Tool of The Times

Today is Veterans Day and I thought of my father, a mug Ehren Tool made, then noticed this article from May featuring Berkeley veteran artist Ehren Tool, who Dad, Terry and I befriended during his Palo Alto Art Center residency in 2013.

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Upcoming Earthwise showcases for Troutt, Simmons and Rothwell

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Valerie Troutt is a composer, teacher, leader and singer out of the East Bay.

Her ensemble supports blues legend Charlie Musselwhite at the Palo Alto JCC on Dec. 29.

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Sylvie Simmons with Steve Earle (who not likely to appear Saturday — but I did see him live in Santa Fe once and at the Fillmore; I approached his agent Frank Riley in the men’s room and he explained that Steve is likely beyond my reach in terms of his fee; fair enough; oddly, a writer out of Canada created a “mark weiss..concert promoter” in a work of fiction who assualts someone in the bathroom of the Fillmore

Sylvie Simmons is a ukelele based singer-songwriter, also internationally known for her knowledge of writer and performer Leonard Cohen. She appears at Cubberley’s H-1 in Palo Alto, with Matt the Electrician, who, despite the monniker released 4 albums of original folk and is recording this week in Portland with Tucker Martine. This Saturday, November 16.

Carmen Rothwell is a jazz bassist from Seattle. She will appear Thursday, Nov. 21 at The Mitch, with Engage: Dave Douglas, she, Jeff Parker and Clarence Penn.

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Carmen Rothwell, circa 2015

 

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Repertory bands VS Tribute bands VS cover bands

Two cases: case one Tom Harrell took ill two weeks ago in Palo alto and his Trio played on without him; Raises the question is Harrell’scomposition so well regarded by his peers that future generations will play his music; Did my audience appreciate the show or could they get over the fact that the focal point had taken out which by the way I wasn’t clear on until somewhere between sound check and the hit—  Low when I saw Thom in the hospital I told his manager wife that he should rest because his long-term health was paramount .  Mingus is music lives on. Monk in Ellington and les brown and Glenn Miller more obviously.

Darkstar Orchestra plays the dead as does Joe Russo I’m working on a Robert Hunter tribute.

I never hand I made fun of and on sale at Montalvo with “classic album band and had the nerve to send my thoughts to their agent who I just met at a conference.  I never hand I made fun of an on sale at Montalvo with “classic album band and had the nerve to send my thoughts to their agent who I just met at a conference

Tug hill singer of Waycross once

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Journalism is dead

“Doonesbury turning 50”

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Sharks nip Preds in shirt out

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Timo Meier

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As the backs go tearing by

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Dartmouth leads Princeton 14 nothing early on from Yankee Stadium and ESPNU

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Back-to-back wins VS chin-to-toes beard

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My first ever glimpse of Edmonton Oiler Conner McDavid

in quasi real time NHL highlights tonite tho my hero is #13 for Nashville American Brian Bonino who got a hat trick last week v Chicago.

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Kind of trippin’ on the Sudan Archives thing coming to duNord in February

