Casimir Liberski Trio, Brussels 🇧🇪 7.6.19 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Brazilian songwriter Sessa discusses the three years of sessions in São Paulo that yielded 'Pequena Vertigem de Amor,' an album born from the submarine days of early fatherhood and the vertigo between extraordinary love and ordinary routine. Sessa Finds São Paulo's Rhythm in the Cosmic Ordinary:

Giveton Gelin • Island Dreamer: III of III July 10 (in celebration of Bahamas Independence Day) • Island Dreamer Records vyd.co/IslandDreame...

Buck Island 🇻🇮 7.4.18 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Ghent 🇧🇪 7.4.19 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

"I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazz musician, but not famed enough to make a living in the society that is America…” 📸 Teppei Inoguchi/Jazz Workshop, Inc.

Garagem Beleza 3 year anniversary last night in São Paulo Acavernus (Paula Rebellato) 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

David Maranha / Rodrigo Amado • Desolation Row 🇵🇹 August 3 • Groovie Records groovierecords.bandcamp.com/album/david-...

Just heard this for the first time in many years. Part 2, which starts ~5:25, is a little messy, but glorious. With Johnny Dyani, Okay Temiz, & Han Bennink. World music before the term existed (& then became meaningless)

Makaya McCraven w. Matt Gold & Junius Paul, Ghent 🇧🇪 7.3.19 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Thomas Mapfumo was born in Marondera, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on this day in 1945. “The Lion of Zimbabwe” turns 81 today. In 1980, he opened for Bob Marley at Zimbabwe’s independence celebration. But he ultimately became a critic of the government & faced harassment, forcing him into exile.

Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet • Sure Grand Out September • RogueArt roguart.com/product/sure...

(I)MISCÍVEL (Guilherme Marques 🥁 & Amilcar Rodrigues 🎺) accompanied by Marcelo Cabral on double bass Centro da Terra, São Paulo, June 2024,

“Good ideas need to be spread, and I believe we communicate with many people who have attentive minds….We really live a somewhat outsider lifestyle sometimes, and I think it’s extremely important to have a voice to express opinions, vent, write poetry, things like that.” Lê Almeida @bigtakeover.com

In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, trumpeter Dave Douglas reflects on turning 63, running Greenleaf Music for over 20 years, and what it means to be "comfortable with the uncertainty of not knowing where we're going" Listen to the full conversation: podcast.thetonearm.com/dave-douglas...

Manchester, England, 7.2.17 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Jonas Sá’s _MNSTR_ last night in São Paulo 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Henry Threadgill Zooid • Cut You Where You Was August 28 • Pi Recordings henrythreadgill.bandcamp.com/album/cut-yo...

Russell Lee Fine • "They're so nice..." jazz photos from the 1980s 📕 available now • Corbett vs. Dempsey corbettvsdempsey.com/books/theyre...

Dollar Brand, Don Cherry, & Carlos Ward • The Third World-Underground (1974) Sept. 11 • WEWANTSOUNDS wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/the-th...

Jan Sawka (1946-2012) • Jazz Nad Odra (Jazz on Odra River) 🇵🇱 posters, 1972-75

Marty Ehrlich • OPEN AIR: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill August 28 • Out Of Your Head Records outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/open-a...

Andrew Hill was born in Chicago on this day in 1931

Julian Priester was born in Chicago on this day in 1935. He turns 91 today. 📸 Frans Schellekens/Redferns, Amsterdam, 1995

🇧🇷 vs. 🇯🇵 today in the World Cup. It’s estimated that there are 2 million Brazilians of Japanese descent, the largest population of Japanese origin outside 🇯🇵. Japanese immigration peaked between 1908-1960, w. most Japanese-descendants living in 🇧🇷 3 generations or more.

James Carter Quintet, Syracuse, NY, 6.29.24 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

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John Medeski was born in Louisville, Kentucky on this day in 1965. He turns 61 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Accord, NY, 9.25.21

Lê Almeida tonight in São Paulo 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

David Murray & Kahlil El’Zabar, Rochester, NY, 6.26.23 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Nubya Garcia 5ive, NYC, 6.26.19 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Over a combined 12-mo. period (beg. late Dec.22), i've now attended 200 live shows in Brazil. Have seen 263 acts in Belo Horizonte, Florianópolis, Olinda, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, & São Paulo. Not incl. hundreds of acts/blocos @ Carnaval in 4 cities. i've been v. lucky to witness it all.

Natalia Pery • Sambas em Autovalor [EP] 🇧🇷 July 31 • Cantores Del Mundo nataliapery.bandcamp.com/album/sambas...

Gilberto Gil was born in Salvador, Brazil on this day in 1942. He turns 84 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Florianópolis 🇧🇷 1.21.23

Reggie Workman was born in Philadelphia on this day in 1937. He turns 89 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Knoxville, Tennessee, 4.1.23

QMAR Thursday night in São Paulo 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

Moon Inhabitants • Canned Luna 🇳🇴 September 4 • Sauajazz mooninhabitants.bandcamp.com/album/canned...

Studio We jazz festival: Three Days of Peace Between the Ears, NYC, July 3-5, 1970

Ralph Alessi :: A Sun That Never Sets July 3 :: ECM ecmrecords.com/product/a-su...

Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe, NYC, 1973 📸 Cedar Walton likely St. Marks & 2nd Ave., East Village. h/t Steven Bernstein

RIP Jeff Schlanger (1937-2026) The artist was a long-time presence at jazz shows in NYC, especially Arts for Art concerts & Vision Festivals. He was often in the front row & made spontaneous artworks during performances. His death was announced by Clay Art Center. Four covers by Jeff Schlanger

the period of Latin America dictatorships “produced a great deal of music specifically created to resist censorship. We added a new element: the cover of each album features an artwork by a Latin American artist, of a different nationality than the band, that somehow interprets the album’s content.”

Percival Everett • Serious Music (A Novel) 📕 March 2, 2027 • Penguin Random House www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818005...

Alfonso Soliano • Tiga Trombone 🇲🇾 August 7 • Audible Beauty Records habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/audibl...

Saw this doc after the Hurtmold show. Was a surreal experience to relive the indie 90s era (this tour was 1995-96) in a theatre in São Paulo w. musician friends & (by chance) my Portuguese tutor. Everyone looked so young, esp. Beck, Kathleen Hanna, & (early 40s) Kim Gordon. 30 yrs kinda flew by.

Sahib Shihab was born (Edmund Gregory) in Savannah, Georgia on this day in 1925

Pharoah Sanders Quintet, Brooklyn, NY, 6.23.17

CAN • Live in Arles 1975 🇩🇪 🛸 September 25 • Mute canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...

Johari Salleh • Jazz Dari Angkasapuri 🇲🇾 August 7 • Audible Beauty habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/audibl...

Elza Soares was born in Moça Bonita, a favela in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷, in 1930. In 1999, BBC Radio named her & Tina Turner the Singer of the Millennium. 📸 Salvador Cordaro, 2017