#John Anastasios

[laderniereseancedecedrique]

LES DENTS DE LA MER (1975)

Pendant l'été du 1er juillet 1974, sur l'île d'Amity, un groupe d'étudiants fait la fête sur la plage. Une jeune femme s'éloigne du groupe pour un bain de minuit alors que son flirt s'endort sur la plage, ivre. Après quelques brasses, la jeune femme est attaquée par une force mystérieuse, elle tente de résister mais est happée et disparaît dans l'eau en poussant des cris de terreur. Quelques secondes après, la mer retrouve son calme nocturne. Personne ne sait ce qui vient de se dérouler.

Le lendemain, à la suite de la déclaration de la disparition de la jeune femme, Martin Brody, nouveau chef de la police locale originaire de New York, découvre les restes de la victime. Il attribue aussitôt cette mort à une attaque de requin, mais sous la pression du conseil municipal et aussi en raison de son inexpérience sur cette île, il suit les recommandations du médecin légiste de l'île et conclut à une mort accidentelle (noyade et choc avec un bateau).

Quelques jours après, un enfant est happé à son tour par le requin, et cette fois les témoins sont nombreux à assister à la scène. Le doute n'est plus permis : un requin rôde le long des plages d'Amity.

Le conseil municipal est confronté à un choix douloureux. Il peut adopter des mesures de protection le temps de se débarrasser du requin, c'est-à-dire interdire la baignade. Mais ceci mettrait en péril l'activité touristique de l'île à quelques jours du 4 juillet, la fête nationale américaine.

De plus, la mère de l'enfant a passé une annonce dans les journaux locaux et promet 3 000 dollars à qui tuera le requin. Le conseil s'inquiète de la publicité négative sur la ville et également de l'arrivée en masse de pêcheurs plus ou moins qualifiés pour obtenir la récompense. Parallèlement, Quint, un pêcheur local, propose ses services au conseil municipal pour tuer le requin mais il exige 10 000 dollars.

Le chef Brody essaie de son côté d'en savoir plus sur les requins et fait appel à l'institut océanographique pour avoir les conseils d'un expert. Matt Hooper, l'expert, arrive sur l'île le 2 juillet. Dès son arrivée, il demande à examiner le corps de la première victime et démontre de manière irréfutable qu'il s'agit d'une attaque de requin. Peu après, le même jour, des pêcheurs tuent un requin-tigre. Le maire exulte mais Brody, sur les conseils de Hooper, émet des doutes sur la responsabilité de ce requin dans les attaques : la mâchoire qui a attaqué la première victime serait beaucoup plus grosse que celle du requin pêché. Le maire refuse de suivre les recommandations du chef de la police et pense avant tout à l'afflux de touristes pour le 4 juillet. Les plages seront surveillées, mais interdiction de les fermer, même après qu'une autopsie du requin prouve qu'il avait le ventre vide.

Le 4 juillet, alors que la police et les gardes-côte surveillent la mer, le requin parvient à déjouer la surveillance et attaque à nouveau. Le maire n'a plus le choix : il accepte la proposition de Brody et engage Quint pour tuer le requin. Bien qu'il soit aquaphobe, Brody est de la partie. Hooper se joint également à la chasse pour apporter son expertise sur les requins. Quint et Hooper ne s'apprécient guère pour commencer mais brisent la glace avec une beuverie en mer. Après plusieurs essais, les trois hommes tentent un ultime essai pour tuer le requin. Hooper descend dans une cage anti requin avec un poison dans son harpon pour le lui faire avaler. Mais le requin attaque et détruit la cage manquant de peu de dévorer Hooper qui se réfugie au fond. Le requin attaque à nouveau et tue Quint. Brody réussit à faire avaler une bouteille d’oxygène au requin et le tue en le faisant exploser en tirant sur la bouteille avec un fusil. Hooper remonte à la surface et retrouve Brody. Ils réussissent à atteindre le rivage durant le générique de fin.

[krispyweiss]

Song Review(s): Phil Lesh & Friends - “Deal,” “Jack Straw” and “Eyes of the World” -> “The Eleven” Live, March 18, 2023)

With Friends like these, Phil Lesh can breathe new life into old songs while maintaining ties to the past fans expect.

