EARthwise Jazz ‘Rox Stretch’ at Palo Alto Art Center, The Mitch and Mitch Bowl

1) Adam Klipple (above) Quintet at Palo Alto Art Center, Wednesday October 11, 2023;

2) Mads Tolling Quartet, Caitlin Djerdrum-Adam Klipple, Sunday October 15, 2 pm Mitch Bowl —last outdoor show of the season;

3) Chris Jonas something EARSy Desert featuring Lisa Mesolithic, Jason and Green Mitchell sax, PAAC, Friday, October 20, 2023;

4) Todd Sickasaurus BEARPROOF CD release party Bay Area exclusive excavation featuring Allison Miller drums, Jenny Scheinman digeridoo, Kirk Knufke sea conch, Adam Levy diddly bo, Carmen Staaf shepherd staff against hollowed found log but softly, Rob Reich grasping and releasing geese and hens to humorous effects; Ben Goldberg blowing across the tops of various water bottles left by people at previous Earthwise shows. Saturday October 21, 2023 PAAC;

5) Larry Ochs Karl Evangelista project Thursday October 26 PAAC 8 pm;

6) Evening with JoVia Armstrong Eunoia Society cd release party, PAAC Friday November 3, 2023, 8 pm;

7) Anat Cohen Marcelo from BRAZIL duo, 7 & 9:30 shows The Mitch Friday November 11, 2023 Thursday November 16, 2023 PAAC;

8) Ben Goldberg’s Glamorous Escapades Ben Goldberg clarinet, Danny Lubin-Laden trombone, Ben Davis — not my nephew — cello; Will Bernard (who played here in June three night residency world premiere) guitar, Hamir Atwal -drums. Should be fun. 

9) Young Dubliners not really jazz but they do have a fiddle, local trio from near the ocean opening act, waxes and wanes, ebb and flow slainte at The Mitch Friday November 17. Finian’s Call Trio opens;

That might be it for 2 x 0 x 2 x 4 while we zero our dials for the winter, like Persephone and her pomegranate seeds , re-born in April whan shutes as TS Eliot would come and going boing the drums Alli or Todd boing or bowing.

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Day of show: October 11, 2023, Wednesday, Adam Klipple Quintet, Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium

first thing I do on day of show, 50 times or so so far this year, more than 500 career, is to place my Shingo in front of the venue. No, Shingo was an inventor, .No, Shingo was an inventor and rapper. I mean, Shingle. OK I’ve only had a couple years so I have not done is 500 times. Maybe 200. I got the thing right before the Covid from a signmaker who lived across the street from Beth Custer.

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Santa Fe Elegy for Paul E. Weiss by Dan Bern with Mads Tolling, Charith and Orit Shimony (‘Camaro’ world premier; ‘Albuquerque Lullaby’) Mitchell Park Community Center, by Earthwise/ Mark Weiss



This was quite a thrill to hear Dan and band bring to live the demo he had sent a few weeks earlier. Dan asked if the audience was having as much fun as he was. 

Not sure if they only sold these t-shirts because I kept making little demos of my version of it: DON’T LET YOUR HEART GET BROKEN BY THIS WORLD. In truth, I did not remember ever having heard this song until after I asked Dan Bern to meet me in New Mexico. Albuquerque Lullaby from New American Language. There was an awkward moment where I asked Dan if a lyric in a previous song from early in his career — his glory days —  was about his personal life. 

The three deaths in the story or song are Wallace Stegner, Gerber Sani and Paul Weiss, my father, who sold Chevy; also, my first car, in January, 1980, was a blue Camaro. After my mother took me to DMV on my 16th birthday, we went by my father’s car lot, Key Chevrolet in Cupertino, across from De Anza College – its now a Whole Foods — to pick out my own car — or a demo, which I demonstrated for about six months or 5,000 miles. All through high School, when people asked me for a ride, I would usually comply — an early prototype for “ride service” which I later sold to the founders of UBER and Lyft for SMB – six million bucks. Inside joke, my father had a car with a license plate Something Something SMB. 

