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Dave Chappelle will make a special appearance on this blog at midnight.
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UPDATE!! STORM LARGE VIDEO RELEASED. DID YOU KNOW THAT HER VAGINA IS EIGHT MILES WIDE?
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CATHEDRAL PARK, AT LEAST MY PART (SLIGHT RETURN)
Was a blast being on the air for four hours on Friday. Bill Rhodes Trio (w/Jim Miller and Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser was a study in blues intimacy and just right to begin the festival. Enjoyed interviewing Bill and Jim between and after their sets, especially making Bill do the legal KMHD ID (he has a lot of radio experience). It was very ecumenical of him to do it since he has a show on KBOO.
Somehow, while talking with Jim Miller, the conversation turned to sweeping up leftover endorphins off the stage.
Duffy Bishop followed and was Duffy Bishop. Took her (very high-heeled) shoes off and went out into the audience to sing. I asked her about it and she said she likes to go out into the audience because it makes her less nervous. Hard to imagine Duffy getting nervous.
She's gone to SF for a few months to sing in the same cabaret show that took her away to Seattle for the previous several months. She had just a few Portland gigs in between. Glad I saw this one.
Missed the rest of the festival, but caught some of it on radio. No big names to draw but a very nice festival. I go to that park just to sit and look at the river sometimes. My favorite PDX park.
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……AND PIGNOLI COOKIES, TOO!!!
This just in from Andrew Oliver:
Mary Sue Tobin and Andrew Oliver are proud to announce a new series in partnership with DiPrima Dolci Italian Bakery and Restaurant: Jazz Bakery @ DiPrima. The series will take place on the First and Third Thursday of the month beginning July 23
This Thursday will feature the High Mountain Quartet:
Chad McCullough, trumpet and flugelhorn (Seattle)
Andrew Oliver, piano (Portland)
Eric Gruber, bass (Portland)
Tyson Stubelek, drums (Boston)
The High Mountain Quartet performs original music alongside repertoire from across the jazz tradition. Their music emphasizes jazz improvisation as a medium of communication, both between the band and the audience and between the band members themselves. Their musical dedication is evident in the intensity of their performances and their intuitive group interaction.
Long-time musical associates and friends Tyson Stubelek and Andrew Oliver began playing with Seattle-based trumpeter Chad McCullough at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in 2009, where they were all participants. The musical chemistry was immediately evident and upon Tyson and Andrew’s return to Portland, Chad was invited down from Seattle to augment their long-standing trio with Eric Gruber into a quartet.
I like to stop there and pick up some pignolis after breakfast at Beaterville. I don't know any other place to get them. Do you?
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DREW SHOALS COLLECTIVE REUNION
At Mizz Pizz last Friday playing tunes from Drew's The Greatest Haven't Been Born Yet album. The band who played on half of the tunes on that album was there. John Nastos on sax, Ben Darwish on keys and Damien Erskine on bass. Damien played that amazing solo from Lux but extended it.
If there was any doubt about Drew, having spent more time over the past year in New York, dealing with helping offenders than playing drums, you'll be happy to know he is better than ever.
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DAHLIA DAHLIA DAHLIA
Jay Bozich (King Fader) posted this video of them from 2006. I ran into Jen at the Dave Chappelle party at the square last week. Says she's trying to give up music and become a writer.
Sigh.
This is called Mad World
Dahlia Mad World
Cover Song Footage from Pi-Rem in Portland, Oregon 08-25-06 Created by Vance Malone of Food Chain Films
Btw…I stood in the back of East the other night with Keith Schreiner while he watched Oracle do a gig that was a rehearsal for a House of Blues show in L.A. Yes, he wrote the tunes, etc. DJ Izm sat in for him because he will be at a FOLK FESTIVAL with Stephanie Schneiderman. Cracked me up. Keith at a folk festival? He told me he was gonna be like Dylan at Newport.
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LOOSE CABOOSE MANIA
I started playing the Joe Tex song because of the constant urging of Adam McIsaac of Int'l Male to play more Joe Tex during The Bar portion of my radio show (12m-2am). Now it has become a phenomenon. They threaten to teach the whole audience how to do it.
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OK FORGET THAT THIS IS A STANDARD FOR A MINUTE
…..and just listen.
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OR MAYBE YOU NEVER HEARD OF URI CAINE
Now you have
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WHEN COOL WAS WELL-DRESSED
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HOW TUTS WASHINGTON'S JUNKER BLUES BECAME PROFESSOR LONGHAIR'S TIPITINA ACCORDING TO THE TWO OF THEM
….plus Allen Toussaint. Am I in heaven?
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There's more but I got real work to do.
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So, the universal sign language for "stretch it out" is that thing where you put your fingertips together and then pull them out slow-ish to both sides, a motion I've always taken as a pantomime of pulling taffy?
ReplyDeleteBy the universal sign of "wrap it up", do you mean the one where you point one finger upward and describe a circular motion beginning at the elbow; or the universal "cut" motion where you drag one finger across your throat like you're assassinating yourself in Rennaissance Italy?
Somebody really ought to write a book explaining the basic showbiz/concert vernacular. It took me five years to figure out what "the back-end split" was, and many of my associates still don't understand which one is the Back of House and which one is the Front of House.