The four-song, livestream giveaway from Lesh & Friends’ March 18 show in New York featured adventurousness in instrumentation and arrangements and a passel of lead singers as the band stuck to the Grateful Dead’s pre-retirement repertoire.

The show-opening “Deal” was, indeed, dealing as Nicki Bluhm stretched her vocal cords to a rasp and violinist Katie Jacoby made herself known early and often across a powerhouse arrangement that planted the long-ago firmly in the here-and-now.

Son and father - guitarist Grahame and bassist Phil Lesh - sung the Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia lines, respectively, on “Jack Straw.” While Lesh the younger is not a particularly enthralling vocalist, it must run in the family, Dad was spirited, flexing muscle not heard in his baritone since the 1990s.

The band nearly fell apart coming out of the play for silver verse, making for a clumsy reading set to an aggressive presentation.

“Eyes of the World” was its typically glorious self, with the smooth James Casey at the mic. When he wasn’t singing, Casey wrapped his soprano sax around Jacoby’s violin in a warm aural embrace that further illuminated between-verse spotlights from the violinist, keyboardist John Medeski and guitarists Grahame Lesh and Rick Mitarontonda.

The rhythm section of Lesh the elder and drummer John Molo propelled “Eyes” seamlessly into “The Eleven.” And while the ensemble vocals were raggedy, the ensemble playing was the delightfully antithetical, giving the sonic illusion this particular band had played together for years rather than days.

Grade card: Phil Lesh & Friends - “Deal,” “Jack Straw” and “Eyes of the World” -> “The Eleven” (Live - 3/18/23) - A-B-/A/B

3/19/23

[reportwire]

Today in History: September 30, Berlin Airlift ends

Today in History: September 30, Berlin Airlift ends

Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 30, the 273rd day of 2022. There are 92 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 30, 1777, the Continental Congress — forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces — moved to York, Pennsylvania. On this date: In 1791, Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” premiered in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, after co-signing the Munich Agreement…

[ghoulorghost]

Neither Eli nor Serena have been given middle names, or at the very least, they haven't been mentioned in the books, so I took it upon myself to do some research. These are some of the names I've encountered and thought were plausible options.

Votes, in addition to any other thoughts, suggestions, or personal headcanons, are all appreciated.

My first selection for Eli was "Raphael", from the Hebrew name רָפָאֵל (Rafa'el) meaning "God heals", with the roots רָפָא (rafa') meaning "to heal" and אֵל ('el) meaning "God".

In Hebrew tradition, Raphael is the name of an archangel who makes an appearance in the Book of Tobit, an instance during which he disguises himself as a man named Azarias and both accompanies and aides Tobias on his journey to Media. He ends up curing Tobias's father, Tobit, of his blindness.

And while he isn't mentioned in the New Testament, tradition identifies him with the angel troubling the water in John 5:4.

My second pick was "Anastasius", the latinized form of the Greek name Ἀναστάσιος (Anastasios), which meant "resurrection"; from Greek ἀνάστασις (anastasis) (composed of the elements ἀνά (ana) meaning "up" and στάσις (stasis) meaning "standing"). This was a name borne by numerous early saints and martyrs.

My last choice was the name "Constantine", from the Latin name "Constantinus," a derivative of "Constans", a late Latin name meaning "constant, steadfast."

For Serena, I first chose the name "Medea", from Greek Μήδεια (Medeia), derived from μήδεα (medea), meaning "plans, counsel, cunning".

I also chose this particular one because of the letter it begins with, which matches the first letter of Sydney's middle name, Marion.

My other choices for her were the names: "Velia", from the Roman family name "Velius", which possibly means "concealed" in Latin; "Vieno", meaning "gentle" in Finnish, and "Vaida", a name possibly derived from Lithuanian "vaidytis / vaidentis", meaning "to appear; to ghost; to haunt".

I picked these three on account of Serena's similarities to Victor, whose first name starts with the letter "V," another aspect that would remind Eli of him.

