THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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As always, the festival was loaded with great Bay Area musicians: singer Claudia Villela, percussionist John Santos, trumpeters John Worley and Khalil Shaheed, trombonist Adam Theis, pianists Glen Pearson and Dahveed Behroozi, saxophonists Dayna Stevens and Dann Zinn, an explosive, rock-solid tenor player whose exchanges with trumpeter Julius Melendez made for some of Sunday afternoon's very best moments. (An admission: Zinn is my son's saxophone teacher.) [!]
Still, I didn't feel that pleasure-filled prickle of panic, which has sent me racing from stage to stage to sample the profusion of deep talent at past festivals. If you look at the lineups from recent years -- including the likes of Jason Moran, Greg Osby, Bobby Watson, Lizz Wright, Bobby Sanabria, Geri Allen, Mary Stallings, Babatunde Lea -- this year's came up short, jazz-wise.
For the thousandth time: maybe these are all GREAT performers, but I've never heard of any of them -- I suspect most in the Bay Area haven't heard of them -- and that's the problem for all the arts: great technical proficiency, perhaps, but not a single spark of the inspiration and uniqueness that make for enduring art. Anybody can play a trumpet; only one person could be Satchmo.
(Via ArtsJournal.com)