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© San Francisco Chronicle

Don Asher performing at Moose’s in San Francisco’s North Beach, 2004

Donald Joseph Asher 3/7/26 – 8/25/10 Don’s passing is deeply mourned by his brother, Herb, and his companion Jackie, with whom he had daily support and contact through his illness. Don was a charming and engaging gentleman who will be remembered by and missed by a wide circle of friends. After publishing his first story in Saturday Evening Post, he authored 9 books of fiction and an “autobiography” with Hampton Hawes as well as numerous articles and stories in various publications. His most recent work, co-authored with Lois Goodwill, will be released in summer 2011. As a teen, Don studied piano with Jackie Byard, with whom he had a lifelong friendship …

To read this San Francisco Chronicle obituary in its entirety, click this link

Read “Experiments in Chemistry and Jazz” by Don Asher (Harper’s, May 1999)

Check back for Al Young’s personal recollections of Don Asher

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Photo: Al Hastings

Edward B. Bigelow

Photographer, writer, musician, designer, tech historian, philosopher, husband, stepfather, grandfather, gourmand, caring citizen, genius computer guru, and friend

Kathryn Wilder’s obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle of Sunday, 22 August 2010

Edward Burr Bigelow — of Ha`iku, Maui and Palo Alto, California — died on August 11 at his California home. Bigelow was born in Chicago on May 21, 1937, and moved to the Bay Area with his family in the 1940s. A graduate of Indiana’s Purdue University, he traveled widely and served as an apprentice photographer in Munich before developing a successful career as a freelance photographer in the Bay Area, where he worked for Sunset Books and numerous Silicon Valley companies. Bigelow’s interest in energy conservation led to his appointment as Deputy Director of Pennsylvania’s Energy Council in the 1980s. In later years Bigelow became a professional computer consultant, and computer guru for family and friends …

Read this obituary in its entirety at sfgate.com

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Kapukaulua (Pa`ia, Maui) © 2007 by Edward Bigelow

Click image to experience Ed Bigelow’s 360-degree digital photography

EBigFoto.com

Sign the Guestbook at Legacy.com

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© Riverside Records Abbey and Max Roach, 1962

“I started out being a sexy young thing in a Marilyn Monroe dress,” she told The New York Times in 2000, “and Max Roach freed me from that.”

Courtesy The New Black Magazine

When I’m called home
I will bring a book
That tells of strange and funny turns
And of the heart it took
To keep on living in a world that never was my own
A world of haunted memories of other worlds unknown

—Abbey Lincoln’s lyric to “When I’m Called Home”

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Abbey Sings Abbey

NPR’s Jazz Profiles: Abbey Lincoln

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The New York Times obituary by Nate Chinen
(14 August 2010)

The Abbey Lincoln web page at Verve

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Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon that would end the Internet as we know it.

Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers

By EDWARD WYATT
Published: August 4, 2010
The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege ….

Read the New York Times story in its entirety

AlYoung.org urges you to

© Theresa D’Onofrio

Save the Internet

savetheinternet.com

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“It was Daniel Schorr’s lucidity that regularly made me crank up the volume when I heard his voice at NPR. Not only were his commentaries caringly researched and clearly thought-out, his news analyses often clashed with NPR’s smooth pro-Pentagon line. Schorr was one of the last broadcast journalists who consider facts and evidence in filing a report or voicing an opinion. He was and remains a treasure.” — Al Young

• Journalism Legend Daniel Schorr Dies At 93
by Alan Greenblatt

Dear Listeners:

Here at KALW, we’ve just received the news that longtime NPR News analyst Daniel Schorr died peacefully this morning in the company of his family, at age 93.

Daniel Schorr was not only a well-known voice to public radio listeners, he was an important figure in the history of
American journalism.  In the words of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller:

“It’s impossible to overestimate Dan’s impact on journalism – from his early days working with Edward R. Murrow, to the founding of CNN, to the last 25 years as NPR’s news analyst, a familiar and beloved voice to millions of listeners. Every one of us who happened to see Dan coming in to work — walking a little more slowly with time but with a razor-sharp wit and warmth that never dimmed – learned a lesson in the dedication, determination, and integrity that it takes to be the best. He was.”

KALW will broadcast NPR’s memorial special on the life and career of Daniel Schorr this evening at 6pm.  And tomorrow morning on Weekend Edition, Scott Simon will give his remembrances of Schorr.

You can learn more about Schorr’s career and post your recollections of his work at the Daniel Schorr tribute page at NPR.org.

Matt Martin
General Manager, KALW

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• Daniel Schorr at Wikipedia

Daniel Schorr’s Facebook page

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