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Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Portland.
Probably the finest jazz orchestra in the world features not just trumpeter/composer Marsalis’s richly colorful originals but also classics by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and contemporary big band composers and is a must see for big band fans. Thara Memory’s American Music Project, which so impressed Marsalis when he named them the winners of a major competition in New York last year, opens.
October 12 Cozmic Pizza, Eugene, and October 13, Mississippi Studios, Portland.
Hammond B-3 and clavinet champ Wil Blades’s duo with Scott Amendola, probably the Bay Area’s busiest jazz drummer, echoes those groovy jazz organ-drum-bass trios of the 1950s and ‘60s but adds modern rhythms and harmonies. They’ve played with Nels Cline, John Zorn, John Scofield and plenty more.
October 12, Talent Club, Talent, October 13, Sam Bond’s Garage, Eugene, October 14, Mississippi Studios, Portland.
Matt Chamberlain is well known for drumming with jazz stars like Bill Frisell, Herbie Hancock, and Brad Mehldau along with pop singers like David Bowie, Fiona Apple, and Morrissey. He and keyboardist Brian Haas, who leads the groovy Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, deliver strutting 21st century jazz/funk on their new album Prome Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas 946372172X, 9789463721721
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Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas
Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas
Holly Walters
Amsterdam University Press
Cover illustration: Mustang, Nepal, 2016 Photo taken by the author Cover design: Coördesign, Leiden Typesetting: Crius Group, Hulshout isbn e-isbn doi nur
978 94 6372 172 1 978 90 4855 014 2 (pdf) 10.5117/9789463721721 740
© Holly Walters / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2020 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book.
a For my husband, Chris, the incomparable householder b
“Om Namo Bhagavathey Vishnavey Sri Salagrama Nivasiney – Sarva Bheesta Bhalapradhaya Sakala Thuridha Nivarine Salagrama Swahah!” − Salagrama mula mantra (From Shaligram Mahimai by Murali Battar) (I pray that the LORD Sriman Mahavishnu – who is residing inside the Salagrama, which provides all wishes, fulfills all desires – quickly answer all our prayers)
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
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Note on Transliteration
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1 Living Fossils
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Impressions of a Once and Future World
Moving in Time with Life A Lifetime of Movement Deities as Multispecies Precious Persons of Stone What is a Shaligram? Writing an Inconstant World Into the Foothills Structure of This Book 2 Spiral Notebooks
A Multi-Local Shaligram Ethnography
Bodies and Landscapes Living History An Ethnography of Mobility in Time and Place Keeping Up with Shaligrams The Practice of Shaligram Ethnography Tangled Up in Texts The View from Ten-Thousand Feet 3 Picked-Up Pieces
Constructing a History of