rampton • Kenny Warren • Kenny Wheeler • Kenyatta Beasley • Kevin Cobb • Keyon Harrold • Kirk Knuffke • Kris Tiner • Laura Kahle • Lauren Strobel • Laurie Frink • Leo Hardman-Hill • Leon Jordan JR • Leonel Kaplan • Leron Thomas • Lew Soloff • Lewis Flip Barnes • Lina Allemano • Linda Briceño • Lynn Chao • Mac Gollehon • Marcus Belgrave • Marcus Printup • Mark Gould • Mark Isham • Marquis Hill • Matt Holman • Matt Lavelle • Matt Mead • Matt Postle • Matt Shulman • Maurice Brown • Meridian Arts BQ • Micah Killion • Michael Gurfield • Michael Rodriguez • Mike Irwin • Miki Hirose • Nabate Isles • Nadje Noordhuis • Nate Wooley • Nathan Botts • Nathaniel Center • Natsuki Tamura • Nick Roseboro • Nicole Davis • Nicole Rampersaud • Nils Ostendorf • NO BS Brass • Oskar Stenmark • Pam Fleming • Paolo Fresu • Pasquale Cangiano Pasquale • Paul Smoker • Paul Williamson • Peck Allmond • Peter Evans • Peter Kuan • Phil Slater • Phillip Dizack • Practical Trumpet Society • Rachel Therrien • Ralph Alessi • Randy Brecker • Randy Sandke • Raphe Malik • Ray Vega • Rex Richardson • Rhys Tivey • Rich Johnson • Riley Mulherkar • RJ Avallone • Rob Henke • Rob Mazurek • Rod McGaha • Ron Horton • Ron Miles • Roy Campbell Jr • Russ Johnson • Ryan DeWeese • Ryan Messina • Sam Hoyt • Sam Jones • Sam Nester • Sam Neufeld • Sarah Ferholt • Sarah Wilson • Scott McIntosh • Scott Tinkler • Sean Jones • Shane Endsley • Slavic Soul Party • Stephanie Richards • Stephen Haynes • Steve Fishwick • Steven Bernstein • Susan Watts • Sycil Mathai • Tanya Kalmanovitch • Tayla Nebesky • Taylor Haskins • Taylor Ho Bynum • Ted Daniel • Terrell Stafford • Theljon Allen • Theo Croker • Thomas Bergeron • Thomas Heberer • TILT Brass • Tim Byrnes • Tim Hagans • Tim Leopold • Tom Harrell • Tomasz Stanko • Tony Glausi • Tony Kadleck • Victor Haskins • Vitaly Golovnev • Wadada Leo Smith • Waldron Ricks • Warren Smith • Wayne du Maine • Wayne Dumaine • West Point Jazz Knights • William Owens • Wilmer Wise • Wing Walker Orchestra • Zubin Hensler

 

I didn’t bother to count this, I just cut and pastied from another page on the internet. The bold ones I’ve worked with. I changed the font.

Here’s a minute of Kirk Knufke cornet with Ben Goldberg clarinet, student Michael Gilbert on bass and leader Allison Miller on drums working thru Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” at Mitchell Park Community Center in Palo Alto in October, 2018 about 18 months ago, the first of 18 shows at The Mitch, by various groups, not all featuring horns.

(Douglas played there in November, 2019; Walrath played at an art gallery downtown around 2004; Bernstein did a cd release show at Bottom of the Hill in SF in 2008…Taylor Ho Bynum, who I thought was the founder of Festival of New Trumpet, did a little thing with Ben at Lytton Plaza as part of his bike and blow series, or adjunct to such; I spoke to Taylor Ho Bynum in that his students at Dartmouth were booked to be on a bill here March, which was cancelled.

Tom Harrell Quartet was booked into the Earthwise 2019 series, at Palo Alto Art Center and his trio played his music without their leader, who was back at the hotel recuperating from a mishap the previous day. The bassist said “Tom is here in spirit, we are playing his music”:

 

Two of these people I knew from the Steve Lacy trio but never knew they played trumpet — will have to look into it. JJ and Betsch.

