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Recent Listening: Brian Marsella Trio - John Zornβs Bagatelles Vol. 6; Paranoid Style - Known Associates; Angelika Niescier β Chicago Tapes; Mark Lomax II & the Urban Art Ensemble - The Unity Suite. (All excellent, donβt miss)
Recent Listening: Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.; Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 26: Electric Theater Chicago, IL 4/26/69; Labor Temple Minneapolis, MN 4/27/69; Grant Green - Idle Moments; The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis - Deface the Currency.
Recent Listening: The Doors - L.A. Woman; Matt Dwonszyk - Live At The Side Door; The Molotovs - Wasted on Youth; Julian Lage - Scenes From Above.
Recent Listening: Traffic - Self Titled; Jackie McLean - Tippinβ the Scales; Tomeka Reid - dance! skip! hop!; Melissa Aldana - Filin.
Recent Listening: Grateful Dead β Daveβs Picks Volume 57: Uptown Theatre, Chicago 1978-02-01; Swinginβ Neckbreakers - Shake Break; Bob Dylan - Love and Theft; Kris Davis Quartet - John Zornβs Bagatelles Vol. 5.
Recent Listening: Camila Nebbia, Marilyn Crispell, Lesley Mok - A Reflection Distorts Over Water; Nat Birchall β The Infinite; R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant; Van Morrison - Astral Weeks.
Recent Listening: Sonny Fortune - In the Spirit of John Coltrane; James Carter - In Carterian Fashion; Eric Dolphy β Out To Lunch!; Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma.
Recent Listening: Duke Ellington - Far East Suite; Jimmy Lyons - The Box Set (Highlights Digital Edition); John Prine - s/t; John Coltrane - One Down, One Up. John Coltrane - One Down One Up: Live at the Half Note.
Recent Listening: Griot Galaxy - Live on WUOM 1979; Dave Stryker - Blue Fire: The Van Gelder Session; The Beatles - Abbey Road; Various Artists - Rollin' And Tumblin' (American Electric Blues 1965-1971).
Toot has issues with Miles Davis.
artsfuse.org/322847/the-2... thank you @tomhull747.bsky.social
Bobby Weir, perched in a window
safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.
Recent Listening: AshΓ© Mystics - Fizzy Bubble Hummm; Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith; Muriel Grossmann - Plays the music of McCoy Tyner and Grateful Dead; Charles Tyler - Charles Tyler - Voyage from Jericho.
An all time favorite album, and one of the finest of the great series of albums he cut for Nonesuch from 1989-2009. Fearlessly melding classical, jazz, pop and more into a unique and subtle recipe, interpreted with grace and cunning by a crack band. #jazz #Americana
Recent Listening: Pierre DΓΈrge/Kirk Knuffke - Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever; The Gnomes - Introducing the Gnomes; Black Francis - Svn Fngrs; Billy Harper - Black Saint.
One of my all-time favorite musicians:
I grew up with the Ultima series www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/a-...
The Arts Fuse included my list in their "Best Jazz Albums of 2025" feature: artsfuse.org/321921/music...
2025 reset: top tens, favorites, poll ballots, etc. A great year in media (mostly music) sites.google.com/view/2025res...
The only holiday song that matters youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk
Phil Freeman on Thelonious Monk. burningambulance.com/2025/12/19/t...