[wildsaltair]

Due to the fact that I am a sunken wreckage of a human being for Russell Crowe, I'm working on collecting all the books related to his movies! Here's what l've discovered so far, but l'd love to know if y'all know of any others! :)

Books that were made into movies:

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)

L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy)

American Gangster (Steve Zaillian)

A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar)

Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)

A Good Year (Peter Mayle)

The Silver Brumby (Elyne Mitchell)

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Short Stories (Elmore Leonard)

Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin)

An Exorcist Tells His Story (Gabriele Amorth)

Body of Lies (David Ignatius)

Tenderness (Robert Cormier)

Hammers Over the Anvil (Alan Marshall)

Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (James Hadley Chase)

True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel)

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (John "Chick" Donohue and J.T. Molloy)

The Book of Mirrors (E.O. Chirovici)

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (Jack El-Hai)

Novelizations of movies:

Gladiator (Dewey Gram)

The Quick and the Dead (Jack Curtis)

Virtuosity (Terry Bisson)

Cinderella Man (Marc Cerasini)

The Next Three Days (Jennifer Krediet)

The Water Diviner (Andrew Anastasios and Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios)

The Nice Guys (Charles Ardai)

Proof of Life (David Robbins)

Noah (Mark Morris)

Man of Steel (Greg Cox)

[caesarsaladinn]

Byzantine emperors ranked by how I feel about them at 12:30 am this Sunday morning

Constantine VII. a nerd, but the kind of nerd who cared a lot about pageantry and doing things right. left us manuals of court practice that are simply incredible sources

Nikephoros I. live fast, die young, get your skull turned into a tankard by the Khan

Staurakios. the guy got stabbed, was paralyzed and pissing blood, and decided that he could totally hold onto the throne. (he could not.)

John Tzimiskes. a charming little man with his little red boots and his cheerful demeanor and his willingness to assassinate an emperor and comrade because he felt like it

Anastasios. nerd. the only emperor I can think of to leave a budget surplus. underrated.

Basil I. peasant who charmed and fucked his way to the emperor’s bedshamber and murdered him

Nikephoros II. crotchety old ascetic. I just like the guy.

Basiliscus. in the late 400s, the Byzantines spent their entire treasury on a fleet to recapture the lost western empire. nepotism got Basiliscus chosen to lead this fleet, and he bungled it so badly that it was more or less destroyed within a week of coming into port. despite this, he deposed the emperor and held the job for a while!

Constantine VIII. a historian described taking baths as his “special hobby,” so that’s the intellectual caliber we’re dealing with here, and could only muster the praise to say “well he wasn’t *as* bad as I had expected”

Heraclius. great general, badass, hero, lost a huge battle and wasted decades’ worth of excruciating progress on the Eastern front, but it wasn’t really his fault. his real mistake was marrying his cousin.

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Trey Anastasio, Basia, BBC Radio 1 (1967), Monica Bellucci, singer-songwriter Derek Buckwalter, Jill Corey, Marion Cotillard, Angie Dickinson, The Flintstones (1960 A.D.), Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair, Miki Howard, Cissy Houston, Deborah Kerr, music aficionado Robert Lapolt, Héctor Lavoe, John Lombardo (10,000 Maniacs—good to have met you), Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons), Félix Luna, Frankie Lyman, Dewey Martin (Buffalo Springfield), Johnny Mathis, Marilyn McCoo, David Oistrakh, vocalist Tim Oliver, Sylvia Peterson (Chiffons), the 1935 premiere of Gershwin’s PORGY & BESS, Buddy Rich, Bill Rieflin (King Crimson), Rumi, Shaan, Marty Stuart (good to have met you), The Supremes’s 1968 “Love Child” single, Robby Takac (Goo Goo Dolls), Biggie Tembo, Elie Wiesel, Jack Wild, Barry Williams, Frank Zincavage (Romeo Void), and the iconic singer-songwriter, poet, and auteur of glam rock, Marc Bolan. He was the face of T. Rex, and his songwriting was an artful, impulsive mash of campy kitsch and cosmic medievalism, glitter, and psychedelia. Davy Jones (Monkees) was a big fan, and he and I went through a phase of studying Bolan’s music. Here’s Davy doing a cover of Bolan’s “Jeepster.” Marc left us too soon, but we thank you for the hours of joy you gave to us.

