Earthwise Productions welcomes jazz quartet SIFTER SUNDAY 2 pm free show featuring Lisa Mezzacappa, bass, Jordan Glenn drums; Beth Schenk, reeds; Rob Ewing trombone
I was there and took pictures but only took this one in the sense that it was published on the internet, fair use
I’m medium cool on Bob Dylan but bought a ticket just on principle. There are VIP seats for $400 each – -and I bought some very expensive tickets to see Counting Crows in Saratoga – -I like the ring to that, “counting crows in saratoga” — but opted for $67 seats or seat singular for Dylan. See also, Walker Percy the Moviegoer. I saw Bob at Stanford and he was alright. Lionel Ritchie was better. I bought a single ticket for bob in the balcony in Oakland for $67 plus enought twenty or so for fees plus all the following rules (and I print this because I am still enforcing Covid protocols for my next few shows at The Mitch, including tomorrow Amendola Goldberg Sickafoose, and May 13 Meklit Hadero et al):
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I think I wil have fewer rules in place for my shows. But if you are coming to Palo Alto please be vaxed and wear a mask inside the venue. And by the way, my tickets cost less than the add-on fees from Another Planet with Ticketmaster. I’m going to do a Miles Davis show at Lytton Plaza, Cogswell Plaza and Pardee Park under the name “All The Miles are Free” which I think was the slogan of an airlines. Or a rental car company, rather. And I think Dylan was in town last time that Amendola did a jazz trio show — with Trevor Dunn not Todd Sickafoose. And I know for damn-sure that when Dayna Stephens played a matinee at The Mitch it was August 18, 2019 because the Rolling Stones played that night in Santa Clara and it was my nephew’s birthday.
edit to ad: I had to look it up, to confirm my hunch but the line “all the miles are free” which I claim will give birth to a jazz concert or series in Palo Alto parks was written and voice by Hal Riney circa 1994 for his client a me-too rental car company (me too in the sense of it not being Hertz or Avis, not in the sense of whether the dominant sex or gender abused the less dominant ones). Hal Riney likely made tens of millions in advertising but he was also a right wing duche bag. He helped Reagan get elected or re-elected. I remember reading in a trade pub that he was on an airplane that was being hijacked but refused to be held so he jumped out of the plane and scurried to the jungle as they fired machine guns at his footprints. I lived two blocks from him, me at Montgomery and Vallejo, he, above a wall, at Montgomery near Green. I remember he had a very young son and I saw them walking hand in hand once. So he’s not all bad. But he’s not all Bob, either.
Never finished this book but I checked the spelling of the author and I think he is Jewish – the guy sitting by himself.
I met Stacey Carter when she worked with Paula Kirkeby at Smith Andersen Palo Alto on Pepper Street circa 2005. She used some black and white photos of a Yankees game as basis for art. I’m happy she has some work at the airport. Thru Magnolia Editions.
When a developer spoke to the Palo Alto Public Art Commission last night, although she did not even bother to attend the meeting in person, her face was giving 100 percent status and her voice matched her lips moving ;
2) When commissioner Shen asked a question about the difference between the Percent For Art program for private development like Castilleja and public development like Mitchell Park Library her face and torso appeared 100 percent and her lips moved the same as the sound, synchronized;
3) Yet when a Palo Alto resident and citizen like Rebecca Eisenberg spoke to Commission in opposition to the development her image was reduced to about five percent of normal and her voice was processed and her lips did not synchronize with her sound, which was garbled; worse than that, commissioner and acting chair Ben Minaji rudely cut her off exactly at three minutes or two seconds later.
Have we completely lost our sense of what is a participatory democracy, and we only listen to power, we only listen to money and we only process and mediate through these machines? This immediate problem is the responsibility of the City Clerk to fix. People who attend meetings in person should be given greater status not reduced status. As we did for many, many years, and before the pandemic and this so-called “hybrid model”.
And more citizens should attend the meetings in person and not be mediated through these devices. There were only two citizens at the public art meeting. And only one of the three commissioners present actually lives in Palo Alto, my Gunn schoolmate Lisa Waltuch, a new commissioner.
Please fix this, City Clerk Lesley Milton, and City Manager Ed Shikada.
Coda: within the hour, City Clerk Lesley Milton wrote back to say she would look into my concerns. When I was at Dartmouth I took a class on the American Revolution with Professor Jere R. Daniell; he termed American Democracy an experiment, now 246 years in duration, a striving, and towards a more perfect union, Lord Willing and the crick don’t rise.
And1: left a voice mail for what Dartmouth lists as his office number: (603) 646-2995 — so much for my ludditism. Professor Daniell, emeritus, my handheld tells me, is class of ’55 (to his father’s Warren Danill ’22) which makes him about 89 years young — and he was about my age when we met.
I just got a short note from director Christopher Burris, who has been teaching and workshopping and producing at a university in North Carolina and I admit I don’t know Greensboro from Winston-Salem other than it is not Asheville or Chapel Hill.
He sent some photos of “Passing Strange” the Broadway show about types of Black people, for instance middle class Blacks passing for, or being mistaken for, more street types or proletariat or precariat — a word I saw in The Economist for working class types who are in precarious situations economically or socially.