 

and 1: not on this list but March 13, 2020 at Akira Tana’s Otonowa (partially to raise awareness about and help rebuild and normalize Tohoku Japan after “311”) we flew in a trumpet player named Takahiro Dai:

 

 

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Mark me: ghost in the machine decries ‘murder most foul’

I thought I saw Bob Dylan, at Frost, sitting in a chair. Me, I mean. Mark me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18 I was trying to post a 30 second clip from Bob Dylan show at Stanford West October but my computer is not cooperating I think this Bob Dylan “Murder Most Foul” message is really important.
Murder most foul, here’s the mouth that spit such, in the Kenneth Braggah version:
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Goodbye, Curley Neal hello, Normani

4029AD78-219F-4DF2-B1F1-1817085DF7B9I interviewed Curley Neal at his clinic in Menlo Park, winter 1984.
I just noticed Normani “Motivation” video after buying Rolling Stone #1337

 

I was gonna compare her to Dr Hook until I noticed her ball handling.
044B72CA-00B5-45A3-A744-4C9DD888D916I think all five of her fence climbing colleagues deserve record deals. 360, even.
6437C2F1-B7F4-45E3-BAAC-CDDEE2584BEFI noticed her manager is named Silverstein. Brandon Silverstein.

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RS cover on my 56th birthday by Campbell Addy

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Bird omenology (courtesy of I.D.G)

(Ida sent out a two minute vine of birds singing in her yard, then I stepped out and did 30 seconds very similarly….a couple days later, I found this poem by Al Young, the poet laureate who has a birthday next month, end of May…)
Stay beautiful
but don’t stay down underground too long
Dont turn into a mole
or a worm
or a root
or a stone
Come on out into the sunlight
Breathe in trees
Knock out mountains
Commune with snakes
& be the very hero of birds

Don’t forget to poke your head up
& blink
Think
Walk all around
Swim upstream

Dont forget to fly

(I presume the punctuation is proprietary…)

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Terubozu song in Japanese folk lore

If you read this blog serially or from top down and not just follow a link, you might notice a Japanese theme recently. yes, I was impacted by my work with Akira Tana. But there was also a movie festival with Kurosawa films at Stanford Theatre.

I just saw a cite of a Japanese folk song, Terubozu and now comparing a couple versions I notice a reference to a gold bell, carried by a Monk. (Not Thelonious, obviously). But in other versions, it is a ball. Bell, ball, what’s the difference.

Oh, that this too solid flesh would melt, because it is too sullied.

Also, by Terry, formerly known as TMT and now TMW, maybe I should call her Terry Terry Boozoo.

Terry bought be a Japanese referencing t-shirt from uniqlo and it took me a while just now to guess its Sharaku. Bub sent me something about Robert Whiting You Gotta Have Wa and I noticed on the cover — paperback 2006 not original 1989 that i recall excerpted page 76 on Sports Illustrated — what looks like a fake Sharaku. Not sure.

I also have a pocket tee with Hokusai, which she just last night thought was a Hiroshige. (If i got that wrong uniqlo had a correction that accepted that and corrected and directed).

The thing about 36 Views of Mt Fuji is the mountain, even though the wave is what people notice. (which is wa I was going for when I slyly posted a photo of local musician from Ana and The MRI but she’s not in focus and you can read the marquee from same Stanford 27 Uni Top Hat The Thin Man.).

There is Method Man in my Madness. (that could be a band name or mash up)

There’s also, back to where I came in, Edgar Allen Poe “The Gold Bug”.

This illustration from an early Poe reminds me of Miho’s Cover…

this guy:
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Top Hat and The Thin Man

I saw two women making music at Lytton Plaza on July 14, 2018 and thought they were great. I call them Top Hat and The Thin Man because I was on my way to watch some Fred Astaire movies at Stanford Theatre. Neither of them wore a top hat and although I did not scrutinize their bodies they seemed of normal and not thin build.

I’m not sure if their songs were original — maybe I heard a couple songs and then chatted them up a bit. I am sensing they played a mix of covers and originals. One of them sat on the bench, sang and strummed a guitar but not a banjo. The other sang and tapped a rhythm on tamborine. I’ll say “top hat” was the guitarist and “thin man” was the percussionist.

Their lyrics were something like

……seventeen hours/

rock me like a wagon wheel/

rock me mama any way you feel/

Hey, mama, rock me.

Maybe the internet will tell me who wrote this, if not these two rising stars of street music.

addendumri:

If it was never new and never gets old its a folk song

and1:

Ladies and gentlemen, or anything in between, via the magic of the mediation of technology and Marianne Chowning’s father and his FM stuff, here they are, in 2008, yet still timely, the Rebecca Riots (briefly known as Final Girl)

edit to add, meta-note: I don’t know why first you see the video (or rr) and then you only see the link,but I will try and try, and try and try, again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrh6Xy9WsQ

edit to add, a day or two later (during the lucid dreaming collective stage known as social distancing): also, Bob Dylan at his concert at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheatre about six months ago used “Ballad of A Thin Man” as his encore — so there’s another connection between the movie marquee, by catch of Ana and The MRI, Bob Dylan and the apocalypse.

