The Past and the Future

The “Past and the Future” Show

Reading through a 30+ year old New Yorker magazine – looking at the ads, thinking about how these were predictions – in a way – about what we’d be using and doing as time went on. Some of those things are just gone. Some of the ads are kind of quaint.
I think there’s a show in this idea. The not-so-distant past and the future it anticipated as seen through the ads and the articles in a popular magazine.

31st Cape May Jazz Festival Show

(Bernadette Matthews photo)

MQM, Carl Grubbs, Tim Price at WCFA studio

4/18/09
On the radio show, did a special Jazz Festival show with interviews – Monnette Sudler, Carl Grubbs and Tim Price. Three fairly different kinds of artists. All from the Philadelphia area, Monnette is a guitarist and Grubbs and Price are sax players.

I really think that serious musicians are spiritual people – I believe that it would be hard to be in touch with a talent/impulse/gift like that within yourself and not somehow have a spiritual experience.
Carl Grubbs in particular reminded me of some kind of a wandering saint. He had a quiet patience that seemed deep. I felt in him a recognition and an acceptance of the sacrifices that dedication to an art requires.
I felt honored to sit and talk with him.