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About Me

I love music, especially jazz. (Kind of a jazz Rain Man) I swing dance (badly but often) and play trombone (loudly and not often enough). I drink lots of coffee (I have a frenetic energy level I must maintain) and read voraciously (mostly fiction and jazz biographies). I sometimes put my cell phone on "speaker" and play melodies on my trombone for unsuspecting friends (will they remain my friends after that?) I like to cook (I can make Spanish Rice, taboulleh, baked chicken, vegetarian moussaka and probably spaghetti). I love middle eastern food and hats. I spend too much money on jazz records. One day I would like to own a dog (need to buy a house first). I have a short attention span. Except when I am on the radio. Then I am concise focused and unrecognizable but still a fountain of fascinating non earth shattering jazz information. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

Radio Documentaries, Music, Swing Dancing, literature, Illustrators and designers of jazz LP covers like Jim Flora, Reid Miles and David Stone Martin, Esquire Magazine in the mid sixties, Photography, trombones

I'd like to meet:

Shel Silverstein but he's dead. Abe Vigoda but I wouldn't know what to say.

Music:

Jazz from 1917 on. Ornette Coleman, anyone from Rudi Blesh;s book "They All Played Ragtime," jazz trombone guys: JJ Johnson Jimmy Knepper Frank Rosolino JC Higginbotham Dicky Wells Al Grey

Movies:

Thank you for Smoking, Good Night and Good Luck, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Stormy Weather, Don't Look Back, Festival by Murray Lerner, Would like to see "Alo Alo Brazil"

Television:

Mr. Bean who I bear an unfortunate resemblance to

Books:

Rudi Blesh's "They AllPlayed Ragtime, "Desolation Angels" by Jack Kerouac, Books by Gene Fowler including bio of Jimmy Durante, William Styron's "Sophie's Choice," Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country," Naguib Mahfouz's "Cairo Trilogy, John Dos Passos' "USA Trilogy," F Scott Fitzgerald's "Ther Great Gatsby"

Heroes:

Mike Zwerin, Shel Silverstein, Oscar the Grouch, JC Higginbotham

My Blog

Story Corps Segments

In March, one of the StoryCorps mobile recording booths came to Richmond. for the last couple of months, me and my colleague Steve Clark have been editing some of the 114 interviews recorded for ...
Posted by Peter on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:34:00 PST

Wikipedia article on the nice Jewish Boy

Nice Jewish boy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search --> start content --> The Nice Jewish boy is a stereotype of Jewish masculinity which circulates within the American...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:13:00 PST

Radio Production to check out (serious for a change)

This weekend I checked out some of the producers that won the 2006 Third Coast Audio Festival Radio documentary Competition. The second-place winner was a story from WNYC's "Radio lab...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:44:00 PST

The greatest human achievement (don't read this if you are looking for any sensible ramblings)

The cappucino chocolate chip muffin is perhaps personkind's greatest achievement. What more needs to be said? Of course before the capuccino chocolate muffin became personkind's greatest achievement,...
Posted by Peter on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:38:00 PST

The Chevy that lives downstairs and the bat bit Evil Jake

My poor neighbors. They have to sit through long tones and lip slurs and Arbans exercises, in other words funny noises that emanate from a trombone that I do battle with every other morning. A couple ...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:51:00 PST