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A little thought of no importance about Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet
(from my listening diary, and not fact-checked) December 31, 1936 (“I was hoping we could finish by 10:00 PM…”) Hollywood, CA; private recording produced by Alfred Newman Kolisch String Quartet: Schoenberg – Second String Quartet in F# minor, Op. 10 … Continue reading
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Actual Trio West Coast Tour this November
The Actual Trio CD will be released September 18, and gigs both local and away are starting to come into focus. Holy moly, it’s been a loooooooonnngggg time since I’ve been in the ‘let’s hustle gigs, let’s spend money, let’s … Continue reading
Two new pages added: Jelly Roll Morton and Jerry Newman
The hazards of being a creative musician: being manically obsessed with art, while also being thoroughly depressed by the world’s utter indifference. This lethal combo of uppers and downers put me in a very bad way for a … Continue reading
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News From All Over
Electronic Musician and innovator Tim Perkis made the thoroughly enjoyable documentary Noisy People in 2007, profiling experimental Bay Area musicians Phillip Greenlief, Dan Plonsey, Damon Smith, Tom Djil, Cheryl Leonard, Gino Robair,Greg Goodman, and Geirge Cremaschi. He has continued this … Continue reading
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Tagged actual trio;, Baguette Quartette, Noisy People, Tim Perkis
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A Gathering for Ornette Coleman, June 14, 2015, Berkeley Arts Festival
A bunch of us got together last Sunday at the Berkeley Arts Festival space to celebrate Ornette. People shared stories: of seeing the Quartet repeatedly at the Five Spot in ’58, of spending many hours with Ornette at … Continue reading
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Ornette Coleman
Every time I saw him was a religious experience. His sound, his sound. His sound and song were one. His love, his beautiful benedictions. Once I was riding in a car with John Zorn and Trevor Dunn. Zorn had these mix … Continue reading
What Key Did Erroll Garner Play It In?
When and if science examines my brain, it will show that in the Sonny Rollins area of my brain, there is a considerable wing devoted to bassist Bob Cranshaw. So I DEVOURED Ethan Iverson’s interview with Mr. Cranshaw, … Continue reading
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Tagged Erroll Garner, jazz standards
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Mingus Speaks, by John F. Goodman (UC Press, 2013)
Did this book get enough attention? I think it’s a major contribution to the literature. Goodman was a jazz critic for Playboy, reviewed Mingus’s 1972 so-called “comeback” concert, and began interviewing Mingus, first for an article, then for a book. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Mingus
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Actual Trio CD – audio excerpts posted
I’ve made an Actual Trio page with short excerpts of three songs from the forthcoming record. Soon I’l post a long interview with Dan Seamans about hunting, a subject neither of us know anything about, a John Hanes photo-retrospective, and … Continue reading
A talk on mentors and influences for YBCA
Thanks very much to Myra Melford, Isabel Yrigoyen, Roko Kawai, Doug Katelus, and Anya Rome over at the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts in San Francisco. Yesterday evening I gave a presentation in their “Mentors and Influences” series. Unusually … Continue reading
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