 

and 1: a note from my brother:

A 69 with the 302 engine (or the 396 or 427!) is a cool car. 
 
–rickw
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Matt Butler Everyone Orchestra is not Matt Butler one man show at The Marsh

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New big dawg for Stanford basketball

Kanaan Carlyle is the top recruit for Cardinal hoops and one of the top 50 players in the country. His father, a former SCSU HSBC footballer says Kanaan is one and done here in the 650 but will eventually finish his major and degree. He says his style is like Jai.

I said “everybody wants that!”

So I will hit up my ticket rep Luke Caporale as soon as my phone charges. I am at Andytown in MP, the sovereign wealth built on ground lease from the 8,000 acre land grant university. Springline. The place I got kicked out of three times in one day as I was trying to learn about their opening week concerts. I had been to Andytown in SF in the Sunset, near FOG Gallery Far Out where the late Joe Zirker had one of the last shows of his long and storied life. Yikes, digression. Out of bounds.

The reason I say “dawg” in headline is partly because the Carlyle group is from Georgia. But also because I met his dog and spaniel at the dog park, part of the oasis embassy dealio. Sovereign wealth fund fronted real estate developer ground lease Stanford land with condos, some type of Ari BnaiBrith, coffee, co-working, some eats, whatever — real estate. Oil money turned into brick and mortar. Location Location Location — Kanaan going to the hole for 2. Or from Downtown — like the Badlands — for three.

I am here to print my Dan Bern flyer, made by Willow of Bryant St. Gallery. Brilliant!. DAN BERN WITH JERRY HANNAN TWO NEW SONGS WITH STRINGS & PIANO, HONORING WALLACE STEGNER & HIS NEIGHBOR PAUL WEISS MITCHELL PARK COMMUNITY CENTER 3700 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD, PALO ALTO OCT 8 P.M.

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Vibes of strength and wisdom for A- and I- from Mavis and ‘The Weight’

I&I and go down Moses my Hebrew name; there’s a reggae version on Playing For Change

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Robin D.G. Kelley freedom dreams VS.

Adrian L. Burrell:
Venus Blues

October 7–December 3, 2023
1201 Minnessota Street

BW

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Pictorial notes for a short story or song about ‘A Lexus’

Bw
dan bern “jersusalem”

 

and 1 same as it ever was same as it ever was

Self portrait with aquarius theatre marquee Wednesday September 27, 2023 and I think the first showing is tomorrow at 2:30 perfect day of show punt for my seraph brass at JCC Thursday at 7

 

 

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Blue Eice

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.

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David James today at The Mitch


Congrats to David James of San Francisco and Oakland for his song cycle based on his father the Rev. Jesse James, an activist and anti-hero from the 1960s and early 1970s in San Francisco, the Mission.

I don’t have time to say much more. Load in is in 30 minutes.

Stopped by Coupa for a smoodie sic and some Joe.

I am wearing #25 Richard Sherman not #16 Joe because Richard Sherman was the Rev. Jesse James of Stanford flawed gridiron heroes. I knew Richard as a nice young man, respectful, signed autographs for the kids on the field — the thing about “Crabtree he a PUNK’ was just code switching.

I forget if Richard Sherman knew Buddy Teevens. I am dedicating the show to Buddy. Knew him slightly.

David James has a great band including Beth Custer, voice and clarinet, Keith Lawrence viola – -who I am entrusting my miracle Mauve Cannon Canon — Al Williams from Drone ‘N” Bone on bone, John Hanes engorged with beats, sister Lisa M dial m for riddam. God damn. even on Yum kippur — they are calling my name at the cafe bar.

See you at 2. Thanks to Heather Zimmerman, Andrew Gilbert, Chuy Varela. Media is dead but it makes a good epitaph.

This is the type of stylized revolution earthwise was founded on. Also: good bye Jerry Mander. In the absence of the sacred was seminal, and yes I will claim up after my revolution. Dance. Dance Dance.

shout out to Mike Gough of MJF for feeding Ambrose and Sco.

next eight or so shows

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