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Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://sonnyrollinsbridge.net/ • urban planner • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/arts/music/brazil-jazz-music.html?smid=url-share

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · Nov 12

The book i’m writing has a new proposed title:

‘A WALK IN THE FREE WORLD: Other Music in Brazil’

based on a Chico Science & Nação Zumbi song from 1996

youtu.be/FaIT-WYOtms?...

Um Passeio No Mundo Livre

YouTube video by Chico Science - Topic

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 39m

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1h

Thelonious Sphere Monk was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on this day in 1917

📸 Guy Breemat/INA/Getty Images, Paris, March 10, 1963

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1h

Teago Oliveira • Canções do Velho Mundo 🇧🇷

out today • Meia-Noite FM

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1h

that makes me think of Mal Waldron (1925)

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure what was happening in the late 70s, where Roach did a few duo albums (Shepp, Braxton, Ibrahim, & later Cecil Taylor & Connie Crothers), as did Ibrahim (Shepp, Dyani, Roach)

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 3h

[Ahmed] • [Sama'a] (Audition)

November 21 • Otoroku

www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/sama-a-...

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 12h

Abdullah Ibrahim & Max Roach

📸 Paolo Ferraresi

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 12h

Abdullah Ibrahim, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1971

📸 Ian Bruce Huntley

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 15h

Yusef Lateef (1920-2013)

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 15h

Excerpt

EXCLUSIVE: Thurston Moore’s New Book on Monumental Free Jazz Recordings - JazzTimes

JazzTimes is thrilled to present the following exclusive excerpt from NOW JAZZ NOW, co-authored by music writer Byron Coley, baritone saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and iconic … Read More "EXCLUSIVE: Thu...

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 21h

Now Jazz Now: 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings 1960–80 📕 Neneh Cherry, Joe McPhee, Bryan Coley, Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore

December 5 • Ecstatic Peace Library

www.ecstaticpeace.net/now-jazz-now

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 22h

Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya, NYC, 8.27.22

📸 Jeff Caltabiano

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 22h

Chucho Valdés was born in Quivicán, Cuba on this day in 1941. He turns 84 today.

📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Milan, Italy, 7.18.19

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Yusef Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on this day in 1920

📸 Val Wilmer

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Abdullah Ibrahim @ 91

In 1996, i picked up African Herbs on CD at a record store in Harare. It forever altered my understanding of jazz music. Ibrahim has since become one of my greatest heroes in music.

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Abdullah Ibrahim was born in Cape Town, South Africa on this day in 1934. He turns 91 today.

📸 Jan Persson

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately the liner notes are not available online, but will be in the CD when it comes out. It was meaningful for me to write about Brazil’s mountains, the Yanomami, this band, & this music.

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · Jun 27

Liner notes: Exploding Star Orchestra - 'Holy Mountains'

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

“it's affirming and it shows that people actually care about the music and about culture, and about something that is something that is American at its core and that exists because of merit” Sullivan Fortner

more great news today about another stellar pianist
h/t @natechinen.bsky.social

Q&A: Pianist Sullivan Fortner On Being First Gilmore Jazz Honoree

Jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner was honored today (October 8) as the first recipient of the Larry J. Bell Jazz award. I spoke to Fortner about the honor.

www.forbes.com

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

MUSIC FOR TURKISH THEATER, by Don Cherry, Okay Temiz

9 track album

cazplak.bandcamp.com

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Dig.

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Sessa Shares New Single "Nome de Deus": Listen

This guy Sessa is bringing Tropicália back. The São Paulo-based singer-songwriter born Sergio Sayeg announced his new album Pequena Vertigem de Amor last month with the release of lead single “Vale A ...

www.stereogum.com

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

If this flew under your radar

EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA:
Rob Mazurek t, c, perc
Chad Taylor d
Damon Locks v, elec
Guilherme Granado samp, k, perc
James Brandon Lewis ts
Luke Stewart b
Mikel Patrick Avery d
Pasquale Mirra vib
Philip Somervell p
Rodrigo Brandão v
Thomas Rohrer rabeca, ss

link 👇

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra • Holy Mountains

free stream

sesc.digital/album/holy-m...

Holy Mountains

Álbum da Exploding Star Orchestra, fruto de encontro encontro musical inédito do grupo no Sesc Pompeia durante o Sesc Jazz de 2022.

sesc.digital

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

The MacArthur is often referred to as the “genius” award, much to the Foundation’s dismay

A year after George Saunders won it, i heard him asked whether the award had changed him. He said (i’m paraphrasing) “Yes. Now when I drop my toothbrush in the toilet, my wife says ‘Nice work, genius!’”

George Saunders

Satirizing and humanizing the moral dilemmas faced by Americans in the twenty-first century.

www.macfound.org

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Taborn was one of the most in-demand musicians in NYC when i lived there. Rec'd w. James Carter, Roscoe Mitchell, Berne, Ibarra, Ehrlich, D.Douglas, Binney, S.Coleman, Potter, Colley, Gress, E.Parker, Cleaver, Wm Parker, N.Mitchell, Mazurek, R.Brown, Lightcap, M.Reed, D.Holland, Zorn, & on & on

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, he's been much quieter in the past 20 years after all those Blue Note albums