#DavyJones #TheMonkees #MarcBolan #TRex #Glamrock #Britishrock #Jeepster#johnnyjblair #birthday #glitterrock #glitter

[orthodoxadventure]

Father Anthony Coniaris writes that in the Book of Genesis (12:2) God blesses Abraham so that he, in turn, will be a blessing to the world. "We are blessed in order to bless others. We are forgiven in order to forgive. We are saved to help others find salvation. Christ came to serve in order to teach us to serve others. Christ confesses us before His father in heaven as His very own so that we will confess Him before the world. We are His people. He is in us and we are in Him. The Liturgy continues after we leave the Church. We return to the world as 'other Christs' and the Liturgy we experienced in Church continues when we make real His love through our acts of mercy in the world."

The Lord Jesus is very clear about our mission as believers: we are to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit those who are sick and welcome strangers, always recognizing that in our care for others we are caring for Him (Matthew 25:31-46). In, in fact, we are not doing these things we are explicitly told in the Scriptures that our faith "is dead" (James 2:17).

Connecting worship and serving the poor, St. John Chrysostom said: "Do you wish to honor the Body of Christ? Do not ignore Him when He is naked. Do not pay Him homage in the Liturgy, only then to neglect him outside where He is cold and ill-clad. He who said: "This is my body" is the same person who said: "You saw me hungry and you gave me no food," and "whatever you did to the least of my brothers you did also to me..." What good is it if the Eucharistic altar is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger outside. Satisfy the hunger of your brother and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well."

Archbishop Anastasios (Yiannoulatos) of Albania has written: "The Liturgy must be continued in the personal situations of everyday life. Each of us is called to continue a personal Liturgy on the secret altar of his or her own heart, to become a living proclamation of the Good News for the sake of the world. Without this continuation, the Liturgy remains unfinished. In the Eucharist, because we incorporated into Him who came to serve the world and be sacrificed for it, we have to express concretely, in community life, our new being in Christ, the Servant of all. The sacrifice of the Eucharist must be extended in personal sacrificies for those people who are in need, our brothers and sisters for whom Christ also died."

[Source of text: The Divine Liturgy of our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom (with Commentary and Notes)]

[theghostpinesmusic]

I'm back to wrap up this 6/5 doubleheader!

Yesterday I wrote a bit about the 6/5 in general and a lot about the "Thatch" in particular, but now I'm going to focus on what is arguably the centerpiece of the show, a great version of Goose's "Red Bird" paired with one of my favorite covers of theirs: the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows." Though any version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" that's longer than four or so minutes is, I guess, technically "jammed out," this is the first version the band has played in my memory that really gets out there. It may have even replaced my previous favorite version, which the band played at Radio City Music Hall with both Trey Anastasio and Father John Misty sitting in. That one wasn't really jammed at all, but, I mean, come on.

Anyway, I wrote about the "Red Bird" from the '24 Cap run previously, so I'm just going to jump right into the music this time.

I love any and all versions of "Red Bird," but especially ones where I listen on my fancy studio monitor headphones and hear Trevor clearly in the mix!

The jam starts here at 5:05, right after another iteration of the layered-vocals outro. As is pretty typical, it starts with Rick soloing over the outro's chords, reprising the song's vocal melody here and there. Then he smashes a chord at 6:45 that feels like a signal to the rest of the band to Get Weird.

I hear Trevor out front here initially, with Peter coming in pretty quickly with a repeating motif on the piano. This initially feels like a very Ted Tapes 2024-ish space, the kind that the band has been so good about exploring patiently and to great effect so far in 2024.

There's some really solid interplay between all three of the melody players in the band starting around the 8:00 mark.

Rick's playing starts to dominate the mix a bit more starting at 9:30 or so, but the jam continues to feel collaborative rather than "solo"-focused. Trevor's tone here sounds reverb-y as all hell, almost to the point where it seems like you're feeling it instead of hearing it (though, technically speaking, I suppose you're doing both).

By the 12:00 mark, Rick has fully taken the lead, though Cotter has moved from more or less holding down the beat to flying all over the kit, which makes this jam feel even more dynamic.

