© 2003 Salt Peanuts Live at Massey Hall – 50th anniversary of Dizzy & Charlie Parker at Massey Hall, Toronto.
Composed: Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke & Charlie Parker.
Vocals/Piano: Herbie Hancock
Bass: Dave Holland
Trumpet: Roy Hargrove
Alto Saxophone: Kenny Garrett
Drums: Roy Haynes
As smooth as the original.
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© 1976 Live German Television
Piano/Rhodes – Tom Canning
Bass – Jerome Rimson
Drums – Nigel Wilkinson
© 1959 Take Five, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out:
Piano – Dave Brubeck
Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond
Bass – Eugene Wright
Drums – Joe Morello
http://www.davebrubeck.com/live/
#Black History Month
#BlackLivesMatter
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Hand-blown and sand-blasted glass.
19 x 7 x 7 Inches
© 2004 Preston Singletary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Singletary
http://www.dorothygrant.com/product/collection/glass-wolf-hat/
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Merlin.
July 21, 1947 <O> November 18, 1989
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I could never have imagined surviving Merlin by 25 years. More than that, I could never have fathomed how immensely enriched I would grow for having known and loved Merlin. Certainly, I would never have imagined that our relationship would continue, merely otherly focussed, beyond his passing. However, as many dreams herein have attested that we most definitely did and have.
I offer the links to three dreams had after Merlin’s passing – all of which are to be found in the ‘Dreams of Merlin’ category. The first dream occurred as Merlin passed, the other two dreams three and four years after his passing. Do enjoy and I trust that for your own loved ones, these dreams will inspire you to remain open and focussed on being attuned and ever in love with loved ones when they transition to merely being at a different vibration as astral plane habitués.
Incidentally, Merlin was reincarnated on December 2, 2006 as a first level old scholar in an old soul northern European country’s capital city. Merlin’s soul has chosen in this lifetime to be female and yes, I have dreamt of this beautiful-eyed young woman. Love ever endures.
These dreams, without a doubt, attest to Merlin and I having shared a most remarkable love affair. All is choice. Sweet dreams and love you and your loved ones even more!
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Photo: Merlin 1977 in Montréal.
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Ink, Coloured Pencil
20 x 26 Inches
© 2008 Kenojuak Ashevak
What I especially love about this Kenojuak is that the forward facing wings’ lines are evocative of West African masks’ aesthetics.
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Acrylic on Kraft paper
23.5 x 36.0 inches
© 1973 Norval Morrisseau
Provenance: The Pollock Gallery, Toronto.
http://genuinemorrisseau.blogspot.ca/2014/10/2014-retrospective-kinsman-robinson.html
http://kinsmanrobinson.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norval_Morrisseau
In preparation of this year’s retrospective at the Kinsman-Robinson Gallery, I share one of my favourite Norval Morrisseau paintings.
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Oil on Canvas
36 x 36 Inches
© 2013 Wim Heldens
Provenance: Private collection
Love Wim’s masterful sensual use of light and colour.
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Twenty years ago, when flying in to Manhattan from Vancouver to be with then lover, Manhattan cabaret singer, Frans Bloem, I would meet Wim. As all I ever do is sense energy and think of anyone encountered as a Michael Overleaves puzzle – is this a warrior or just a cynic? – I knew without a doubt that he was an old soul. Like every other old soul encountered whose overleaves I have done, I felt a sense of home, acceptance and harmony for being in his presence.
At the time, Wim was sick in bed with the flu and so I went out shopping and got him some Campbell’s soup – what do I know about making homemade soup? – and spent part of an evening hanging with him. The interlude was truly memorable; it was like being in a dream which, incidentally, is also another hallmark for me of being in the presence of an old soul.
Wim truly is a great human.
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My birthday, August 2, 1989.
Last birthday celebration with Merlin before his passing 3 months later. I am wearing the presents afforded me by one of Merlin’s friends – a disturbed woman whose perception of me was just that… hers. So as she took my picture – which I later learnt, so that she could show it to Merlin’s mother, Sybil, and claim, “See, who said pigs don’t wear lipstick?” – I, possessed of the most well-endowed pineal gland, looked straight through her and her insignificance to Merlin who stood in back of her beaming his pride, love and joy at having found me and as he said later at dinner in Yorkville, he wouldn’t miss being here for the most happening moment in the universe.
Silly woman; so sad, parading through life without so much as a clue that the better bitches on this planet wear their sex between the ears. Well, as Merlin’s friend, the actor, Joe Morton – he of the John Sayles film, ‘Brother From Another Planet’ and who currently stars in TV’s Scandal; so I am told because I never look at television – passionately intoned, “Don’t you ever forget this, if you were White and a woman, you would never be treated this way.”
When it came to friends, Merlin’s choices could have been more discriminating; however, when it came to lovers, he never set a foot wrong. All the lovers who preceded me were stellar, spiritually evolved human beings and I am proud to have been included in their company; prouder still am I to have been enraptured for seven glorious years with the one, the man, the shaman, the dream shaman, Merlin and my task companion no less. For me, there can be no greater gift each birthday than celebrating the love we shared.
Birthdays are a time for giving thanks and for your support and loyalty I am immensely grateful.
Sweet dreams, if I have inspired just one person to look inward and embrace their spiritual journey through becoming more self-aware when dreaming, I will have accomplished much indeed. I love you more!
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Serigraph
20 x 20.75 Inches
Edition: 50
© 1985 Susan A. Point
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Stonecut, Stencil 24.5 x 30.25 Inches Edition of 50 © 2007 Kenojuak Ashevak Happy Birthday Canada! For me, it doesn’t get any more Canadian than Kenojuak. Her overleaves to follow: Ashevak, Kenojuak 3/10/27 ]-O-[ 8/1/13 Baffin Island This creative fragment is a fourth level old artisan. Kenojuak is in the perseverance mode with a goal […]
Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul. 