Gary Kennedy

Jim Hall Live! Volumes 2-4 (Artist Share) album by Jim Hall

“you really can't find him playing like before or after....It's a real portrait of that band. The whole thing with Don and Terry is so special, and it always has been for Jim. He's really affected by who he's playing with” -Pat Metheny

Jim Hall - g
Don Thompson - b
Terry Clarke - dr

Okay. Prove this place is good for culture and post a good book cover.

Jordan Perry reflected in a piano in a large room.

Tonight's venue

NOW, starting off w some Patti Smith

An old, long out of print Vinny Golia favorite, Openhearted, featuring Baikida Carroll, Roberto Miranda and twin brothers Alex and Nels Cline. (1979, Nine Winds Records). #NowPlaying #jazzsky

Climbed Snowdon - Sally in bikini top and me in her see through bra.

The premiere of the And Big Band from @gorgonparis.bsky.social & me kicks off tonight in Durham NC at 6pm.

Today! If I may say so myself, this show will slap.

dude...

a fun part of these collections is hearing for example, Jelly Roll Morton's "The Chant" as recorded by the Original Memphis Five, and then comparing it to the version you know

1. Morton (Sep. 15, 1926): youtu.be/u6tI1rb6X0I?...

2. Original Memphis Five (c. Nov. 26, 1926): youtu.be/Yao4basQOqo?...

cover art for the compilation CD "The Jazz Modernists, 1924-1933" issued by Retrieval records in 2009

now playing [download - 16/44.1 FLAC]

cover art for the Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy album "Superwolf" issued by Drag City Records in 2005. Image is an artists's rendering/drawing of a hand rising out of water with blood dripping from the fingertips. The artists name is at the top the album title at the bottom

now playing [download - 16/44.1 FLAC]
info: mattsweeneybonnieprincebilly.bandcamp.com/album/superw...

Fanfare For The Warriors - YouTube

Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Fanfare For The Warriors (1974)

On 4th March 2010 and 27th August 2011 we had played concise improvisations (one hour) in conventional concert contexts, the first, Doom and Promise was released as a CD on Rothko Chapel publications. For our third appearance at the Chapel, we expanded the scale of the performance to match the setting. Playing continuously from 12 midday till sometime after 4pm, we encouraged listeners to come and go, or, if they had the stamina, to stay for the entirety. Tempo doesn't include the first hour but everything else is in the order we played it that day, including an extension where - clearly oblivious to time - we sail on beyond the planned four hours. In listening to the recording it is clear to us that Tempo is one moment - the breaks between CDs are only there because of the limitation of the media. That afternoon Houston experienced a massive storm - you will hear rain and thunder - and in the Chapel, the natural lighting the paintings are viewed in was reduced to profound gloom.

Mural | Tempo

Three CDs and three hours plus taken from a four hour single improvisation recorded at the Rothko Chapel in 2013.

Translated fiction: Women in Ukraine; Jewish Guatemalans ready for war; an East German memoir Works by Yuliia Iliukha, Artem Chapeye, Antoine Volodine, Eduardo Halfon, Julia Franck and Elisa Shua Dusapin

My latest round-up of recently published, translated fiction is now online.
The books are: My Women by Yuliia Iliukha, tr. by Hanna Leliv (Indigo Press)
The Weathering by Artem Chapeye, tr. by Daisy Gibbons (Seven Stories)
and . . .(1/2)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

cover art for the Smog album "A River Ain;t Too Much In Love" released by Drag City Records in 2005. Image is a pale gray background with a hole torn in the middle. The hole has burnt edges. The album title is above the hole, the artist's name below. Both are in black, handwritten lettering.

good morning [digital download - 16/44.1 FLAC]
info: smog.bandcamp.com/album/a-rive...

Still a great album after over 30 years! I was one of those saxophonist's really motivated by the jazz scene happening in London back then. Seemed so vibrant and full of hope ... what happened?

Sonemic Interview: Jim O'Rourke (@steamroom.bsky.social)

Prolific producer, performer, and improviser Jim O'Rourke speaks with insight and affection on music, noise, films, and frogs in this interview with @calcash.in.

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Just back from seeing EX LIBRIS, Fred Wiseman’s terrific documentary about the New York Public Library. It was put on at Homerton Library which gave it extra depth — as if we were all somehow profoundly connected to the film. See it if you can. It’s a work of hope in dark times. (1)

…I came out to a beautiful pastel sky over Hackney and felt less alone in my love of public spaces and libraries... (2)

#fredwiseman #cinemaverite #exlibris #libraries #homertonlibrary #hackneylibraries #community #weneedlibraries

Just posted another classic of UK jazz earlier this morning. This one (that I'm listening to on a lovely sunny morning), is a real classic, timeless even. I'd rate this up with many of the 'famous' jazz albums that appear on people's lists. If you don't know it, you should!

Just two days ago, Ogun Records announced they'd discovered a small batch of original 1977 pressings of Mark Charig's wonderful Pipedream. A snip at £15, it's just arrived. The LPs quickly sold out, but you can still buy the reissued CD here:
markcharig.bandcamp.com/album/pipedr...

#jazzsky | The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard is a significant album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, released in 1963 | This was his first album for Impulse! Records and showcases a mixture of Hubbard's compositions and jazz standards, highlighting his virtuosic trumpet skills.

#jazzsky | Although Scott LaFaro and Elvin Jones' names appear prominently on the cover, the album is actually Gipsy, by altoist Herb Geller & His All Stars. Released in 1959, it features a collection of jazz interpretations of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's songs from the Broadway musical Gypsy

We never know how someone learns; but whatever the way, it is always by the intermediary of signs, by wasting time, and not by the assimilation of some objective content.

The rare Sends You Love variant of the RL version of the first pressing of Led Zeppelin II.

Shoutout to Robin D. Thomas for the custom artwork and for taking care of this record. ATLANTIC SD 8236 LED ZEPPELIN II • ThOMES ONE 1. WHOLE LOTTA LOVE (5:33) Page- Plant -Jones- Bonham 2. WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE (4:47) Jimmy Page- Robert Plant 3. THE LEMON SONG (6:20) Page - Plant -Jones- Bonham 4. THANK YOU (3:50) Jimmy Page-Rober Plany (SR-A-691671 PR)

A first mino pressing of The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

MINGUS THE BLACK SAINT AND THE SINNER LADY Track A SOLO DANCER Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitey! (6:20) A-35 Side 1 33⅓ RPM LP Track B — DUET SOLO DANCERS Hearts' Beat and Shades In Physical Embraces Track C - GROUP DANCERS Scul Fusion Freewoman and on, This Freedom's Slave Cries Above Selections Composed by: CHARLIE MINGUS Published by: Jazz Workship, Inc. -- BMI A PRODUCT OF ABC-PARAMOUNT RECORDS, INC PRINTED IN USA

I am spinning the hits today. #vinylsky #musicsky

Do what you can to put the music on this album into your head. Your ears will thank you.

John Abercrombie est un monstre sacré de la guitare ! Et c’est pourtant un musicien au style plutôt sobre, mais qui fut toujours à l’avant-garde du jazz, notamment avec le fameux label ECM pour lequel il a enregistré une trentaine d’albums…

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YouTube video by The Match Me Podcast Edwin Starr- War (HQ)

War!
What Is It Good For?
Absolutely Nothing!
youtu.be/dQHUAJTZqF0

Shortest band name competition?