Happy Birthday, . . .





Anat Fort
March 8, 1970
 

  http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1720/25310342350_3080bb968d_o.jpg                     Nancy Reagan: Condolences Pour In for 'Tower of Strength' First Lady http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1629/25310342330_2c80c419ca_o.jpg                     Nancy Reagan Funeral to Be Held on Friday  

http://jazztimes.com/articles/171691-matthew-shipp-remembers-paul-bley http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1447/25592279525_3e6eee34b2_z.jpg Each year, in our March issue, we ask prominent musicians to pay tribute to fellow artists who have passed in the previous year. This piece appeared in the March 201...

After five years, my mouse was so shot that it was yielding the wrong results (a long story). Having failed to find a suitable replacement online (an even longer story), I looked through my rejected electronics collection and found a Logitech optical mouse that still works just fine...

  Harlem's Apollo Theater, which previously announced that it will present the New York premiere of the opera Charlie Parker's Yardbird in April, . . . Tickets for Charlie Parker's Yardbird are $30 – $125. Tickets are available at the Apollo Theater box office: (212) 531-5305, 253 West 125th Street...

While we ate, a Cuban trio played and i hopped up for a couple of tunes and then a friend got up and performed a song. After him, I surprised the heck out of my brief by calling Iraida, my brother andy and two other singers plus a rhythm section . . . Autocorrect strikes again, no doubt. The correc...

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/martin-molin-marble-machine-music_us_56d74bade4b0bf0dab3454b1 [I hate the headline, but it is what it is.]   http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3813/9469360573_40e3e9799c_o.gif http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1642/25175984000_80ab671dfa_o.jpg You've heard of people ...

 


In case you can't read it on your device, the sign (now) says, "Felicidades a los dos,"
which I hope means "Congratulations to both of you." 
 

 
http://tinyurl.com/March-1-update

So far, the church's website hasn't been updated with post-petition info., but it has a page for general donations.
 

 

 

  http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1489/25328964886_71dfe217c6_o.jpg A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Vijay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher,” trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet...

The church has set up an online petition for those who want to support their cause. You can see it here. And if you're willing to make phone calls to four members of the landlord organization's board: At the petition site, see the Petition Update "Call to Action," dated February 2...

 
A thread in JT's Jazz News forum:

Free: NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert @ the Kennedy Center — DC | April 4, 2016

  Free: NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert @ the Kennedy Center — DC | April 4, 2016 https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1456/24897988959_0553324307_o.jpg               http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/ZQJZM#tickets http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1626/24897988929_832d3f12d2_o.jpg source    

  The festival page at ArtsforArt.org : http://www.artsforart.org/nyc-freejazz-summit.html   Edit, April 8: New link. I just discovered that Arts for Art revamped its website about a week ago. http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1495/25143170372_5873f403a2_z.jpg This fest, like the Arts for Art fest held i...

 


tickets

http://www.jazzgallery.org
http://www.ingridlaubrock.com
http://firehouse12records.com/album/ubatuba
http://www.composersnow.org
 

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/arts/music/grammys-tend-to-focus-on-heroics-in-singling-out-the-jazz-solo.html http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1619/24848814372_bb113186a4_o.jpg A friend who edits a monthly jazz magazine tells me that nearly 5,000 new jazz records were sent in his direction last year...

       
 

Happy Birthday, . . .





Stephan Crump
February 8, 1972
 

And now a third S.F.-based musician has passed away this week at age 74---or one could say "California-based" and add Maurice White. R.I.P., Dan Hicks http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/06/dan-hicks-san-francisco-folk-jazz-pioneer-dead-at-74/ Somehow I'd managed to know (or remember...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-maurice-white-earth-wind-fire-dies-20160204-story.html http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1650/24796700196_14316dabae_o.jpg Maurice White        Kathy Willens / Associated Press Maurice White acknowledges applause as Earth, Wind & Fire is indu...

  This just-released video clip is being billed (at several entertainment websites) as the first official trailer for Miles Ahead: https://youtu.be/wqq63ZJ5q3w Miles Ahead had its world premiere as the closing movie of the New York Film Festival in October 2015. It's scheduled to hit the...