with my Father's 1937 Chevrolet

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Another sad loss today: the longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer. Here's his marvelous profile of Ricky Jay, from 1993. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

How definitely, by not saying something, she says it. —Virginia Woolf, on Jane Austen, from “The Anatomy of Fiction”

listening to experimental solo piano by various artists all day thanks to Ethan's most recent post (warmup the bandcamp account). humans can still do unpredictable things with this traditional instrument!

Thanks to the Jazz Journalists Association for selecting Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart as Jazz Book of the Year: Biography or Autobiography

Nobody else but (or like) him: Dave McKenna - #botd 1930 He often zeroed in on lesser-known 1940s songs and made them new. I was lucky enough to hear and see him play "3-handed saloon piano" a couple of times in small Toronto venues. He was great, of course.🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKK...

Many thanks to Ethan Iverson for hosting my expanded reflections on Sonny Rollins, including a Desert Island list of recordings. substack.com/@iverson/not...

Starts tonight for three nights!

"Heliotrope Bouquet" was composed by Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin in 1907. This piano was also last tuned in 1907.

Next week: Ethan Iverson trio with Thomas Morgan and Kush Abadey at new club JAZZ GENIUS May 28 - 30 Thurs — Sat sets @ 7 & 9 151 Essex St

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

What could go wrong

periodic reminder that my Substack is my main social media. It is free to join the mailing list and the comments are open. The latest post is about three new major works iverson.substack.com/p/recent-con...

I've written a long essay about education in the context of my reunion with my teacher Anthony Braxton. Given the many posts I see here about the fraught state of higher education, I don't know if this is one of them or a counterbalance- but it is my story. www.tedreichman.com/writing/tric...

Do you know how hard it is to get owned by Joe Kernen

BHQ FRIDAY Long Play Festival 2026: triple bill w. Blank Forms with Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore // Chris Ryan Williams SATURDAY/SUNDAY Blues Alley in Billy Hart’s hometown of Washington, DC

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Saxophone

Tonight

Trump slowly evolving into dril

Hear hear

And finished it today. Good stuff! 👍👍 @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social

Ethan Iverson trio Calum Gourlay + Alyn Cosker EDINBURGH The Jazz Bar EASTER SUNDAY April 5, 8 PM

Thanks to Mark for the inspiration: open.spotify.com/playlist/7Dv...

I am planning to stop linking to my Substack from the other socials, for these links from X, bsky, and FB rarely generate much engagement. Transitional Technology has 11,000 subscribers, commenting is open, and all content is free.

ECM at TT iverson.substack.com/p/50-tracks-...

for listeners on Apple Music (most of) the list in order, thanks @markstryker.bsky.social music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Blue Note Records for a desert island.

The final of the trilogy--thanks @markstryker.bsky.social! iverson.substack.com/p/desert-isl...

This is Ira Gitler’s son, who would know.

Part two of three: @markstryker.bsky.social on Riverside LPs iverson.substack.com/p/desert-isl...

Thanks to @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social for amplifying the Desert Island lists that I recently wrote up for the Prestige, Riverside, and Blue Note labels. I took the opportunity to tweak some things and add a few extra bonus tracks, so close readers will notice some new choices.

NEW: Desert island records from the Prestige label, selected by Mark Stryker (@markstryker.bsky.social) (part 1 of 3) iverson.substack.com/p/desert-isl...

great!

new iverson.substack.com/p/i-like-the...

New TT: RIP Len Deighton iverson.substack.com/p/tt-573-the...

Happy Birthday Gene Gaudette! (@synaphai.com) iverson.substack.com/p/tt-443-que...

The Threepenny Review hosts symposiums on varied topics; the latest is “On New York.” I chose to write about two occasions in the 1990s when I performed “New York, New York” by Kander and Ebb. www.threepennyreview.com/iverson-on-n...

new TT: for film buffs! iverson.substack.com/p/tt-572-pla...

Wherein @thornewip.bsky.social analyzes Mulholland Drive through "a study of production documents, shooting script, and original configuration as a TV pilot, and through analysis of David Lynch’s approach to editing, sound design, scene arrangement, and camera movement." mzs.press/SIGNED-Devio...