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The Counter-Revolution WILL Be Televised

April 25, 2023April 26, 2023

Michael Vander Does

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

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023

Michael Vander Does

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

April 23, 2023April 23, 2023

Michael Vander Does #artmakescbus, #cbusmakesart, #makejazznotwar

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

April 20, 2023April 20, 2023

Michael Vander Does

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

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023

Michael Vander Does

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......

Jam Session Honors Columbus Legends

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023

Michael Vander Does

Joining the Ancestors

Unprecedented! Inconceivable!

March 31, 2023March 31, 2023

Michael Vander Does

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......

Memorial Jam @ Vanderelli Room

March 31, 2023March 31, 2023

Michael Vander Does

Come help Make Jazz Not War! celebrate these affiliated Citizen Artists who joined the ancestors since the beginning of the pandemic. There will be a drum circle. We will call the ancestors and they will send us music. There will be times when musicians from related groups (Too Far North, Nova Madrugada, Richard Lopez Trio,...

Name Change CLEARANCE SALE!!!

February 15, 2023February 16, 2023

Michael Vander Does

With our name change, some of our merchandise has become obsolete. We’d like to sell it so we can get new merch. So we’re having a sale. Sizes and quantities are limited. Don’t forget to tip the band. Get ‘em before they’re gone!! Make Jazz Not War T-shirts: Were $15/$20 Now ONLY $9.99/$12.99!! Make Jazz...continue reading...

We’re Back On the Block!

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023

Michael Vander Does #artmakescbus, #cbusmakesart, #makejazznotwar

Our website is back! Technical issues, health, etc. conspired to make us miss important events and our holiday sale. The sale will now be a New Year’s sale. We changed our name, but we still have a fair amount of JazzPoetry Ensemble branded merchandise. We need to sell it so we can get new Make...