Music
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Arturo Sandoval is here to entertain you
Last week S-L and I were finishing dinner in Greenwich Village and decided to the Blue Note to see Arturo Sandoval. Here’s how they describe him: A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two…
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New Music + Poetry: Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction
Subtitled, “Being a list of 8 ways in which the dead at Waco were a lot like the rest of us”. Designed by Stephen Farrell. Delivered onstage as an eight-movement duet with cello music composed and performed by Dylan Morgan. Gander here for all of our custom-made covers, complete hi-res images of each page, and the complete text.
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Pastiche for Kaa Pow
Last weekend I saw Kaa Pow at Dazzle in Denver. At center stage is quite the drums, hand-carved deep-cut wood fashioned into the studied disorganization of a jazz-kit. Littered with spaces for each player to step out and thrive, their-style. The Way I Feel from Cookpot comes first. The keyboardist has his backpack next to…
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Holy Trinity Songs, May 2017
These three songs are currently holy to me. I play them again and again, in the same order. It’s like going to Church.
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Billie Jean-Induced Crying Jags
Like many of my agnates who were teenagers in the 1980s, I have a a long musical relationship with Michael Jackson. I appreciate him. And like most people all over the world, music is a nutty and mysterious trigger. Hearing AC/DC’s Hell’s Bells brings the scent of my friend Virgil’s 1980s basement space heater to my…