by Warren Gaston | Sep 27, 2018
The second trio is the Hiromi – The Trio Project led by the Japanese firecracker pianist/keyboardist Hiromi Uehara. Playing with her is the Sriracha hot percussionist Simon Philips and the brilliantly steady bass guitarist Anthony Jackson. Hiromi wrings...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 26, 2018
Hear this, ye smashers of idols, defacers of icons, mutilating vandals, warring against the still present paradoxically human polyvalent past. Thugs at the palm cool oasis, can you not honor these vibrant ancient people at work and play in the glory of Palmyra,...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 23, 2018
Late the other night, too early to sleep but not too early to be sleepy I GOOGLED Wayne Shorter and unwired a web world of jazz. Shorter’s blowy throaty saxophone to be sure, but nothing short of much more. The ‘more’ included two groups new to me;...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 22, 2018
A man with a stein of stout sits down to read a poem, but first he takes his frothy beer and blows away the foam. The words are poetic, the stanzas melodic, the rhythm made to rhyme, the metaphor is romantic, a rose in wintertime, words basic but not dumb, a semantic...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 17, 2018
What Poems Get Done Poems are the exploration of the common ground of human experience with the common ground of a language. Everyone has experiences throughout the day. Everyone uses language throughout the day. What most of us don’t do is look at our experiences...
