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Listeners, today we get to share our talk with music LEGEND, Pete Christlieb! 

We are so very honored to have him on our show and hope you enjoy and share it with us!

Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton

Pete Christlieb has been among my favorite saxophonists and all around musicians for the past forty to fifty years at least. His biography reads like a who's who in jazz and popular music and he has excelled at having an original identity as a jazz improviser as well as one of the top flight performers in ensemble contexts, whether big back, symphony or rock group.

Christlieb has been working as a musician since he left high school at age 16 and has so many great stories about his unique career.

It was an honor to get to sit down with him and talk about his life and music and I hope you get as much joy from this episode as we did recording it.

Pete Christlieb Biography

Born into a home filled with classical music, there was littlequestion about Pete Christlieb’s career path. Pete’s father, Don Christlieb was a world renowned double reed player. His distinctive sound was heard on more than 750 productions over 50 years at 20th Century Fox.

Pete started working professionally just out of High School. He did gigs at the Lighthouse as a sub for his teacher Bob Cooper. His father took Pete to The Carriage House in Burbank, (Later renamed to Chadnies) to sit in with pianist Jimmy Rowles. Jimmy liked his playing and became a big influence on Pete’s conception. Jimmy trained Pete in his unique approach to jazz, inviting him to come by and sit in on Sundays.

Sarah Vaughan came in to perform several times. They became friends for many years. He met Carmen McRae and was able to play and record with her too.

It was a seven year sprint. “It was like swinging from one vine to the next. one band would end and the next would begin.” Pete was ready for a change. He had been playing with Louie Bellson “He was like a father and a best friend,” Pete said of his association with Bellson. In those days serial TV shows would vacation in other towns during the summer, mostly to get out of New York. Carson would take the Tonight Show to Los Angeles.” Carson productions was looking for musicians to fill out the band stand in Los Angles and asked Louie for some players to come in. He recommended Christlieb for the two week gig and again the next year. When the tonight show moved to Los Angels Pete was asked to join the band on a permanent basis, that became 20 years with the tonight show.

Pete was a regular at Dante’s , The Baked Potato and Al Fonses playing with other jazz greats like his favorites, Frank Rossolino and Conte Condoli.

Pete started Bosco records, his great dane’s namesake, and recorded his first solo Album, Self Portrait in 1981. These were followed by Going My Way & Dino’s Live and several others. Pete is well known for his albums with other tenor sax greats Bob Cooper, Warne Marsh, Gene Ammons, Don Lamphere, Hadley Caliman, Ferdinand Polvel, Ernie Watts & Rickey Woodard. Pete produced records for other artists including Louie

Bellson, Don’t Stop Now which earned him one of three Grammy Nominations for best jazz soloist.

He recorded an album with Freddy Hubbard. and has featured solos on Records and CDs like Natalie Cole’s “ Unforgettable.” The TV show, Family Guy featuring the Ron Jones Orchestra was recently added to his long list of credits. Pete continues to record with well-known musicians and recording artists.

Pete plays in his own quintet with wife Linda on trombone. Together they created the Tall and Small band, a ten piece band with their first CD out called “High On You.”

When asked if he didn’t become a musician what would he be doing with his life, he grins and says, “I’d probably be racing cars.”

Links to Pete’s beautiful works https://petechristlieb.com/

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On this, the seventh part of our Aesthetics series, I continue with a discussion of the power of artistic and cultural change from the early and middle 20th century until our own.



The examples will come from music, prose and visual work, and from the commercial as well as the independent and alternative worlds.

DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

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On this, the fourth episode of my series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind we continue with a close reading and discussion of Volume 1, Thinking.

More insights on this special, ongoing series from your host, Mitch Hampton:

Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind”
Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have Thinking and Willing, finally published in 1977.
Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece.

Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see)

I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre)
This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others.

Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author. Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love.

The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast.
Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method.
My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did.

As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions.

#hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema


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“The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre”

Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton
“Among the many film influences upon my consciousness, the two early films of Wes Craven, Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes have to be included as important. Given that I think the "auteur" theory is partly correct I followed all the pictures he made subsequently in the 1980s and 90s.

Will Dodson is among those scholars and intellectuals who takes popular culture most seriously and it was a joy to talk with about some of our common interests and loves.”

Will’s Bio and Links:
Will Dodson is the Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, where he teaches rhetoric, literature, film and media studies.
He is the co-editor of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper.
His work has been published in Film International, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and elsewhere. His most recent essays are "'Why are You Doing This!?!' Having Flashbacks in The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2," included in ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and "Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Craven's Television Films," included in A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).

Links to Will’s Social Media and works: https://unity.edu/faculty/dr-will-dodson/ https://twitter.com/wdodson52?lang=en https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP https://www.instagram.com/wdodson52/

Links to Will’s Books:
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anthempress.com

Link to Will’s Amazon author page
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP/ allbooks? ingress=0&visitId=a9dc8a7d-5468-4ec6-8722- bf894b059594

About the author
Dr. Dodson is the Ashby and Strong Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro. He teaches courses on rhetoric, literature, and film, with a focus on exploitation and marginalized literature and cinema. He has published essays on Tod Browning, Jess Franco, Hugo Haas and Shirley Jackson, and various film genres in edited collections and journals including Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film International, and MONSTRUM. He is the co-editor, with David A. Cook, of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in Global Cinema, a book series on exploitation films and filmmakers and the various ways in which they have subsidized mainstream cinema and culture and have represented marginalized identities. He is the co-editor with Kristopher Woofter of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press, 2021).

Most recently, Dodson and Woofter recorded an audio commentary for the Kino-Lorber Blu-ray release of Tobe Hooper's "I'm Dangerous Tonight," for release in July, 2022.

Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema - Series - Humanities, Literature and Arts

#film #mediastudies #horror #carolclover #genre #bmovies #grindhouse #erotica #susanlucci #nevecampbell #johncarpenter #gothic #drewbarrymore #courteneycox #lindablair #leepurcell #frandrescher #tvmovie #television #wescraven #scream #davidhess #itsonlyamovie #davidarquette #kevinwilliamson #dawsonscreek #michellewilliams #jamesvanderbeek #katieholmes #joshuajackson #paulacole #1970s #1980s #1990s #nightmareonelmstreet #robertenglund #freddiekreuger #johnnydepp #ytk #2000s


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Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for Part 6 of your host Mitch Hampton's ongoing Aesthetic series!More to come on this series and thanks for making it a huge success with us!

More on this stream, here:"This is the sixth part of my series on Aesthetics.

Most of what I will discuss will be announced in the episode, but it might be, in part, music related."

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In this, our second episode of the series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, we dig deep into the first chapter of the first volume; Thinking.

More on this ongoing series, here:

Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind”

Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have Thinking and Willing, finally published in 1977.

Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece.

Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see)

I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre)
This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others.
Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author.

Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love.

The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast.
Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method.
My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did.

As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions.

#hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema


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