Seeing Sharon Freeman's name on the cover of this Haden recording reminded me that most people (probably) don't know who she is. (1/3) Here's some web content: 1. Excellent profile: www.alexvhenderson.com/arts__entert... 2. Piano Jazz appearance: www.npr.org/2015/05/08/4...

now playing [cd - ECM 1248 / 811 546-2]

westonolencki.bandcamp.com jordanperry1.bandcamp.com birdsinthemeadow.bandcamp.com/album/romance

The real reason Daniel Day-Lewis came out of retirement was so that @isaacbutler.bsky.social could write about him

apropos of nothing/everything youtu.be/zW0wnEkZ6x8?...

ca. 1970 Don "Sugarcane" Harris "Keep On Driving" Don "Sugarcane" Harris – electric violin, bass guitar Tony Oxley – drums, amplified percussion John Taylor – electric piano Volker Kriegel – guitar #LateNightListening #MPS #JazzFusion ⬇️

This is a pretty incredible video that I didn't know existed. Grachan Moncour III trombone, Roland Alexander tenor saxpphone, Dave Burrell piano, Jymie Merritt bass, Buzzy vocals, Beaver Harris drums: youtu.be/i-ya9sL3f3g?...

Melvin Gibbs has a new album coming out next week. Three tracks can be previewed right now - they're all great. Also, it's cover is a close-up of a Peacock Mantis Shrimp (I think) and it's great, too.

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Christian Scott) Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (2023)

I think the thing with swift is just as plain as it always has been: it's about whiteness, and the narcissism of elevating the specifically mundane/banal dramas of white normativity into epic struggles, which is why it overlaps with right wing grievance politics affectively if not literally.

now playing [cd - ECM 1230 / 829 199-2]

This is the pianist whose playing was used in the film "Elvira Madigan"

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now playing [cd - Cuneiform Rune 200] info - looks to be OOP on CD - avaialble as digital download here: cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/way-ba...

For your professional goals, make a habit of just steadily putting points on the board, consistently doing a little bit steadily, even if you’re bad at it sometimes. You’ll be amazed at how quickly successes start to compound. Don’t let your job get in the way of your career.

good morning [cd - Parlophone 5099962178723 (2012 reissue)]

Charlie Rees, of UK Jazz News, has posted a thoughtfully-curated selection of Jim McNeely cuts, including several of Jim’s arrangements. ukjazznews.com/10-tracks-i-...

on the air now until 11pm www.wrfi.org

Many years ago I got David Thomas Broughton to play at an art gallery. He’d just put out that album that melted my mind. Tour was with Doveman, and Sam was in his band. We picked up the PA together, borrowed from Ducktails/future Real Estate guy. Sam was so nice and wearing a huge cowboy hat.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

New old music! keitheisenbrey.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

Because as a guitar teacher I frequently have to teach this song, this @johnmoe.bsky.social piece is always relevant to me and I think of it often. You’d hide in a place that reminded you of hair? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/not...

This is such a wonderful essay about photography, the 'hand camera', privacy, consent, feminism and how capturing life in images can be used for good or ill. Really fascinating. (@flakphoto.news is a treasure trove) #photography

"if you wanted a glimpse into the probable future of American letters, you would do better to consult the roster of readers at the marathon event than the longlists of literary prizes" www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...

God, It's Brutal Out Here: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/god-its-br...

“We were once exceptional, people who beat the creative odds. We’d emerged victorious over the consistent urging to pursue a real career, a real-person job. Quickly, we’ve become a class of cautionary tales. The exceptionalism swings the other way, now.”

(from 2005/2006) Interview with Harris Eisenstadt www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/int...

vibe...

now playing [cd - Tzadik TZ 7618] info: www.discogs.com/release/1636... info (2): www.tzadik.com/index.php?ca...

South of the river on a Sunday.

Dude in the parking lot last night sent me this clip of me & Tatsuya Nakatani from 9/28/24 at The Warehouse RVA. One of the few gigs in the last 12 years I don't have a proper recording of.

Loved seeing this having written about the Britten/Auden collaboration ages ago. An air cylinder and sandpaper were used to evoke the train’s pistons, and one of the producers, Harry Watt, told Britten not to write ‘any bloody highbrow stuff’.

“Improvised owl physio” Thread

100 years of Bill Dixon today. 3 hours of radio sounds like a good way to celebrate.

good morning [cd - CBS CDCBS 85545]

The acoustic is quite dry because it was recorded during lockdown in an apartment, but this is a great version of one of my favourite songs, Kurt Weill's Youkali. Sabine Devielhe, soprano. Raphael Pichon, piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVO...

Soundcheck in Strasbourg 🇫🇷 ⛪️

note to self: stop buying things

photography thread

How to Not Have a Good Time Record Shopping, a Checklist Go to a record fair, even though you don’t like them. Convince yourself that the vendor who was there last year blowing out his jazz CD collection for a buck a piece would be there again. Look for him and don’t find him. You admit, you’re a…

Marc Medwin's extensive essay on Keith Rowe was just published in surround journal. Profoundly insightful and a great read.