While I'm listening: the lights are on point for this jam as well. They aren't as integral to a Goose performance for me as they might be for, say, Phish, but when they're on, they're on.

Anyway, the initial jam space finally gets built up a boil around 14:00, leading to a big guitar peak at 14:15 and from there we're in bread-and-butter Goose territory, albeit with Trevor still ripping away in the back of my headphones.

At 15:20, Rick introduces a bit of chaos to the proceedings and the rest of the band follows along. I said something similar in my "Thatch" write-up from yesterday, but this is the kind of move that the band has historically used to (you guessed it) build a lot of tension over thirty seconds or a minute so that they can then return to balls-out rocking with another peak. I don't not like that, but it can sometimes feel a bit repetitive when they fall back on it, say, five or six times in one show. In my listening so far in 2024, one thing that feels like a positive change is their willingness to let these spaces breathe more, rather than just using them as transitions or shortcuts to another guitar peak.

In this particular case, I was fully expecting them to drop back into rock-and-roll mode around 15:45, but instead, Rick takes a left turn and the band slows and quiets down into a really great, mellow space. Cotter is fantastic here as they're easing into it. Also, Rick's tone at 16:50 is pretty amazing. Peter's chording and Trevor's bass bombs are just the icing on the cake.

I'm obviously just projecting here based on my experience listening to the band since I don't actually know the guy, but I also feel like the band's new willingness to hang out longer in and explore these mellow spaces has made Rick better at playing sparsely but melodically. Clearly, the guy can fucking shred and I've also always though he's great at playing rhythm and/or adding touches when Peter or Trevor is leading a jam. But sometimes when things get slower and/or quieter and he's driving, it can feel like he's not quite sure what to do, like he gets kind of uncomfortable and then suddenly we're back to shredding to get out of the situation.

I bring that up, though, because his playing here is gorgeous and I kinda want to just hang out in these few minutes of this jam for a few hours. It feels a lot like Trey's playing on some of my favorite late 90s and early 00s jams, but not in a derivative way, just an evocative one.

Sadly, the band doesn't hang out in this space for an hour, but only for a few minutes: by the 20:00 mark, Cotter's added some swing to the beat and the energy starts building again.

I do appreciate that Rick continues his minimalist playing until around 21:30, when it feels like everyone sort of collective hits a new groove. Trevor really starts crushing it here for a bit, too.

Cotter starts to speed things up more at 22:40, and there is (I think?) a key change to get the band into the right key for "Tomorrow Never Knows." The drawn-out transition here is pretty fantastic, though. When I watched this show initially, I thought that the band had just discovered a new, awesome gear here. In reality, of course, they're "just" intentionally moving into a second, composed song. But it happens to be one of my personal favorites, so I'm okay with that.

"Tomorrow Never Knows" starts properly at 24:30, after a great, slow transition. Cotter's drumming here even during the composed part of the song is unhinged, and Rick's octave-shifted solo(s) ain't bad either.

The band moves from the song to the jam at 27:05, but like with "Red Bird," we get a bit of an outro solo initially before we drop into the meat of the improvisation at 28:45. We get a brief space here where Rick and Peter's melodies are overlapping and intertwining with on another in a really cool way, and then somehow at 29:28, Rick and Cotter both change tacks at exactly the same time into something that can only be described as...space blues?! Quickly on the heels of this change, Peter starts laying down a piano riff that sounds a lot like (but isn't quite) the "Welcome To Delta" riff. By 30:35, it has fully become a "Welcome To Delta" jam. This transition sends the entire band to Groove City for awhile, and it is a fun trip.

Once again, lights is crazy.

Okay, apparently when I wrote "for awhile," what I meant was "for the rest of the entire jam." Whew!

Well...technically not the entire jam: Cotter gets a neat little spotlight/almost-solo near the end, starting at about 37:30, then the rest of the band piles back on for a big finish.

Lots of different facets of the bird band in this one!

My basement is completely destroyed right now thanks to some emergency repairs/renovations, but I'm hoping to be able to keep watching at least a few shows while the work is happening, so I'll keep the videos coming.

