Double bass bliss by maestro Ingebrigt Håker Flaten during this evening’s wonderful (Exit) Knarr concert.

Bumper crop of new albums out today: Mulatu Astatke, Tom Skinner, Henry Threadgill, Gary Bartz, Sam Prekop, Peter Evans, Trio of Bloom, Filhos, Oiro Pena, Webber/Morris Big Band, Bitchin Bajas, Cheikh Lô, Muthspiel/Colley/Blade, Jonah Parzen-Johnson

På en releasedag med et vell av interessante nye album, var det likevel ett som stakk seg ut for meg: Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity er tilbake med nytt innspilt materiale, nå som kvintett og på nytt plateselskap. Har skrevet om «Great Intentions» for dagens Musikkmagasinet i Klassekampen.

På en releasedag med et vell av interessante nye album, var det likevel ett som stakk seg ut for meg: Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity er tilbake med nytt innspilt materiale, nå som kvintett og på nytt plateselskap. Har skrevet om «Great Intentions» for dagens Musikkmagasinet i Klassekampen.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) Ornette Coleman 2) the wines of Jura 3) impostor syndrome (And because of #3, I'd be prepping for hours if not days nonetheless).

Remembering the magnificent Sam Rivers, who was born on this day of September in 1923. (Photo: Jan Persson)

A sizeable pile of interesting new music releases tomorrow, including albums by Henry Threadgill, Webber/Morris Big Band, Sam Prekop, Trio of Bloom (Taborn/Cline/Gilmore), Hanna Paulsberg Concept w/Elin Rosseland, Sloan, Gary Bartz, and not least this, by Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, now a quintet.

HBD to the brilliant Ingrid Laubrock, who is 55 today. (📸 Frank Schindelbeck).

Very sad news indeed. A legend who made his mark on all of the below, as well as other classics. But it's his work with Talk Talk in particular that is very dear to me.

Tuesday, September 23. #NowPlaying Been a while, but this always boosts the spirit. Gayle, Parker and Ali tip their hats to ancestors, one in particular, as they hurtle and careen away on their own paths.

Sånn.

they get mad when you quote Charlie Kirk. they get mad when you don't quote Charlie Kirk. they are mad at the sum total of human knowledge.

On this day in 1987, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano did the first of two recording dates for the album "One Time Out", which was released in 1989 on Black Saint.

Nevn tre band du har sett live minst to ganger. (Av mange alternativer, tre på sparket): - Atomic - Yo La Tengo - Sleater-Kinney

Yes!!!

Dagens "media gir person troverdighet ved å bruke hans universitetstittel, uten å informere oss om at den har fint lite å gjøre med temaet som han uttaler seg autoritativt om". bsky.app/profile/aase...

Høydepunktet i denne sendingen er når Knut Reiersrud først spiller igjennom Sam Cookes versjon med veiledende kommentarer og så, sporenstreks, skrur den på om igjen sånn at man skal få lov til å høre den uten.

It grieves me beyond words to share the sad news that, after some months of suffering from glioblastoma, #JDTwitch of @optimo-espacio.bsky.social has passed. His #Optimo partner JD Wilkes has posted this message on their Instagram account.

På vei hjem fra overnattingstur med fjerde trinn overhørte jeg et knippe av jentene diskutere den siste Bli Med-låta i relativt krasse ordlag. Den rampete musikkritikken var visst ikke død likevel.

I min spalte i Jazznytt #276 Høst 2025 har jeg skrevet om "Strange Heavens" av Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire og Tyshawn Sorey, samt nye album fra hhv. Keefe Jackson/Jacob Heinemann/Adam Shead, Webber/Morris Big Band, og Jacob Garchiks Ye Olde-prosjekt. Jazznytt er ute digitalt og på papir nå.

Remembering the late, brilliant Muhal Richard Abrams, who was born on this day 95 years ago. (📸 Jack Vartoogian).

Remembering Muhal Richard Abrams, born OTD in 1930 🎶🎶 www.newworldrecords.org/search?q=Muh...

I min spalte i Jazznytt #276 Høst 2025 har jeg skrevet om "Strange Heavens" av Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire og Tyshawn Sorey, samt nye album fra hhv. Keefe Jackson/Jacob Heinemann/Adam Shead, Webber/Morris Big Band, og Jacob Garchiks Ye Olde-prosjekt. Jazznytt er ute digitalt og på papir nå.

