Author: mick

Massive stars profoundly affect their galactic environments. Churning and mixing interstellar clouds of gas and dust, stars — most notably those upwards of tens of times the mass of our Sun — leave their mark on the compositions and locations of future generations of stars. Dramatic evidence of this is illustrated in our neighboring galaxy,…

John Stubblefield (February 4, 1945 – July 4, 2005) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist. Stubblefield was an adaptable musician, having played with the World Saxophone Quartet (´86-´88), Reggie Workman (´89-´93), McCoy Tyner (´84 Clark), Freddie Hubbard (´85), and George Russell (´85). Stubblefield also served for a time as a jazz ensemble director…

Jutta Hipp (February 4, 1925 – April 7, 2003) was a jazz pianist and composer. Born in Leipzig in the Weimar Republic, she initially listened to jazz in secret, as it was not approved of by the Nazi authorities. After surviving World War II, she became a refugee, often lacking food and other necessities. By…

Tribute to Libby Komaiko I worked with Libby, the director of Ensemble Espanol, starting in the mid 90’s through 2013. She always treated me as her peer and an equal on many levels. A real driving force of Spanish Culture by a humble Bailarora de Flamenca Judia from Chicago. Libby Komaiko (1949-2019) is an American classical…

HAIR performing Sunday February 3rd 2019 Mixed Blood Theater-2pm matinee only Music by Stephen Houtz, JD Lee and mick laBriola