Up next is "Jive Lee" (newly a pretty monstrous jam vehicle, believe it or not!) from Fiddler's Green on 6/7! It's a fun one!

[don-lichterman]

A Night of Musical Magic is Relived tonight on Live Nuggets! Goose with Trea

[dreamings-free]

Las Vegas Review-Journal | September 22, 2023 Updated September 25, 2023

By John Katsilometes

The music universe seems to be visiting Vegas this weekend. But a performer not in town is creating buzz around the amps.

Harry Styles is in the center of reports from informed individuals he will be the next Sphere headliner announced. This is not formally confirmed, but word is Styles would launch his series in March.

Styles and Phish have been name-dropped consistently among those familiar with The Sphere’s booking plans. Trey Anastasio’s band was held up as a top contender for New Year’s Eve. Not anymore. Phish has announced four NYE dates at Madison Square Garden to close the calendar.

Combining yet-to-be-formalized plans, look for Phish at The Sphere in April, after Styles.

Styles has also been held up as a performer for the Super Bowl halftime show at Allegiant Stadium in February. Such an appearance would serve as a wonderful way to announce a show in Vegas. But those who know Styles’ plans say he is not planning on performing at the Super Bowl.

But Styles is an apt fit for The Sphere. It’s far easier to list the reasons why he’d play the glorious globe than not. In 2022, Styles sold out a 15-show residency at Madison Square Garden. He’s a hitmaker, with “Harry’s House” winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

The first single from that album, “As It Was.” was the No. 1 song internationally by Billboard calculations.

Also, Styles’ sequined bodysuits and boas delight all variety of fan.

And Styles is managed by Irving Azoff’s Full Stop Management entertainment agency. Azoff, who runs the company with his son Jeffrey, is entertainment industry royalty. Azoff the elder is reportedly involved in booking The Sphere as a consultant with venue partner Madison Square Garden Entertainment.

Another of Azoff’s clients: U2. At The Sphere, everything comes full circle.

[krispyweiss]

At 82, Phil Lesh is Still Searching for the Sound; Livestream Finds Former Grateful Dead Taking Music Furthur

On the cusp of his 83rd birthday, Phil Lesh is still searching for the sound and taking the music furthur.

Over the course of five songs - nearly an hour of music given away from Phil Lesh & Friends’ Feb. 4 gig/livestream from Colorado - the former Grateful Dead bassist mixed it up while still remaining faithful to his roots.

In faithfulness vein, Lesh and the band performed a funky, chunky, guitar- and “Space”-laden “Viola Lee Blues.” The Dead abandoned this jug-era track early but virtually every post-Grateful iteration has played it and most - like this all-voices-on-mic monster - work really well.

“I Know You Rider” was similarly harmonious with the bulk of the vocals bolstered by the Trey Anastasio Band horns/singers - Jennifer Hartswick, James Casey and Natalie Cressman - and separated from its usual companion, one “China Cat Sunflower.”

In 2023, Lesh plays “Ripple” electric and nearly twice as fast as in days of yore. He sings it with support from the TAB voices and the result is different but successful.

The sprightliness remains as Rick Mitarotonda takes over for “Ship of Fools” and returns to the original lyric referencing 30 years upon my head.

“Jack Straw” is more trad, rendered in the languid, pre-retirement tempo with everyone singing save for when Grahame and Phil Lesh go solo on Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia’s vocals, respectively. But then … the aural river begins to rush, the TAB three kiss their brass and the number smokes its way to its ending, revealing more restlessness on the bassist’s part.

2/5/23

[theloniousbach]

LATE NIGHTS IN LATE AUGUST AT SMALL’S/MEZZROW’S

WILLERM DELLISFORT SEXTET (including Tahira Clayton, Dakari Barclay, Joseph Miller, Dezron Douglas, and John Davis), SMALL’S, 23 AUGUST 2023, 10:30 pm

JEREMY MANASIA with Ugonna Okegwa and Aaron Seeber, MEZZROW’S, 26 AUGUST 2023, 10:30 pm set

Of course streaming from the Small’s Live Archive makes these late nights quite convenient for an old Midwesterner. Still that these were part of the late night reflects slightly that I am reaching beyond my well worn patterns. I have seen both pianists but perhaps only once. What I recall from WILLERM DELLISFORT was a capable trio set very likely with Dezron Douglas who was also a mainstay of this gig with a much bigger band. JEREMY MANASIA was almost certainly a trio and, given his loyalty, Ugonna Okegwa. So throw in bass players to build on and these were good chance to relax into sets.