Something’s happening but we don’t know what it is. If not the answer, live music is a pretty good guess.

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Saturday shout out to ‘Original 9’ tennis players, 1970


I caught about 30 minutes of Billie Jean King and Boomer Esiason talking about the launch of equity and equality for women athletes.

The original nine played for one dollar each to launch the professional circuit.

Billie Jean King, Rosie Casals, Nancy Richey, Judy Dalton, Kerry Melville Reid, Julie Heldman, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kristy Pigeon and Valerie Ziegenfuss. 

(I have to admit it took me a minute to realize this is a reunion shot — then Stanford greatest product and Palo Alto education activist — responding to my prompt — Kathy Jordan texted back the original photo link

https://www.wtatennis.com/news/1558684/original-9-a-legacy-of-independence-and-empowerment

in a related story I realize that Jill of Palo Alto is the daughter of the first agent who launched professionalism in men’s tennis back in 1940.

Also since today is Chabot I will tie in the fact that a friend of mine said is DNA test reveals that he is 13 percent Jewish. I said claim you’re 18 percent Jewish

Or as Phil silvers says to Jonathan Winters 1963 mad mad mad: try me I’m pretty gullible

Kerry Melville Reid

Nancy Richey

Peaches Bartkowicz

Kristy Pigeon 

Kristy Pigeon 

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Little piece of leather don’t you know: Stella Brooks, Connie Han & Blanca Cecelia from Queens

I forgot to write the rest of this. Briefly:

  1. Stella Brooks was a singer from San Francisco who was big in the 1940s and her signature song was “I’m a Little Piece of Leather Don’t You Know (well put together don’t you know” which became a British dance Northern Soul hit later, the Beatles did a snippet at a soundcheck, but was also a Peetie Wheatstraw/public domain song;
  2. Connie Han is a rising star as a jazz piano player, from LA, on Mack Avenue a good label, but I question her sartorial choices — both of her cds have her pictured on the cover in leather, maybe pleather, or tight-fitting or ripped jeans;
  3. Blanca Cecelia is a classical violinist from Queens College Music School — aka Aaron copland school, originally from Colombia and I found this cool video of her interacting with a street musician in a small gallery – she’s wearing leather, a leather jacket, but it says “fonzie” more than “floozy”.

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Peter Selz VS Terry Acebo Davis

Terry texted me a link to some citation on the Internet about her and when I clicked on it, it’s a used book seller selling a file from the archive of the recently deceased and very esteemed critic and curator Peter Selz (Berkeley Art Museum —I think we actually bodies by auger fee er bought his autobiography.

So I’m querying the guy and suggest that we might be interested at roughly 60 percent of what he’s advertising it for. Likely we have all the ephemeral —postcards, announcements maybe a clipping or whatever. And the compliment is already taken that there was a file in Peter’s archive.

Or it’s fun to imagine his notes: I’ve met the most amazing female artist and nurse if I weren’t so happily married I would drop everything to help her full-time —maybe someday some nice concert promoter guy will do so.

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spokesman for Alan Wofsy says that they are selling piecemeal the files of Peter Selz which they claim were donated to Academy of Art college who then sold it to a bookstore upon which Alan and his team found it and they’re trying to unlock it’s true value. at Donkey Mill Art Center 2013:

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Imagining a mash up of Maki Morinouye ‘Dream’ VS Dave Douglas ‘Moonshine’

9D31F9A5-487D-448B-B252-19B8C55A3214Maki is a choreographer, dancer, coffee farmer and mom in Kona Hawaii by way of Purchase, NYC  and Seattle.
CED276F6-897C-4FD5-9FB8-D9C7F6F312A2I don’t believe I’ve met her but Terry and I visited her family’s art studio in 2011.
44E6F033-62E9-4F64-A7A9-5B3C89BAE2F6 I am wondering if she could improvise on a cold reed, like a sun-e painting, A combination recollection of this dance she made from nine years ago and her reaction to Dave Douglas moonshine title track for three minutes and 24 seconds in honor of Dave’s birthday or I guess it could be 57 seconds recorded on a smart phone with there without any other morinuyes  participation

edit to add:

I forgot that this was composed to accompany a fat arbuckle short about a bootlegger — are we certain it was not meant to be about a thin coffee growers daughter on a hill on an island?

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