Ethan Iverson
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pianist, composer, writer
New teaching article for my students
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TT 564: Back to School: Comment on Clave
one for students of swing
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-564-back-to-school-comment-on
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New TT:
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Ray Harryhausen exhibit in Tucson
and ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS on Monday in San Francisco
https://iverson.substack.com/p/ray-harryhausen-exhibit-in-tucson
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Barry Altschul is 83 today! a quick listen to his first album:
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TT 563: Happy Birthday to Barry Altschul: “You Can’t Name Your Own Tune”
1977 LP is a classic of the idiom
https://iverson.substack.com/p/happy-birthday-to-barry-altschul
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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:
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TT 562: From Book to Movie
Starting point for a light survey: NO OTHER CHOICE by Park Chan-wook, based on THE AX by Donald E. Westlake
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-562-from-book-to-movie
5 days ago
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new year/new club
8 days ago
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Jaime Casas
9 days ago
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...
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The Secrets of ‘A Love Supreme’
How Coltrane composed his masterpiece
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/secrets-love-supreme-john-coltrane
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new
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Kerry James Marshall, TWELFTH NIGHT, and Gary Graffman
("I Really Should Be Practicing")
https://iverson.substack.com/p/kerry-james-marshall-twelfth-night
9 days ago
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Vince Keenan
12 days ago
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...
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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
12 days ago
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Art Bailey ❌👑
17 days ago
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...
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JJ 11/60: In My Opinion - Wynton Kelly - Jazz Journal
Sixty years ago, Wynton Kelly, pianist with Gillespie, Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery, reacted to music by Art Tatum, Benny Carter, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Jelly Roll Morton and others
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2020/11/19/jj-11-60-in-my-opinion-wynton-kelly/
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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!
17 days ago
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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...
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
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it's pretty bad out there
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TT wraps for '25
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Last Post of the Year
onwards to '26
https://iverson.substack.com/p/last-post-of-the-year
20 days ago
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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
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https://archive.ph/Ejrg1
21 days ago
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New TT: It is Duke Ellington O'clock
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TT 561: Reverential Gesture
Ellington redux
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-561-reverential-gesture
24 days ago
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new
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Gene Lees JAZZLETTER
and Stanley Crouch, #BOTD
https://iverson.substack.com/p/gene-lees-jazzletter
27 days ago
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Gary Kennedy
28 days ago
jazz researchers:
www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/jazzletter/a...
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Gene Lees' JAZZLETTER
http://www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/jazzletter/archive/
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Today and tomorrow, 2 PM, free
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28 days ago
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@funkygiesing.bsky.social
29 days ago
Reading and listening to this great selection.
#jazzpianohistory
#jazzhistory
youtu.be/Zwn0IA2jP8w?...
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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.
about 1 month ago
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Essential viewing! The Detroit jazz documentary based on the great book by Mark Stryker...Now streaming on Prime: THE BEST OF THE BEST
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about 1 month ago
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NEW TT
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TT 560 (c): Miles Davis and Bill Evans, "On Green Dolphin St." and "Stella by Starlight"
the dawn of scalar theory
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-c-miles-davis-and-bill-evans
about 1 month ago
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Today on TT: Wynton Kelly with Joe Henderson, George Coleman, and Hank Mobley
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TT 560 (b): Wynton Kelly Trio at the Left Bank
with three star saxophonists
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-b-wynton-kelly-trio-at-the
about 1 month ago
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Ryan_in_Oregon
about 1 month ago
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.
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NEW TT:
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TT 560 (a): Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Europe, 1960
a pinnacle
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-560-a-miles-davis-and-john-coltrane
about 1 month ago
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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).
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about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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Ryan_in_Oregon
about 1 month ago
I would very much like to thank
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
for the “Crimes of the Century” reading list. More on the way.
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Corey Atad
about 1 month ago
probably the best movie ever tbh
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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.
about 1 month ago
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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...
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Mark Morris in Dad's Charts | 1980 (excerpt)
YouTube video by Mark Morris Dance Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk87p8Sn0AE
about 1 month ago
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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?...
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Or Come Fog
YouTube video by Don Grolnick - Topic
https://youtu.be/qZaad6CN0LE?si=3NEYKYzvJD3XPwL9
about 1 month ago
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Ryan_in_Oregon
about 1 month ago
Thanks to this excellent article and another by Ethan, I have a literal ton of crime novels headed my way.
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Gary Chun
about 1 month ago
Thanks again, Ethan, for the inspiration.
open.spotify.com/playlist/6g8...
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new TT
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TT 559: The Typewriter Fights Back
recent reading + passages by W. G. Sebald, Anthony Powell, and Daniel Pinkwater
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-559-the-typewriter-fights-back
about 1 month ago
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GonBlog
about 2 months ago
Listas de pianistas Fantástica lista de
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:
iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...
Con cita incluida de:
www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-25...
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TT 557: The Greatest Jazz Piano Albums of All Time
or really: from 1921 to 1990
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the-greatest-jazz-piano-albums
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johnedwinmason
about 2 months ago
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. 😄
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George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shearing_%26_Barry_Tuckwell_Play_the_Music_of_Cole_Porter
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Henrik Wist
about 2 months ago
Look what arrived in the mail today,
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.
#jazz
#jazzsky
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 2 months ago
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.
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Vinnie Sperrazza reviews Billy Hart’s book
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On Oceans of Time
Billy Hart's musical autobiography is a must-read.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vinniesperrazza/p/on-oceans-of-time?r=4i89&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Bird Lives
about 2 months ago
Thanks to the incredible
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list, I'm totally delighting in this right now. 👇 New to me. Damn. A wonder. 🍷
#jazzsky
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#jazz
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#nowplaying
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NEW: my selection of the greatest jazz piano albums of all time
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TT 556: The Greatest Jazz Piano Albums of All Time
or really: from 1921 to 1990
https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the-greatest-jazz-piano-albums
about 2 months ago
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tonight and tomorrow at Mezzrow
2 months ago
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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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...
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Walter Gieseking: Columbia Masterworks ML 4646 (Handel, Bach, Scarlatti)
YouTube video by The Piano Files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ4BvrnsLV0&list=RDgQ4BvrnsLV0
2 months ago
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new TT
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Business Blast
Trio at Mezzrow this weekend, the Gunther Schuller centennial at NEC, and--of course--the late Dick Cheney
https://iverson.substack.com/p/business-blast-b18
2 months ago
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I also feel that we should reclaim the word "socialist." Unchecked capitalism has clearly run its course.
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2 months ago
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Lenin: “There are decades when nothing happens. Then there are weeks when decades happen.”
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