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.
Congratulations are in order as Jim Marshall’s “The Rolling Stones 1972” book, featuring a foreward by Keith Richards, intro by Joel Selvin and edited by Team Marsall’s talented, Michelle Dunn Marsh, continues to garner critical acclaim, press and sales.
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
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.
As this long, hot summer continues to rock much of the country, the super-cool visual treats from JMPLLC continue to roll as well with the recent launch of the uniquely satisfying “The Rolling Stones 1972, Photographs by Jim Marshall” exhibition at Seattle’s dynamic Experience Music Project Museum.
