“”All I had was the nature surrounding me. I listened to the wind, the sound of the water running through the streams, the birds singing, the frogs croaking… all of that was my school”…From that listening came a creative sorcery w. sound, an ability to combine the people’s music w. the avant-garde.”

WRENS • Half of What You See Ryan Easter, Elias Stemeseder, Lester St. Louis, & Jason Nazary November 21 • Out Of Your Head Records outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/half-o...

While i have a lot of respect for Don Was, in general the younger musicians he’s signed to Blue Note are technically great musicians whose albums are not all that exciting

SML :: How You Been Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Josh Johnson, Gregory Uhlmann, & Booker Stardrum November 7 :: International Anthem intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/how-yo...

Wadada Leo Smith, Jakob Bro, & Marcus Gilmore • Murasaki October 3 • Loveland Music lovelandcph.bandcamp.com/album/murasaki

John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on this day in 1926. 📸 Roy DeCarava, 1963

Ken Vandermark was born in Warwick, Rhode Island on this day in 1964. He turns 61 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Saalfelden, Austria, 8.24.19

Reed wants “to revive the vibe from “back in the day, the record store, the indie rock, sort of VFW halls,” of hanging with “this group of people and we’re into this one thing, and that’s enough. That’s the whole world.” Making a musical discovery together: “There’s not enough of that going on.””

Chico Hamilton was born in Los Angeles on this day in 1921

Billy Bang was born in Mobile, Alabama on this day in 1947 📸 Dany Gignoux, Willisau, Switzerland, 1982

new Oruã split album released digitally today

Helado Negro • The Last Sound On Earth [EP] November 7 • Big Dada heladonegro.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...

“Tortoise’s music still thrives on this cut-and-paste approach. A sense of playful hybridity runs through Touch – from the sci-fi spaghetti western soundscaping of Vexations to the pulsating man-machine techno of Elka.”

Douglas Germano • Branco 🇧🇷 out today bfan.link/branco

Sun Ra • Hidden Fire, Volumes 1 & 2 (1988) live recordings, the final album released on the El Saturn label out now • Strut Records strut.bandcamp.com/album/hidden...

Ortigia 🇮🇹 9.18.19 Rochester 🇺🇸 9.18.21 (Erik Lawrence Trio) 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Hector Costita • 1981 🇧🇷 November 7 • Jazzybelle Records hectorcostita.bandcamp.com/album/1981

Latin Grammys nominations: Best Rock or Alternative Music Album in Portuguese Baianasystem's 'O Mundo Dá Voltas' Baianasystem 📸Jeff Caltabiano, 2.2.24, Salvador 🇧🇷

Thiago França & Marcelo Cabral • Samples & Naipes [EP] 🇧🇷 out today • YB Music found.ee/thiagofranca...

Catania 🇮🇹 9.17.19 Homer 🇺🇸 9.17.23 (Julian Lage) 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

[Adam Rudolph's] Hu Vibrational • Vibe Ride November 7 • New Dawn new-dawn.bandcamp.com/album/vibe-r...

Luiza Brina: Tiny Desk Concert! “Prayers for comings and goings, hopes and dreams, a world falling apart. This practice formed the basis of Prece, one of NPR Music's best albums of 2024, where psychedelic symphonies commune with the sacred.” @totalvibration.bsky.social who produced the concert

Fabiano do Nascimento (feat. Paulo Santos) • Cavejaz 🇧🇷 November 21 • Leaving Records fabianodonascimento.bandcamp.com/album/cavejaz

Beautiful moment with Chicago Underground Duo filmed by Derrick Alexander for Sound & Gravity ⚡️⚡️

Hermeto Pascoal, São Paulo 🇧🇷 1.27.23 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

‘Farrah is pleased that it is considered by many to be an undersung spiritual jazz classic. “When we made those recordings, I heard some technical things that I thought we could fix…I thank God that we didn’t, because that music transcended into a spiritual aspect in the way that people receive it”’

“Five fleeting meditations on an impossible-to-quantify genius.”

“He fit in everywhere because that was his ethos. When he began leading his own bands, that ethos remained. The albums he made follow an ongoing path of discovery, exploration, and refinement, each record a foundation for his next step.” @gtra1n.bsky.social

Snakeoil • In Lieu Of live 2012 • Tim Berne/Oscar Noriega/Matt Mitchell/Ches Smith out today • Screwgun Records screwgunrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-lie...

30 years ago today i saw Fugazi play in front of the Washington Monument

Hamiet Bluiett was born in Brooklyn, Illinois on this day in 1940 📸 Ming Smith

‘Pascoal, an albino who is also affected with strabismus and is legally blind, recalled: “One of my eyes pointed this way, the other pointed that way. Miles didn’t know which way I was looking. He thought I was looking at his right side. I focused my eyes and punched him in the face.”’

Hermeto Pascoal, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

"I'm 100 percent intuitive. I don't premeditate anything. I feel it. When something happens, I don't say, 'Now I'm going to do that.' No. If I want to write the music, I start creating. Every piece of my music, even the one I write on a piece of paper, I consider an improvisation” Hermeto, 2017

“As with Power Tools, “Trio of Bloom,” due Sept. 26 — the self-titled debut of a group featuring the guitarist Nels Cline, the keyboardist and pianist Craig Taborn and the drummer Marcus Gilmore — is a first-time collaboration that feels like the work of a proper band.” @darkforcesswing.bsky.social

As of September 15, 2015, Ron Carter had 2,221 individual recording credits, making him the most recorded jazz bassist in history, according to Guinness World Records. It’s about time to add another decade’s worth of @roncarterjazz.com recordings to the record.

Of the 16 entries here, 3 are from Hermeto.

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley was born in Tampa, Florida on this day in 1928

Bizimungu Dieudonne • Inzovu Y'Imirindi (late 1980s) 🇷🇼 November 14 • Mississippi Records mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/inzovu...

Filhos [Guilherme Granado & Bruno Abdala] • Vol.2 🇧🇷 September 26 • Sucata Tapes sucatatapes.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2

Wayku • Selva Selva 🇵🇪 September 18 • Buh Records buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/selva-...

Hermeto Pascoal, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Flora Purim, Hermeto Pascoal, & Airto Moreira, 1971 📸 Sid Maurer

A thing I didn’t appreciate until i was digging for records in 🇧🇷 is the breadth of Hermeto’s work. His name pops up on all sorts of records as a composer, arranger, player, etc. Everyone wanted to work w. him & he seemed always willing to help. 📸 Cafi, recording w. Robertinho De Recife, ca. 1978

There are at least 45 songs by other artists titled “Hermeto” (+ Medeski Martin & Wood “Hermeto’s Daydream”). On IG today, Jason Moran said 4 songs he recorded were “because of Pascoal.” Several albums of Hermeto’s music have been recorded by other artists.

Hermeto Pascoal recording w. Robertinho De Recife, ca. 1978 📸 Cafi

"As word spread of Mr. Pascoal’s fondness for complex harmonies, dense orchestrations and zigzagging melody lines, as well as his versatility and unusual appearance, he became an object of fascination among musicians, a phenomenon that continued until the end of his life."

When Hermeto was a child, a music teacher wouldn't work with him bc of his poor eyesight (born with albinism, Pascoal was incredibly nearsighted & legally blind). He dropped out of school in 4th grade bc the school could not accommodate him. Instead, his father sold a cow & bought him an accordion.

Joseph Jarman was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on this day in 1937 📸 Barbara Barefield, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Detroit, 1990

Oliver Lake was born in Marianna, Arkansas on this day in 1942. He turns 83 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 3.3.17 (w. Mark Dresser & Andrew Cyrille)