New teaching article for my students iverson.substack.com/p/tt-564-bac...

New TT: iverson.substack.com/p/ray-harryh...

Barry Altschul is 83 today! a quick listen to his first album: iverson.substack.com/p/happy-birt...

NEW TT: I dug the new movie NO OTHER CHOICE, and use this tremendous moment in Donald Westlake reception as an opportunity to look at what can be a convoluted process: iverson.substack.com/p/tt-562-fro...

new year/new club

A 'Love Supreme' wasn’t just an album — it was a revelation. In this deep dive, @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social unpacks how Coltrane turned faith, risk, and sound into a language that still resonates today. www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

new iverson.substack.com/p/kerry-jame...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. Looking at two "old guy" movies - THE SHROUDS and THE ALTO KNIGHTS - after a long, weird year. Then I tenuously tie it into jazz and @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's book with Billy Hart. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

Jan 2 + 3 Jazz Genius (new NYC club) w. Joe Martin + Billy Hart Jan 8 The Century Room (Tucson) w. Colin McIlrath + Arthur Vint Jan 9 + 10 Sam First (LA) w. Jermaine Paul + Jonathan Pinson Jan 11 Black Cat (San Francisco) w. Mat Muntz + Scott Amendola

Picked up The Wynton Kelly Trio w/ George Coleman, live at the Left Bank Jazz Society, '68. In the liner notes is a Wynton quote, and it made me realize, I've never read an entire WK interview. Almost an interview, this semi-blindfold test is a treat : jazzjournal.co.uk/2020/11/19/j...

Looking forward to the Christopher Nolan version of THE ODYSSEY. This seems like a good aesthetic fit. I went out to the movies more in 2025 than in previous years: It was great! Enough with small screens at home!

Just watched a bootleg of the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, which is very well done. Will more people will watch it now than if CBS had just ran it as originally planned? archive.org/details/60mi...

it's pretty bad out there

TT wraps for '25 iverson.substack.com/p/last-post-...

Important new Larry Blumenfeld piece on the battle for the cultural soul of New Orleans 20 years after Katrina (in THE NATION) archive.ph/Ejrg1

New TT: It is Duke Ellington O'clock iverson.substack.com/p/tt-561-rev...

new iverson.substack.com/p/gene-lees-...

jazz researchers: www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/jazzletter/a...

Today and tomorrow, 2 PM, free

Reading and listening to this great selection. #jazzpianohistory #jazzhistory youtu.be/Zwn0IA2jP8w?...

pianoFORTEpianoFORTE! (Beth Levin, Kathleen Supové, and myself) will be playing at the NEW Bargemusic both Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend, December 13 and 14, at 2 PM.

Essential viewing! The Detroit jazz documentary based on the great book by Mark Stryker...Now streaming on Prime: THE BEST OF THE BEST

NEW TT iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-c-m...

Today on TT: Wynton Kelly with Joe Henderson, George Coleman, and Hank Mobley iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-b-w...

This book is incredible. The first chapter was about as dark as detective fiction gets, and this chapter had me laughing so hard I got a stitch in my side so bad I had to stop reading.

NEW TT: iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-a-m...

Mary Tamm personally awarded me second prize in the costume contest (Doctor Who/Star Trek convention, 1984). I dressed as the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee).

DECEMBER DUO Mark Turner/Ethan Iverson 3 Consevatori del Liceu Barcelona 4 Koorenhuis Den Haag 5 Kunstwerke Dachau 7 Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg 8 Casa del Jazz Roma 9 Torre Unipol Bologna

I would very much like to thank @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social for the “Crimes of the Century” reading list. More on the way.

probably the best movie ever tbh

November 29! Happy Birthday to Billy Hart!!! Jabali is 85 today. The new record on Smoke Sessions is out: MULTIDIRECTIONAL. We started our three night run at Smoke last night; Billy sounds GREAT, as do Mark Turner and Ben Street.

Mark Morris’s dad was an amateur jazz organ player who died young. Mark’s first ever professional dance choreography was a tribute, set to Milt Buckner playing “Robbin’s Nest.” Never seen this 1980 footage until today www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk87...

Randy Brecker is 80 today. GREAT trumpet solo out of the gate after the head on Don Grolnick's "Or Come Fog" from the London Concert youtu.be/qZaad6CN0LE?...

Thanks to this excellent article and another by Ethan, I have a literal ton of crime novels headed my way.

Thanks again, Ethan, for the inspiration. open.spotify.com/playlist/6g8...

new TT iverson.substack.com/p/tt-559-the...

Listas de pianistas Fantástica lista de @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social: iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the... Con cita incluida de: www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-25...

I may be the only person on earth, among the billions, who's sitting in a coffee shop* listening, on headphones, to George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell play the music of Cole Porter. The thought pleases me. As does the album. 😄 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Look what arrived in the mail today, @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social . #jazz #jazzsky

Jabali!!! Billy Hart turns 85 on November 29. His longstanding quartet with Mark Turner, Ben Street, and myself will be at SMOKE next weekend immediately after Thanksgiving, November 28-30.

Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.

Vinnie Sperrazza reviews Billy Hart’s book open.substack.com/pub/vinniesp...

Thanks to the incredible @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social list, I'm totally delighting in this right now. 👇 New to me. Damn. A wonder. 🍷 #jazzsky, #jazz, #nowplaying

NEW: my selection of the greatest jazz piano albums of all time iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...

tonight and tomorrow at Mezzrow

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

new to me: Gieseking plays Handel, Bach, Scarlatti. Tremendous! A reason to live. Uploader Mark Ainley (The Piano Files) says it is one of Gieseking's best studio records. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ4B...

new TT iverson.substack.com/p/business-b...

I also feel that we should reclaim the word "socialist." Unchecked capitalism has clearly run its course.

Lenin: “There are decades when nothing happens. Then there are weeks when decades happen.”