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Trio, Trios, Triest(e)
I’m deep in Trios lately. I’ve waited a long time to perform or record standards in a guitar-bass-drums trio setting, because those songs mean so much to me and are too often taken for granted, and because the … Continue reading
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Tom Waits’ new album Bad As Me
Tom Waits’ new CD was released today. I play on two songs on disc two of the “Deluxe Edition”: She Stole The Blush and Tell Me. Much will be made of the famous names that show up … Continue reading
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pierre boulez, pli selon pli, and me (part one)
The link below is to a video of pli selon pli: Pierre Boulez conducting the EIC and Lucerne Festival Academy with Barbara Hannigan, soprano on September 27, 2011 at the Salle Pleyel. The performance will be available on the web … Continue reading
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My problem.
from Janet Malcolm’s profile of photographer Thomas Struth in the current New Yorker: ”Struth’s invisible cloth of obliviousness was as necessary to his art-making as the actual cloth he worked under. To enter the state of absorption in … Continue reading
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A serious candidate for the most profound thing anyone ever said to me
When I was in high school, I had a music buddy whose name I have hopefully temporarily forgotten. We were only friends for about six months, so it’s not the worst sin that I can’t remember his … Continue reading
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Sarah Wilson at Monterey podcast
www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2011/09/21/140610964/monterey-jazz-2011-sarah-wilson-quintet At the above link you can listen to the second set from the Monterey Jazz Festival. Sarah Wilson – trumptet and voice; Charles Burnham – amplified violin; John Schott – guitar; Jerome Harris – acoustic bass guitar; Matt Wilson – drums.
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Work!
…in the best sense of the word. Thursday, Friday and Saturday I played with a group Sarah Wilson put together, culminating in two sets at the Monterey Jazz Festival, taped for broadcast by NPR. I had been really, … Continue reading
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Just like starting over…
I love my internet service provider, LMI. It’s in Berkeley, and I can call them up or go there in person, talk to someone right away, and that someone is usually someone who’s band I’ve seen, or whose … Continue reading
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Daniel Popsicle at the Webster Street Jam in Alameda
I had fun playing last Sunday with Daniel Popsicle at an Alameda Street Fair, even if the audience was not quite sure what to make of this strange band playing “Music of El Ceritto”. The best part was a suite … Continue reading
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An old post: The Bay Area Guitar Players of the 90’s: An Homage
With the passage of (a little) time, it’s starting to emerge that the San Francisco Bay Area had, in the 1990’s, an inordinate number of great jazz-oriented guitarists, many of whom now have to moved to other locales. I count … Continue reading
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