#JazzChurch 42 – Music of Chick Corea – Sunday, February 14, 2021

Note: See RIP Chick Corea for a little of my story about experiencing Chick’s music.


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#jazzchurch 42 – Sunday, February 14, 2021 – featured some of my favorite music by Chick Corea:

  1. Vulcan Worlds (Chick Corea)
  2. Spain (Chick Corea)
  3. Children’s Song (Chick Corea)
  4. 500 Miles High (Chick Corea)
  5. Return To Forever (Chick Corea)
  6. Crystal Silence (Chick Corea)
  7. Sorceress (Return To Forever)
  8. The Romantic Warrior (Return To Forever feat. Chick Corea)
  9. Waltse For Dave (Chick Corea)
  10. No Mystery (Return To Forever feat. Chick Corea)
  11. Interplay (eturn To Forever feat. Chick Corea)
  12. Celebration Suite Part II (Return To Forever feat. Chick Corea)
  13. Song To John, Part 1 (Stanley Clarke feat. Chick Corea)
  14. Song To John, Part 2 (Stanley Clarke feat. Chick Corea)
  15. Quartet No.1 (Chick Corea)
  16. Quartet No.3/Quartet No.2 (Chick Corea)
  17. Part 2 (Chick Corea)
  18. Windows (Chick Corea)
  19. Humpty Dumpty (Chick Corea)
  20. Terrain (Chick Corea Quartet)
  21. If I Should Lose You (Harvey Mason, Chick Corea & Dave Carpenter)
  22. Waltse For Dave (Chick Corea, Harvey Mason)
  23. Tones for Joan’s Bones (Chick Corea)
  24. On Green Dolphin Street (Chick Corea)
  25. Inner Urge (Joe Henderson feat. Chick Corea)
  26. Alice In Wonderland (Chick Corea Trio)
  27. Do You Ever (Return To Forever feat. Chick Corea)
  28. The Endless Night (Return To Forever feat. Chick Corea)
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RIP Chick Corea

I first encountered Chick Corea in 1975. I had moved to Albany, NY, for a job in the State Assembly. I’m not sure how I first heard it, but “Vulcan Worlds” from the “Where Have I Known You Before” album by Return To Forever featuring Chick Corea became my song. Written by the band’s bassist, Stanley Clarke, it makes sense I would love it!

My wife and I went to see RTF at Russell Sage College in Troy. We arrived a bit early and walked to a store to get some soda (obviously Coke in my case). The concert started just as we were walking toward the auditorium through fog and mist. I loved hearing the first notes of Vulcan Worlds as we approached and settled into our seats! It was magic, and the concert did not disappoint!

We went to see Chick Corea perform duets with Herbie Hancock at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (or SPAC). Herbie introduced a song by saying they were going to make their pianos talk to each other. It was thrilling. We couldn’t hear the precise words, but it was a conversation in every way.

The next morning, I took a flight to NYC, and guess who was on the plane? Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea!! I got to tell them how much I enjoyed the concert the night before, especially the conversation between the pianos. I’ll always carry the smile on Chick’s face with me!

There was also a duet concert at SPAC featuring Chick and Gary Burton. When they came back out after a standing ovation following the set, Chick said something like, “Encore? What should we play?” My friend Reggie and I, without prompting or coordination, both stood up in our second-row seats, cupped our hands over our mouths, and shouted, SPAIN at the top of our lungs! Maybe we weren’t the only ones (we were first!!), and perhaps that was the obvious choice, but our very loud wishes came true.

We saw different RTF incarnations when we lived in NYC and saw Chick in San Francisco and twice here in Seattle. I subscribed to his online instruction channel for awhile.

Even though I saw Chick Corea perform live on many occasions, it’s his recorded music that reverberates through my being after years of incessant listening. I loved and will continue to love his many recordings, including new music I’m just discovering.

It has been wonderful to read all the thoughtful reflections on his life as a musician, friend, and person. There are a lot of lessons there. He lived a great life, one that can inspire all of us to live our lives to the fullest and to help others along the way. I love that idea.

Thanks for the music and your life of inspiration, Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea. RIP as you return to forever.


Note: #JazzChurch 42 episode (2/14/2021) featured some of Chick Corea’s music and performances that have resonated with me over the years.

Summer is coming! 🌨🏂🏔☃️

#JazzChurch 41 – Sunday, February 7, 2021

#jazzchurch 41 – Sunday, February 7, 2021 – featured music by John Coltrane, Betty Carter, Chet Baker, Tank and The Bangas, Erykah Badu, and Sade, among others shown below:

