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Comment on Teaneck, NJ – Sat 03/31/12 by Karen Bartholomew

Karen Bartholomew — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:19:52 +0000

Hey, Roberta! I’m putting this on my calendar, ’cause I live in Teaneck! Hopefully, we won’t get a gig for that date.

You might see if either Bill Moring or Martin Wind is available to play bass. They both live here, too.

Best, Karen

Comment on Free sheet music downloads by Roberta

Roberta — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:15:33 +0000

Thanks Edward. I appreciate your message and will keep you posted.

Comment on Free sheet music downloads by Edward Mead

Edward Mead — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:34:05 +0000

I just finished listening to your very insightful interview with Richton Thomas on WHPK here in Chicago. I was much pleased with what I heard and learned. While listening to the interview, I’m sitting here at the computer, and I immediately went online to learn more about you and your music. I’m having a good time gaining some additional insights regarding your career. I’m a self proclaimed jazz video archivist. I’m a frustrated musician who has traded in his ax (alto) for a video camera and my aim is to capture for history sake as much jazz as I possibly can focus my lens upon.

I generally make my videos available to the musicians that I video tape at no charge, and I don’t post my work on the internet. I leave that for the musician to do themselves. That way I gain their trust for future video sessions.

I’ll end this email now and say the I will be purchasing some of your music which sounds interesting from what I’ve heard Rich play during your interview.

Take care, keep playing and know that I’m yours in jazz fellowship’

Edward Mead
Totally Positive Television
Chicago, Illinois

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Comment on Geeky and Grumpy by maggiemac

maggiemac — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:07:48 +0000

(Although your post is old, I just found your blog . . . . ) Yes, a constant assault on the senses is one of the things that bugs me about living in NYC, one reason I have been abroad for the last few years. Yet the great stuff about NYC, including jazz, requires fine-tuning the senses, and this on the part of a mere nonmusician/participant. I miss the NYC music scene; alp horns and birdsong aren’t quite enough.

Visual assaults hurt, too, like the chewing-gum blogs on the sidewalks. (I walk a lot when I’m in NY, and you do have to look down in order to keep from stumbling in all the sidewalk cracks.) No geek here, just obsessive, and older, and yes, grumpy. Your reports from your 2009 Europe tour don’t sound grump at all, but, rather, joyful.

Comment on Why the Republicans Do Not Want to Invest in Education by Roberta

Roberta — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:14:58 +0000

It’s true that there are stupid Republicans and stupid Democrats. But that wasn’t really my point. My point is that keeping people ignorant allows for a greater concentration of power among the rich and educated classes.

“Atrocious grammer” saddens me (it’s “whose grammar”, not “who’s grammar” by the way); but lack of ability to apply rational thought to one’s decision-making process, and a child-like understanding of the world, as evidenced in this video, can be truly dangerous. Witness our 43rd president.

As for rich people providing jobs in this country: as a small business owner, I know first-hand that people hire when they need workers, and they fire when they don’t. If you give someone a tax break, they are not going to hire a worker they don’t need with that money. Trickle-down economics was discredited by his own budget director before Reagan even implemented it.

Not sure what the point of your last question is. I think a lot of rich people (but no big lobbyists or big corporations) donated to Obama. A lot of rich people (and big oil lobbyists and corporations) donated to McCain as well. I don’t have a problem with rich people making individual political donations.

Comment on Why the Republicans Do Not Want to Invest in Education by jmartin

jmartin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:59 +0000

You mean these drunk people? They were most likely educated in the public school system. You know that system that our government has pumped billions of dollars into.

These people don’t have an education problem but a morality problem. I can also come up with videos that make democrats look stupid such as the one that shows a black public school teacher from NC, who’s grammar is atrocious, browbeatings a white student because her father, who serves in the armed forces, is voting for McCain.

Both democrats and republicans, men and women, blacks and whites, are to be blamed for the current mess in our country. I am all for a candidate who will rule according to the constitution and shrink our government back down whether they are republican or democrat.

BTW – there is nothing wrong giving tax breaks to the rich. Whether you like or not, it is the rich that provides jobs in this country. How many rich people donated to Obama?

Comment on Republican Debates: I can’t stand to watch by kitzie

kitzie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:59:27 +0000

I certainly agree with your point on the sad state of the Republican Party, of which I was once a member. They lost me when they sold out to the religious right. The path of least resistance for any politician is to pander to monolithic voting blocs instead of addressing the real issues of policy.

Comment on Barack, Hillary and the War in Iraq by kitzie

kitzie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:36:42 +0000

Totally off topic, sorry, but I just heard you for the first time this am on Jim Wilke’s NPR radio show. I am an immediate adoring fan. Your take of “Alone Alone” is simply wonderful. Thank you.