Vendor Writing
A Tribute to My Brother
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I lost my baby brother about two weeks ago, maybe a little bit longer.
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The Band Concurrence Shows How Music Can Transcend Destruction
On the Harbor Stage at the 2026 Newport Jazz Festival on July 31, bassist Greg Bryant and pianist Paul Horton of Concurrence were playing their way through the history of North Nashville: the clubs and communities that once surrounded Jefferson Street, the construction of Interstate 40 through them and the musical possibilities that disappeared with the physical places that had sustained them. The pair were showing that what is gone can still have life in music. Halfway through the duo’s Newport Jazz Festival debut set, Bryant asked the audience to consider where they were standing. Fort Adams had served as a summer White House during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, which meant that 70 years after Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a Black bassist from Nashville was standing on grounds associated with his presidency, performing music about what happened when the interstate system reached North Nashville.
I lost my baby brother about two weeks ago, maybe a little bit longer.
Part 2 of 3 of the true story of a wild (feral) cat colony over a 3-year time period.
My observations and involvement.
To obtain a good grasp of “self-preservation,” the sincerity of self accountability and self responsibility are two essential factors required to have a somewhat healthy relationship with ourselves. Within the growth cycle of our youth ages where we began to overlook the severe facts that were being taught and accepted them as being pressured into doing the right things in the correct way the, “cleaning up of our rooms,” the “taking out the trash,” the “cutting yards,” the “washing of cars or trucks,” and even the “helping the elderly and or neighbors” without seeking some kind of remuneration for our services only because our consciousness veered into a state of curiosity. That’s exactly when our choices become determinations, and the determining factors of what? As we venture into the “what abouts” the storms of life raged and hit us with miraculous ideas and upon these ideas came acquaintances in which come with their ideology that’s intriguing as well that leads us into becoming associates. Within the terrible terrains that all existence is playing on there are those that just can’t or won’t recall the teachings of “play nice” and “fair” only because whatever is nice and fair to one just might not be considered nice and fair to the next individual.
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