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Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://sonnyrollinsbridge.net/ • urban planner • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/arts/music/brazil-jazz-music.html?smid=url-share
New video from Lúcio Maia (formerly of Nação Zumbi) 🇧🇷
05.03.2026 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Antoine Dougbé et L'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou 1977 - 1982 🇧🇯
April 17 • Analog Africa No.44
analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/antoin...
Sampled by J Dilla/Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor, Ghostface Killah, Kendrick Lamar, Talib Kweli, & many others. Took them a dozen years to license this reissue.
05.03.2026 17:49 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gap Mangione • Diana In The Autumn Wind (1968)
May 1 • Be With Records
www.bewithrecords.com/products/gap...
2026 Jazz Legacies Fellows (The Mellon Foundation & Jazz Foundation of America):
Dee Alexander, 70
Kenny Barron, 82
Gary Bartz, 85
William Cepeda
Marilyn Crispell, 78
Donald Harrison, 65
Oliver Lake, 83
Bennie Maupin, 84
Charles McPherson, 85
Archie Shepp, 88
Mary Stallings, 86
Buster Williams, 83
Augusta Barna, Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 3.5.24
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Recife 🇧🇷 3.5.23
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Mind Maintenance w. Jeff Parker, Knoxville, TN, 3.5.22
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Olinda 🇧🇷 3.5.23
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
My thanks for Rodrigo for the invite! Originally from Recife, he worked w. Naná Vasconcelos for 5 years & told me some good stories about him last night.
04.03.2026 18:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Round midnight in a soundproof studio in downtown São Paulo last night listening to “Fascination Street” on a set of high-end speakers. Producer Rodrigo Coehlo used a laser pointer to measure that my 👂s were perfectly aligned in the ideal spot. Sounded immaculate despite this shitty video evidence.
04.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 3.4.24
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Laurie Anderson with Sex Mob • Let X=X (Live)
w. Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Douglas Wieselman, Tony Scherr, & Kenny Wollesen
May 8 • Nonesuch Records • 3LP/2-CD
store.nonesuch.com/products/let...
Hung out with a friend in São Paulo this weekend & he referred to my research of the music scene here as “gonzo” 😜
04.03.2026 15:52 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Recife 🇧🇷 3.4.23
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Funkadelic :: Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow (1970)
May 1 :: Org Music’s Westbound Records reissue series
orgmusic.com/collections/...
👇
03.03.2026 16:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 3.3.24
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Ward appeared on albums by Rashied Ali, Harry Belafonte, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Karl Berger, Ed Blackwell, Carla Bley, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Dennis González, Frank Lowe, Grachan Moncur III, Amina Claudine Myers, Roswell Rudd, Cecil Taylor, Clifford Thornton, & at least 10 Abdullah Ibrahim albums
03.03.2026 14:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a few years back Mark Helias quietly released this 1987 live recording w. Ward, Cherry, Ed Blackwell, & Naná Vasconcelos
markhelias.bandcamp.com/album/nu-liv...
“For those interested in the diasporic connections forged among jazz musicians, Ward’s long collaboration with the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim…comes to mind. Ward connected with Ibrahim through Don Cherry, in their shared admiration for John Coltrane, in whose band Ward also played”
03.03.2026 14:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
RIP Carlos Ward (1940-2026)
Sadly, I have yet to see a proper obituary anywhere (& he died in mid-January), but here is a good remembrance
St. Thomas 🇻🇮 3.3.19
Belo Horizonte 🇧🇷 3.3.24
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Alan Braufman • Anthem for Peace
May 15 • Valley of Search
alanbraufman.bandcamp.com/album/anthem...
QMAR, São Paulo 🇧🇷 2.12.26
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
Qmar • Orações Oferecidas A Estranhos 🇧🇷
Cacá Amaral: drums, guitar
Paula Rebellato: vox, electronics, synth, frame drum
March 13
tratore.ffm.to/qmar/presave...
Party music for sure. i'm not much of a big band guy, unless it sounds like this!
02.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
on the flip side of this comp is the extended version of Jackie McLean & Michael Carvin "De I Comahlee Ah." A barn burner. It was too long to fit on their 1976 album 'Antiquity' so they had to cut ~40 secs to make it fit there (i lucked out finding that LP in a thrift store for a few bucks)
02.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the great avant-jazz duo Radio Diaspora are on the opening track. Really wish more heads knew about these guys:
radio-diaspora.bandcamp.com
