Yup, 'tis my blogcentennial, this being epistle one hunnerd since my inaugural blast-oma over 3 years ago winging its bit-torrential way to...to...well, who...
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Feb 17, 2007 1:34 am
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Freddie Redd that is-- consummate improvising keyboardist/composer whose original score on Blue Note for Jack Gelber's searing play "The Connection"...
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Writing this now in the lobby of the Days Inn in Claremore Oklahoma, not too far from Tulsa (maybe 10 minutes, definitely not 24 hours from...)(thank you Gene...
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Mar 7, 2007 3:05 am
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gary, please forward to anyone you can ... and please mention Thomas on the 50th anniversary of his birthday. -- bob d. v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}...
Just a few words on the way to packing for SXSW...My gig with "The Golem" on Sunday afternoon at the Bergamo Jazz Festival came off like a dream--an absolutely...
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Just back from SXSW, best batch yet for me and my boys from the point of view of performance and venue(s) to play in...weather was fair, Jetblue flight last...
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Mar 21, 2007 5:52 pm
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...Holy-O? ("He rolled around in Oleo"-- variant lyrics to the celebrated Van Vliet ditty). "The Host" the Most Holy-O? Well, not if you stack it up against...
What a fershlugginer AMAZING week of really different kind of musical performances for me...some different shit, for sure...and yet, despite the radically...
you can always go-- "Downtown"!...an excellent zip-code, a wunnerful weltenschaung, a spectacular new movie produced written and starring Joey Dedio, a canny...
Such a week of wonders--from genesis to revelation, global tribal incantations, new skeins for the old ceremonies, stone fresh waters hauled up from an ancient...
Wednesday night I attended a terrific concert at Birdland, by Jan "Ptaszyn" Wroblewski--not exactly a household name in this country, but a legend in his...
I'm writing this hastily as I am dashing to complete packing for a Gods and Monsters Dutch tour, leaving late afternoon in fact.But I wanted to tell you before...
Back in NYC now for a few days from a whirlwind of a Dutch tour, an excellent outing with the guys and myself playing in Utrecht and Amsterdam wherein the band...
Beautiful blue sunny skies abounding this Saturday morning over the West Village, sorry I've been so remiss lately in writing this blog but have had very...
"We're all still here, no one has gone away" (true of everyone currently reading this, aint it so) croons Robin Williamson on "Job's Tears", the opening track...
Had a really great, tremendously exhilirating gig in Brussels last Saturday night as Wild Rumpus hit the boards live with myself, DJ Cosmo, and Video Artist...
Thoroughly enjoyed the Phillip Glass/Leonard Cohen collaboration, "Book of Longing" up at Rose Hall last Saturday night, big thanks to Judith Mallin for the...
Best fucking British band in ages, certainly, along with Jeremy Warmsley, giving hope once again for a creative resurgence/kick in the nuts to a moribund UK...
Sorry for the lengthening delays between postings but I've been busy busy busy...and now I'm packing to begin a 3 week working holidayin Northern Europe. So...
...was the ballyhooed lead-in to the beloved tv series as ululated by ABC TV's mid-60's announcer supreme Ernie Anderson--father of "Boogie Nights"/"Magnolia"...
Come Sunday and just back from Osterreich to what seems the endless summer in NYC, weather also fair and blue-scryed throughout while on tour last week and on...
--yeah I know I'm late, I'm late (check out Stan Getz's amazing track 'o the same name from his fantastic 1960 "Focus" album for yet another take on the White...
...was the watchword of the day (and should be everyday) last Friday Oct. 12th, a sensationally sunny morning when my buddy klezmeister violinist/film...
Just back from late spring/early summer in Australia playing 4 Golem shows down under, I been working baby oh so hard, staring up at this guy ('cept in...
Let's go out to the movies! Two recent rock-related films deserve extra special mention here--Firstly, Anton Corbijn's "Control", could be just about the best...
Just back from a mind-bending, transcendent out of town gig up at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, just down the round apiece from...
Well here it is 2008 (when do we recuperate?)-- and intimations of glad tidings were in the air round midnight Friday morning when mirabile dictu, Bob Fass,...
was Vampira's epistle to Jimmy, scribbled on a photo of her sitting over an open grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery in LA in the mid-50's and sent to James Dean, an...
In Spain now, funnily enough(last posting I was off to Amsterdam, remember?)...just played a 2 hour marathon solo acoustic concert last night at the Uhagon...