Mark Leccese
@mleccese.bsky.social
Raconteur. Roustabout. Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Emerson College. Trumpet player. Bass player.
This is brilliant satire — moral outrage as humor.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is brilliant satire — moral outrage as humor.
Happy 71st to Pat Metheny, born in Lee's Ferry, Missouri. Berklee College of Music hired Metheny on the faculty when he was 19. Metheny's catalogue is rich and varied, but I'm particularly fond of his duet album with Charlie Haden, "Beneath the Missouri Sky." Check it out.
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Happy 71st to Pat Metheny, born in Lee's Ferry, Missouri. Berklee College of Music hired Metheny on the faculty when he was 19. Metheny's catalogue is rich and varied, but I'm particularly fond of his duet album with Charlie Haden, "Beneath the Missouri Sky." Check it out.
Not on YouTube’s closed captioning.
May 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not on YouTube’s closed captioning.
The old double-knit, belt-less uniform! Very ‘70s. Judging by the body language here Dewey is out. What an outfield that was: Rice-Lynn-Evans. And that is definitely Munson, who once had a mild disagreement with Carlton Fisk at home plate.
May 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The old double-knit, belt-less uniform! Very ‘70s. Judging by the body language here Dewey is out. What an outfield that was: Rice-Lynn-Evans. And that is definitely Munson, who once had a mild disagreement with Carlton Fisk at home plate.
Pope Francis on the Catholic clergy: “We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them.”
April 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Pope Francis on the Catholic clergy: “We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them.”
RIP the incredible man on the organ, Garth Hudson.
January 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
RIP the incredible man on the organ, Garth Hudson.
[storming out of Veneto] enjoy your prosecco chamber
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 AM
[storming out of Veneto] enjoy your prosecco chamber
My teacher and this book taught me how to walk a bass line.
November 9, 2024 at 2:17 AM
My teacher and this book taught me how to walk a bass line.
Released 40 years ago this week.
July 7, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Released 40 years ago this week.
His first album after his hiatus was, of course …
May 28, 2024 at 1:41 AM
His first album after his hiatus was, of course …
Robert Moog (pronounced “Mogue”) was born in NYC on May 23, 1934. I only know of two books about Moog, and my pick is “Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer,” by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco (2004, Harvard University Press). Some cool photos, too.
May 24, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Robert Moog (pronounced “Mogue”) was born in NYC on May 23, 1934. I only know of two books about Moog, and my pick is “Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer,” by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco (2004, Harvard University Press). Some cool photos, too.
NYC was the center of a graphic design renaissance in the ‘50s and ‘60s and ‘70s, and this is proof. The sound quality is definitely pre-contemporary, alas. The album was reissued three decades later with this cover.
April 21, 2024 at 12:01 AM
NYC was the center of a graphic design renaissance in the ‘50s and ‘60s and ‘70s, and this is proof. The sound quality is definitely pre-contemporary, alas. The album was reissued three decades later with this cover.
The legend is that the bandstand at the club was so small it couldn’t fit a piano.
April 3, 2024 at 5:04 PM
The legend is that the bandstand at the club was so small it couldn’t fit a piano.
Been listening to the sort of forgotten Monk album from 1959. Where have you gone, Riverside Records?
February 21, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Been listening to the sort of forgotten Monk album from 1959. Where have you gone, Riverside Records?
The anti-free speech lawsuit was filed in Texas because X has hundreds of millions all over the world. Also Texas is in the world.
November 21, 2023 at 1:11 AM
The anti-free speech lawsuit was filed in Texas because X has hundreds of millions all over the world. Also Texas is in the world.
For Veterans Day: Gaetano Leccese, Ship’s Carpenter, USS Antietam, 1950s.
November 10, 2023 at 6:12 PM
For Veterans Day: Gaetano Leccese, Ship’s Carpenter, USS Antietam, 1950s.
Speaker of the House candidates logging on to the Republican Caucus website.
October 25, 2023 at 12:14 AM
Speaker of the House candidates logging on to the Republican Caucus website.
Bruce Bochy’s hat size is 8 1/8 and the Rangers manager has, according to Baseball Reference, “one of the largest heads in major league history.”
I’m rooting for him.
I’m rooting for him.
October 16, 2023 at 11:03 PM
Bruce Bochy’s hat size is 8 1/8 and the Rangers manager has, according to Baseball Reference, “one of the largest heads in major league history.”
I’m rooting for him.
I’m rooting for him.