Fay Victor

Fay Victor, in a long black and white striped dress, on stage at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival

Saoundtrack: Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFUNK - Police Lights and Sirens (appropriately enough for these times, I suppose)

At the Hyde Park Jazz Festival last weekend, I was honored to not just hear Fay Victor, but to meet her. One of my favorite singers.

Day Listens:

McCoy Tyner - The Greeting
Joel Futterman Alvin Fielder Ike Levin Trio - Live At The Blue Monk
Other Dimensions In Music Featuring Fay Victor - Kaiso Stories
Fred Anderson Quartet - The Milwaukee Tapes, Vol. 2

Ralph Macchio! (The Karate Kid)

Thinking About Jazz Singing Today: Performances from Cecile McLorin Salvant, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gillian Margot, and Fay Victor The always-hard-to-define art of “jazz singing” is considered through four 2025 performances/recordings from disparate artists who share many qualities.

Check out Will Layman's substack piece on Jazz Singing today. Wonderful observations on current trends. Thank you for the inclusion!
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For the landmark 500th issue @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I had the honour of interviewing the great vocalist, composer & improviser Fay Victor

The Wire 500 is out now!

Featuring a special commemorative silver gatefold Wire 500 artwork by Savage Pencil, plus features on Natural Information Society, Fay Victor, OvO, Weston Olencki, Bitchin Bajas, Lea Bertucci, and many, many more.

Available to buy here:
www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Sonny Rollins was born in Harlem on this day in 1930. The Saxophone Colossus turns 95 years old today. He is the world’s greatest living improviser.

📸 David McLane/Getty Images, 1968
#SonnyRollinsBridge

This was great! Thank you🙏🏾

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mal Waldron

Giovanni Russonello: “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mal Waldron.” Includes Lafayette Gilchrist, Ran Blake, Matthew Shipp, Angelica Sanchez, Robin D.G. Kelley, Fay Victor, Andrew Cyrille, Ben Ratliff, John Szwed, Russonello, and myself. [Gift link.]
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On the turntable
Fay Victor–Herbie Nichols SUNG, Life Is Funny That Way (2024)
#vinyl #recordcollection #nowspinning
Let's see if anyone else knows about this project. A labor of love, vocalist Victor wrote lyrics for several tunes by the idiosyncratic post-bop pianist.
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YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working | Explainer

Reasons to be (slightly) cheerful, part 3

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Awww,thank you for listening!

Thank you so much!!

Thank you #downbeat magazine!!
Grateful for the recognition and to be amongst these incredible artists.🙏🏾🙌🏾

I’m so sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace. Amazingly, I have the same birthday as your mom. 🙏🏾❤️

JUST ANNOUNCED!
Herbie Nichols SUNG on the Hyde Park Jazz Festival
September 27, 2025 at the Logan Arts Center. Nice pic of us from the Kennedy Center in May by #jatiphoto, Brad Linde sitting in for #michaelattias #anthonycoleman #ratzoharris #tomrainey #marylouwilliamsJF

This. ⤵️⤵️

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Discount codes available! Let me know and I'll pass them on.

Discount codes available! Let me know and I'll pass them on.

The Vision Festival is ON! June 2-7, 2025. I’m there w the Tree Trini Collective on June 7th, the last night of the festival, 8pm. See the lineup, buy tix + learn more at www.artsforart.org going down at @roulettenyc.bsky.social

Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

RIP Al Foster. Groove for days. 🥁

Playing with the #TreeTriniCollective on the last day of the #VisionFestival - June 7, 2025. 8pm. Amazing lineup! At Roulette in BK
@roulettenyc.bsky.social
Artsforart.org for tix ++ 🇹🇹 🇹🇹

*Raul De Gama

Remembering… - Jazz da Gama In Julius Caesar, one of his best-remembered tragedies, William Shakespeare wrote the following famous lines attributed to Mark Anthony who began his famous eulogy of the murdered Emperor beginning th...

On this dreary Thursday (in my world)...I wanted to share some beautiful writing by Rau De Gama On Life Is Funny That Way. #TaoForms #HerbieNicholsSUNG
"Victor’s double disc on the music of Herbie Nichols is an exceptional reminder that Mr Nichols’ music sings."
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Song of the Day! Honored to be one on the duos (along with the incredible Mariel Roberts on cello) on Ingrid Laubrock's 'Purposing the Air', out now on Pyroclastic Records. 🙏🏾

YouTube video by JazzyRNA Billie Holiday -- I Hadn't Anyone Till You (1955)

I Hadn't Anyone Till You - Ray Noble (1938). Truly one of my favorite jazz standards. Here is a sublime veresion by Billie Holiday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4eG... I'll sing it tomorrow alongside many other songs at Smalls with #JohnHebert #SmallsJazz We start at 6PM.

How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

On this Mother’s Day, do not forget to love the mother you become to yourself.