Old news by now (got the e-mail on Monday), but still delighted that Roy Brooks' killer live recording The Free Slave is among a couple of albums originally released on Muse to be reissued this fall by Zev Feldman's new Time Traveler Recordings imprint. The Free Slave releases on October 17.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The one and only Guy Picciotto is 60 today! Let's put on some prime Fugazi and dance like the man himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxpZ...

Slim pickings today, but I did pick up this, which I previously only had digitally. NM for around for around $13/€11. I can live with that. Did find a copy of Graham Collier’s Midnight Blue, but they wanted $71/€60 for it, and that was never going to happen. Have it on CD anyway.

As usual Ta-Nehisi Coates is right. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

It's a Timothy's Monster kind of tuesday. #NowPlaying #NP

@gtra1n.bsky.social doing the master great justice with this excellent Threadgill introduction for Bandcamp. Happy to learn, reading this, that About Time have made their catalog available on the platform. Just the Facts.., in particular, is an all time favorite.

If you want to know about the state of British media, these 'formidable obstacles' include assault of a police officer, ABH, football hooliganism, entering the US on a false passport, mortgage fraud, stalking, endangering a grooming trial, defaming a 15 year old refugee and a lifetime of racism.

Kremkvartetten Cortex og gitarheltinne Hedvig Mollestad speller på Kafé Hærverk i Oslo i kveld og på Flasken på Nesodden i morra. Jeg fikk oppleve dem i Molde for et par år siden, og det var knallbra. Noe sier meg at de er enda bedre nå. Anbefales! fb.me/e/59cJCbknf

Oslo Jazz Circle inviterer deg til å sjekke utvalget av CD-er, LP-plater og musikkbøker på hyggelige Årvoll gård! Adresse er Årvollveien 35 i Bjerke bydel. Kanskje oppdager du nye ting? Messa blir også et sted å treffe hverandre, prate og møtes over felles interesse/nysgjerrighet. Gratis adgang!

September 15th 1972 was the first of two session dates for what would become trumpeter Woody Shaw's second album as a leader, Song of Songs, released in 1973 on Contemporary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNI8...

R.I.P.

Kommer ikke over at mannen som kritiserte den «kontraproduktive antivoldtektsmafiaen» i forsvar av en serieovergriper nå er en av de mest inviterte stemmene i offentligheten For en nissestat vi er blitt, jeg vil ha svart hvitt TV, Fleksnes, Lydverket og Rondo

Happy birthday to the brilliant Joe Morris! The guitarist, bassist, composer and improviser is 70 today. (📸 Rob Miller).

Zubi! Some hit, that!

Friday night music #NowPlaying

Den glimrende puertorikanske, USA-bosatte altsaksofonisten Miguel Zenón, en av det fremste fornyerne av latin-jazz de siste 20+ årene, vever med sin mangeårige kvartett sammen arv og nyvinning på "Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at the Village Vanguard". Har skrevet om denne for dagens Musikkmagasinet.

Happy 90th birthday to Arvo Pärt! (Photo: Eric Marinitsch)

#NowPlaying Rituals and Transformations. A collection of some wonderful and powerful solo double bass pieces by Vytis Nivinskas, who plays both pizziacato and arco. Released yesterday on No Businiess. nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ritual...

Det er jo kjent at cardigans og ullgensere var en greie blant jazzfolk i sin tid, men jazzskjorte var nytt for meg. I’m losing my edge, antakelig.

Jeg husker da vi reagerte på at XXL-eieren dro på løvejakt i Afrika just for the hell of it, og nå er vi her at høyt utdanna menn i USA blir snipers i IDF for å drepe palestinske barn for the same hell of it, og det finnes altså fortsatt de som ikke bryr seg (@via @olainnset.bsky.social)

Holy smokes! The line-up for the Sound & Gravity festival in Chicago, which kicks off tomorrow, is really something special. And among the many incredible acts, a small Norwegian delegation in the form of Andreas Røysum Ensemble with Marvin Tate. Wish I could've been there. soundandgravity.org

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.