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The latest conclusions of our experimentations with electromagnetism on employee work flow reveal that workers tend to make unusably corkscrew-shaped products when exposed to gradually shifting magnetic flows. Salaries will be docked accordingly and the experiments with nuclear radiation will commence.

Thursday, March 1, Kings, 10:30 pm, donation: Wrong Move.
The final Death Jazz, until further notice. Had hoped to get one more mass-onslaught-open-jam thing in but Kings’ schedule is filling up too quick.
Dan Hall (The Old Ceremony) on drums, Julian Sparacino on tenor sax, clarinet, and flute, Rick Lassiter on bass (ricklassiter.com), Mietek Glinkowski on violin, and me on reeds & guitar.
We’re fixin to do some original charts, an Ornette number, and some improvisations.

Thursday, March 1, WXDU, 6-8 pm: On the Corner featuring the music of Marc Ribot.
Nothin but Ribot for two hours. Solo, with the Rootless Cosmopolitans, with John Zorn, with Tom Waits, with Shrek, with Hoppy Kamiyama, with Los Cubanos Postizos, and other stuff.
Listen online at wxdu.org

Friday, March 2, Kings, Heads on Sticks with Kingsbury Manx and the Hundredaires.
I think we’ll be playing last ’cause those folks are sharing equipment or something.
Dave Mueller’s (vox, guitar) songs with Brian Donohoe on drums, Christopher Thurston on double bass, Alex Cox on bass guitar, Scott Phillips on keys, Jon Hubbard on tenor sax, and meself on bari and alto saxes.

Saturday, March 3, Bickett Gallery, $6, 10 pm: Frank Gratkowski.
World-class reedman Gratkowski. gratkowski.com
He’s in town because he’ll be performing in Todd Hershberger’s composition for big band on Tuesday the 6th at Duke U.
On Saturday at Bickett he’ll do a solo set and then some folks will join him in improvisations. Folks like Ian Davis, Chris Eubank, Todd Hershberger, Carrie Shull, Joe Westerlund, Christopher Thurston, myself, others.

–Bob
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Spinner in Darkness

Airborne sound transmissions for your entertainment, possible enlightenment, and/or emotional fulfillment. Plus bonus substrate snoring of the Great Old Ones, free of charge:

Friday, February 23, Schoolkids Chapel Hill, 7 pm, free: The Nein.
CD release party for that band whose name by rights should have belonged to a krautrock band back in the day. I’ll be playing alto sax and bass clarinet.

Thursday, March 1, Kings, 10:30 pm, donation: Wrong Move.
Looks like this’ll be the last installment of Death Jazz at kings, for a while anyway.
Dan Hall (The Old Ceremony) on drums, Julian Sparacino on tenor sax, clarinet, and flute, Rick Lassiter on bass (ricklassiter.com), Mietek Glinkowski on violin.
We’re fixin to do maybe a couple of original charts, an Ornette number, and some improvisations.

Thursday, March 1, WXDU, 6-8 pm: On the Corner featuring the music of Marc Ribot.
As a special treat I’ll be spinning nothing but Marc Ribot for my jazz show. Mostly his albums as a leader but a few few Zorn and Waits collaborations and some other good stuff I bet you haven’t heard.
Just because I can.
Listen online at wxdu.org

Friday, March 2, Kings, Heads on Sticks with Kingsbury Manx and the Hundredaires.
I think we’ll be playing last ’cause those folks are sharing equipment or something.
Dave Mueller’s songs with Brian Donohoe on drums, Christopher Thurston on bull fiddle, Scott Phillips on keys, Jon Hubbard on tenor sax, Alex Cox on bass guitar, Joel Rhodes on trumpet, and meself on bari and alto saxes.

Saturday, March 3, Bickett Gallery, $6: Frank Gratkowski.
World-class reedman Gratkowski. gratkowski.com
Don’t miss it. He’ll do a solo set and then me and some other folks will join him in improvisations. More later.

–The Ventriloquizer
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gone nomad

While wandering in the neighborhood I began to wonder aloud whether it’s better to own land or just move across it and Mr. Wiley on his porch pointed out to me that when all the land is owned there can be no free travel and besides, you look like a crazy fool talking aloud to yourself, son, but I couldn’t take his word for it because he thought that guy delivering groceries to Mrs. Hopabout that time was a suicide bomber and I didn’t feel much like a crazy fool but just then God starting recording my thoughts and trying to turn me into a woman (a painful process) but then I didn’t feel so much like a crazy fool as I felt like I was in the wrong body at the wrong time, whoever I was inhabiting this body and whatever distinction you can make between the two, like “I” being whatever leaked in through the pineal gland into the mind and felt the sensations of the body, however victimized it might be by a sadistic God, and so but meanwhile God kept recording and then playing back the tape of my thoughts and I couldn’t get any sleep.

Wednesday, February 14, Kings Barcade, 10:30 pm: Domestic Disturbance.
Looks like we only got a couple more Death Jasses before Kings’ current location gets razed in the name of progress. So let’s party like it’s the end of the fuckin world.
Domestic Disturbance features Phil Martelli (Daddy, Dude Garden, Savage Knights, The Horribles, Volcanos) on bass guitar and trading off on drums will be Jason Aylward (Valient Thorr, Caltrop, Ladderback) and Mike Isenberg (Kolyma, Savage Knights, Olympus Mons, Table, Volcanos). Myself on winds and guitar. Adam Nolton of Caltrop, Pegasus, and Red Smokes White could possibly join on guitar.

Thursday, February 15, WXDU, 6-8 pm: On the Corner.
My bi-weekly jass radio show, online at wxdu.org or in the air at 88.7 on your FM dial.

Sunday, February 18, Cat’s Cradle: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Bringerer, Lud, and the Moaners.
The show starts at 8:30. A benefit for Lisa Garmon. I believe it’s free with encouraged donations. I reckon we’re supposed to play around 11:30. Nowadays the New Romans are Dex on guitar/vox, Kevin Dixon on guitar, Stu Cole on bass, Hunter Landen on percussion, Mike Walters on keys, Dave Schmitt on drums, and me on reeds.
Here’s more info about Lisa Garmon from Jane Allen Wilson:
“As some of you know, one of my very best friends (and friend to many!!!), Lisa Garmon, has been diagnosed with cancer. We are holding a benefit in her honor and to help her pay many bills… Lisa been a local feminist activist for years - She used to host shows on feminist topics on WXYC’s Northern Hemisphere Live, and was the first program director at UNC Campus Women Center, where she helped bring some really fantastic speakers such as Ingo Muscio (author of Cunt) and Nomy Lamm. She also founded then edited one of the first local femininist ‘zines, entitled HA!, which is part of the Lilleth Collective. She has been a volunteer at OCRC (Orange County Rape Crisis) and Internationalist Books for many years. She has helped organize — numerous—- benefits for others. –Please come to a benefit for her!!! -This Sunday, the 18th, at the Cat’s Cradle. Some fabulous bands will be there. People are making great crafts to sell!! Please come and offer your support as we help Lisa in her quest to heal. See the flier below and attached, and forward widely!! Thanks so much.”

Wednesday, February 21, Bickett Gallery, 8:30: Heads on Sticks.
Dave Mueller of Strange and Birds of Avalon — he writes the songs, we provide band support.

February 23, Schoolkids Records in Chapel Hill, 6 pm: The Nein with DJ Nasty Boots.
CD release party. I’m on the CD and I’ll be preforming with them.

Right.

–Bob
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