I went deep on the late, great Sonny Rollins for POW Mag. Come through.

A wonderful farewell to the great Sonny Rollins, the last of the giants: (By @chris-robinson.bsky.social for @passionweiss.bsky.social )

A lot of great eulogies for Sonny Rollins, but this from @chris-robinson.bsky.social might be my favorite. A fantastic summation of not just Rollins' peerless body of work, but his empathy, generosity, spiritual essence, creative awareness, and improvisatory genius. www.powmag.net/p/sonny-roll...

I went deep on the late, great Sonny Rollins for POW Mag. Come through.

Find a better sextet, I dare you. And this isnt even one of his "major" albums, whatever that might mean.

Look closely and you'll see that I too am throwing my hat in the ring of Sonny Rollins remembrances. Coming soon to the best rap (and jazz when they let me) publication in the game.

I am listening to Sonny's The Solo Album for the first time. I am not sure what to think. I'm not very far into it yet. There's so much Sonny, I feel like the bunch of albums I know aren't even scratching the surface.

word up!

did a little country-style ode to sonny and his clear vision of the mixed up world of western songs www.dontrocktheinbox.com/an-old-cowha...

Does Mamdani like jazz? If any NYC mayor would get this done, it seems like he's the one.

I guess the 5% of the Iran deal that's not worked out is the part where we just bombed them again. But that other 95%? Good to go.

This one is super good. And Sonny played his Buescher as opposed to his regular Selmer, so he gets a slightly different sound out of the horn, which is cool, at least for saxophone nerds like me.

Coincidentally I listened to Newk's Time like 3 times in the last 4 days and read the book of Sonny's notebook entries (which disappointed me, but that was on the editor) this weekend.

Maybe dude just really likes flying airplanes?

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

will there be a restaurant at the end of the universe

Well this is fun.

Ffs. This seems a more sinister version of Duke University somehow skirting the county's temporary moratorium on data centers and building one on campus. Meanwhile, due to drought, Durham has 4 months of easily accessible drinking water left. Fuck AI, data centers, and the ghouls who build them.

It’s that Granta used Claude to evaluate the AI prize-winning short story, for me. Why the hell couldn’t they read it themselves.

And how could I have forgotten earlier about seeing Janelle Monae in Kansas City (her hometown)? That show was fire. Or forgetting seeing Ozma and that we hung out witj them in our college apartment drinking beer, eating pizza, and playing NES Blades of Steel before the show? So many good memories.

Why yes, these are an original (I'm pretty sure) set of Anthony Braxton's Tri-Axium writings, why do you ask? I visited my man Kevin Whitehead last weekend and I got to raid his book collection. The bindings are shot and need to be addressed, but still, damn.

Some really good ones, mostly a long time ago Cedric Burnside/Lighting Malcolm La Luz (maybe they are top bill?) Idaho Ultimate Fakebook Olivia Tremor Control (I think,maybe not?) Fitz of Depression Enemymine Calvin Johnson & a lot of other PNW indie bands in like 1999 I can't remember the name of

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Makaya McCraven The Roots Hank Jones Buddy Guy Murder City Devils Counting Crows The Shivas Peter Brotzmann Dirty Dozen Brass Band Clarence Gatemouth Brown

Does The Strokes' Is This It hold up after 25 years? I dunno. I've got some good memories tied to it, and even if I don't listen often, I still like it, so I guess for me it holds up. I'm not a rock/pop critic. I wonder what their new one will be like.

Yo, I haven't read any Joan Didion. What book do I start with?

Hbd Victor Lewis! 🎂🎉

So Google search is gonna get worse and even more unhelpful than it already is? Sweet.

On a hike a few years ago, during which I did not venture off the trail into the plants, I stepped on a tick nest and got a couple hundred ticks on one leg. It was a holiday weekend and I barely got the Lyme disease prophylactic drug within the time limit of it being effective. Good to know about ⬇️

Wow, I-81 in Pennsylvania has all the warehouses. While passing the Ingram warehouse I waved at some of the @dukepress.bsky.social books that are there. Hi books I've worked on!

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We are staying at Bob Moog's old house and just hiked to see the tallest waterfall east of the Mississippi. Good weekend so far.

Deez Nuts. My birth certificate says 45, but that's just a technicality.

Driving through rural Pennsylvania and passed a dairy advertising raw milk. I guess this is Trump country? And being from the West I will never get over how close everything is on the East Coast. We've been in 6 states in less than 7 hours. You can't even make it 2/3 across Montana in 7 hours.

The truest writing advice I've ever come across. It also applies equally to practicing an instrument.

Listen to more Dorothy Ashby

This hits hard. I'm happy to have written book copy, but I am glad I don't have to anymore. This reason being one of the biggies.

Fuck AI, fuck data centers. We wouldn't want to actually care about real people with real needs.

It took learning pedal steel to understand why as a sax player I always went to the 4 or the 6 when playing on a blues or rhythm changes (which sounded bad). I grew up hearing a lot of country and the pedal steel sound and voicing has a lot of tonic, 4 and 6. It was hard wired early in my ears.

Slightly increase a band: Counting Ravens

I'm sorry but I just can't do the Ahmed album of Monk. The first two minutes of Round Midnight is, I'll just say, not great. I know a lot of people, even those whose taste I share and opinions I respect, love this band, but I haven't cared for anything they've done. I don't get it.

Motherfucker is putting a pool liner in the reflecting pool. I hope all the graffiti artists in DC bomb the shit out of it before it gets filled back up.

Apparently the USPS will let you ship day-old poultry. Does that mean one day old baby chickens, or freshly slaughtered poultry? If the latter, that's got to be RFK Jr calling in a favor to the postmaster general, right?

My high school American history book made John Brown out to be a terrorist and all around criminal. Then later, I moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where they rightly celebrate him as a hero.

RIYL Bjork, Prince, Wilco, Jack DeJohnette, and Animal Collective. If you say so.

Oh jeez, now I've got to using the pedals and knee levers at the same time. Playing pedal steel is like musical Twister.

this flashy duke ellington bullshit I fucking hate it. music peaked when it was just recordings of one dude warbling into a wax cylinder

I just figured out the pedal steel line from one of my favorite MJ Lenderman songs. I am starting to know just enough on this instrument to make a complete ass of my self.

Listen to more jazz.

I recently tried to list some stuff on Discogs. Discogs suspended my account and wouldn't let me sell until I set up some bullshit PayPal debit card. They wouldn't send payments directly to my bank. How long has that been a thing? Fuck. That. Noise.

My spring round up of hot new #jazz releases and tasty reissues/archival albums is up now on POW Mag. Featuring reviews of: Tomeka Reid, Aaron Shaw, Walter Smith III, Asher Gamedze, Harriet Tubman, Joe Henderson, Cecil Taylor, Julius Hemphill, Roy Hargrove.