The WILLERM DELLISFORT set was very much a band effort and, though he got fine enough solos, they made less of an impression was the ebullient band and the appealing material. It was Dellisfort the band leader and composer who was on display. And what was on display was catchy, smart music that started at soul jazz and moved even more toward the Black popular music that shaped my listening in the 1970s—Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, and, though I don’t know him, probably Prince.

Douglas was a rock but, still on acoustic, maybe we got a bit of what he brings to the Trey Anastasio Band. John Davis’ drums were dynamic and complex but always driving. Dakari Barclay and Joseph Miller played the charts well and soloed with taste, melody, and drive. They too were jazzers through and through but their tones were comfortable and midrange. Tahira Clayton’s vocals were given to forceful protest lyrics and though she became a third horn in her improvisations, her singing qua singing lacked jazz affectations (a plus in my book). It was all far from my usual fare, but very welcome both in the moment and in my expanded listening mode.

JEREMY MANASIA was more my usual fare, a piano trio mining the Great American Songbook and jazz compositions. But it was fresh and appealing. There were some deeper cuts, Cole Porter’s Dream Dancing and Kenny Dorham’s Escapade, to go with Bud Powell’s Hallucinations as a telling opener and a wonderfully moody You Don’t Know What Love Is. The closer might have been a Powell tune too, almost familiar but certainly irrepressible and brisk. I sense that Powell is an influence for its bristling intelligence. Manasia doesn’t apply technique for its own sake though he has it to be sure. He’s a professional through and through, not a big name and maybe more likely to play late. But one learns about the music from such professionals and it pays to listen to them. So I am as I ramp up may watching/listening/writing.

[ropeadope]

New music | Cyro Baptista!

We are thrilled to welcome renowned percussionist and Composer Cyro Baptista to the Ropeadope community. His vast talent and penchant for innovation have ganred respect as one of the top musicians on the planet.

Chama by Cyro Baptista

Cyro’s credits read like a "Who’s Who" of modern music. His talent and versatility have led to associations with a wide range of leading jazz, rock, pop, classical, avant-garde and Brazilian artists. From Paul Simon to Yo-Yo-Ma, Herbie Hancock to Kathleen Battle, Trey Anastasio (Phish) to John Zorn, Wynton Marsalis to Laurie Anderson, from the legendary Brazilians Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso to Sting –  they all wanted Cyro’s magic touch on their recordings or live performances.

Baptista leads four different ensembles and tours continuously, most recently with the Trey Anastasio Band. He conducts master classes at major musical institutions, such as Juilliard School, Creative Music Studio, Berklee College of Music, NYU, The New School, and more. He clearly has a great interest in education, sharing his knowledge and experiences to underserved factions of society through his “Sound of Community” initiative.

Cyro Baptista brings us Chama on May 5: a non-stop journey of both dedication to key influences (including The Earth) and of collaboration. Guests include Todd Clouser and Laurie Anderson, with key players Brian Marsella, Gil Oliveira, Felipe Hostings, Aaron Cruz, Jamie Saft, Sergio Brandão and more.

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Holidays 1.22

Holidays

Answer Your Cat's Questions Day

Apple Macintosh Day

Bóndadagur (Man’s Day; Iceland) [1st of Þorri]

Celebration of Life Day

Come in From the Cold Day

Dance of the Seven Veils Day

Day of Unity and Liberty (Ukraine)

Dia de la Fundación del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (Multicultural State Day; Bolivia)

Grandfather’s Day (Dzień Dziadka; Poland)

Lord Byron Day

National Law Enforcement Spouse Appreciation Day

New Year's Day  [Lunar Calendar] (a.k.a. …

Bituun (Mongolia)

Chinese New Year [2023: Year of the Rabbit]

Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Yin Black Water Rabbit

Losar/Loshar (India, Nepal)

