Thank you for the sound Sonny

Plans for the foreseeable future confirmed

Ran Blake - piano James Merenda - alto saxophone David "Knife" Fabris - electric guitar 12 of 14 tunes composed by Horace Silver

Such a cool documentary for those who love Ethiopian music. Some familiar (younger) faces here! Starting this link with Mahmoud Ahmed - he's so awesome. #music #musicsky youtu.be/Nzm5Ua2tEOI?...

Bill Frisell - guitars Dave Holland - bass Elvin Jones - drums late night wandering musical landscapes

Shane Parish - guitar “this recording finds Parish standing at the cross-roads between playing the country blues and… deconstructing? Devolving? Destroying?…them. Some of the miniatures are stunning, haunted by an Anton Webern-like economy. Check it out!" —Marc Ribot

Gendel on C-Melody Saxofone and Wilkes on Fender P-Bass

Peter Epstein - alto and soprano sax Brad Shepik - guitars Matt Kilmer - percussion “Perhaps [.] being a ’jazz musician’ now means that we can call a Balkan tune, free improv or an original the way we used to call a waltz, ballad, or bebop tune” -Epstein

Ben Wendel -tenor saxophone, EFX Joel Ross -vibraphone, marimba Simon Moullier -vibraphone, chromatic balafon, EFX Patricia Brennan -vibraphone, EFX Juan Diego Villalobos -Vibraphone, mallet station, percussion, EFX

Lionel Hampton - vibraphone Oscar Peterson - piano Ray Brown - acoustic bass Buddy Rich - drums w/ Buddy DeFranco - clarinet Herb Ellis - Guitar Needing sunshine on a cloudy day…

Michael Shrieve - drums in trio w/ Shawn Lane - guitar Jonas Hellborg - electric bass & trio w/ Bill Frisell - guitar Wayne Horvitz - organ

Bill Frisell - guitar Wayne Horvitz - organ Michael Shrieve - drums

Ron Miles – trumpet, piccolo trumpet Curtis Fowlkes – trombone Eyvind Kang – violin, tuba Bill Frisell – electric & acoustic guitars Music for: Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side (1994) & animated tv special Daniele Luchetti’s La scuola (1995) Buster Keaton’s Convict 13 (1920)

“Arguably, one should have a serious interest to delve into 23 lengthy tracks that contain 3 takes of ‘Round Midnight, and 2 takes of 3 other Monk tunes, 2 Lacy originals and the Waldron staple Snake Out” (Shoemaker) “but you should” (me) Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone Mal Waldron - piano

Outer Spaceways Incorporated by Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra Including “electronic musician Jlin, to Moor Mother and DJ Haram’s radical noise/rap project 700 Bliss, to abstract hip hop luminaries Armand Hammer, to avant-garde hero Laurie Anderson, to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley”

TJ Kirk: Will Bernard – guitar John Schott – guitar Charlie Hunter – 8-string guitar Scott Amendola – drums, percussion Bemsha Swing you through the door…

T.J. Kirk performs the music of T(helonious Monk).J(ames Brown). (Rahsaan Roland) Kirk Will Bernard – guitar John Schott – guitar Charlie Hunter – 8-string guitar Scott Amendola – drums, percussion

Slow Poke "True to their name, they took most of the tempos at an absurdly slow pace (a rarity among New York musicians out to flaunt their chops in a macho-competitive scene), at times sounding like Stan Getz on quaaludes jamming with the Cowboy Junkies." Bill Milkowski

Slow Poke Michael Blake- saxophones David Tronzo- slide guitar Tony Scherr- bass, acoustic guitar Kenny Wollesen- drums & percussion

Shakti 50th Anniversary Live Feel lucky to have been able to catch that final go round John McLaughlin - Guitar, Synth Zakir Hussain - Tabla, Chanda, Madal, Konokol Shankar Mahadevan - Vocals & Konokol Ganesh Rajagopalan - Violin, Konokol Selvaganesh Vinayakram - Kanjira, Mridangam, Ghatam, Konokol

Shawn Lane - acoustic guitar Jonas Hellborg - acoustic bass guitar Jeff Sipe - drums & percussion “a characteristic effortless flow, patience, and virtue closely associated with the music of Ravi Shankar, Oregon, or Shakti" -AMG (Nastos)

Shane Parish - guitar Autechre - compositions “one guy, one guitar, two hands. Six strings. Ten fingers. (Throw in a tapping foot for when the timekeeping gets tricky.) That’s the sum total of what he’s working with…”

