Thursday, October 31, 2002|
Radio Show Production Highest Highs And Lowest Valleys I experienced them all with tonight's show. And I will not experience them in that same way again. As Tomasz said this evening, each thing is an accident and the main thing is what the reaction is. Where do you go next. Where do I go next. The DAT tape recorder in the Jazz 88 booth was getting the whole show tonight, to share with an old friend and to save for posterity. I had put in at least some amount of prep time during the week with interesting news stories, even writing one with an actual thought for reading it (and others)...writing my own show copy ahead of time. Forethought. And then a last night notification of the Tomasz Stanko interview. And a growing excitement through the day today as I read more and thought more and prepared more about how to learn more about someone from so far away and to ask questions that others might want to know the answers to. And Tomasz talked about a life improvised, 'reacting to accidents'. Immediately embracing avant-garde jazz as the most logical way to quickly develop his own voice, not one of the past. Seeing his legacy in Jazz as one embracing and celebrating this never before experience, Jazz as a music of no international boundaries, communicated to all places equally, as democratic as this never before age in human-kind's existence. Jazz as an ultimate expression of Demoncracy. What an interview. And it's now but a memory. And unless someone outside of Jazz 88 recorded it, it will never be heard again. The DAT tape was recording my microphone and the CDs well, but did not pick up anything said over the phone. Can you imagine my disappointment in post-show production, something I'm just starting to do to be productive with the show, when I'm recording the show to CD, queuing up to the interview (so I could send it to others) and only hearing my questions come over the monitor. Big holes of silence where I knew a huge thinker and player had filled in some details of his life for us this evening. I was so disappointed that I packed up, no CDs of the show cut, and headed home. Vowing to not let this happen again. Vowing for a change. All around.
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The New Jazz Thing! TNJT! Live!! Tomasz Stanko and Halloween New I have the honor of interviewing Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko this evening at 7:20 pm PT. If you're interested here's an outline, fully unordered, of interview topics along with lots of links (in grey, I must work on the way those links display in that template) to info about Tomasz and his work over the last 40 years. Should be interesting to say the least. [Later...]Tonight's resources: Pete's OctoberFest, Water, Buggles, DATs, blank CDs, notes, links, spirit...no Halloween tunes...per se. Thinking about Tomasz, I want to ask about the political climate when he was leading experimental advant-garde jazz groups during Communist rule and Demoncratic upheaval from the 50s to today. I've found some historical, political timelines of Poland, so maybe we can get into that if there's someplace to go. I've got Tomasz pulled and Coltrange from previous postings of Love this past week...now I need to pull some New. Later, Enjoy, Much Love...VO P.S. An example of what I found when I looked for Halloween Jazz on Google...Click the picture if you dare...
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Happy Halloween From The Pumpkin Pod Heather has contributed her offspring, a pod of pumpkins, to the site today for the festivities.
 Note the individuality of each member of the family. I'm wondering who was the inspiration for large pumpkin with the pronounced forehead, or what we call in the receding hairline department a "five head". Couldn't have been me. Thanks Heather (now get me some pictures of your other stuff)! [Later...] Heather is very concerned that papa punkin' will get a complex regarding my 'five head' comment above...
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