Electric Masada John Zorn – alto saxophone Marc Ribot – guitar Jamie Saft – keyboards Ikue Mori – electronics Trevor Dunn – bass Joey Baron – drums Kenny Wollesen – drums Cyro Baptista – percussion “Tight as a drum and as hot as a blow torch”

Jamie Saft – piano Greg Cohen – bass Ben Perowsky – drums John Zorn – compositions

✨✨✨✨✨ Modney - violin Pala Garcia - violin Kyle Armbrust - viola Michael Nicolas - cello Sylvie Courvoisier - piano Miles Okazaki - guitar Kim Cass - bass John Hollenbeck - drums Arktureye - electronics Patricia Brennan - vibraphone w/ electronics, marimba Eli Greenhoe - conductor

"Together with Melford, unpacking this music, they’re able to evoke the gestural dynamism and surging volatility that gives Twombly’s work so much of its power. Their expressive range of timbers” - Nate Chinen Myra Melford: Piano Michael Formanek: Bass Ches Smith: Drums, Vibraphone

Night cap on the headphones Yo Miles! Wadada Leo Smith - electric, acoustic trumpet Henry Kaiser - guitar w/ a kinda wild concoction of talent for a wild take on the futuristic music that is still extending forward…

Miles Davis - Complete On The Corner Sessions “After that concert, a critic said, ‘Miles, every move you’ve made musically, I’ve been there. But I can’t get to where you’re at now.’ Miles looked at him and he said, ‘What the fuck am I supposed to do, muthafuckah, wait for you to get there?’ – Mtume

In the Country Morten Qvenild - Grand Piano, Casio Sk-10, Vibraphone Roger Arntzen - Double Bass Pal Hausken - Drums, Percussion, Timpani, Autoharp, Vocals feat. Arve Henriksen - Vocals

Had a friends and family Taskmaster style game tonight…. Eldest kiddo borrowed this idea from Loading Ready Run’s Desert Bus apparently where you are in a team of two and one person directs another how to build a lego but can’t see the construction and the builder can only say yes or no.

Lately I can’t stop thinking about how much art that’s catching interest is about not being able to articulate a response to overwhelming circumstance. Movies, books, music. People are not okay

Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone Kenny Dorham — trumpet McCoy Tyner — piano Richard Davis — bass Elvin Jones — drums

Kenny Dorham - trumpet Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone Tommy Flanagan - piano Richard Davis - double bass Albert Heath - drums

Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone Kenny Dorham – trumpet Andrew Hill – piano Eddie Khan – bass Pete La Roca – drums

Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone Kenny Dorham – trumpet McCoy Tyner – piano Butch Warren – bass Pete La Roca – drums

Kenny Dorham - trumpet Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock - piano Butch Warren - bass Tony Williams - drums

Long live McKay’s where you can buy a bunch of 1.99 cds and meet a jazz jurno you have been reading for 25 years + at the same time

Anders Jormin – double bass Lena Willemark – voice, fiddle, viola Karin Nakagawa – 25-string koto “Folkloric in its ambiance, at times almost classical in its austerity while also possessing an irrepressible freedom that allows [each musician] to follow their individual and collective muses”

Vandermark 5 Ken Vandermark: Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Dave Rempis: Tenor Saxophone Fred Lonberg-Holm: Cello Kent Kessler: Bass Tim Daisy: Drums

Music! Hamid Drake - Tabla, Drum Set, Djembe, Congas, Frame Drums, Bells, Gongs, Shakers, Cymbals, Tambourine, Didgeridoo Michael Zerang - Dumbek, Frame Drums, Tambourine, Drum Set, Trap Set, Dawoola, Bells, Gongs, Cymbals, Chimes, Bass Drum, Didgeridoo

Josh Johnson: alto saxophone & pedals Jeff Parker: electric guitar & pedals Anna Butterss: bass Jay Bellerose: drums & percussion “…darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, & patience & grace in its own beautiful strangeness…”

Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here From RS- the band's "lackadaisical demeanor" leaves the subject of Barrett "unrealised; they give such a matter-of-fact reading of the goddamn thing that they might as well be singing about Roger Waters's brother-in-law getting a parking ticket". What a swing…

Morning driving music Pink Floyd’s Animals David Gilmour Nick Mason Roger Waters Richard Wright

Hope your day is a great one…

Following @jazzsnob99.bsky.social this morning apparently with Odyssey Terje Rypdal – guitar, mellotron, soprano saxophone Torbjørn Sunde – trombone Brynjulf Blix – organ Sveinung Hovensjø – electric bass Svein Christiansen – drums

Ballaké Sissoko - kora Derek Gripper - guitar our protagonists meet on the sonic groundings of the kora, traditionally 21-string instrument of the griots, resonant vessel of the sacred and profane … it is to this terrain that Gripper brings the modern guitar to meet its cousin

Miles Davis – trumpet Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock – piano Ron Carter – double bass Tony Williams – drums “they were playing both free-form and conventional. I don't think I ever heard anything like that again." - Pianist Jodie Christian who was in attendance

Anoushka Shankar - sitar w/ various collaborators “Through her playing and songwriting Shankar expresses the sorrow, confusion and hope that comes with a broken heart. Love Letters is a bruise that blossoms into something musically beautiful.”

