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Tom the Piper's Son: Krishnamurti Thought

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Thursday, May 14, 2009. I habitually read a daily "meditation" from J. Krishnamurti's The Book of Life - one can take it or leave it, but I usually take it. He was just the sort to get teed off if you accepted anything he said without question and I greatly admire that. Here's the entry for today, May 14. Remain with a Feeling and See. You never remain with any feeling, pure and simple, but always surround it with a paraphernalia. Try to r...

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Tom the Piper's Son: January 2009

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Friday, January 30, 2009. John Martyn - "Every Bird that Sings is Born to Fly". One Day Without You. I was saddened to hear of John's passing yesterday - but even then the thought of him brought a smile and "for-the-life-of-god! Shake of the head. I was glad to know he'd made it this far and hope he was content with his legacy; he certainly he lived wild and hard and brought some great music into the world. Singin in the Rain. Whenever and...

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Tom the Piper's Son: 912 Toulouse St. with Ramblin' Jack

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. 912 Toulouse St. with Ramblin' Jack. Is the title of a song Ramblin' Jack Elliott recorded on his album Young Brigham. His idol and friend Woody Guthrie, (Woody's son Arlo too), had some talkin songs, as did Bob Dylan, who early on was referred too, not entirely in jest, as Ramblin Jack's son. Jack continued (and continues, to this day! To sing the tune and it changes everytime. But I tend to believe this. Tom, I rea...

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Tom the Piper's Son: Blumenschein's Lake

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Monday, April 13, 2009. The Lake - Ernest Blumenschein. I live about three blocks from the Phoenix Art Museum and you would think I was a frequent visitor. Alas, it's a case of jaded convenience; already a procrastinator, I am comforted by the proximity of the Museum and set my intended visits upon the enormous heap labeled, "Things That I Really Want to Do That Can Always Be Done Later". However, when I. Blumenschein was very fond of fish...

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Tom the Piper's Son: June 2008

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Monday, June 16, 2008. Burne-Jones and the Sleeping Princess. A few weeks back I slipped into my local Art Museum, intent on (at the least) seeing the three Edward Burne-Jones paintings that were part of the "Passages To Europe" exhibition passing through. Burne-Jones is a master of exquisite subtle color and flowing line and I don't give a. King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid. Burne-Jones himself sheds light on this influence, saying,.

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Tom the Piper's Son: Oleo, June 1954

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Oleo, June 1954. The melody for Oleo. Was, at least partially, composed on the spot by Sonny Rollins for this Miles Davis session, now issued on "Bag's Groove". This version of the song not to be confused with that on the later Prestige session, "Relaxin"). Sessions - check out "Deception". Miles' revamp of George Shearing's "Conception") from there. Oleo, rhythmically, bears some similarity to Charlie Parker's.

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Tom the Piper's Son: May 2008

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Because she always carries an orange canvas bag that says:. Whenever I get to Manhattan I make a point of going to The Strand bookstore on the corner Broadway and 12th St. It has been there since 1956 and was previously, beginning in 1927, on 4th Avenue amongst "Book Row" where there were once 48 bookstores. In the Oates collection. I Am No One You Know". In the story set in March of 1956 two teen-aged self-anointe...

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Tom the Piper's Son: April 2009

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Thursday, April 30, 2009. John Abercrombie is one of the instantly recognizable jazz guitar stylists. His sound and conception have a pastoral elegance attuned to Indian Raga or Persian modal improvisations as much as it does to his precursors in the jazz world such as Bill Evans, Jim Hall, and Miles Davis. Listening now, my take on it). A bicyclist rounds a street corner. Voice and touch of fingertips. Light filtered by waves above. This ...

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Tom the Piper's Son: December 2008

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Tuesday, December 30, 2008. You Must Remember This". An old woman's childhood recollection of watching the lamplighter come down her street to illuminate the evening on the Upper West Side of Manhattan circa 1899. Olga Marx was born in 1894 and would have been roundabout 90 when Kisseloff interviewed her in the mid-1980's:. When the lamplighter came in the summer, that usually meant it was bedtime. I loved to wait for him on the stoop.

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Tom the Piper's Son: Frank Godwin and Treasure Island

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Tom the Piper's Son. Saxophonist - Guitarist - Composer - Artist. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Frank Godwin and Treasure Island. The story goes that Robert Louis Stevenson was on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and one rainy day came upon his stepson Lloyd, applying watercolors to a map he'd made of an imaginary isle. Lloyd described Stevenson's attention;. And the greater climax still when he wrote down the words "Treasure Island" at the top right-hand corner! Thanks, Matthew for scanning the book-cover!