Montage: Heath Burian on reality tv; Mark Weiss, Tim Bluhm circa 1998; Weiss, Walter Palmer; HSB fan w Wookie shirt; fellow traveler from LA with masters in social work on her birthday at San Jose Rock N Roll Half Marathon tho I did the 10k; Stanford freshman who can dunk; evil queen by Christine Shields, detail; artist and her work, Incline Gallery, Mission; pulled pork by Big Nate at new Chase vender, “YB” from Hayward; Gunn tennis player v Lynbrook; bass rented for the music of Tom Harrell show — I have no photos of Tom tho indelible images in my mind’s eye from helping he and Angela in and out of Mills and two hotels — he made a recovery for his Orange Country show and has a blurb for his Dizzy’s Den show in The New Yorker; Weiss w poet/painter Tamsin Smith under a Twist / Barry McGee private SF collector home; Palo Alto and USC’s Remi Wolfe who will make her Fillmore debut;  outlet, study for a Matt The Electrician H-1 poster; Valerie Troutt at SF General gig; East Palo Alto Gunn pro soccer goalie Larry Jackson; detail of a Hopi motif by Dextra Qotskuyva; bootlegged still from a movie I’m forgetting what or why; Georgie Gleim the jeweler; Ugonna Okegwo — he should sit in with OKGO, that reminds me I was just riffing on Mulgrew Miller who I met in France new posthumous duo record with NHOP; W w Steve Swan bassmonger, basswrangler, bass boss; Guyanese beauty queen; Eric Moffat, Weiss; detail, wrestling poster, Omni lobby near Hatch workshop Nashville during IEBA; Fee Waybill, Nashville 2019 showcase for industry buyers — I suggested to his agent Steve of TKO that he sit in with LSJUMB; Eric and Steve Cohen and their former pediatrician, Palo Alto Art Center, Earthwise Tom Harrell tribute 55 years 7 months after they first met; Dr Hartzell; Weiss in Nashville with 2 Memphis’s, Joy Truly Brown Of The Orpheum and Artist Chris Underwood Of PRVLG; I joked to family via text that I’m chubbier than Checker; Instagram post content by clerk who helped fit me with a Predators Jersey, J—-, studying criminal justice and law; Nancy Wright of Fizztone who I stumbled into at Bay Boat Club near Chase Center Halloween; Nashville airport with Joe West, on his way with wife Rebecca for screening in St Louis of film about his parents; musician, perhaps someone I saw singing on Colbert— the internet and Google send me down rabbit holes and hutches from which I sometimes surface in a state of confusion — Albuquerque, Mentawai, Tanzania???; Valerie Troutt, from her press kit; Sudan Archives; ibid; ibid;

 

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black violin

izwhat aka Napoleon Maddox

icky shuffle

cesar Geronimo

big red machine

zoe keating

steve Lopez LA Times column about mental illness cellist book movie

Someone told me about a private function coming up at The Mitch with a ragtag piano player and it reminded me there was a genius grant winner from Chicago no one heard of after he took his 300 K$.

Bonfire madigan on kill rock stars

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thoth aka Kaufman I think

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adam theis hip hop orchestra at yB simultaneous to Windy Chien at SFMOMA

is Ali Hedrick Islam?

macy gray

pizzicato cello lady from Dartmouth

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remi Wolf supporting Cautious Clay at eromllifeht

prvlg I think out of it stuck in Memphis with underwood twins sat next to at ieba chew and chat then set to joy truly brown of the Orpheus

stew’s James Baldwin piece

mac — the Dartmouth/ Berkelee cellist

ian Brennan

noname

Amelia  earhart  school near Bennett and 92nd in the southside of Chicago that is a magnet school for young black writers

I didn’t I just list 40 African nations in ascending order?

Also there’s a Kenyan women in an all black rock band I met on the train and want to book just for their cool look

Corey Harris and Boubacar traore and Martin Scorsese in west Africa

 

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Natu — performing Friday at Cal Performances with an Africa Showcase, I learned of via East Bay Express and maybe Andy Gilbert:

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The list of Africa nations in ascending order, by population VS new video of Michael Kiwanuka ‘You Ain’t The Problem’

Djibouti

Eswatini

Equatorial Guinea

Mauritius

Guinea- Bissau

Gabon

Gambia

Lesotho

Botswana

Namibia

Mauritania

Liberia

Central African Republic

Republic of The Congo

Libya

Sierra Leone

Eritrea

Togo (that’s 18 of 46 — it ends with Nigeria)

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Togo

South Sudan

Burundi

Benin (10,008,749)

Guinea

Tunisia

Rwanda

Zimbabwe

Chad

Senegal (beyond music, this country is repesented by Sadio Mane of Liverpool, who had 22 goals last year and six more so far in 2019-2020 — I was reminded of this by a man I sat next to at the Warriors game Saturday)

Somali

Zambia

Malawi

Mali

Burkino Faso

Niger

Cameroon

Madagascar

Ivory Coast
Angola
Ghana
Mozambique
Morocco
Uganda
Algeria
Sudan
Kenya
Tanzania
South Africa
Democratic Republic of The Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Nigeria

 

 

 

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ok i admit i nver herd of this until tonite looking at the donnas on brooklyn vegan

 

He is playing the Fox in Oakland in January, 25, same night I have Marta Sanchez jazz piano at The Mitch.

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