Thank you again! Writing after playing 'oud a brief 15 minutes late in the day on the Santa Barbara CourtHouse steps with my djembe drummer friend from Mali, Bara...who had driven up from LA ...a small group had gathered in solidarity with the International Court of Justice appeal for an immediate ceasefire and call to account for the ongoing devastation of Gaza. It gave me great joy to hear a local woman from Palestine wanting to sing along to the tune I was playing... Nassem Aleyna , the eternal hit song by Fayrouz from the summer of love 1967...
The story reminds me of myself. Ahem. Read the novel, most of which is true. http://bit.ly/1QynBVD
There's a free version at Smashwords.com.
I never knew about this earlier part of his life. But he kept the hairstyle!
Great story! Thanks for sharing it! 👍🏻🎶
Thank you Bret! A beautiful story ...as we cherish those moments that brought us here.
Thanks so much Tarech for your kind words. Please take care...
Thank you again! Writing after playing 'oud a brief 15 minutes late in the day on the Santa Barbara CourtHouse steps with my djembe drummer friend from Mali, Bara...who had driven up from LA ...a small group had gathered in solidarity with the International Court of Justice appeal for an immediate ceasefire and call to account for the ongoing devastation of Gaza. It gave me great joy to hear a local woman from Palestine wanting to sing along to the tune I was playing... Nassem Aleyna , the eternal hit song by Fayrouz from the summer of love 1967...
https://youtu.be/iIYV7CyYdxU?si=Ierf4oOF-AKdphgr
Wow
Unfortunately, a google search doesn't turn up Gideon Bass the pianist.
Mr. Bass is a fictional character.
So this post is fiction? The story sounds like it could have been that of myriads of jazz artists of ‘50s and’60s.
Fiction based on a true story.
OK. The photo made me think otherwise.
The photo looks highly processed, i.e. a character built out of pixels.
I don't know anything about that process.