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Woodshedding fantasy for this summer and early fall based on Ethan Iverson’s post today: canons, fugues, looping and more

Posted on April 28, 2024 by markweiss86

Voices please enter one at a time singing the same tune from the top. Terry and I were at Fort Mason Saturday for the art fair and on our way back cut through the Presidio and I noticed this cannon … Continue reading →

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Three shows

Posted on January 14, 2024 by markweiss86

(picture of Jimmy Stewart from poster of “North By Northwest”)https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthwise-welcomes-ethan-iverson-marta-sanchez-tickets-798059676977?aff=oddtdtcreator&lang=en-us&locale=en_US&status=30&view=listing (picture of a woman holding a book about fish yet I forget why) (picture of myself, Mark Weiss, of earthwise and Plastic Alto blog, under a painting pointing) February 9, … Continue reading →

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EI FTW

Posted on December 9, 2023 by markweiss86
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Before what turned out to be a truly amazing and inspiring Abdullah Ibrahim trio show at SFJazz, I was thing ahead to Ethan Iverson next spring

Posted on November 19, 2023 by markweiss86

  I mean no disrespect but only that this is the most current TT: I was at an amazing Abdullah Ibrahim show at SF Jazz and was thinking ahead to catching your set there next spring. Have you considered ending … Continue reading →

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Etude on Jarrett

Posted on January 23, 2021 by markweiss86

Keith Jarrett’s American combo, 1967-1976: Dewey wow them and how! (after E.I., 2021) Nine albums: All music guides lists 1,318 credits.All music guides lists discography of 104 albums (Although it lists “At Blue Note” as one cd, and says that … Continue reading →

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‘No Sleep til Brooklyn’ VS ‘Gotta Get Some Sleep’

Posted on January 22, 2021 by markweiss86

This is shameful I admit. One is a Beastie Boys still frame where they are wearing rock and roll wigs. The other is Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian in the 1970s, during the era that they produced 17 … Continue reading →

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EI on BLM and TGTBATU

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

As with The Hand in the Glove, Stout makes a play for social justice, this time confronting segregation. Unsurprisingly, the scenes with the Black waiters at the Spa haven’t aged well. However, even after all these years, one point of … Continue reading →

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Original G, or Lah med yah weh

Posted on December 4, 2014 by markweiss86

(Note: I wrote this exactly one month ago but re-reading it, it eludes even me. The basic story is that a barista at Peet’s in South Palo Alto who did not look particularly interested in Torah had four Hebrew characters … Continue reading →

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Au revoir for Monique’s Chocolates at 359 Bryant Street

Posted on May 15, 2014 by markweiss86

I was Cathy Hubbell West’s first customer Thursday at Monique’s Chocolates of Palo Alto. Due to my furious chatter, it took her 30 minutes to make me a cold hot chocolate drink. It took me less than a minute to … Continue reading →

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Ethan Iverson “do the math” on tenors

Posted on March 31, 2013 by markweiss86

Recently Oliver Lake tweeted “happy birthday” to Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. I responded, “If I played tenor, I’d spend all my time not with TraneSonnyWayne but Lockjaw, Byas, Gonsalves, A. Cobb, G. Ammons, B.Webster, Lucky T.” Several people took this to … Continue reading →

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