There have been versions this year of “Passing Strange” in Berkeley – -Shot Gun Players — and near Minneapolis – -directed by Austene Van — and in North Carolina.
I saw “Passing Strange” workshop at Stanford and several times in its formative run at Berkeley Rep, before Broadway or Public Theatre of New York.
I saw Stew and Heidi at Brooklyn Academy of Music in February, 2001 and then shortly thereafter but for a short term, truncated as it were, was his or their manager. Mostly for the marketing of “Something Deeper Than These Changes” cd. But we also worked together on successful live tours in the midwest –like Chicago, where I was born, in fact my father flew out for Stew’s show at Martyr’s his 80th birthday weekend — and East Coast like Great Woods near Boston, opening for Counting Crows and John Mayer.
I heard from Stew by email for the first time in a while, this spring, apropos of all this.
And also, I am doing a show or perhaps two shows with DaShawn and Wendy Hickman husband and wife from those same parts, near Winston Salem or Greensboro. My shows are June 5 in Palo Alto, free and outdoors at Mitchell Park Bowl, and also in Santa Cruz, the Kuumbwa center, Friday June 3. (They also are part of the Little Village Mother Fucker – that’s what its actually called, shibboleth — at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, across the street from Berkley Rep, on Thursday, June 2 but only 25 minutes set, with four other acts). I talked to DaShawn about trying to get to the “Passing Strange” show and we briefly discussed maybe a sacred steel version of some of those tunes, breaking out the church roots.
Yes, ’tis strange. (And that’s a reference or shout out to Shakespeare and Othello. Shout out to Shakespeare, Othello, Christopher Burris, Charlie Hunter, DaShawn Hickman, Spike Lee and my former client Stew (everybody knows that he’s really Daddy Feel Good, Yeah, Yeah Yeah, Yeaaah whatever that means…)
coda:
Hi Mark,
Hope this email finds you well.
I just wanted to pass along the program and some photos from our production of Passing Strangeat UNCSA. It was incredibly successful, having a real impact on the students here.
This is from 1993 and featured John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, Wayne Horvitz; I had never seen it until 10 minutes ago; I admit I had it confused with “Spy VS Spy” which I borrowed from the library once, but does not feature Wayne Horvitz. I am thinking of this because Wayne is coming here in three weeks, with Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon; very different then his younger, New York days. Yet because I added twenty other musicians and several other genres, it came to mind (in the liner notes to Spy VS Spy, it lists about 50 influences including film noir and Ornette Coleman).
I do not know much about the screaming Japanese fellow.
Meanwhile, back in the current times, albeit a few days ago now, mONday, we had Or Bareket, who has a new album coming out next month – like in the twilight between his Palo Alto appearance and Wayne’s Palo Alto show, called “Sahar”. Is that a reference to Africa or the desert? Or to something deeper that informs both Or’s music and the naming of the large open space?
I was impressed by the young band featuring Or Bareket, bass, composition and band leadership; Tivon Pennicott, who played tenor sax — he is not on the recording but learned the work quickly, and we used a music stand donated by Brian who hangs out at the plaza a lot and does various creative things himself; not many people get a music credit or are mentioned in a concert review just for having a music stand in his trunk; Tivon also plays with Gregory Porter including perhaps such a show this week in Belgium; Savannah Harris on drums who also ran the table after the show, with a post game feast at Reposado then in the back room of the Wine Room here on Ramona — the former Gaylord’s Ice Cream Parlor or Double Rainbow, perhaps. Excuse the digression but Hershel Yatovitz told me that in 1983 he was a janitor by day sweeping up at the nursery school at the church behind the Varsity, then he’d play all night for tips at that same place, the ice cream parlor, maybe within 10 feet of where Savannah, Terry and I were sitting and sipping, then would go to the alley behind the Varsity and get high with Michael Hedges, who typically held court in the courtyard of The Varsity; he said his fingers bled, then he got very sick and tired but emerged as a musician — people don’t realize the difficulty of just becoming world class I mean working class — or that “World class” and “working class” are about the same in the arts in Late Capital America. Jeremy Corren on keyboards – -who said he too, like H and I is a Jew, but also a Mexican; From LA, son of two physicians and went to Columbia. Great young band, maybe the youngest I’ve worked with. I mean, I booked Taylor Eigsti when he was 15, but I was 35. Now I am 58, and these band members are like 28, 29, et cetera. (Although, despite making that pronouncement, i worked with Carmen Rothwell in the Dave Douglas band, Engage, and I don’t think she’s much older, though Dave is.
Are you following this?
Savannah also plays with Melanie Charles, who came thru SF but I missed it. I met her manager Charyn Harris, no relation to Savannah Harris, who is also Macy Gray’s tour manager. Charyn Harris is first cousin of Eugene S. Robinson, who sings like the guy above, the Japanes guy. Also, Japanese Breakfast is on the cover of Pollstar, I’m about to read. So is Remi Wolf. Big world, big ears, stay tuned.
Savannah Harris of Oakland and New York, drums; Or Bareket of Israel and New York, bass; Jeremy Corren, of LA and New York, keys — at Lytton Plaza, April 18, 2022 by Earthwise
Tivon Pennicott of Jamaica, Atlanta, Miami and New York; he told Terry Acebo Davis my wife that he slept in his car in NYC until his gigs caught up to his vision and talent
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 