Wordless 15-part photo essay for the Good new cafe on Ramona

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Earthwise welcomes Edward Simon Trio to Mitchell Park Center Saturday, February 28

TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY $20 🎹

Edward Simon brings a stellar trio with acclaimed bassist Or Bareket and drummer Adam Cruz. Together they will be playing music from his new album, Venezuela: Latin American Songbook Vol. 2 on ArtistSharewhichcontinues the artist’s deep engagement with Latin American repertoire through jazz-informed interpretation. Following his NAACP Image Award-winning Vol. 1, this new chapter draws further inspiration from the rich musical heritage of Simon’s homeland and neighboring countries, bringing to light beloved classics and hidden gems from the Latin American songbook. Each piece is reimagined through Simon’s refined touch as an arranger, resulting in a vibrant dialogue between tradition and innovation.

NBs: Edward Simon appeared solo piano April, 2024. Adam appeared with Tom Harrell band fall, 2019 and with Danilo Perez at The Cub in 2000. Or lead a band at Lytton Plaza also in 2022.

And1 or “and eight”: so if you just list the shows through the bassists it’s Or Bareket, Stephan Crump, Noah Garabedian, Richard Giddens, Ruth Davies, Chris Tordini, Thomas Morgan and Michael Formanek— follow Earthwise on Eventbrite for on sale updates.

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Henry Butler was acclaimed as a member of a New Orleans piano pantheon that includes Jelly Roll Morton, James Booker, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Dr. John.

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Brad Hargreaves on tv

Brad Hargreaves on TV completes a recent drummer trifecta with he, Dawn Richardson and Jon Wurster

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Still too quirky and eclectic, but I stand behind my last 24 plastic alto posts rolling or scrolling* into the new year like a lion flyin’ on the back of a yak into two-naught^two-six

*sometimes trolling I admit: i wrote a regrettable letter once to Linda Perry calling her a sellout (after she either compared me to Al Pacino OR said that like Al Pacino she never forgets a face and “that’s what’s up”

^

Ought” as a number means zero (0), often seen in pronunciations like “thirty-aught-six” for the .30-06 rifle or the “aughts” (2000s), but it’s easily confused with the verb “ought” (should) and the word “aught” (anything/zero), stemming from misinterpretations of “naught” (nothing) and its similar sound. While “aught” can mean “anything,” it’s frequently used for “zero” in American English, especially in specific technical or historical contexts, despite “nought” being the more traditional word for zero. “Naut” is a coinage implying nothing but also rain and general nautiness

bw backed with

THIRD EYE BLIND AT ORANGE BOWL

i went to junior high with Steve Jenkins

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Sphere v. Earthwise

Rabiah Kabir and Cien Mil Mangos from Stanford at Johnson Park by Earthwise 2023; billion dollar venue with a million diodes in Las Vegas; oak leaves versus diodes.

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Sidewalk score for hunt and peck piano

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Okorie baseline drive on inbound against Notre Dame

The photos are out of order: he caught the ball on the left wing, the inbounder cleared out; he beat his man baseline. He split the double team help; it was a reverse layup, for which he did not see the finish because he was on the ground.

Stanford trailed by 12 with 12 minutes to go and then closed to within four with four minutes to go. But Notre Dame won, in a very low-scoring match.

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30 Pee and me

I’m excited to be buying tickets for an upcoming show at the Bottom of the Hill featuring a band called Pee. Stylized as P.E.E.

This band played my concert series at Cubberley back in 1995. The ad for the concert says they are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their Noise Pop performance in that same year.

This band was managed by Kevin Arnold who is the founder of Noise Pop. This band literally plays Noise Pop, which is sort of like punk. Even 30 years later, I easily recalled that the singer is Kelly Green.

for me in my 30 second year as Earthwise stet sic I think of this event as falling between my Edward Simon show on February 28 and my Edu Ribeiro show on March 17. Or

Edward Simon, Adam Cruz, Reuben Rogers, Stephan Crump, PEE, Murry Low, Edu Ribeiro, Vinicius Gomes, Noah Garabedian….

Not to be confused with friends of Pee meaning the sisters-in-law of Jack Black and Company.

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Weird brief rif connecting pole vault from the 1904 Olympics Charles Dvořák and his alma mater which later was the site of a famous Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe building

Dvorak won gold medal.

Crown built at IIOT in 1956

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