LIVE FROM PIPING LIVE! It's never unalloyed, is it?

Joy, diluted It's been the absolute fastest moving five days of non-stop music I've ever known. Can't believe Piping Live! — aka the Glasgow International Bagpipe Festival — is all over but the After Worlds Shindig. Worlds refers to the World Championship Pipe Band competition now underway on Glasgow Green. Music on a smaller scale is what I'm after, what I've had, with pipe bands practicing in the courtyard of this student residence. Pure magic of accessible scale shall not be spoiled by a seething crowd of 40K and hustling parades of band after band. So what is it that has diluted the joy you ask? Time to send prayers up for the memory of Steve Jordan, brilliant tejano musician. He is released from the suffering that liver cancer brought on, passing on his regular Salute's gig night.

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LIVE FROM PIPING LIVE! It's never unalloyed, is it?

POSTED: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 11:31 AM

Filed Under: In Memoriam | Music

Joy, diluted It's been the absolute fastest moving five days of non-stop music I've ever known. Can't believe Piping Live! — aka the Glasgow International Bagpipe Festival — is all over but the After Worlds Shindig. Worlds refers to the World Championship Pipe Band competition now underway on Glasgow Green. Music on a smaller scale is what I'm after, what I've had, with pipe bands practicing in the courtyard of this student residence. Pure magic of accessible scale shall not be spoiled by a seething crowd of 40K and hustling parades of band after band. So what is it that has diluted the joy you ask? Time to send prayers up for the memory of Steve Jordan, brilliant tejano musician. He is released from the suffering that liver cancer brought on, passing on his regular Salute's gig night.

If you have an hour to spare there is no better way to get into Steve Jordan's music and life than this LatinoUSA radio show with slide presentations.

Check back here in days to come, there will be handcrafted — yes, that means ragged-but-right — clips of amazing music from Glasgow. RELATED: No Rules: The Life & Music of Esteban 'Steve' Jordan from NPR's Latino USA on Vimeo.

Fred Soriano

Posted 2010-08-18 12:13:41

Just got the news. He was a close frien of Mr. Bob Garza and even lived with Bob and Jredans sons. My condolences.

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