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#music #milesdavis #mitchhampton #booklunch #booktube #jazztube #musiceducation May 26 of this year of 2026 marked the Centennial of Miles Davis' birth. For this book lunch I will review and examine two books on jazz, making this the second time I have covered a nonfiction book on musical subject (Laurie Verchomin's The Big Love on Bill Evans being the other one). I purposely chose two rat...

 **Special Note: Alexandra's current workon view:The Great Mother's Dream: Metamorphosis as Power and Wisdom at Louisa Art Center LA, 7626 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles 5/12-8/17  I’m always delighted when Alexandra Carter returns to our podcast: not only do we discuss some interesting movies, many of which are titles she recommends but we get to spend time in her studio surrounded by her...

"All About Aesthetics": Return Guest Madame B in Paris and looking at Art and Culture Through A Gen X lens I always love when Madame Deb returns to the show; in certain respects this might be the most personal episode between Deb and myself thus far.  We take the deepest dive into the popular culture that were were raised on from the “ Long Seventies” especially made for t.v. movies as w...

#Tomstoppard #booklunch #JoanneDavisWoods #HermioneLee #books #booktube "Book Lunch": Hermione Lee's "Tom Stoppard: "A Life" with Joanne Davis WoodsWhen Tom Stoppard passed this past November we lost one of the genuine greats in the arts. His prolific creations, not only vast (and quite disparate) plays, but work in movies, radio and even significant political activism...

#concert #MitchHamptonTrio #jazz #jazztube #piano #livestream Mitch hampton on piano, Justin Watt on the drums and Zak Page on the bass play a musical blend of standards old and new and a couple of originals for the season.

#WillDodson #Comebacks #Gloria Monti #MitchHampton Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:I enjoyed the discussion with Will Dodson so much that I had to have him back for a second episode. I think this might be one of the few podcast episodes wherein we mention figures as varied as Jimmy Stewart, Woody Strode, John Ford, Chuck Vincent, Gloria Swanson, Fred Olen Ray, Wes Craven and Pam...

In this special topic episode of All About Aesthetics I discuss the ever present question of how film or cinema language represents famous and real life subjects in general and how such representation informs and affects the very divided audience and critic responses to Ryan Murphy's Love Story and other high profiles art objects and productions. On this outsized topic in the Arts questions of...

Travels With the Dark: Stories from humans in the “Limit-Experience” is our series concerning real occurrences of human beings when they are brought into or more aptly, up against “limit-experience”, a phrase from French and German philosophers that attempts to describe in the most general way what human beings undergo when they are thrust into situations that push them to their limits and conditi...

Travels With the Dark: Stories from humans in the “Limit-Experience” is our series concerning real occurrences of human beings when they are brought into or more aptly, up against “limit-experience”, a phrase from French and German philosophers that attempts to describe in the most general way what human beings undergo when they are thrust into situations that push them to their limits and conditi...

Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton Mark Winters has had thus far a remarkable run of careers by any estimation. After spending the first part of his life ensconced in the worlds of NASA, aerospace and the sciences he made the dramatic decision in his thirties to become a singer songwriter, one of whose signature songs is explicitly about “what it means to be human”, like the tagline...

#franksinatra #nancysinatra #booklunch #Franksinatramyfather In this "Book Lunch" we closely examine Nancy Sinatra's 1980s fantastic book , " Frank Sinatra, My Father" which we will use as a jumping off point to discuss physical art objects and reflect upon the power of archival photographs, memory and art in the 20th century. This "Book Lunch" will be less "...

#aesthetics #podcast #IsaiahBerlin #series A special thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for our finale episode ( 9) in our ongoing "All About Aesthetics "series centered around Isaiah Berlin and Romanticism.  This ongoing special multi part series roamed far and wide this past year and even with all of that, there is so much more to be said about the enduring, profound works of B...

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#poetry #philosophy #booklunch #MetaphysicalAnimals,This "Book Lunch" is a deep dive into the world of British philosophy of much of the twentieth century teeth century with a focus on 4 female philosophers who were giants in the arts as well as philosophy: Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Anscombe. This discussion will look at the viewpoint and prose styles of Cla...

#mitchhampton #DrKurtDaw #shakespeare #theatre #hamnet #life #podcast #folio #shakespeare Dr. Daw’s journey is in many respects similar one ideal or representative journey I have in mind for the journey of our podcast name. I have always felt that Shakespeare has a universal value and this episode was in many respects an expression in conversation of what such a phenomenon in art and culture could...

Fair Use- we are an educational channel! #jazzmusic #jazztube #concert #MitchHamptonTrio In this performance I play some of the most well known standards from the American Songbook as well as brand new compositions played for the first time, with Zack Page on the bass and Justin Watt on drums.

#podcast #mitchhampton #podcasttube In this, the second part of my discussion of what it is like to create this podcast, I discuss some of the cultural edcuation and personal biography that informs the show including the timeline of the 1980s though the middle 00s.

This is a special Valentines Book Lunch wherein I discussed with special guest Joanne all things Patti Smith, with a focus on Smith's newest Bread Of Angels. More on this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:A Special Valentine's Day Book Lunch Discussion: All things Patti Smith - with Joanne David WoodsWhen a writer as accomplished and simply great as Patti Smith comes out with a newish...

In this, the seventh episode of our series on Isaiah Berlin and romanticism, I take a break from the discussion of German philosophers Hamann and Herder to discuss the historical and political context of Berlin's original scholarship - the mid 20th century - and reflect on current receptions of that consequential and possibly misunderstood period. . #IsaiahBerlin #UK #facism #ColdWar #SamuelMo...

#podcast #podcasttips #mitchhampton #arts #culture #aesthetics #humanities Listeners, our first episode of 2026 features our host Mitch Hampton as he explores his journey creating and hosting this podcast. So much thought and care goes into our podcast and in this episode- we feature the podcast itself as an art form and means of expression, connection, creativity and community. We would love to s...

Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton I grew up with both bookstores and record stores.  Some of the first albums I bought were, aside from being large physical objects with quite elaborate artwork, were bought as part of the exploration inside of the record store.  More often than not this involved ten year old me talking to older people about the new Return To Forever or Weather Repo...

#booklunch #ThomasPynchon #ShadowTicket #fiction #onebattleafteranother #adaptation In this book lunch we celebrate that one of of the greatest novelists of our time has written a new book - Shadow Ticket. We are featuring return guest Joanne Davis Woods who knows so much about Pynchon and some of the context and environments of his novels. #OneBattleAfterAnother #adaptation #film #cinema #ThomasP...

#mitchhampton #IsaiahBerlin #romanticism #TomStoppard #arts #culture #podcast On this, the sixth episode of our miniseries on Isaiah Berlin and Romanticism, I continue to emphasize prose style and conclude the subject of the art of letter writing - with a couple of examples from Berlin's extensive correspondence with the then young Polish political philosopher and dissident Beata Polanowska-Sy...

#MitchHampton #piano #podcast #soloperformances In this Solo Episode for our main episode in November, I simply sit at the piano and tell stories of my journey over the decades with different aspects of music and art - from the 1970s through 2013 when I developed my solo piano concept.

#podcast #AndreasReckwitz #booklunch #SocietyofSingularities #reading #bookclub #mitchhampton This book lunch is an opportunity to take a break from multiple series on an author or series of books and devote attention to a single book. German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz is one of the precious few in a disappearing breed of public intellectuals - those who, like Charles Taylor or Marcel Gauchet, a...