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"You've got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"—Thelonious Monk. Currently writing BRAZIL IS NOW! Sonny @RollinsBridge Project. Photos 📸 Jeff Caltabiano
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Seeking publishers, agents, grants, & residencies to complete:
BRAZIL IS NOW!
Other Music in Brazil
The first book in English on the modern Brazilian music scene (1998-2024) 🇧🇷
5 cities, 30 interviews, 80 concerts
📸 Jeff Caltabiano
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RIP Gal Costa (1945-2022), a marvelous creative spirit with a miraculous voice
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Celia Cruz was born in Havana, Cuba on this day in 1925. One of the best to ever do it.
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Pharoah Sanders playing with Alice Coltrane, Black Journal Documentary (1970)
h/t
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Jimi Hendrix on a 12-string acoustic guitar: “Hear My Train A Comin’”
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Quincy Jones was born on the South Side of Chicago on this day in 1933. His grandmother had been a former slave. At 14, he met Ray Charles, at 20, he toured w. Lionel Hampton. He has 80 Grammy nominations & won 28, the most for a living person, & second overall.
📸 Ted Williams
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Herbie Hancock got his first big royalty check in 1963, for “Watermelon Man,” and bought an AC Cobra for $6000. He is the longest owner of the same Cobra, now 61 years.
📸 Joseph Puhy
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Last night Herbie Hancock introduced “Footprints” by saying that Wayne Shorter’s last words in English were: “It’s time to go get a new body and come back to continue the mission,” before chanting “Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō” over & over.
📸 Thomas Dorn / Verve Records
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Miles Davis letter to Teo Macero re: Bitches Brew, 1969
h/t Stephen Haynes
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RIP to Joe Bussard, legendary record collector & archivist
On a visit to Joe Bussard’s legendary basement earlier this year I made this short video of him playing what he considered one of the greatest recordings of all time, Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark was the night, Cold was the ground.” RIP Joe
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Don Cherry submitted a CV for a job at Dartmouth University that was decorated with flowers & included the line “1964 Private Studies with Thelonious Monk”
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Herbie Hancock was born in Chicago on this day in 1940. He turns 83 today.
📸 Roberto Polillo, Bergamo, Italy, 1972
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In 1980, Lee “Scratch” Perry wrote a letter to Japanese officials when Paul McCartney was incarcerated for marijuana possession
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Naná Vasconcelos was born in Recife, Brazil on this day in 1944
🎥 Estúdio Showlivre 🇧🇷 2015
@showlivre
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Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle on this day in 1942. He was my gateway into becoming a fan of improvisational music.
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The breadth of Wayne Shorter:
The Jazz Messengers
Miles Davis Quintet
IASW/Bitches/Live-Evil/Big Fun
Weather Report
w. Milton Nascimento
w. Joni Mitchell
V.S.O.P. The Quartet
Herbie & Wayne
Wayne Shorter Quartet
Iphigenia
+ all the albums as leader, countless appearances, etc
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Charlie Parker died in 1955, Charles Mingus in 1979, Thelonious Monk in 1982
Roy Haynes woke up this morning 96 years old
Long live the drum 👑
📸 Bob Parent, The Open Door, NYC, September 13, 1953
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RIP Ahmad Jamal
“In a professional career that began at 14 in his native Pittsburgh, [he] proved over 7 decades to be a musician of ceaseless growth & invention, a minimalist, classicist and modernist who sought to erase distinctions among musical genres”
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RIP Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Antwerp, Belgium, 8.15.19
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“[At 17] I got a job at Birdland as a cigarette girl & that’s how I got my education...I hardly sold anything because I was listening to the music. If someone asked to buy a pack of Luckies I said, ‘Wait till the solo is over.’” Carla Bley (1936-2023)
📸 Bill Roughen, ca. 1971
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Quartet 1958 [John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, & Roy Haynes at the Five Spot, NYC]
🖼️Martel Chapman
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Often when there’s yet another senseless school shooting I think about Jimmy Greene, a 🎷ist & educator who lost his daughter Ana at Sandy Hook in 2012.
