Jacob Garchik

ChatGPT's diagram of the Circle of Fifths. Many wrong key names (including two Bs, and the enharmonic pair C-sharp, G-flat, and 100% incorrect key signatures, mostly mixing flats, sharps, and the occasional double sharp)

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped.

[Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.

anyway my essay is about another fascinating case: J.J. Johnson (1924), a bebopper who did not really jibe with the new thing but instead followed his own path of rigorously controlled experimentalism of a sort...should be done in a few weeks.

Coleman Hawkins is another...he takes it way out on "three little words" outtake from Sonny Meets Hawk that Lewis Porter posted on his blog...but that might have been the extent of his engagement with free stuff.

i like that record...but to say he has the same kind of engagement with the new thing as Max Roach is a stretch. But it's all arbitrary, sure.

Sheila Jordan is another good one.

could be...but there is also a lot of drek from our heroes. So who knows?

yeah the Mary Lou Williams is a good lesson. Yes, she played and recorded with Cecil. But it was sort of a disaster. Does that mean she liked free stuff and dissonance? or maybe Cecil just fucked it up and it could have been cool?

Anybody who lived into the 70s would have done some fusion/disco/electric stuff...almost nobody was immune.

good one...there are a lot of others...cutoffs are abritrary, as is determining who was just sticking their toes in free jazz lake and who was really committed...

Pieces Of Time - YouTube

Don't forget about Kenny Clarke on this: soulnote.bandcamp.com/album/pieces...

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and also
Albert Manglesdorff (1926)
Lee Konitz (1927)
Eric Dolphy (1928)
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930)

generation similar to Max Roach, had at least some serious connection to free playing, to varying degrees
Jimmy Giuffre (1921)
Charles Mingus (1922)
George Russell (1923)
Sam Rivers (b 1923)
Marshall Allen (1924)
Max Roach (1924)
Miles Davis (1926)
John Coltrane (1926)

younger than Max Roach but heralded in the "new thing". Cecil Taylor (b 1929)
Ornette Coleman (b 1930)

older than Max Roach: Sun Ra (b 1914)
Gil Evans (1912)
Mary Lou Williams (1910) (although she had big misgivings about Cecil and the new thing!)

interesting to take note of bebop generation's openness to "new thing" - i have been pondering this for an essay I'm working on - consider...

I was convinced this was "CRUMHORN".

Broadway Musicians Begin Vote to Authorize Strike if Necessary The Broadway musicians of AFM Local 802 have begun voting to authorize a strike if necessary as the Broadway League continues to demand what is deemed as unacceptable wages and reduced jobs and benefits in the current contract talks. 

The Broadway musicians of AFM Local 802 have begun voting to authorize a strike if necessary.

I don't believe the NYPD has ever written a ticket for a 53' truck.

don't get me started on the 53' trailers...are there any trucks in flatbush that *aren't* 53'?

Craig Taborn has been named a MacArthur Foundation fellow for 2025, the only musician on the list

Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 1.12.19

Congrats to Craig Taborn for being a MacArthur Fellow this year: perfect example of someone doing noncommercial and groundbreaking music who can keep doing it more easily with this funding. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

@maryhalvorson.bsky.social and her Amaryllis sextet bring music from their new album, 'About Ghosts,' to Europe on tour starting October 23. Find details at tickets at www.nonesuch.com/journal/mary...

Amaryllis is heading to Europe to celebrate About Ghosts in a few weeks.

i dunno, plastic maybe? Some people are allergic to metal.

Ethan Iverson Sextet at the Village Vanguard.

The Westerlies, Songbook, Vol. 3 Emily Scott Robinson, American Siren Stuart Bogie, Patient Music Ringdown, Lady on the Bike Leveret, Lost Measures

it's Bandcamp Friday

Broadway Doomsaying Lands Just Before Labor Negotiations Heat Up The lede says “struggling.” The headline says “in trouble.” So when the New York Times uses those descriptors about musicals, theatre people sit up and take notice. Read Howard Sherman's latest Broadw...

More skepticism of the nytimes story. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broa...

The first record has a tune called “baritone oboe blues”. Take my money.

Isaac is spot on...although he ballparked that chorus members make $150k a year...I don't even know if they all make that TBH.