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| Nathan Oliveira (2009) | |
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| Oakland-born Nathan Oliveira is a world-famous painter, print-maker and sculptor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the return to figure-painting which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1950s, although he stubbornly went his own way and has followed it for over half a century. He became a Guggenheim fellow, is a veteran of a hundred or more solo and group shows, and has received too many distinguished awards to list.
Nathan taught painting for many years in Oakland and at Stanford University, from which latter position he retired a decade or so ago. Nathan is also a musician, having taken up trumpet at an early age. Perhaps it was this background which led him to host many musicians at his studios at Stanford, such as Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, and André Previn, many of whom became his close friends. The musical vibe chez Oliveira must have been strong, because his son, Joe, became a jazz saxophonist good enough to perform live with Getz. Nathan's art, like the music he loves, reflects a deep sensuality and emotion in motion and space. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | Joe Henderson | Page One | Out of the Night | (Blue Note) |
| # 2 | Bill Frisell | Blues Dream | Outlaws | Elektra/Asylum |
| # 3 | Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz | Diz and Getz | It Don't Mean a Thing | (Verve) |
| # 4 | Joe Lovano | Celebrating Sinatra | Chicago | (Blue Note) |
| # 5 | Howard McGhee | Maggie's Back in Town | Summertime | (OJC) |
| # 6 | Keith Jarrett | At the Deer Head Inn | Solar | (ECM) |
| # 7 | Stan Getz | Voyage | I Thought about You | (Black Hawk) |
| Book | Robert Hughes, "Goya" | |||
| Luxury Item | Two or three thousand sheets of paper, and enough drawing implements. | |||
| Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |