I haven’t been able to find all the right groups of people on the fediverse. And this makes me sad. I follow a group of people in my field of work and a large # of people in the Apple development ecosystem.
The new Summer 1973 Grateful Dead boxed set brushes up against the brief flourishing of what's come to be known as "The Phil Jazz Jam." It's probably as close as the band ever came to an organized approach to a Davis/Coltrane zone. This is my favorite version (6/24/73 Portland). #gratefuldead#jazz
There was a guy named Maxwell,
who was born on that day, 100 years ago,
even if his birth certificate doesn't say so.
His second name was Lemuel.
Whatever — everybody calls him Max.
Let's embark for a 100 days celebration
with Max Roach, here on Mastodon.
You know what to do? — Follow the hashtag…
"Je vais faire un thread "longue durée" avec la musique que j'aime, donc un peu orienté #jazz, au sens large (aussi large que la prog "jazz" d'un festival jazz). Peut-être ça m'amènera à découvrir de nouvelles choses grâce à vous, et inversement réciproque. Kiffons."
Alice Coltrane, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana and Friends
3.4.1974 Kabuki Theater, SF
Live performance FLAC download
A new to circulation recording of an essentially unknown show. There are not many live recordings of Alice from the 1970s so this is quite special. Quality is good, not great, but also not bad.
Ya know I think I've dropped just about enough breadcrumbs to get everyone started on the UK #jazz scene though there are still a lot of great (or at least popular) names I haven't gotten to but I want to close with one of my favorites from just before most of the current wave - a huge track from Kevin Haynes Grupo Elegba. Haynes is a serious Santeria devotee and his music blends spiritual jazz, #Cuban and West #African styles; when the kora drops at about 8:30 🤯
I'm looking for some long-form history/criticism of "Dawg"/"Chambergrass"/"sophisticated bluegrass" whatever-the-hell you call what Grisman, Rice, O'Connor/Anger/Marshall et. al. did.
We saw the great Shabaka Hutchings last night at the lovely Newmark Theater in downtown #PDX. As expected, the focus of the performance was his exploration of the flute, or I should say flutes, as he played a very wide variety of instruments, including several we didn't recognize. The band was excellent and did include Esperanza Spalding as hoped.
He is, of course, a genius. For my taste he's the most interesting voice in modern jazz by a wide margin. The performance was fascinating
The debut album from British jazz-rap group Us3 really holds up.
Its mixture of jazz and hip-hop, with material from popular jazz musicians of the 20th century being reimagined, is such a cool concept. And all the samples are from old Blue Note Records classics.
This playlist was made by posing the question "what other #music actually sounds right when mixed with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi albums?" back on the birdsite. @theheatwarps was a major contributor to the discussion. Alice Coltrane is the other major pillar here.
As always, suggestions for additional tracks are always welcome, but whether or not I feel the fit is right or not is a visceral and elusive thing
#Jazz genius Miles Davis was born OTD in 1926. You might think his celebrity status would have shielded him from the institutionalized #racism of his era. You'd be wrong. Here's Miles, beaten bloody by a NYC cop in 1959 outside a club, after recording "Kind of Blue."
As a young fella just getting into #jazz in the late eighties my first impressions of David Sanborn were that he was corny and overly smooth, in an unhip bag I didn't dig with guys like Metheny and the Breckers. Then he blew my fucking mind with the Night Music show and I've respected him ever since. There was almost no really cool weird music on TV in 1988-90 except that show, and man, Night #Music was legit!!! Nick Cave, Bongwater, Pere Ubu, Miles Davis...
A thread of live recordings of my amateur jazz band's latest december 2023 gig, a #WayneShorter tribute (final thread post on January 2nd 2024). Let's start with Miyako, a wonderful ballad,
including an upright #bass solo by yours truly #jazz 🧵
I started to like the jazz music that plays in my favourite coffee shop, so I now listen to whatever chill jazz I can find while driving as it helps to keep me calm. I’m open to recommendations if anyone has any artists, tracks or playlists to share! #jazz#music
Some kind of restrictions have been imposed on me by Mastodon, but it doesn't tell me why, just that it happened and I can appeal. And I clicked their thing and put in my appeal, including "I have no comprehension as to what is going on here". The restrictions that I grasped were, if I follow someone, every time they must approve it before I'm following and also if I go to include hashtag this or that--like #jazz--it no longer works. If I look to see if it made it there, it didn't.
Sur la Denon de GranMuM, ça envoit du jazz ! (ça déborde un peu dans la rue...mais ça va faire du bien aux oreilles des voisins catho-bourges-patriarcaux...)
Après on va se mettre des trucs de hippies !
Would I be wrong to say that #progrock like this is just as good as anything being created in #jazz during the early 1970’s? Any one else have favorites from this era? #Nowplaying#vinyl