IN WINTER LIGHT
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Winter window
Google headquarters, Mountain View, CA  | © Google
Assim Shankar
Julia Li, Google Strategic Partner, hosts Al Young, December 2008
Prelude to Al’s Authors@Google presentation
Now retrievable 24/7 at YouTube, the Al Young Authors@Google talk recedes in time — but not in memory.
Publisher Malcolm Margolin; Gary Snyder, legendary Pulitzer poet-bodhisattva, and Al Young at the second annual Heyday Books fundraiser, the Hillside Club, Berkeley 2008
Jim Dennis
Al and Dan Robbins in ardent performance for Heyday Books Night at the Hillside Club
Jim Dennis
Dan Robbins and Al Young smiling to know that The Sea, The Sky & You & I, their long-awaited compact disc, will come out on Bardo Digital in February 2009 .
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December moon shot from sundeck  | Al Young
Michael Young and composer-saxophonist-educator Roscoe Mitchell at Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, December 13, 2008.  “Roscoe was great,” Michael writes. “Serene, graceful,
even austere — like a mystic zen priest with a horn.” The occasion was a commemorative celebration of poet Bob Kaufman — Does the Secret Mind Whisper? — produced by Justin Desmangles.
Photo: Jenifer Nogaki
Holiday window with ice lights, December 2008 | Â Â Al Young
Taj Mahal and Al at Anna’s Jazz Island, December 2008
Photo: Adelle Foley
Al Young and Ishmael Reed converse with (backs turned) Taj Mahal and Anna de LeĂłn following the 2008 American Book Awards presentations at Anna’s Jazz Island |  © 2008 Carl Martineau
Al Young outside Anna’s Jazz Island, December 2008 |  © Carl Martineau
With wife-husband authors Persis Karim and Craig Strang at their 2008 Christmas/Chanukah gathering to celebrate Craig and his birthday. |Â Â Photo: Xochitil Seguera
Trumpeter-bandleader David Hardiman, drummers Willis Kirk and Akira Tana with poet Al Young backstage at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music during the January 12, 2009 celebration of the life and work of percussionist-composer Omar Clay (1935-2008). | Photo © Kathy Sloane
Master pianist Larry Vukovich with Al Young following their Omar Clay Tribute at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, January 2009
Big moon, San Francisco, January 2009Â Â | Al Young
Aimee Allison hosting the 5th Annual KPFA Peace Awards to nine outstanding members of the peace and social justice community, Oakland, CA, 18 January 2009 | Photo: Al Young
KPFA’s Aimee Allison with Al Young following the KPFA Peace Awards |Â Photo: Brian Edwards-Tiekert
Blues-Eyed, the Marc Silber Trio, plays to a packed house at Strings in Berkeley, CA, February 2009. Marc Silber at left (vocals and guitar), Michael Hubbert, middle (cuattro, harmonica, clarinet), Rod Glaubman at right (guitar soloist). Â | Photo: Al Young
Photo: Carl Martineau
Al Young and Marc Silber captured again by cell phone cam in front of Berkeley’s French Hotel, February 2009
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