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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 · 6h

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 · 6h

Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya, NYC, 8.27.22

📸 Jeff Caltabiano

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 10h

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

📸 Val Wilmer

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

“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 · 22h

MUSIC FOR TURKISH THEATER, by Don Cherry, Okay Temiz

9 track album

cazplak.bandcamp.com

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 23h

Dig.

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 23h

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 ...

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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

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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

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Craig Taborn • 2025 MacArthur Fellow

Craig Taborn | 2025 MacArthur Fellow

YouTube video by macfound

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Griot Galaxy • Live on WUOM 1979

Faruq Z. Bey, Anthony Holland, Jaribu Shahid, & Tani Tabbal

November 7 • Two Rooms Records

griotgalaxy.bandcamp.com/album/live-o...

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Craig Taborn, Steve Lehman, & Matt Brewer, NYC, 1.11.20

📸 Jeff Caltabiano

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

*one of only two musicians. Heather Christian, a composer, lyricist, playwright & vocalist, is also on the list

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Craig Taborn has been named a MacArthur Foundation fellow for 2025, the only musician on the list

Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 1.12.19

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Don Byron & Jack DeJohnette (DeJohnette Quartet), Brooklyn, NY, 10.8.22

📸 Jeff Caltabiano

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack DeJohnette Quartet (w. Don Byron, Matthew Garrison), Brooklyn, NY, 10.8.22

📸 Jeff Caltabiano

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

thanks, 🔖

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Wayne Horvitz • Music For 10 Musicians

October 31

waynehorvitz.bandcamp.com/album/music-...