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Outside Lands

August 15, 2010 by · Comments Off on Outside Lands 

Outside Lands, SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – A weekend of music inside the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. But the festival outside the lands is to create chaotic traffic in the neighborhood surrounding the park.

Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park quickly filled with concert-goers on land outside Saturday morning. While the mood was festive, park outside the Sunset and Richmond districts, traffic is reduced to a crawl especially in Fulton and Lincoln.

Many of these cars full of subscribers are trying to find parking in the car already congested neighborhoods.

“We’ve had people asking us if we can park on the access roads throughout the day. Unfortunately, you get towed in this neighborhood if you park in someone’s driveway, so it’s a problem,” said Marissa residents Chavarria Richmond District.

Other residents say the crowd expected 100 people this weekend really is not much.

“Not so loud, not as many people driving and on the street. This is probably three times the amount of traffic it receives on a normal weekend,” said Richmond District resident Elliot Gittleman.

James Connor said that the increase in traffic is not a problem. In fact, her helped her garage sale.

“Everything is very quiet, traffic has been pretty good. No problems here,” he said.

Many of the attendees apparently got the message that parking would be difficult. One by one people dropped taxi on the way to the park and Muni buses were filled to overflowing.

Muni increased its service with the rescheduling of its pilots to coincide with the crowds, especially after the concert lets out tonight.

“We know we’re going to have to add extra service after the concert and that’s what we do,” Muni spokesman Paul Rose said.

That’s good news for Chavarria. She said that Muni service last year after the concert was too slow.

“After the concert, everyone is stuck waiting for public transport. What happens is all concert goers hanging in their beer hall. It’s really a nuisance,” he said.

The developers said they’re going to be good neighbors, have two skid trails ready to tow vehicles that park illegally. The festival will continue tomorrow.

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Abbey Lincoln

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Abbey Lincoln, Abbey Lincoln jazz vocalist and talented author in the 60s his career altered by the then-controversial cause of civil rights, died on Saturday in New York. He was 80.

A native of Chicago, Lincoln was also a noted actress who worked with Sidney Poitier in the 1968 comedy, “For Love of Ivy,” in which she played a girl who was looking for career advancement. She also appeared in many television programs in the 70s.

But Lincoln left his most indelible mark on jazz, mainly as a vocalist in a subtle, stately and intense ultimately, who worked with great form. Influenced by Billie Holiday, who played with the dynamic and sang behind the beat of the song when warranted, the addition of sensuality and depth of knowledge to the lyrics.

In 1960, she and drummer Max Roach, who would become her husband two years later, he recorded “We insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite” with lyrics by Oscar Brown and accompanied by Roach, Coleman Hawkins and others, Lincoln sang oppression faced by generations of African Americans and the continuing struggle for freedom and opportunity, their actions ranging from moaning as if in anguish to the strong vocal flights. He was far from standard fare for jazz artists. In ’61, he released “Straight Ahead” in which she fronted a combo that included Roach, Hawkins, EricDolphy and Mal Waldron. For recording, wrote lyrics to “Blue Monk Thelonious Monk.”

For much of the ’70s and in the last 80 years, Lincoln has not recorded much, but in the ’90s, re-emerged as a unique interpreter of the song and began a series of albums of Jean-Philippe Allard that jazz mixing rules, the re-imagined occasional pop melody, and above all, his compositions. In ’97, he released his final masterpiece of the period, “Abbey Sings Abbey”, which served its membership arrangements minimized, not unlike the class and then used by Cassandra Wilson, for whom he served as a influence. She revisited “Blue Monk” as an acoustic blues offering “and is supposed to be Love” with a touch of country and sang “Bird Alone”, which started with StanGetz a decade ago as a jazz ballad, like a drunk The baleful lament. She delivered what may be his most moving, “Throw It Away,” accompanied by a nylon string guitar and accordion, voice, tired perhaps more than ever affected.

“Abbey Sings Abbey” was his last album of new material released during his lifetime. A box, “Over the years,” was published earlier this year. Like “We insist!” Y “Abbey Sings Abbey”, the set of 37 songs is a testament to a woman of many talents who voluntarily became the joy and pain of life into art for the benefit of those who heard and felt her song.

Listen to Lincoln to perform “Throw It Away.”

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