Tom Cravens

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I went to the protest in Highland Park, St. Paul. There was good crowd energy and signs including ’No Kings’ and’The Vocal Minority Does Not Speak For Me.’ Let’s do this again.

I went to the protest in Highland Park, St. Paul. There was good crowd energy and signs including ’No Kings’ and ’The Vocal Minority Does Not Speak For Me.’ My wife is out of town, she was at a far larger one in Manhattan! Let’s do this again soon.

A lesson from Israel: Do it again next week.

Minnesota voters elected a split state House. Republicans seized power anyway. Even when Republicans have a lot of power, it often will not be enough,

"The rules governing the exercise of power in a representative democracy should not — must not — be Calvinball." The MNGOP illegally seizes power in the statehouse. It's part of a pattern. From MSNBC.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Oh no

Reading the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971), as one does, and stumbled on Wendy Carlos’s unsolicited contribution about synthesizers… a long letter/rant complete with comments on specific models

Sometime in the 11th Century, viking mercenaries carved runes in the shoulder of this ancient Greek lion statue. It’s difficult to translate, but they say something like “We won and now we’re carving trash talk on your lion.” So at least some vikings knew what lions were. [5/9]

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History of jazz in 5 recordings made on Christmas Eve.

1. 1939: From Spirituals to Swing concert, Carnegie Hall

2. 1948: Charlie Parker, Royal Roost

3. 1954: Miles Davis & the Modern Jazz Giants

4. 1964: Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil

5. 1965: Don Cherry, Complete Communion

Oh no! Sounds like a tough time. I hope they recovered well with no lasting issues….

It wasn’t very well attended. I think it was right after spring break in 1999. He got all the students up on stage and had them learn Monk’s “Friday the 13th” by ear. Roswell Rudd did a long spoken word thing in one of the tunes they played.

No it was the quartet with Roswell Rudd. I found out they were coming to the Dakota and contacted their management. A student asked about free playing. Lacy said we don’t play totally free anymore but let’s do it today! I have the recording, some great Monk tunes too.

I was lucky enough to be able to get Steve Lacy and his quartet to come to Macalester to do a performance and workshop for the music students. Hard to believe it was 25 years ago.

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The Pretenders, but it was just before the name change from Sam’s to First Ave (1980) so maybe doesn’t count? (Yes I’m old)

Irene Minnehaha here…

The view looking north from the Lake St. bridge over the Mississippi in Minneapolis, 11-25-2024.

…and the view looking north from the Lake St. bridge over the Mississippi in Minneapolis, 11-25-2024.

Yes, I live in Ward 12. Glad to see you here.

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Ocean view on Ireland’s Dingle peninsula.

A large full moon is framed behind a conical water tower

A large full moon is framed above a conical water tower

My white whale.

The full Beaver Moon rises above the Witch’s Hat in Minneapolis on Friday.

Four CDs by the great drummer Roy Haynes, who passed away today at 99.

I’m sad to hear that the great musician Roy Haynes has passed on, but grateful that he lived such a long creative life and left such a rich recorded legacy. What an inspiration.

Looking south at the Mississippi River from the Lake St bridge.

Looking south at the Mississippi River from the Lake St bridge.

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Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Dakota in Minneapolis, 9-20-2024.

If you see this post a concert pic you took

Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Dakota in Minneapolis, 9-20-2024.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
–Newspaper boy (on bike w/dog)
–Grocery shelf stocker
–Piano & guitar teacher
–Day care worker
–College jazz workshop director
–Architectural signmaker
–Gig musician (still do a bit)

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Thanks so much for doing this! I’m leaving Twitter and following a lot of accounts here (I pretty much only lurked there post-Elon), and it is great to find so many local people on this site.

For me, a couple that I loved early on were The Temptations Greatest Hits (vol. 1) and Thelonious Monk’s Greatest Hits (Columbia).

I kept my ticket stubs back in teenage years- here’s some more for your ‘78 white board
Warren Zevon 5/21/78 Guthrie
Bruce Springsteen 6/10/78 Met
The Kinks 6/13/78
The Rolling Stones 7/10/78 SPCC
Tom Petty   9/24/78
Bruce Springsteen 11/29/78