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In this stream I will share my love for Freddie Hubbard and one of his albums in particular: "Keep Your Soul Together from 1973."

More on this special livestream event, here:Keep Your Soul Together! Special Aesthetics Livestream event!

If you asked most musical mavens to name the most listened to and celebrated album from Freddie Hubbard - one of the great trumpeters of the 20th century - they would most likely name Red Clay. For me Keep Your Soul Together, from the same era and recording company, is a favorite.

What makes this album so special and what were the musical influences that went into Hubbard's unique style of jazz improvisation? This special episode of “All About Aesthetics” will investigate.

#jazz #trumpet #1970s Freddiehubbard #brass #georgecables #creedtaylor #cti #kentbrinkley #carlburnett #soul #gospel #spiritual #soulmusic #bebop #postbop

Important links related to this stream:https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Your-Together-Freddie Hubbard/dp/B000O8QV0Qhttps://www.ctproduced.com/on-this-day-cti-chart-takeover/

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Listeners, thank you for joining us this past Friday for our annual New Year's livestream featuring your host, Mitch Hampton!

Please share it with us, like and subscribe- all that jazz!Here is to a New Year filled with creativity and humanity.More on this special livestream here:This stream on the topic of temporal change in time in the arts will focus on the image (Antonioni, Akerman others) as well as music (Sarah Vaughan and others) to discuss the quite wide and various ways artists depict the passage of time.

Listeners, thank you for joining us this past Friday for our annual New Year's livestream featuring your host, Mitch Hampton! Please share it with us, like and subscribe- all that jazz!Here is to a New Year filled with creativity and humanity.

More on this special livestream here:This stream on the topic of temporal change in time in the arts will focus on the image (Antonioni, Akerman others) as well as music (Sarah Vaughan and others) to discuss the quite wide and various ways artists depict the passage of time.

#podcast #NewYear2025 #music #time #ChantalAckerman #Antonioni #SarahVaughn

In this, our second episode in the series on John Updike's "Rabbit" novels I continue with in depth discussions of his magnum with special emphasis on Rabbi Run and Rabbit Redux and Updike's overall prose style.This series will continue into the New Year with multiple episodes so check back for more info!

Inside this episode with Mitch Hampton

This episode is an exciting one for us in that it contains many firsts: for one it our first show featuring a gallery and for another it is the first with two guests who are also a married couple.

More about our friends at the wonderful Cawdrey Gallery, here: ( please not this is an abbreviated version for space- for our full article visit our show Facebook page and Cawdrey Gallery Website)

When gallery owner and artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey began painting in Montana about 25 years ago, she wanted to express how it really FELT living in Big Sky Country. Nancy along with her husband Steve and son Morgan, opened their first gallery in Bigfork, MT. In 2017 the gallery relocated to Whitefish and expanded to represent more than 20 artists working in over 10 different media.

Making art and experiencing art is about rediscovering the world, moment by moment, and our hope is that it invites us to linger and remain in that moment of awe. American Western art is not only about preserving a storied past—but it is also about capturing and reimagining our present.

“Whatever medium I am working in, I like to mix color on the surface of the painting–giving the work more immediacy and spontaneity–what I call spirited silk painting. On silk I can really float brilliant color with spirit and gusto.”

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On Sunday December 15th I perform an all solo piano concert in a style somewhere in between a traditional solo piano recital and a jazz performance featuring brand new original works as well as a a couple of standards for the season.

More on Mitch's musical offerings, here:

From time to time, roughly every couple of months, Mitch Hampton will present concerts of music, consisting of both originals as well as standards and covers. Most of these concerts will involve a trio he developed and cultivated in the 2020s - featuring Zack Page on the bass and Justin Watt on the drums. Most of the music will be in the category usually referred to as jazz but there are many other influences and from many eras that make their way in to Hampton's music. 2024 will make the ten year anniversary of Hampton's solo piano project, Hard Listening and potentially some solo piano performances will drop in celebration.

#jazz #haroldarlen #yipharburg #piano #steinway #trio #pianotrio #kennybarron #busterwilliams ##steelydan #blackfriday #donaldfagen #walterbecker #concerto #classical #funk #drums #bass #wizardofoz #cedarwalton theloniousmonk #sphere #blues #r&b #judygarland #celebrityseriesboston

#jazz #music #piano #bass #drums #percussion #improvisation #composer #song #swing #rock #r&b #blues #classicalmusic #trio #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s $1980s #1990s #broadway #hollywood #pop #salsa #afrocuban #latinpercussion #bossanova #samba #africanamerican  

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for episode 16 of our ongoing "All About Aesthetics" series!

Give it a share and pass it along with us!

We will be back very soon with live music, episodes and much more!#aesthetics #design #travel #MitchHampton#series #podcast

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In addition to being one of the giants of twentieth century literature, John Updike is a personal favorite I have been reading since childhood. 

