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YouTube video by bigfootpegrande Herbie Hancock & Friends (feat. Santana, Clarke, Mouzon and more), Berkley (1980)

Digging this Herbie bootleg! Berkeley Jazz Festival 1980. Check out Jon Lucien on Rashida. #jazzsky

A Song To Sing, by Nicole McCabe 11 track album

A lot of classics here! For something brand new and fresh sounding that I’ve been enjoying: nicolemccabe.bandcamp.com/album/a-song...

YouTube video by Karel Cuelenaere ROIO Archive Keith Jarrett - 1979? Interview and solo piano at home

Excellent newly uploaded Keith Jarrett feature. #jazzsky

Manufacturers of Soul by Jackie Wilson & Count Basie on Apple Music Album · 1968 · 11 Songs

Nice find, today. Jackie Wilson and the Count Basie Orchestra play soul hits of the day.

Feeling for the people in my childhood hometown of Altadena. My family lived in a multi-home communal living set up on Rubio Street in the 80s. A fun place to be a kid. All gone now as far as I can tell. Tough times.

The collection in the school library.

Time for a 70s McCoy deep dive. #goodidea #jazzsky

YouTube video by Musikladen Ramsey Lewis Trio - Summer Breeze (1973)

Accidentally clicked on this one and glad I did. The trio sounds great and bassist Cleveland Eaton is dealing! #jazzsky

YouTube video by Loren Schoenberg Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - FILM

Newly discovered silent footage from this classic session! Shared by Loren Schoenberg. #jazzsky

YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive Miles Davis & The Jazz and Classical Music Society- Music For Brass, 1956 | EXCLUSIVE REMASTER

Music for Metro-Northing. One of the less known Miles Davis records with excellent brass ensemble writing from John Lewis and JJ Johnson. Repertory bands: give this one a read! #jazzsky

Xmas eve practicing: working through a tune on the piano - play slowly through the changes, hear an idea, then play it. You can have all the chops and know all the theory but if you’re not hearing what you play it’s not going to feel quite right.

These companies will do whatever they think is necessary to curry favor. Seems pretty transparent.

Interesting to compare Wayne’s playing on this with other recordings immediately before and after. On SNE he mainly plays these broad vocal-like phrases. You don’t hear the twisty flurries he plays elsewhere. Compare to the WS of Plugged Nickel one year later.

The Music Tells Us by The Charles Owens Trio on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 14 Songs

Enjoying this new release from Charles Owens. One of my favorite undersung (but who isn’t?) contemporary tenor saxophonists.

Love this one, and one of favorite album covers from the period too.

YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive Miles Davis- May 21, 1966 | Oriental Theatre, Portland, Oregon [REMASTERED] REPOST

The Plugged Nickel record was recorded in Dec 65. This show from the following May is the next known recording of the quintet, with Richard Davis in on bass. MD is in much better shape here. Plugged Nickel is essential for Wayne, but I think the band as a whole is stronger here. #jazzsky

YouTube video by bellsystem_1877 Miles Davis's Quartet: Village Vanguard 1965-08-xx

This recording, which made the rounds a few years ago (Wayne, Herbie, Tony, Gary Peacock), pairs nicely as a companion piece to the new Henderson, Tyner, Grimes, and DeJohnette record. I #jazzsky

The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects!
www.loc.gov/free-to-use

MD was off for most of 65 but there was supposedly about a month of gigs leading up these dates. No recordings that I know of from that period. Would be good to hear to put Tony’s “anti-music” idea in context.

What we were looking for was to play a music that was based essentially on intuition. We had melodies and a certain number of chords at our disposal but we used them as little as possible. . . . [Thus] our music became more and more spontaneous, different from one night to the next. - HH

Deep into Mwandishi (listening) and reading this book. Inspiring.

This album presenting a choice selection of Turkish/Ottoman Gazel vocal improvisations on 78 RPMs accompanied by ud lute, violin or ney flute, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/11/turk...

#Turkey #ud lute #ney flute #violin #vocals

Watched Pablo Held’s interview with Eddie Henderson last night and realized all of the players from the original Mwandishi line up are still playing. Kind of amazing and that’s a reunion I’d like to see. #jazzsky

Glad to have found your channel. Great stuff here. Cheers!

YouTube video by Barry Harris - Topic Lolita (Live From The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, CA / May 15 & 16, 1960)

Barry Harris and Curtis Fuller both born on this day? Some transcribing is in order. Starting with:

Raise Four, by Jamie Saft Trio from the album Jamie Saft Trio Plays Monk

I hear Jamie Saft playing against the rhythm section groove. Straight against swung (a dissonance reinforced by use of clusters) but also placing chords slightly ahead or behind the subdivision - not quantized. This gives the music its texture. An approach suggested by Monk and taken further here.

The Best Jazz Albums of 2024 | Treble Our year-end coverage dives into the work of veteran players and young lions alike in our list of the best jazz albums of 2024

The best jazz albums of the year

YouTube video by larry goldings Larry Goldings -"You"

Go Larry, go Larry.

I try to practice jazz standards everyday because it’s fun, though they rarely come up on most of the gigs I play. Today: You’re My Everything, If I Were A Bell. Now off to the gig to play Sweet Caroline, etc.

Tuned into Smalls jazz jam livestream, I think: Develop understanding of resolution points within the form and let this guide your choices, whether soloing or accompanying. When I hear a meandering soloist or a drummer playing random stuff it's because they aren't playing toward resolution points.