Lunar New Year’s Day (Hong Kong)

Novo Ano Lunar (Macau)

Seol-Nal (South Korea)

Sonam Lhosar (Tamang New Year)

Sonam Lochhar (Sikkam, India)

Spring Festival (China)

Tahun Baru Imlek (Indonesia)

Tamang New Year (Nepal)

Tet Nguyen Dan (Vietnam)

Tsagaan Sar (Mongolia) [2023: Year of the Rabbit]

Our Town Day

Polka Dot Day

Public Holiday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines)

Reunion Day (Ukraine)

Roe vs. Wade Day

Talk to Your Cat Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Blonde Brownie Day

National Hot Sauce Day [also 11.5]

National Southern Food Day

4th Sunday in January

Child Labor Day [4th Sunday]

Clean Out Your Email Inbox Week begins [Sunday of Last Full Week]

Dinagyang (Philippines) [4th Sunday]

Homeless Sunday (UK) [4th Sunday]

National Bible Sunday [4th Sunday]

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday [Sunday closest to 22nd]

Independence Days

Ukraine (Unification; 1919)

Feast Days

Abraham (Positivist; Saint)

Anastasius of Persia (Christian; Saint)

Basil Wolverton (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Erotic Festival Day

Festival of Invoking and Banishing

Festival of the Orgone

Gaudentius of Novara (Christian; Saint)

László Batthyány-Strattmann (Christian; Saint)

Laugh at Life Day (Pastafarian)

Laura Vicuna (Christian; Saint)

Quantum Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Vincent Pallotti (Christian; Saint)

Vincent of Saragossa (Christian; Saint)

Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (Christian; Saints)

William Joseph Chaminade (Christian; Blessed)

Xomfey and Melg (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

All’s Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1742)

Broad City (TV Series; 2014)

Chappelle’s Show (TV Series; 2003)

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller (Play; 1953)

D.E.B.S. (Film; 2004)

Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, by Elton John (Album; 1973)

Five Corners (Film; 1988)

Get Low (Film; 2010)

Lady Soul, by Aretha Franklin (Album; 1968)

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (Film; 1964)

Neil Young, by Neil Young (Album; 1969)

On Broadway, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1963)

Ophelia (Film; 2018)

Peggy Sue Got Married, recorded by Buddy Holly (Song; 1959)

Shoot the Moon (Film; 1982)

The Soul Cages, by Sting (Album; 1991)

Sugar Blues, by Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra (Song; 1931)

Tooth Fairy (Film; 2010)

The Virgin Queen (TV Mini-Series; 2006)

We Are Family, by Sister Sledge (Album; 1979)

Wouldn’t It Be Nice, recorded by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Vinzenz (Austria)

Anastazije, Irena, Vice, Vinko (Croatia)

Slavomír (Czech Republic)

Vincentius (Denmark)

Luule, Luuli (Estonia)

Visa (Finland)

Vincent (France)

Dietlinde, Jana, Vinzenz (Germany)

Anastasios, Timotheos (Greece)

Artúr, Vince (Hungary)

Domenico, Esmeralda, Linda, Smeralda, Teodolinda, Vincenzo, Vinzenz (Italy)

Austris, Meinhards, Vincents (Latvia)

Anastazas, Aušrius, Skaistė, Vincentas (Lithuania)

Ivan, Vanja (Norway)

Anastazy, Dobromysł, Gaudencjusz, Gaudenty, Marta, Wincenty (Poland)

Anastasie, Timotei (Romania)

Zora (Slovakia)

Vicente (Spain)

Viktor, Vincent (Sweden)

Tin, Timothy (Ukraine)

Enoch, Piper, Vicenta, Vicente, Vince, Vincent, Vincentia, Vincenzo, Vinnie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 22 of 2023; 343 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 3 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 1 (Geng-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 29 Teveth 5783

Islamic: 29 Jumada II 1444

J Cal: 22 Aer; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 9 January 2023

Moon: 1.5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 22 Moses (1st Month) [Abraham]

Runic Half Month: Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 33 of 90)

Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 2 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Luis (Rowan) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 1 of 13]

陬月 [Zōuyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 1 of 12] (Square of Pegasus Month)