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(N-Word)-dog VS (N-Word)’s dog
something deeper than these changes or being punk’d by punctuation I watched the 49ers’ opening game early Sunday at The Old Pro, formerly The Old Pro’s Bar. The bar was in a quonset hut on Pepper near El Camino and … Continue reading
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Tagged davante adams, dayna stephens, donald mcneil, eugene robinson, keith boykin, tommy jordan
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Earthwise announces free concert series as part of Mayor’s ‘Together Again Palo Alto’ project
Mayor Tom Dubois, whose music bona fides include being the “Band Dad” for the Gunn High orchestra during his son’s formative years and now being engaged to a jazz singer, asked me to help out his “Together Again Palo Alto” … Continue reading
Sneak peek new year’s preview of Dayna Stephens song-cycle regarding human archetypes
Dayna Stephens told me that 2020 was both his loneliest year and his most productive as a jazz composer. An annus horribilis plus. Besides two cds released and at least one other major commission, he wrote and demo’d a song cycle … Continue reading
Six singles released by Earthwise’s Lions With Wings imprint on Bandcamp
Lions With Wings, the content platform spearheaded by Mark Weiss of Earthwise Productions as a work-around for a cancelled concert series, has released a total of six songs, with more in the works, Weiss says. The songs are: 1) Dayna … Continue reading
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Tagged bob margolin, dayna stephens, Earthwise Productions, kid andersen, Lions With Wings, mc lars, mike park, mitch woods, Nancy Wright
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Five oh one saxophone blues
In a former life, we used to have a notebook in which I wrote the names, date of birth of 1,001 saxophone players that I had culled from three different music reference books, all music guide, a British one, and … Continue reading
Posted in jazz, sex
Tagged alexa tarantino, angela morris, anna webber, binker golding, calder spanier, charlotte greve, claire daly, dayna stephens, esther berndt, geof bradfield, james brandon lewis, john ellis, Kristen Strom, lisa parrott, maria eisen, Nancy Wright, nubya garcia, shabaka hutchings, shafi hadi, steve eisen
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Samora Pinderhughes mentions
SAMORA PINDERHUGHES’S ‘VENUS’ at Le Poisson Rouge (July 19, 8 p.m.). Mr. Pinderhughes, a pianist and vocalist, grabbed attention in 2016 with his politically incisive “Transformations Suite.” At Le Poisson Rouge he returns with a new set of material, “Venus,” … Continue reading
Fifty Palo Alto jazz tropes
1. Thelonious Monk live at Paly, 1968 A Palo Alto high student organized a concert with Thelonious Monk at Palo Alto High during a time fo racial unrest (soon after murder of Dr. King), cited in Prof. Robin Kelley’s Monk’s … Continue reading
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Tagged charlie hunter, danny scher, dayna stephens, dick fregulia, jason olaine, stanley jordan, t.j. kirk
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Happy Birthday, Dayna Stephens
COMING TO PALO ALTO, SUNDAY AUGUST 18, 2 P.M. SHOW TICKETS ON SALE, AT EVENTBRITE I had the pleasure of seeing Dayna Stephens at the Stanford Jazz Workshop concert series, at Dink. Because he is coming back to his home … Continue reading
My 12 picks: Stanford, Northwestern, Army, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Michigan State, Schauer, New Mexico, Michigan, Texas, UCLA and UTEP
I am not actually a gambler nor do I advocate such. I picked 11 teams plus the Democratic challenger for the gubernatorial seat of Michigan, Mark Schauer just as an experiment. It is more like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern picking a … Continue reading
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Tagged brian evans, butch veazey, chris strausser, dayna stephens, devon cajuste, dragon theatre, evanston, lessa bourchard, LP, mark schauer, noah metz, northwestern, rosencrantz, tom stoppard
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Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 