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11 Sep Robert Cray on Being a Blues Legend: “At the End of the Day, You Have to Play Tomorrow”
Blues legend Robert Cray will be performing at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival on Friday at 5:50 PM. Here’s a recent interview with Robert that appeared in the DC9, Dallas Observer Blog: Prior to 1986, Robert Cray was just another talented blues guitarist wondering...
10 Sep Bombino: Emissary for the Music of the Tuareg People
As a local DJ on KOTO-fm I play the latest in contemporary jazz and world music. One of the CD’s that been on my playlist for the past several month’s is Bombino’s “Nomad.” It has a fresh sound and an energy that is truly special. Even...
28 Aug ALACAZEM 2014.08.28
August 28 to September 4, 2014 Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Jupiter Evening: Mercury, Mars, Saturn Last Tuesday I drove to Telluride with 10 pounds of ripe organic heirloom tomatoes for Marta, the stunning Icelandic diva who runs the Telluride Bistro – my favorite Italian restaurant...
22 Aug Pinhead: Summer Wrap Up
It was a busy summer for the Pinhead Institute. I now have a lovely insect collection (picture attached), courtesy of my 12-year-old son Wiley and his fabulous Pinhead Bug Camp counselor Chris Anderson, a former Pinhead intern who returned to teach classes for us this summer. But it’s not all about...
20 Aug Robin Williams, Connectedness, Mental Illness
He was Mork. He was a madcap. He was Robin McLaurin Williams, beloved American actor, comedian, film producer and screenwriter. And on August 11, 2014, he died of an apparent suicide by hanging in his home in Paradise Cay, California. Why? Why tens of thousands of...
17 Aug Between the Covers: Antonya Nelson at Arroyo 8/20
The lady has a thing for ghostly mining towns in idyllic Rocky Mountain settings. There is the one she bought piecemeal with her husband, a place with attitude (neighbors don’t speak to one another) and altitude (9,400 feet) that once upon a time produced lots...
25 Jul The Reign Of ‘Purple Rain’
30 years ago this weekend, Black music merged into the world of “Rock” thanks to the amazing talent and showmanship of Prince. Prince‘s semi-autobiographical film, Purple Rain, hit theaters 30 years ago this weekend. Many people went to see it multiple times, often clad in …...
23 Jul “The Girls in the Band”: Screening Benefits Resource Center
“It’s a cultural travesty that the women of early jazz…have become a neglected footnote in music history, but Judy Chaikin’s well-researched, buoyantly entertaining documentary portrait could be the corrective,” Aaron Hillis, The Village Voice Until August 26, 1920, women in this country did not even...