  1. Dahomey Dance (John Coltrane)
  2. I Love Music (Betty Carter)
  3. Hello Sunshine (Maceo Woods & The Christian Tabernacle Concert Choir)
  4. Ostinato (Suite For Angela) (Herbie Hancock)
  5. Neverend (Joshua Redman)
  6. Via Mwandishi (Christian McBride)
  7. Nubian Queen (Cornelius Claudio Kreusch - Black Mud Sound)
  8. India (John Coltrane)
  9. Go (Wayne Shorter)
  10. Weak (Gretchen Parlato)
  11. Obsequious (Alex Sipiagin, Boris Koslov, Antionio Sanchez & Adam Rogers)
  12. Arboretum (Tony Williams)
  13. Funk In Deep Freeze (Chet Baker)
  14. Boxes And Squares (Tank And The Bangas)
  15. Move On Up (Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio)
  16. Think Twice (Erykah Badu featuring Roy Hargrove)
  17. Appletree (Erykah Badu)
  18. Boogie Nights/All Night (Erykah Badu)
  19. Ana Maria (Wayne Shorter)
  20. Au Rêve (Cassius)
  21. Maureen (Sade)
  22. Funk Is Here to Stay (Amp Fiddler)
  23. You’ll Know When You Get There (Herbie Hancock)

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bbebop · #JazzChurch 41 - Sunday, February 7, 2021
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You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting. 🧠.
Prof. Richard Feynman

Once upon a time, while walking across Central Park South, a small crowd of people was standing in front of one of the hotels. As I passed by, the man standing in the middle and I made eye contact. We gave each other “the nod” often shared among black men in public. I smiled as I continued across town. That man was Muhammad Ali!

I’ll guess that was around 1982-3. I got to shake his hand a few years later when Ali was leaving a South Street Seaport restaurant I was about to enter.

#NewYorkStories

This Ain't QAnon, Baby!

The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself, being capable of altering it to his whim.

Wikipedia

Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes (born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902)

I love this bit about humor:

“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it… what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”.
Langston Hughes

Also see 10 Poems By Langston Hughes You Should Know - Kentake Page

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Library Day, February 1, 2019.

I used to observe the first Friday of most months as a #LibraryDay (described below). Here’s a journal entry from two years ago. Maybe I’ll get to do this again later in 2021?


I’m at the library because, yes, it’s #LibraryDay!!! This one is a little different. I brought all the paper and stuff that’s accumulated on my work surfaces over the past month, and I’ve yet to really go through them. I have handled some stuff in my “action” folder, but that’s about it.

What have I been doing? Literally, just getting caught up on things I need to do, have intended to do, and just haven’t done. A whole bunch of them. Mostly in Word, email, Slack, web apps. A lot of “processing” and “editing,” etc. It feels very, very good. And productive.

I need to find more time – especially during working hours – to do. exactly. this. So do we all!

Here’s something else: Don’t you just love epiphanies? Especially the kind about that thing you did that was oh so successful, and now you realize that it wasn’t. Or that it would have been, could have been, so much better if you hadn’t had your head up your arse?

Yeah, it’s #LibraryDay, and I just had yet another one of those!!!

I think that means, among other things, that I’m still here and, hopefully, still learning…

#ILoveEpiphanies!
#BringItOn
#KeepOnPushing (that’s for John Gaines!)
#ideasfor2019!

On this day six years ago, I dropped in on my former bandmates. I had played with them almost every Saturday morning for twenty years before moving to Tacoma. They were playing Cannonball Adderley’s “Exodus.” Nice tune, and hard!

Listening to them wrestle with Exodus helped me realize that I can play hard tunes even when I think I can’t. We can do more than we think we’re capable of.

That’s a lesson I learned again in 2020!

#JazzChurch 40 - Sunday, January 31, 2021

#jazzchurch 40 – Sunday, January 31, 2021 – featured music by the SFJAZZ Collective, Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Charles Lloyd, Earth, Wind & Fire, and John Abercrombie, among others:

  1. ETA (Lee Pardini)
  2. Your Turn (Live) (SFJAZZ Collective)
  3. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Archie Shepp & Jason Moran)
  4. Go Down Moses (Charles Lloyd Quartet)
  5. Human (Shai Maestro, Philip Dizack, Jorge Roeder & Ofri Nehemya)
  6. Hymn to Freedom (feat. Ed Thigpen & Steve Wallace) (Oliver Jones)
  7. In the Kitchen (Cedar Walton, Christian McBride, Javon Jackson & Jimmy Cobb)
  8. Dindi (Harvey Mason, Brad Mehldau & Larry Grenadier)
  9. Overjoyed (Danilo Perez)
  10. Modus Operandy (Michael Brecker Quindectet)
  11. Pepe Linque (feat. Glen Rich Moore) (Oregon)
  12. A Little Sweeter (Rodney Kendrick)
  13. Clear Cut Boogie (Sonny Rollins)
  14. When It Was Now (Weather Report)
  15. Fortress Around Your Heart (Sting)
  16. Fantasy (Earth, Wind & Fire)
  17. Brazilian Rhyme (Interlude) (Earth, Wind & Fire)
  18. Brazilian Rhyme (Interlude) (Earth, Wind & Fire) Yes, played twice!!!
  19. Brazilian Rhyme (aka Ponta de Areia) (Earth, Wind & Fire)
  20. Ponta De Areia (Wayne Shorter)
  21. I Didn’t Know What Time it Was (Buster Williams)
  22. Still (John Abercrombie)
  23. Languta (Hugh Masekela)
  24. Ralph’s Piano Waltz (John Abercrombie)
  25. East of the Sun (West of the Sun) (Joshua Redman)
  26. Sisyphe (Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret & Julian Sartorius)
  27. Nachiketa’s Lament (Charles Lloyd)

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bbebop · #JazzChurch 40 - Sunday, January 31, 2021
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There’s beauty all around us!

