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Al Young redux

Posted on January 22, 2024 by markweiss86

Al Young redux I wrote earlier about renaming Foothill Park for Al Young. Today, I met Gordon Young, who is Paly class of ’74. I mistook him for a Pinoy golf caddie I met at a sports bar a few … Continue reading →

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Random fandom and trumpet riffs

Posted on September 20, 2021 by markweiss86

1. I did not know that Tom Harrell was in Malo – and he played with Carlos Santana? Did he play with Gregg Rolie of Palo Alto, or at Cubberley? Did Gregg play at Cubberley? I was at a garage … Continue reading →

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Jack Walrath w. AppleJack Walroth

Posted on March 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Jack Walrath, my former client, is a jazz trumpeter from Montana who went to Berklee and played with Mingus and lives in New York. Applejack Walroth is a bluesman from Chicago who played with Boz Scaggs at the 2009 Hardly … Continue reading →

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Kickin’ it with Jamie Cullum

Posted on March 3, 2015 by markweiss86

Dear Jamie Cullum, when you play Hollywood Bowl on August 5, 2015, please swing by Palo Alto and do a free show at Lytton Plaza to raise awareness of “the Great Unwashed”. Thanks, Mark Weiss This is the quinetessentional plastic … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Dave Douglas

Posted on March 24, 2011 by markweiss86

I got this from NPR (while searching in futility in a hurry for the thing about the DC club promoter): http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/03/23/134804991/happy-birthday-dave-douglas I was thinking of Dave recently because I am hoping to steal trumpet player and musicologist and griot Jack … Continue reading →

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I. The set of all blind piano players

Posted on September 4, 2010 by markweiss86

the entertainer is taking the stage Continue reading →

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