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Fog and Magic: DANIEL HECHT - Willow (1980)
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DANIEL HECHT - Willow (1980). ALBUM REVIEW By SAM SCARPELLI. This album represents an evolution of the acoustic guitar as an instrument. It is incredibly beautiful and amazingly complex, and in my opinion Daniel Hecht. ALEX de GRASSI *. A4 Jimmy Blue Eyes *. B1 Confluence of the Rivers. B4 March of the Trolls. B5 Afternoon Postlude Soliloquy. 169; 2014 Sam Scarpelli. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Big Kite Redux: Photos from Below – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Big Kite Redux: Photos from Below. This is a quick follow-up on the six-foot-tall kite featured in the prior post. Several readers wanted to see the kite itself, but we didn’t take any photos of (as opposed to from) it. Today, however, I discovered that my son Liam had taken a 10-second video of it on his iPhone. No Maybe . . . Yes! Gone again. . . . The kite was virtually invisible, but still the string shrilled taut in the remorseless pull of the hi...
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June 2014 – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Monthly Archives: June 2014. John Fahey: Meetings with Blind Joe Death. Every young person needs a madman, a Loki, a Coyote, a misfit to look up to, and John Fahey filled that role for me. Long before I met him and performed with him, I knew from his writings and recordings that he must be a remarkable person. But he was one. Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Big Kite Redux: Photos from Below. Murder, Risk, and Creativity.
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Moondog IV: Life Turns – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Moondog IV: Life Turns. After seven years of studying classical guitar, I was moving toward what eventually became known as American fingerstyle.” The intricate solos I wrote incorporated elements of whatever I’d listened to and loved: English and American folk, pop, jazz, blues, ragtime, Indian music, and Western classical and Baroque. I bought a steel-string Martin and enjoyed changing its tuning to produce unusual pitch combinations. Drums and my n...
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John Fahey: Meetings with Blind Joe Death – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. John Fahey: Meetings with Blind Joe Death. Every young person needs a madman, a Loki, a Coyote, a misfit to look up to, and John Fahey filled that role for me. Long before I met him and performed with him, I knew from his writings and recordings that he must be a remarkable person. Fahey as he looked when I first met him, in 1967. The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes. The Voice of the Turtle . Fahey op...
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April 2014 – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Monthly Archives: April 2014. Moondog III: Harps and Guitars. I had been making instruments, sort of, since high school. I fell in love with the classical guitar thanks to Andres Segovia and not long after fell in love with luthiery thanks to Irving Sloane’s marvelous book Classical Guitar Construction. I’m not sure when Glenn Johnson caught the romance. Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Big Kite Redux: Photos from Below. On John F...
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Creativity II: Rats and Einstein – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Creativity II: Rats and Einstein. This is my second post about creativity, focusing on Stuart Brown’s study of play and its role in neurocognitive development, inventive and generative states of mind, and mental health. Albert Einstein, understandably, had lots to say about creativity. His summary of play’s role in generative, innovative thinking: Creativity is intelligence having fun. 1) it is apparently purposeless (done for its own sake);. Fortunat...
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Daniel Hecht's Blog – Page 2 – A blog junto/salon
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Moondog III: Harps and Guitars. I had been making instruments, sort of, since high school. I fell in love with the classical guitar thanks to Andres Segovia and not long after fell in love with luthiery thanks to Irving Sloane’s marvelous book Classical Guitar Construction. I’m not sure when Glenn Johnson caught the romance. Shaking Hands With Martin Luther King II. The summer of 1965 — when I shook hands with Martin Luther King — was perh...My last t...
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Creativity Theory I: Stuart Brown and Play – Daniel Hecht's Blog
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Daniel Hecht's Blog. About Daniel Hecht’s blog junto. Creativity Theory I: Stuart Brown and Play. I’m going to digress from my series on Meetings With Remarkable People even though I have not yet written about some of those who most influenced me. Portraying them is an intimidating task, so I thought I’d approach them through a quality that they had in common and in abundance: creativity. Dr Stuart Brown during his TED talk. Photo thanks to TED. The Act of Creation. In recent years, I have increasingly f...
