Kaunsi Kanada in Los Angeles an Evening with Michael Jackson by Michael Erick Robinovitza Longhi (Michael Robinson)

when i have some extra time I will write about the night i hung out with michael jackson and he was very cool like a hurricane but also very sweet and wherever we went that night people just stared and parted like the red sea and were in awe of him but to me he was just another musician who was unable to find a doctor who he trusted because they did not treat him like a human being instead they saw him as a money train so I guess I'm lucky not to have any money but girls like me anyway every one I ever dated wanted to marry me for some reason like what I have does not grow on trees the autumn leaves drift by my window the autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips the summer kisses the ripples of boxes of rain in the morning star stella by starlight the night the music of laura nyro is another article I wrote about a female musician I love and who elton and everyone else admired including Miley sorry I got distracted tonight (another time) is a song by Leonard Bernstein who I used to dance next to at Tanglewood where the living is easy fish are jumping and the cotton is high to be continued I suppose I got plenty of nothing John Cage who I knew pretty well except for a danish princess and a polynesian woman and I do not talk about my personal life except when it pertains to music he writes the songs Barry I just try to sing sometimes a great notion I got rhythm who could ask for anything more mona lisa steinfeld barry barrye joni mitchell Sade hi again and Stevie Nicks my hand is getting tired of writing while attempting to drink a glass of pink champaign with pink who is a real nuisance sometimes written before she was married I was told by her and it was true then absolutely power Clint who likes to talk about jazz I like to sail with Paul Gleicher once upon a time in the mysterious east coastal lake veronica lois melanie griffith said hi one night so I ignored her daughter and Don Swanson this is what happens when an innocent avant garde composer from Jones Beach winds up in the Promised Land with

She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene I said, "Don't mind, but what do you mean, I am the one Who will dance on the floor in the round?" She said I am the one Who will dance on the floor in the round She told me her name was Billie Jean as she caused a scene Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of bein' the one Who will dance on the floor in the round

People always told me, "Be careful of what you do Don't go around breakin' young girls' hearts" (hee-hee) And mother always told me, "Be careful of who you love And be careful of what you do (oh-oh) 'Cause the lie becomes the truth" (oh-oh), hey-ey

Billie Jean is not my lover She's just a girl who claims that I am the one (oh, baby) But the kid is not my son (hoo) She says I am the one (oh, baby) But the kid is not my son (hee-hee-hee, no-no, hee-hee-hee, hoo)

For forty days and for forty nights, law was on her side But who can stand when she's in demand? Her schemes and plans 'Cause we danced on the floor in the round (hee) So take my strong advice Just remember to always think twice (Do think twice) do think twice (ah-hoo) She told my baby we'd danced 'til three, then she looked at me Then showed a photo of a baby cryin', his eyes were like mine (oh, no) Go and dance on the floor in the round, baby (ooh, hee-hee-hee)

People always told me, "Be careful of what you do And don't go around breakin' young girls' hearts" (don't break no hearts, hee-hee) But she came and stood right by me Just the smell of sweet perfume This happened much too soon She called me to her room, hey-ey

imploring him to play even though he was hired to be the main feature by the daughter of Herb Alpert etc except for composer songwriter gatra vina artist Bob's daughter who is dying to meet me miss you people think I'm crazy why you make me wait so longhi was in a poem by william butler yeats I will arise and go now one of my teachers knew the daughter and son of yeats and her teacher knew him very well in Ireland and England but not America I think its time for me to go to bed now good night sleep tight ringo thanks to your wife glad to show your some of my mind kitty still have that kind of blue shirt and the red one I wore the night I met George Harrison not the lead singer but the lead guitarist of a band from Liverpool named the Beatles so baby pull me over Halsey I can't stop unless there are no more oranges kiss me kirvani.

- Michael Eric Robinson Longhi, December 2024, Los Angeles

Michael Eric Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles and Hawaii-based composer, programmer, pianist and musicologist. His 200 albums include 153 albums for meruvina featured on National Public Rado, Pacifica Radio and University, College and Public radio stations across America in addition to the rest of the world.

