Musical Accompaniment: Cyrus Chestnut - Natural Essence (2016)

Cyrus and his mates deliver an exhilarating recording.  Always a pleasure.

100 for Almaty (+12)

I had no photographic plan for Almaty.   As this wasn’t a trip organized months in advance, I did minimal research.  My objective, as it were, was to remain attentive and open to whatever might present itself.

I had an entire week for Eid, nine days including weekends at both ends, and so Mutsumi and I hopped a plane to Almaty, the former capital and still largest city of Kazakhstan.  Apart from never having been there and an interest in Central Asia, Kazakhstan was a convenient choice as visas are not required for US or Japanese citizens and as there are direct, 4-hour flights from Dubai.

Publication: The Big Issue North: Sept 2016

The OCA/Big Issue editor picked up one of my Japan images for the September 2016 issue.  This makes three in almost as many months.  Might an Almaty image be next?

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Musical Accompaniment: Steve Turre: Colors for the Masters (2016)

When I began this blog, I included in the sidebar a list of music links that I can see now will at the rate I have been adding them become impossibly long.  So why not a series of blog posts instead?  Here's the first.

• At Smoke Sessions
• At Amazon
• At All About Jazz

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