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Don Cherry the Canadian blowhard VS Don Cherry the Choctaw cornetist

Posted on November 16, 2019 by

There is something in the local rag and likely other sources about the xenophobia of Canadian hockey broadcaster (and I think sometimes crooner) Don Cherry and him calling people “them” and that recent arrivals to Canada don’t respect the sacrifices … Continue reading →

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Declassified Don Cherry at Dartmouth

Posted on May 28, 2019 by

OR, TWENTY-SIX AOA FLUTES AT DARTMOUTH Don Cherry was artist in residence at Dartmouth in 1970. I wrote something about that, years later, for the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. On Don’s Blue Lake recording, he plays a wooden flute. In the … Continue reading →

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War on Drugs on Conan

Posted on January 3, 2015 by

I taped the other night The War on Drugs on Conan, actually from October, 2014. They play “Burning” track 8, from their latest release. It is six minutes on the album but closer to four here. 2. I interviewed two … Continue reading →

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Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry….and Dartmouth?

Posted on January 2, 2015 by

and prologue talk about karma I did reach Chris Cortez just now or an hour after posting the first draft of this in the booth of KCSM and he agreed that my Pharaoh take is pretty esoteric and funky like … Continue reading →

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Lampin’ with Ben (at Peet’s)

Posted on October 8, 2014 by

http://www.amazon.com/Os-Mutantes/dp/B00000IABK I’m lampin’. I’m lampin’. I’m cold cold lampin’. Ok, that’s not exactly true: I’m sitting at Peet’s, postin’ to my blog, but my bike is parked under a lamp, or street light. Or Terry’s bike, rather. A purple Schwin. … Continue reading →

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Serendipity farmers

Posted on November 7, 2013 by

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. Ralph Waldo Emerson Precisely 5:25 Wednesday evening I spied a cluster of flyers on the kiosk near the north corner of Stanford’s Tresidder … Continue reading →

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Recipe for Cherry Colgado Pie

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

Recipe for Cherry Colgado Pie 1. While in Minneapolis, near or at the Walker Art Center and Walker Sculpture Garden, do not fail to notice the giant Cherry on a Spoon, by Claes Oldenburg. Take a picture, or get your … Continue reading →

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