Gary Kennedy

WATT is Bley's label, estalbished in 1973/4. XtraWatt is a sub label. Distributed by ECM. If you've never been here - www.wattxtrawatt.com - you should visit. You have to check in with the warden first. It's a bit arch/clever, but...

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Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2024 CD release of "A Night At The Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters" on Discogs.

if you only have the 1980s version, then yes. The late 1990s RVG remaster is better sonically. I've heard great things about the 2024 reissue, too. I have not heard it, but I'd plump for it over all the others, tbh. www.discogs.com/release/3051...

Mark Fell – Psychic Resynthesis | The Quietus Tones drift apart, come together, converse and collide, on Mark Fell's collaboration with Explore Ensemble

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Night-glo?

Sportsman’s Paradise by Nancy Lemann The guests are arriving, across the lawn. It is Friday afternoon. The men are coming in on the late train in the parlor car, and others have come on the ferryboat

“The baseball game last night was truly a metaphor for the human condition.”

This week, we’ve unlocked “Sportsman’s Paradise” by Nancy Lemann from the archive.

i think what I'm saying is enshittification has hit corporate pop in a very legible way so the biggest stuff rn is v bland even while tons of weird bangers bubble just underneath

Sweet Earth Flying - YouTube

Marion Brown
Sweet Earth Flying (1974)

Marion Brown, James Jefferson, Steve McCall, Muhal Richard Abrams, Paul Bley, Bill Hasson

YouTube video by so true Amina Claudine Myers - Sweet Earth Flying

And while we're on the subject

Amina Claudine Myers
Poems for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown (1979)

Some great answers here for anyone curious. Love any story where a city employee gets to say, “It went really crazy after that,” in response to a question about what happened to the street grid after Van Buren

Mary Lou Williams Blindfold Test Playlist

Pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was the first person that Leonard Feather conducted a Blindfold Test with. The feature ran in the September, 1946 issue of Metronome magazine. Musicians that Williams heard include Barney Bigard, Dizzy Gillespie,…

Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Chapter Two: Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83 :: Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker 📙

October 23 :: Soul Jazz Records

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This book means more to me than any other book I have written. I want to get copies into the hands of everyone who cares about opera or is interested in the broader cultural history of our country.

Please consider buying a copy. Thank you. 🙏

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book cover: joanna pocock greyhound image is a black and white photograph of a roadside motel.

@bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow

might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir

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To the undergrad who walked up to 3 people, 2 of whom were partners at a law firm,

Proceeded to introduce herself,

Describe her academic interests,

cold pitch us on an internship.

Let me say this:

Train your friends. That was bold and awesome. I’m hand carrying your ask to the Houston office.

I am here at Weston-super-Mare for a few days but I live at Kings Heath where you used to be.

It could also be shredding

Album cover for Bleak House by Terje Rypdal.

On this day in 1968, Terje Rypdal had his first of three reding sessions for would become his first album as leader, Bleak House.

cover image for the Jan Gabarek Group album "Photo With Blue Sky, White Cloud, Wires, Windows And A Red Roof" aka "Photo With..." issued by ECM Records in 1979.

now playing [cd - ECM 1135 / 843 168-2]

beautiful photos, Sid. I think the graveyard with the cloudbank is especially striking.

cover art for the Talk Talk album "Laughing Stock" issued by Polydor Records in 1991

now playing [cd - Polydor 847 717-2]

You're welcome, Yeah, it's too much for that bundle, imho, but knew you'd want to know about it.

Now-Again has the masters. They have the first Open Sky as part of a deadstock "deal" under Stone Allliance on their Bandcamp page (stonealliance.bandcamp.com/album/stone-...)

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The Complete Capitol / Black & White Recordings - YouTube

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Johnny does not lie. It is magnificent. Do not watch if you have any fear of water whatsoever.

Last night's dreams involved sibling rivalry, familial strife, and an academic bookfare. In a nutshell - pageantry, pedantry, and family.

There was also this thing about a derelict building but details were wiped out by my alarm going off.

YouTube video by Traveler Into The Blue Luke Jordan- Pick Poor Robin Clean

This is a remarkable recording, one of two early versions of this song I've found today

- it sounds great for 1927
- there is an notable verse that doesn't appear in "Sinners"
- there is a 3+3+3+3+4 pattern in the guitar opening, which is the earliest example I know

www.youtube.com/watch?v=40xY...

An ErstRowe Fantasia by Marc Medwin October 2025

working with Keith Rowe so extensively and deeply on Erstwhile is the professional achievement I’m most proud of in my life, we put out 24 releases containing 39 CDs from 2000-2021.

the great Marc Medwin has written about all 24 in a newly posted epic piece on ‘surround’, please check it out.

To help me with this talk I'm writing, I just (re)read the introductions to every major Twain biography written by a white man in the last hundred years, plus HH's preface to Mark Twain Tonight, and I think I'm going to pass away from romanticized nostalgia.