Ani DiFranco – acoustic guitar, lead vocals Sara Lee – bass, vocals Andy Stochansky – drums & percussion, harmonica, vocals

Bill Frisell – guitar Kermit Driscoll – bass Joey Baron – drums Pure joy

Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project “Since the release of the eponymously titled The MIYUMI Project, the group has forged a special Afro-Asian musical hybrid in the intervening two decades, successfully fusing the Japanese taiko drumming tradition with first class improvisers…”

“Last and least is me. Mingus. I wrote the music for dancing and listening. It is true music with much and many of my meanings. It is my living epitaph from birth til the day I first heard of Bird and Diz. Now it is me again.“

1969 concert by the Thelonious Monk Quartet produced by a high school student and recorded by his school’s janitor… Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone Thelonious Monk - piano Larry Gales - bass Ben Riley - drums

Learned a lot from box set booklets…. Bring back real boxes!

Charles Mingus – Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 Bring back box sets that come with a book. And happy to have a six disc changer so I can run through this whole set today. Mingus forever….

1957 & 1958 Coltrane leader sessions from Prestige records

Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone Johnny Coles - trumpet Kenny Drew - piano Wilbur Ware - bass Philly Joe Jones - drums The final BN recording session…

Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone Freddie Hubbard - trumpet Duke Jordan - piano Sam Jones - bass Art Taylor - drums

Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone Lee Morgan - trumpet Sonny Clark - piano Doug Watkins - bass Art Blakey - drums After joining Jimmy Smith for Sermon et al, Brooks enters Van Gelder Studio for his first BN date in ‘58

The Dave Holland Quintet Live Chris Potter – soprano, alto and tenor saxophones Robin Eubanks – trombone Steve Nelson – vibraphone, marimba Dave Holland – double-bass Billy Kilson – drums Desert island release for me…

Hedvig Mollestad - guitar Ellen Brekken - bass Ivar Loe Bjornstad - drums

“that intimacy - the meticulous detail in Parish’s picking, and how, in time, it yields something greater than the sum of its parts. Through transcription and reinterpretation, Parish shows us that music is a living being just waiting to be discovered again, together.” @vanessakayague.bsky.social

Anthony Pirog - guitar, guitar synth solo and in duet w/ Nels Cline - guitar John Frusciante - monomachine Luke Stewart - electric bass Andy Summers - guitar Janel Leppin - pedal steel guitar Brandon Ross - guitar Wendy Eisenberg - guitar Ryan Ferreira - guitar

James Brandon Lewis - tenor saxophone Anthony Pirog - guitar Joe Lally - bass Brendan Canty - drums

In the vein of Old and New Dreams. A joyous sound Ron Miles – cornet Joshua Redman - tenor saxophone Scott Colley – bass Brian Blade – drums

William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra “It begins to rain music all over the world. Everyone is soaked in sound.”

groove music. fire music. living music.

At the Half Note Cafe, Volumes 1 & 2 Donald Byrd – trumpet Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone Duke Pearson – piano Laymon Jackson – bass Lex Humphries – drums

Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone Donald Byrd – trumpet Kenny Burrell – electric guitar Tommy Flanagan – piano Paul Chambers – bass Louis Hayes – drums

Going back in time….

Ron Miles - trumpet Bill Frisell - guitar Artie Moore - bass Rudy Royston - drums w/ Todd Ayers (g), Kent McLagen (b), Mark Harris (b cl), Eric Gunnison (p)

There has to be tapes out there of this incredible band Ron Miles - trumpet Fred Hess - tenor sax Eric Gunnison - piano Artie Moore - bass Ginger Baker - drums w/ James Carter - baritone sax, bass clarinet Shamie Royston - organ Todd Ayers - guitar Glenn Taylor - pedal-steel

Harold Land – tenor saxophone Mulgrew Miller – piano Ray Drummond – bass Billy Higgins – drums Impossible to not find joy in this album. Just perfect in the pocket music. Thanks for the sound to four masters

Yusef Lateef – tenor saxophone, flute, oboe Hugh Lawson – piano Herman Wright – bass Roy Brooks Jr. – drums “You can hear music from around the world in our libraries, you know. I spent much time in the Detroit Public Library listening to music from various countries…” Lateef / Ann Arbor Sun (1976)

Yusef Lateef – flute, percussion, arranger, oboe, tenor saxophone, tambourine, chinese flutes, bamboo flute Georges Arvanitas – piano Reggie Workman – double bass James Black – drums, percussion, indian bells

Yusef Lateef – flute, oboe, tenor saxophone, Chinese globular flute Barry Harris – piano Ernie Farrow – double bass, rabat Lex Humphries – drums