What have you noticed?

I apparently thought this was funny five years ago…

I had some time before my bass lesson yesterday (teacher talked me out of throwing in the towel!) and went to Starbucks. I was sitting next to a couple of ladies who were having a meeting about upcoming children’s dance recitals. My ears perked up when they started talking about Donald Trump. They seemed to think he’s a breath of fresh air, but one of them also said if he’s elected she’s moving to Canada.

Me? Staying in the great PNW to avoid the zika virus (in case I get pregnant). Spending more time in the shed (trying to prove my bass teacher right). Praying for a little sanity (and more good wine).

The country is more divided than any time since the civil war and I don’t see anything on the horizon that’ll bring us together. Maybe a truly bad president to go along with our truly bad congress. Maybe that’ll motivate millennials to take control of their country?

ymmv…

etc., etc., blah. blah. blah., inter alia.

“When you say something unkind, when you do something in retaliation, your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and they try hard to say or do something back to make you suffer, and get relief from their suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within

aka, collusion…

“If ifs and buts were candycanes and nuts, we’d all have a hard rock candy Christmas.” – Said Who

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1700 Vaccinations Today

I received my first dose of COVID-19 vaccine this morning, courtesy of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, their friendly staff, and their well-organized queueing operation. I’m feeling fortunate and also recognizing this is a challenging logistical problem to solve.

Notes:

  • I learned about today’s free drive-in vaccination event from Tacoma Pierce County Health Department‘s (TPCHD) informative Daily COVID-19 email (subscription link near the bottom of the page). The available appointments disappeared quickly.
  • I was able to schedule an appointment and TPCHD confirmed my date and time via email.
  • After I was vaccinated today, TPCHD let me know that they would contact me again by email to schedule my second shot in four weeks.
  • Up-to-date COVID-19 info is available on the TPCHD website.

This Morning, 1/26/2021. Sometimes The Mountain is not the main story! :-)

10/27/2018. Sometimes The Mountain is not the main story! :-)

“It’s easier to get people to do what you want them to do if you don’t care whether they do what you want them to do.”

– Zen Master Bill E. Bob

What's the Meaning of Soul?

I’ve watched Soul two times all the way through and have skipped through another three or four times looking for clues. I’m always seeing something I didn’t see before and also coming away with questions. I think it’s a deep, deep movie!

I’m still struggling with the difference between purpose and spark. What did that seed mean? What IS soul??? And… And also… And?

Rewatching Soul is like analyzing a poem. Last night this bit registered for the first time:

Joe: By the way, why do you sound like a middle-aged white lady?
22: I don’t. This is all an illusion.
Joe: Huh?
22: This whole place is a hypothetical._

A hypothetical??? That’s deep! Is Joe (or his soul) really zipping around the universe, or is he just having a conversation with himself?

#JazzChurch 39 - Sunday, January 24, 2021

#jazzchurch 39 – Sunday, January 24, 2021 – featured music by Miles Davis, Bobby Hutcherson, Branford Marsalis, Return to Forever, Indra Rios-Moore, Johnny Nash, and Gil Scott-Heron, among others shown below:

  1. Minority (Dezron Douglas)
  2. Nefertiti (Miles Davis)
  3. Take The Coltrane (Duke Ellington & John Coltrane)
  4. A Night In Barcelona (Bobby Hutcherson)
  5. Doctone (Branford Marsalis Quartet)
  6. Procession (Bobby Hutcherson)
  7. Sorceress (Return To Forever)
  8. Trieste (Branford Marsalis Quartet)
  9. Cherokee (Kamasi Washington)
  10. All Matter (Robert Glasper Experiment)
  11. Poem For # 15 (Steve Kuhn / Steve Swallow)
  12. Heroes (Indra Rios-Moore)
  13. To a New Day (Sinne Eeg & The Danish Radio Big Band)
  14. Lady Day and John Coltrane (Gil Scott-Heron)
  15. New York Minute (Herbie Hancock)
  16. New View (Albert Rivera)
  17. The Man With the Horn (Miles Davis)
  18. 1-2-3 (Len Barry)
  19. I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Nash)
  20. Eternal (Indra Rios-Moore)
  21. Eternal (Branford Marsalis)
  22. A Minor Blues (Lee Konitz)
  23. Minor Blues (Kenny Barron Trio)

Livestream Replay

bbebop · #JazzChurch 39 - Sunday, January 24, 2021
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“When you say something unkind, when you do something in retaliation, your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and they try hard to say or do something back to make you suffer, and get relief from their suffering. That is how conflict escalates.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within

aka, #collusion #ideasfor2020