Mary Lattimore - 47-string Lyon & Healy harp At The Dam is named for a Joan Didion essay about the Hoover Dam: “its enchanting, grandiose practicality, how it will keep operating in its own solitude, even when humans aren’t around.”

Erik Friedlander: cello, tuning forks “…suffused in the haze of thousands of hours of highway travel. Writing these pieces put me back in that camper, where time seemed to slow, while outside tiny white signs furiously ticked off the next tenth of a mile.”

On this day, 60 years ago Miles Davis – trumpet Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock – piano Ron Carter – double bass Tony Williams – drums Tony Williams suggested the group play "anti-music. Like, whatever somebody expects you to play, that's the last thing you play?"

In a mood… Stan Getz – tenor saxophone João Gilberto – guitar, vocals Antônio Carlos Jobim – piano Sebastião Neto – double bass Milton Banana – drums, pandeiro Astrud Gilberto – vocals on "The Girl from Ipanema", "Corcovado"

Egberto Gismonti — guitar, piano Charlie Haden — double bass "First there were the soft silences, then the bright tropical colours, and when their concert peaked, it became a dancing, joyous celebration of life" – Montreal Gazette

Journeys… Charles Lloyd - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, bass flute, alto flute, C flute, piano, tárogató, Tibetan oboe, percussion, maracas, voice Billy Higgins - drums, percussion, guitar, guimbri, Syrian one string, Senegalese and Guinean hand drums, Indian hand drum, Juno's wood box, voice

an incredibly vibrant live document Fly or Die Live jaimie branch – trumpet, vocals, vibraslap Lester St. Louis – cello, vocals, tiny cymbal Jason Ajemian – bass, vocals, egg shakers Chad Taylor – drums, vocals, mbira

Alice Zawadzki - Voice, Violin Fred Thomas - Piano, Vielle, Drums Misha Mullov-Abbado - Double Bass

“from Levon Eskenian’s remarkable ensemble […] As well as reclaiming the music of esoteric teacher G. I. Gurdjieff for folk instrumentation, Zartir situates Gurdjieff in a tradition of Armenian bards and troubadours including Ashugh Jivani, Baghdasar Tbir and the legendary Sayat-Nova.”

Sharon Isbin - guitar Amjad Ali Khan - sarod Amaan Ali Bangash - sarod Ayaan Ali Bangash - sarod Amit Kavthekar - tablas

Anna von Hausswolff – vocals, organ, acoustic guitar, octatrack Maria von Hausswolff – vocals Filip Leyman – synth, percussion Karl Vento – electric guitar Joel Fabiansson – electric guitar David Sabel – bass Ulrik Ording – drums

Bill Frisell- banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, pedals Joey Baron- drums w/ Arto Lindsay - electric guitar Peter Scherer - keyboards Hank Roberts - cello Kermit Driscoll - bass guitar Julius Hemphill, Billy Drewes -alto saxophones Doug Wieselman - baritone saxophone Cyro Baptista - shakers

Frank Zappa has never really captured me, but figured I would give a shot this morning…

Tabla Beat Science Zakir Hussain: tabla Ustad Sultan Khan: sarangi, vocal (#2, 6) Talvin Singh: tabla, virus manipulation, vox (#4, 8) Trilok Gurtu: tabla, drums (#7) Bill Laswell: bass (#1, 2, 3, 6, 9) Karsh Kale: drums (#5, 8), tabla, keys, electronics (#5) Brad Somatik: logic programming (#4)

New Forms Roni Size & Reprazent

Kon & Amir – Ontrack Volume 6

Madlib – Mind Fusion Vol. 2

Isotope 217 is: Rob Mazurek: Cornet Jeff Parker: Guitar Matthew Lux: Bass Dan Bitney: Percussion John Herndon: Percussion

Tortoise Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, Dan Bitney, John McEntire, David Pajo, Jeff Parker, and many others

Jonas Hellborg - fretted bass (1-5), fretted, fretless bass (6-11), four acoustic guitars (12)

Marilyn Crispell - piano Fred Anderson - tenor sax Hamid Drake - percussion

Miles Okazaki - Gibson Charlie Christian archtop guitar running through a Fender Twin amplifier without effects