Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

Adrian L. Burrell:
Venus Blues

October 7–December 3, 2023
1201 Minnessota Street

BW

Hi, Ethan:

I know I am on thin ice but I couldn’t help — apparently — a brain storm of “the Chi Tri Try” — can you expertly create a medley that one-ups your fellow Blue Note recording artist Josh Redman (who we call Josh Shedroff, the nephew of Palo Altan Alan Shedroff) who has a mash up of Count Basie “(something) Chicago (something) and Sufjan Stevens “Chicago” by arranging such for solo instrumental piano PLUS adding in a quote from what I know of as track #16 -it actually says “3 16” on my player — which is cd #3 on my changer and track #16 — which is an allusion to the Christians and Rock’n Rollen – who is now apparently in prison — and my dear friends sons of the math professor Paul J Cohen who were here for Break the Fast — Christina Karls Cohen and Eric Cohen their birthday is March 16, 1964 Pisces – -feel me? In the style of sister Mary Lou, but it is actually Nat King Cole, whose brother Freddie I met with Henry Butler at Billy Taylor Dr Taylor to me may his memory be a blessing Christmas radio broadcast at Kennedy Center Dizzy — we should rename our federal district Dizzy like the man not DC the acronym — excuse the digression — dirge session — so that is a threesome of Nat, Basie and Sufjan– then we have to call the Stevie Wonder people and have them change the lyric to:

it’s Basie, Miller, Satch-a-Mo and the kind of all Blue Eice;

And you can tell right away at the letters E and I that the people are O so nice!

Weiss! Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb — he mumbles behind his piano like Keith Silk Wilkes.

Jamal.

What my blog has, under the banner “How I Got Over”:

Greaseland All-stars featuring Kid Andersen, Baxter Robertson, Angelo Rossi, Saturday, September 16, 2 pm, Rinconada Park Bowl, FREE;

Amendola Vs Blades featuring Cyro Baptista, Raffi Garabedian; Eric Person Group featuring Marcus Shelby, Adam Klipple, Sylvia Cuenca, Sunday, September 17, 2 pm, Mitch Bowl, FREE;

David James’s GPS Mission Rebel No. 1 Finding Rev. Jesse James, Sunday, September 24,  2 pm, The Mitch; early show;

Seraph Brass, Thursday, September 28, 7 pm, The JCC; 

October shows, Earthwise of Palo Alto

Flamin’ Groovies, Sonny and The Rhinestone Sunsets, Saturday, October 7, 2 pm, Lytton Plaza, FREE;

Dan Bern, Jerry Hannan, Sunday, October 8, 7 pm. The Mitch;

Rachel Baiman, Roberta Lea, Tuesday, October 10, 5:30 pm Johnson Park, FREE:

Mads Tolling Group, Sunday, October 15, 2 pm. Mitch Bowl, FREE:

Chris Jonas Group, Friday, October 20, 8 pm, Palo Alto Art Center;

Todd Sickafoose Octet cd release, Saturday, October 21, 8 pm, Palo Alto Art Center; 

What eventbrite has: nine: Greaseland, Amendola Vs Blades, David James, Dan Bern, Sickafoose BEARPROOF, JoVia Armstrong, Young Dubliners, Anat Cohen, Anat Cohen Late show.

Just added; Saturday –this Saturday — i.e. in 3 days or 72 hours — at Lytton Plaza: David Jacobs Strain duo with Bob Beach — country blues; Rabiah Kabir Duo with flute and sax by Ethan or Evan Beck or Peck but probably not the name of the guy from Stanford now on the Giants, maybe their schoolmate Emma Catherine Wang doing a walk up (then the show or shows moves 1.2 miles east to Rinconada, for the blues per se, then Sunday continuing at The Mitch Bowl with 8 musicians, two sets. And I am realizing that in Felton there is also a big Fri Sat Sun event with many acts I admire and that share fans with these mostly local groups; also, Stanford football versus Sacramento State — maybe I can be all these places plus Hadestown.

And a slew of avails and holds I need to confirm and book the venues.

And more posters and flyers and better use of the electronic devices and email lists — what about all school post cards sent to US Mail boxes? And radio of various sorts.

But thank you for recent artists who from the stage mention “Earthwise” or “Mark Weiss”

And this gives live to thee – shout out to Marc Geiger. that’s almost accurate, but it is true I did describe it somewhere by instrument not by band…