Jazz piano greats on YouTube
March 23rd, 2008Gene Harris: “Summertime”
I have this on CD… it’s one of my favorite recordings of all time. I was flabbergasted to find it on YouTube. You have to watch this one full screen with the lights off.
Pillow Fight NYC
March 21st, 2008
Too bad it’s on Shabz…
Chanting Esther
March 18th, 2008Hand Wars
March 7th, 2008First there was Daft Hands
Now there is Kanye Hands
I love the internet
Writing a Eulogy: Modern methods
March 4th, 2008
Inspired by today’s seminar in cantorial skills.
“How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?” - NY Times
March 4th, 2008One day last fall, a young Israeli woman named Sharon went with her fiancé to the Tel Aviv Rabbinate to register to marry. They are not religious, but there is no civil marriage in Israel. The rabbinate, a government bureaucracy, has a monopoly on tying the knot between Jews. The last thing Sharon expected to be told that morning was that she would have to prove — before a rabbinic court, no less — that she was Jewish.
- NY Times
Past Updates (Sept 2007): Happy New Year
March 3rd, 2008
Past Updates (Sept 2007): Hello from New York City
March 3rd, 2008
Past Updates (Aug 2007): Dancing with Emily
March 3rd, 2008Originally written August 23, 2007.
That’s Emily & the Boilermaker Jazz Band at the South Side Works.
I went down there with Dad on Friday sort of for our last get-together before he went off to Scotland.
Saturday night I played a Bat Mitzvah party and made $200 performing for everyone. Lots of fun.
Ruben Bolling is my hero.
March 2nd, 2008