Given the US’s total failure to enact gun safety laws, that means I end up thinking about him & his family a lot.
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RIP Steve Albini (1962-2024)
“This might sound slightly bigheaded of me, but I feel like my day-to-day job is being a vector of history. Like I'm making recordings which are gonna sit on a shelf and then at some distant time are gonna be discovered again.”
BREAKING: Steve Albini, the legendary record producer behind Nirvana's In Utero, Pixies' Surfer Rosa, and countless other classic albums, has died of a heart attack. He was 61 years old →
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RIP Sue Mingus, who moved mountains to uphold Charles Mingus’ legacy
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Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on this day in 1933.
📸 Roger Viollet via Getty Images, Paris, March 1969
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Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois on this day in 1926.
📸 Dany Gignoux, ca. 1987
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Quincy Jones was born in Chicago on this day in 1933. The living legend turns 90.
📸 K. Abe/Shinko Music/Getty Images, Tokyo, Japan, 1973
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William Parker was born in the Bronx on this day in 1952. He’s one of the most creative and prolific musicians alive. The living legend is 70.
📷 New York, NY, 10.27.19
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk on flute, nose flute, & whistle. Bright moments.
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Wayne Shorter & Milton Nascimento, October 2022
📸 Augusto Kesrouani Nascimento
h/t Milton Nascimento’s IG
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RIP Carla Bley
“After a career of more than 70 years and nearly 60 albums, composer and pianist Carla Bley left us this Tuesday morning at the age of 87, tells us her companion, Steve Swallow.”
@francemusique
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Albert Ayler & Milford Graves outside St Paul’s Lutheran Church, funeral of John Coltrane, July 21, 1967
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Required watch every time it’s posted
Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim performing “Águas de Março” in 1974.
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Pharoah Sanders & Sonny Sharrock, Berlin, 1968
📸 Philippe Gras / Le Pictorium
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RIP Julian Bahula (1938-2023), South African drummer, composer & bandleader based in the UK since 1973. Member of Malombo/Malombo Jazz Men, he founded Jabula & Jazz Afrika. He also booked early appearances by Fela Kuti, Miriam Makeba, & Hugh Masekela. 🇿🇦
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk was born in Columbus, Ohio on this day in 1935. Bright moments.
📸 David Redfern/Redferns
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Osibisa are an Afro-rock band founded in London in 1969 by 4 expatriate West African & 3 Caribbean musicians. They released 8 albums between 1971-1976. Here are the first four.
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MASSIVE!!!
80-minutes of Coltrane & Dolphy @ the Village Gate, summer 1961
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Al Foster, Alphonse Mouson, & Miles Davis, at Sly Stone's concert & onstage wedding at Madison Square Garden, NYC, June 5, 1974
📸 Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images
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“The music wasn’t getting across, you dig?” —Miles Davis on Wynton Marsalis & jazz nostalgia, 1986, told to Nick Kent
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Sonny Rollins’ name should be added to the Williamsburg Bridge, which he practiced on during his sabbatical from 1959-61.
Please take a moment to sign our petition for the living legend:
Join our quest for the Sonny Rollins Williamsburg Bridge.
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RIP Ivan Conti “Mamão” (1946-2023)
Here’s Mamão 🥁 w. Azymuth just over 9 weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro, his birthplace, at the the legendary Beco das Garrafas. Azymuth was kicking off its 50th anniversary tour & it was an absolute privilege to be there.
We are devastated and shocked to hear the news that our dear friend Ivan "Mamão" Conti passed away this morning 1/6
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Fela Kuti was born in
Abeokuta, Nigeria on this day in 1938.
Around 2000, i owned 1 Fela comp that i was obsessed with but was in a record store that had used promos of almost all the CD reissues (many 2-on-1s). Threw down the credit card that day.
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William Parker, the Mayor of the Lower East Side & one of the greatest musicians alive, turns 69 today
New York, NY, 10.27.19
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Four Rahsaan Roland Kirk covers by Stanislaw Zagorski 1973-78. Bright moments.
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