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@xentakis.bsky.social

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Part-time vinyl and CD collector focusing mainly on Brazilian music, jazz, and soul/R&B. Also an attorney for nonprofits and husband of a video editor / mixed media artist.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · Aug 19

I made a mini-doc for YouTube about my stepfather’s most sought after single, which he recorded in 1980 with the great Cornell Dupree on guitar and other top tier session musicians. If you have 7 minutes please check it out! 🙏🙏🙏
youtu.be/GAuNYLAADYw

The Story of This Island Is Our Home by Kip Carmen

YouTube video by xentakis

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, I agree about Miles Smiles!

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 15h

Miles Davis - Nefertiti (Columbia, 1968)

Miles’ second great quintet in absolutely peak form, featuring what may be the greatest recorded drum solo in jazz history by Tony Williams on the title track. OG two-eye stereo copy.

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Record cover for “Nefertiti” by Miles Davis featuring an 3/4 side angle close up photo of Miles’ face.

Red label on a vinyl record with the two Columbia “eye” logos on the left and right sides in white, label info in white typeface at the bottom and top, and the album and artist info in black typeface in the middle.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 6d

They actually did one other batch earlier this year with Charles Rouse, Stanley Cowell, Pharoah Sanders, and Music Inc 🔥

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 6d

Ah ok it is on Discogs! I’ve only seen that toucan and “Musica Nova do Brasil” on this Tim Maia record, didn’t realize it was a thing beyond that www.discogs.com/release/9686...

Tim Maia - Musica Nova Do Brasil

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1972 Vinyl release of "Musica Nova Do Brasil" on Discogs.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting, I’ve never seen that cover of Elis & Tom before and I don’t think it’s on Discogs. Is that a Mexican pressing?

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 6d

Ahmad Jamal Trio: The Awakening (Impulse 1970).

I happened upon a somewhat beat up OG copy of this legendary record. But it’s just as glorious even with a bit of snap, crackle, and pop. As usual for this period, Ahmad is joined by Jamil Nasser on bass and Frank Gant on drums.

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Record cover of “The Awakening” by Ahmad Jamal featuring a circular portrait of Jamal in the center over stacked half-circles in different shades of red leading down to three horizontal stripes in purple, red, and blue.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 8d

Don Blackman: Don Blackman (1982 / 2024 VMP)

Relentlessly funky album from one of the core members of the “Jamaica Kats” crew from Queens behind so many killer early 80s cuts on Arista GRP (folks like Marcus Miller, Omar Hakim, etc). Dennis Chambers is monstrous on the drums!

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Record cover for the self-titled album by keyboardist Don Blackman, featuring a close-up photo of the artist wearing beads in his hair against a blue background. A Vinyl Me Please OBI is on the left.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 11d

Etta James: Losers Weepers (Cadet 1970)

Few artists poured their heart and soul into a song like Etta James. Her 70s albums don’t get the acclaim of her great 60s work like “At Last,” but this is an Etta who has been through some stuff and she WILL make you feel it.

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Record cover for Losers Weepers by Etta James, featuring a sepia tone close-up photo of Etta’s face singing with her eyes closed.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 12d

Robert Palmer: Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (Island 1974)

If you only know Palmer from the 80s music videos with the girls in tight dresses, you’ll be surprised how deep the funk gets on this one. Backed by The Meters on some tracks and Bernard Purdie + the crew from Stuff on others.

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Record cover of “Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley” by Robert Palmer, featuring an overexposed, green-tinted photo of Robert Palmer stumbling through an alley with a woman whose eyes are covered by a black bar.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 14d

Elis Regina & Jair Rodrigues: Dois Na Bossa Número 2 (1966). #CDFriday

Few countries put out as many live recordings (“ao vivo”) as Brazil, though sound quality is not always top tier. But some recordings radiate so much power and chemistry that it doesn’t matter. This one an old fav.

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Black and red CD cover of Elis Regina & Jair Rodrigues – Dois Na Bossa Número.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 15d

That record is gonna go to the grave smoking a pack a day.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 15d

Ojiji: The Shadow (1979 / 2025 reissue)

My pal Graham at Continued Sound just reissued this wild funk-jazz-reggae album by Rupert Ojiji Harvey, a Jamaican-Canadian artist who got his start playing in Jackie Mittoo’s band as a teenager. This record slaps, check it out!

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Record cover of “The Shadow” by Ojiji, featuring a colorful illustration of a beach landscape with a rainbow and a man sitting cross legged with his arm reaching toward the sun.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 16d

The Ellington & Coltrane album is in my top 5 for jazz albums.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 16d

The “Masterpieces by Ellington” album (which has this song) is incredible. One of the first 12” LPs to have extended songs like that (which wasn’t possible on 78rpm and 10” records). Truly groundbreaking genius!

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 18d

The Crownhate Ruin: Until The Eagle Grins (Dischord 1996)

Feeling nostalgic today so I pulled out a record I’ve had for nearly 30 years. Great @dischord.com band I used to see all the time. Features members of Hoover and 1.6 Band. Some of the best musicianship you’ll find in this genre!

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Record cover for “Until The Eagle Grins” by The Crownhate showing three small vertical pictures depicting a tornado in silver and blue against a navy blue background.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 19d

Bill Stewart is phenomenal! A truly unique and musical drummer. Really hard to stand out in an era where you’d think all the cool licks and styles had already been invented, but Bill Stewart definitely does.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 19d

I have an older model Humminguru and love it. I don’t know how I collected vinyl without it, frankly.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 19d

Donny Hathaway: Live at the Bitter End 1971, previously unreleased performances (Rhino, 2013)

I can never get enough Donny. Especially this disc from the “Anthology” CD boxset, with unreleased cuts from the set featured on Side A of his legendary “Live” album.

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Cover of the “Never My Love: The Anthology” CD boxset, featuring a black and white photo of Donny wearing a hat, turtle neck sweater, and peacoat or trench coat.

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 27d

I think this joke is very annoying and not funny.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · 27d

Harold Land Quintet: The Peace-Maker (Cadet 1968).

Truly gorgeous record from one of the all-time great jazz pairings: Harold Land and Bobby Hutcherson. Part of the fantastic Cadet box set, which is probably my favorite VMP release.

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Album cover for “The Peace-Maker” by the Harold Land Quintet, featuring four vertical columns in red, brown, yellow, and green showing what appears to be Ancient Greek statutes, against a bright yellow background.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ron Carter once said that to appreciate how huge Elvin’s influence was, simply listen to a jazz drummer before Elvin Jones and listen to a jazz drummer after Elvin Jones. That says it all. Elvin changed everything about drumming!

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · Sep 7

Dr. John: The Sun, Moon & Herbs (ATCO 1971)

The last of Dr. John’s psychedelic Night Tripper albums, this one nicely captures the transition to his more funky, New Orleans influenced era (Gumbo, Right Place, etc). W/ appearances by Eric Clapton Mick Jagger & the Memphis Horns.

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Album cover of "The Sun, Moon & Herbs" by Dr. John, featuring a surreal illustration by John Millerburg of a half-man/half-lion on the left, a topless woman with wings on her robe on the right, and Dr. John as the Night Tripper in the middle.

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ok that reference I had to look up 😂

xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Then you definitely won’t want to buy my 16-cassette course on tape on how AI can make you rich (the first cassette is free if you send me a self-addressed stamped envelope).

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xentakis.bsky.social @xentakis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Shelly Manne on drums 🔥🔥🔥