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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 5

The Creative Sanctuary continues its Jazz is Peace series with an homage to one of my heroes and the father of some of the greatest music this country ever produced, from the Delta womb of all good American sounds, my spiritual home, New Orleans. I’m talking about Satchmo himself, Mr. Louis Armstrong, who would be […]

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Blind

“Now some of us are weak, and some endure And some people live their lives, with a violence that’s pure and clean But I saw a man cry once, down on his knees, in the corner of a darkened cell And his pain meant nothing to me. But I was younger then, and young men […]

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Music Tonight: Thursday, May 22

The Creative Sanctuary is putting on another jazz gig at the Arcata Playhouse, the first in a series basking in the glow of the formidable works of Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s program is an homage to Horace Silver, the post-bop pianist and co-bandleader who brought the group to his highest peaks of […]

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Speedway at Nazareth

A little preface is needed before this week’s column gets rolling. It’s Memorial Day weekend in our stretch of the entertainment beat, coming a week after graduation at Cal Poly Humboldt. Which means that the front end of this piece will be heavy with a variety of live offerings, while the caboose is scant to […]

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