A Nazi hit me in the head Saturday
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A Nazi hit me in the head Saturday. Another shoulder-slammed me....
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The Counter-Revolution WILL Be Televised
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It’s been a while since you could hear our new stuff if you didn’t make it to a rare concert. Hopefully the concerts will pick up soon. This is the first of three lo-fi recordings we made last weekend. It’s our newest variation on Gil Scott-Heron’s seminal tune. We’ll be doing it live Sunday afternoon at The Vanderelli Room. Roger Hines, bass; Brett Burleson, guitar; The Governor, drums; Michael Vander Does, vocal & trombone.Here’s the text: The Counter-Revolution Will Be Televised Racists will speak openly of “Replacement Theory” While they gang-rape critical race theory Or any race theory except the......
This Sunday! Memorial Jam Session
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Joining the Ancestors Our celebration of our friends Richard, Ron, Greg, and Wahru will happen at the same time as the memorial for our friend Edward “Kidd” Jordan at JazzFest in New Orleans. We hope you will join us here in Columbus to honor these legends of Columbus music. Play or listen, but come to The...
Kidd Jordan memories
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Starting in 2012, Kidd Jordan came to Columbus to play with us every year through 2017. In 2014, he also played Columbus with the French American Peace Ensemble. In all, Kidd played more than two dozen shows in Columbus at Dick’s Den, Natalie’s, Copious Notes, Transit Arts, K2U, Shadowbox, and the Hot Times Festival. Not...
Target Practice update
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Update on Target Practice: great interviews last week, one or two more to shoot, editing to a scratch track has begun. Citizen Artist projects are always more than just the individual artwork. Target Practice started out as a poem. It’s slowly becoming a film. It’s already a continuing art installation. We placed 40+ Black Lives Matter...
Our New Ancestors – who they were
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Here’s a little about each of the friends and legends we’ll be playing for: RICHARD LOPEZ Richard Lopez worked with The JazzPoetry Ensemble throughout the ’90s. HIs piano both grounded the group and took it in new directions. He was best known back then for his work with the Columbus Symphony and his trio with Jim Rupp and Roger Hines at Rigsby’s. The ‘90s was also when he put together Too Far North with Michael Cox, Terry Douds, and Matt Wagner. In recent years, he performed regularly at the Columbus Museum of Art. Our relationship could be volatile. One night......
Starting somethin’ good
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I first heard Kidd Jordan at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. I spent the day in the jazz tent while my friends wandered the fairgrounds sampling the other musics. I told them to be back at the jazz tent well before the last set – the World Saxophone Quartet. The seats I was...
Memories of Kidd
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Kidd famously played along with squeaky doors at SUNO. I heard him play with the sound of the air conditioning at Columbus’s King Arts Center during a workshop for elementary school students. I listened and learned and thought I understood. I listened and played with the sounds around me. I wrote a poem about it...
Unprecedented! Inconceivable!
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In The Princess Bride, Vizzini uses the word “inconceivable” so often and so inappropriately that eventually Inigo Montoya says “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The less-than-liberal media and our fascist politicians keep using the word “unprecedented”. I do not think it means what they think it means. It’s a basic tenet that America puts no person above the law. It is totally precedented to indict people who are believed to have broken the law. Unprecedented was letting Nixon off. Never before had a President so clearly criminally subverted our democracy. There was......