28 September 2012
By m3jimphoto
September 28, 2012

Little Boxes: Jim, Malvina Reynolds and ‘Weeds’

  • Malvina Reynolds album cover
  • Malvina Reynolds
  • Malvina Reynolds with Pete Seeger
  • Malvina Reynolds
  • Malvina Reynolds

Ready for the next entry into our never-ending game of “Sixth Degrees of Jim Marshall?” It’s a game of finding connections and serendipitous linkages between Jim’s life and work and (fill in the blank important person or hugely popular happening or historic event) that we at Team Marshall never get tired of playing.

13 September 2012
23 August 2012
By m3jimphoto
August 23, 2012

A Love Supreme: Jim and the Coltrane Legacy

  • John Coltrane

I was reading the New York Times Sunday magazine recently and came across a lovely little piece on Ravi Coltrane, the son of the brilliant musicians, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and composer/pianist Alice Coltrane; the piece touted Ravi’s new album: “Spirit Fiction,” and right at the beginning of the story by Zachary Woolfe, I was thrilled to read the following: “ ‘Ambition sometimes gets a little out ahead of

9 August 2012
By m3jimphoto
August 9, 2012

Bright Moments: Jim’s Wonderful Gifts

  • Bright Moments
  • Bright moments pendant

This year marks only the third time since 1984 that my phone didn’t ring on August 5 to hear a certain unmistakeable voice rasp out “Happy Birthday, Michie!” And then Jim would remind me that he had never missed a year, remind me what a horrible curse it was that he had this affinity for Leos (his ex-wives were both August-born), recount how many years we had known each other and state emphatically that I was stuck with him, no matter what.

27 July 2012