JaZzArt en València

Y la esperanza nunca la pierdas, aunque te estén dando una paliza sigue en pie que quizá con tu próximo puñetazo lo lances al suelo y ganes.

FELIZ AÑO NUEVO

Os he hecho un paréntesis para introduciros a un pintor contemporáneo y he elegido a Miquel Barceló porque admiro su obra y porque creo que en ella se nota la influencia de los grandes maestros de la antigüedad que seguramente estudió durante su estancia en las academias de arte.

I thought it would be nice to take a break from the old and begin to introduce some of the new. I chose Barceló because I do admire his work and I think that in it one can see the influences that the study of art history and of the masters can bring to modern art.

Gracias…

Cheers…

ALWAYS THERE
(Listening to Litvinovsky – Pélleas et Mélisande)

I float…
I fly…
I move…
I am the tempo that moves your notes.
I am the swing that moves your feet.
I am the backbeat in your head.

I am the dream you left behind,
flying above your bed
when you walked to Capistrano,
and Sicilia waved good morning,
And your voice replied: “Hello”.
And I, your echo, whispered softly.

You walk barefoot in the grass,
and I will walk softly beside you,
As a gentle breeze I caress your hair,
Every day,
And
Everywhere,
You will find me always there.

(Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 28/12/2025 – Valencia, España)

Dear subscribers I must apologise that I’ve not been reading your posts. I am away and engaged in a very important project for OCS Valencia, and I cannot attend to the blogosphere. I will continue to post and I will read your comments and attempt to reply. VALENCIARTIST will start the new year and the new season soon.

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Estimados suscriptores os pido disculpas pues no he estado leyendo vuestras entradas. Estoy fuera y muy envuelto en la labor de cosas nuevas e importantes para OCS Valencia y no he podido atender a labor blogosfera pero pronto regresaremos. Mientras estoy añadiendo entradas diarias y si comentáis os contestaré. El año que viene regresamos con VALENCIARTIST y una nueva temporada.

CHEERS – GRACIAS

ALWAYS THERE
(Listening to Litvinovsky – Pélleas et Mélisande)

I float…
I fly…
I move…
I am the tempo that moves your notes.
I am the swing that moves your feet.
I am the backbeat in your head.

I am the dream you left behind,
flying above your bed
when you walked to Capistrano,
and Sicilia waved good morning,
And your voice replied: “Hello”.
And I, your echo, whispered softly.

You walk barefoot in the grass,
and I will walk softly beside you,
As a gentle breeze I caress your hair,
Every day,
And
Everywhere,
You will find me always there.

(Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 28/12/2025 – Valencia, España)

Dear subscribers I must apologise that I’ve not been reading your posts. I am away and engaged in a very important project for OCS Valencia, and I cannot attend to the blogosphere. I will continue to post and I will read your comments and attempt to reply. VALENCIARTIST will start the new year and the new season soon.

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Estimados suscriptores os pido disculpas pues no he estado leyendo vuestras entradas. Estoy fuera y muy envuelto en la labor de cosas nuevas e importantes para OCS Valencia y no he podido atender a labor blogosfera pero pronto regresaremos. Mientras estoy añadiendo entradas diarias y si comentáis os contestaré. El año que viene regresamos con VALENCIARTIST y una nueva temporada.

CHEERS – GRACIAS

Dear subscribers I must apologise that I’ve not been reading your posts. I am away and engaged in a very important project for OCS Valencia, and I cannot attend to the blogosphere. I will continue to post and I will read your comments and attempt to reply. VALENCIARTIST will start the new year and the new season soon.

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Estimados suscriptores os pido disculpas pues no he estado leyendo vuestras entradas. Estoy fuera y muy envuelto en la labor de cosas nuevas e importantes para OCS Valencia y no he podido atender a labor blogosfera pero pronto regresaremos. Mientras estoy añadiendo entradas diarias y si comentáis os contestaré. El año que viene regresamos con VALENCIARTIST y una nueva temporada.

CHEERS – GRACIAS

Guao! Esto si es salsa… diría yo que este combo, este gran combo, fue y sigue siendo uno de las mejores orquestas de salsa de toda la historia del género. Me acuerdo, de teenager en Miami, cuando en una fiesta, lo que en la década de los 70 en Miami llamaban un «baile cubano», escuché por primera vez al Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. Su hit en ese entonces era «Don Goyo«… pero cuando sacaron «La eliminación de los feos«, madre mía, se acabó aquello. Aqui os las dejo para que me digáis lo que pensáis de estas canciones y del Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.

GRACIAS

From the studio album Go to Heaven released in 1980. And the Dead had to record a studio album before they were allowed to release another live one, and this is a band that you had to see live. A Grateful Dead studio recording is only a little taste of the band, to get the full flavour you had to be there.

«Althea» became the favourite of concerts and considered one of the best songs by the lads. Actually Stereogum considers it the fifth best Grateful Dead song.

Here is the studio version:

And the live version from 1981:

Now just to remind those who may not recall, here are ten things that were happening in the world back in 1981…

1. First Greece enters the European Union.
2. A suspect named Peter Sutcliffe was arrested by British police suspected of being the «Yorkshire ripper’.
3. Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as President of the United States.
4. Coup attempt takes place in Spain when Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina and members of the Guardia Civil storm the congress. There were no injuries to anyone.
5. US President Reagan survives an assassination attempt.
6. First space shuttle mission is launched in the US, the «Columbia».
7. Bobby Sands dies in a British prison after 66 days of hunger strike. He was 27 years old and represented the IRA.
8. François Mitterrand wins in France.
9. MTV launches its first transmission with the video by The Buggles, «Video Killed the Radio Star».
10. On the 6th of October in Egypt, President Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated.

Cheers…