While I briefly mentioned an excerpt from his Rabbit Is Rich on one of the aesthetic episodes, I thought it would be a real journey is many senses to do a series on his Rabbit books. I will discuss Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest respecting the chronological order of the novels while also talking about all four in spot of the episodes. This is one of the rare instances in which a work of art is completely aesthetically valuable as a work of art while at the same time being a quite realistic (in the sense of accurate) sociological examination of life in the United States from the 1950s through the 1980s. 

Updike does this from the point of  view of central protagonist Harry Angstrom and the milieu of middle and then upper middle class Pennsylvania, an opportunity to reflect on the country as whole.

Steeped in the culture and milieu of  The New Yorker Magazine as it was then, Updike epitomized those ideas and ideals about a certain kind of prose while being completely original in his style such that you can read any random paragraph from his work and know that it is John Updike. 

In this series we will try and discuss as much of these matters as we can and we hope you can join us. Updike was an innovator as much as he was a traditionalist in his prose, innovative particularly in how he depicted human sexuality. 

I will discuss his syntax, his tone and point of view as well as vision of life overall. 

We plan on this running from November into the New Year as we cover Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest respecting the chronological order of the novels while also talking about all four in spot of the episodes.

It is often too easy for us to be slow to acknowledge that there are those artists and performers among us who are unusual in their breadth of skills, sometimes expressing these in more than one career within a single lifetime.

Brit Whittle is certainly emblematic of this phenomenon in the arts.

He has had at least two careers: one in the worlds of acting and one in the seminary and ministry. I found that we had an enormous amount in common, particularly intellectually, the latter often far rarer than I would expect or hope. We cover a lot of topics in this episode: the curious and complex history of Christianity, the nature of being a working actor, cultural and geographical diversity in the United States and being a Gen Xer in the 2020.

I hope you enjoy watching this one at least a much as we did creating it.

More on Brit, his journey, his family, his bio in his own words

I grew up in very conservative environments in Georgia. Church wise, politically, culturally...

While I played sports, I was always drawn to music, theater, and literature. I was a very popular kid until I walked away from sports and focused on music. My first access to the arts was in churches.

We would act out Bible scenes, or do musicals about famous biblical stories. One of the first ministers I remember actually listening to was an incredible speaker. I was just 11, 12 years old but he had such command of his subject matter and could hold the attention of the entire sanctuary.

I plowed ahead anyway and after several years of this, I recognized that if I wanted to truly succeed as an actor, then I needed to get out of Atlanta and move to either NYC or LA. And to succeed in those places, I needed more formal training. Laurie was actually a huge inspiration and role model for me on this.

So I got my MFA in Acting from the Florida State/Asolo Conservatory and even studied for a summer in London. One of the most affirming parts of my time in the UK was studying with Patsy Rodenberg who worked at both The National Theatre and the Guildhall School in London. She once asked me what my biggest fear was in performing Shakespeare? So I said “Sounding dumb or unintelligent in doing so”. I said I was often called out for my accent.

She then assigned me a Hamlet monologue and on the side would encourage me to let my true accent out. My southern accent and when I did that, I would naturally fall into the iambic pentameter. But when I got up in front of my classmates, I still struggled hiding my true voice.

I started having financial success for the first time in my acting career. I got married, lost my mother, and then had 3 little girls, one of whom is now in heaven. It was that latter experience, a late term pregnancy loss, that reawakened my need for God and possibly becoming a minister.

I came to fatherhood late in life.

So, when my 3 girls came along...I
wanted them to know that other guy who I was in my youth.

And the more I thought about it, the more important my spiritual life became.

After some nudging from my wife, I put myself out there and to my surprise, Princeton Theological Seminary accepted me. And then went out of their way to accommodate me and my family in our move here.
It’s been a hard transition but it’s also been filled with joy and serendipitous moments. My wife and I call the latter “God winks”.

The Spanish put the Latin term “plus ultra”on their coins after discovering the Americas. And that term means “more beyond”.

That’s where I’m heading. The more I can’t see yet but can feel in my soul.

Links to more about Brit’s beautiful work, family and journey:

Website: www.britwhittle.com
Princeton Theological Seminary: https:// www.ptsem.edu/

#rowanwilliams #christianity #theology #princeton #episcopalchurch #ai #internet #parenthood #family

We cannot thank you all enough for joining us for our special "Autumn Reunion Show".

In case you didn't know we are based in WNC where Helene hit hardest and thankfully our team all are safe and their instruments made it too. It's always special to have these concerts for us as a way of giving back to our wonderful audience and this one extra special as we are all so grateful to be back.

https://www.youtube.com/live/22iyJ1gn_70?si=xOFj852b6kQIFQ78

#pennsylvania #pittsburgh #1950sThis will be the livestream on this wonderful book by Annie Dillard that was originally scheduled on September 27 but postponed due to the storm.