I Witness

a politically progressive blog mixing pop culture, social commentary, personal history, and the odd relevant poem--with links to recommended sites below right-hand column of photos

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Progress On-Air Only

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When the campaign "season" began for the 2008 election... ( Wait , was that really almost two years earlier, 20-some months before...

Friday, November 13, 2009

Mulligan Overmatched?

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In his mixed salad days, collegiate-looking Gerry Mulligan was happy to arrange for small group, concert band, or big band alike, but he was...

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Robert Sund: Lost Harvest

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I live near Seattle, on an island in Puget Sound, the salt body of water--arm of the Pacific Ocean--that sneaks into the middle of Western W...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

When Blind Boy Grunt Met Blind Willie McTell

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Any rock music fan who was around for the Sixties and Seventies and Eighties probably has a favorite Bob Dylan song. I heard "Song to W...

Saturday, October 24, 2009

In Walked Thelonious

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Jazz pianists often are asked which other piano players are their favorites or the most influential among their forebears, and I'd wager...

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Eric Clapton: Ramblin' On His Mind

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Our story begins in 1964 as a young man we might call "Yardbird" roams the streets of London with a likeminded chum, the two lads ...

Sunday, October 11, 2009

T.S. Eliot, Mole; Bob Dylan, Badger

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Courtesy of the 18,000 listeners who voted, the BBC recently announced poll results showing T.S. Eliot, quirky Missourian turned quintessent...

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