There are also currently 47 albums of piano improvisations both solo and duet with Guruji Anindo Chatterjee of India and Eliot Zigmund of the Bill Evans Trio both among the greatest percussionists in recorded history.

Michael's primary jazz teacher was alto saxophonist Lee Konitz of the Lennie Tristano Quartet who would fill in for Charlie Parker when he was indisposed joined by Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus and Max Roach, lead soloist with the Stan Kenton Orchestra that included Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Levey and Bird, led a quartet featuring Billy Bauer, Don Bagley, Arnold Fishkin, Miles Davis and Roach, performed at the first Newport Jazz Festival with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond and Joe Morello before becoming strictly a solo artist with various accompanying musicians like Hal Galper, Chick Corea, Red Mitchell, Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Peggy Stern, Blue Mitchell, Bill Evans, Alan Dawson, Phil Woods, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, also Hank Freeman of the original Artie Shaw Orchestra who recorded Begin the Beguine and Dinah Washington would later never record without him playing lead alto, Charlie Colin, Rollan Masciarelli from Columbia University in NYC, Ray Shiner of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra who earlier did the arrangements for Benny Goodman (he being Lee and Bird's primary jazz Guru together with Lester Young, Lennie, Artie and Louis Armstrong) and New York Philharmonic, Reggie Johnson featured on Archie Shep's greatest album, Makambo Ken McIntyre who founded the first jazz program in the USA and Paul Jeffrey of the Thelonious Monk Quartet.

His primary Western Classical Music composition teachers were Adele Berk, Don Funes, John Cage and Steve Reich, also Morton Feldman, Leonard Bernstein, Gunther Schuller, John Chowning, La Monte Young, Robert Washburn, Eliot Del Borgo, James Ball, Arthur Frackenpohl and Perry Yaw.

Longhi's primary North Indian Classical Music teachers were Harihar Rao of UCLA, the senior disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar who invited Michael to study with him too, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma who reinvented the ancient folk music instrument Voice of A Hundred Colours the Indian santoor which is a powerfully influential precursor of our Western keyboard instruments including the piano anticipating Robinson's Meruvina realization and conecption, Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy of the Oriental Music School in London, England who was born in a Palace on the Indian Ocean in Bombay a Hindu family that converted to Islam working in forest trees, Pandit Jasraj The Sun of Music in India, Popat Savla, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Ram Narayan and N. Rajam from recordings, Kala Ramnath, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and his current Guruji is Pandit Anindo Chatterjee.

His over 400 essays mostly about music have been used by Carnegie Hall, New York University, the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles and New York University.

Michael has been a lecturer at UCLA, Bard College and California State University Long Beach and Dominguez Hills, the Pasadena California Libraries and Wantagh High School in Nassau County on the South Shore of Long Island in the State of New York.

Robinson has performed in the New York City Libraries, the Beverly Hills California Library, La Mama La Galleria and the Knitting Factory in Manhattan, Hunter College of New York City University and myriad churches in Manhattan New York City, Los Angeles County including the first Film Festival of India and Maui Hawaii to name a few.

Michael was born in French Hospital in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan later named Chelsea where The Godfather was later filmed and has lived in Borough Park Brooklyn, North Merrick in Nassau County Long Island, Wantagh named for a Chief of the Montauk Native Americans, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles California and Kapalua and Kula Maui Hawaii the Aloha State.

The above bio is a brief ongoing summation due to limitations of time and Akasha and have everything to do with Johnny Winter an albino from Texas being the greatest rock guitarist in recorded history the electric guitar being the essence of rock, the piano the essence of past Western classical music, the saxophone being the essence of jazz and the Meruvina being the essence of computer music the current chief manisfestaion of Western Classical Music.

Michael will soon be adding alto and tenor saxophone recordings to his oeuvre together with the gatra vina.