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Alexis Cole “Someday my Prince Will Come” Venus cd Alexis Cole (vocal), Fred Hirsch (piano), Steve Raspina (bass), Matt Wilson (drums), Gregoire Murray (harmonica), Don Braden (tenor & Soprano saxs and flute) Recorded May 9 & 10, 2009 at Avatar Studios, New York 250×251 15.9 KB

Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink - Ein Halber Hund Kann Nicht Pinkeln

RIP Bob Zieff! I know of him from this.

Othello appears to be a little overdressed for the occasion.

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Louise Erdrich: Python's Kiss

Robert L. Zieff, jazz composer, arranger, and educator died peacefully in Stuart, Florida, on March 26th in 2026 at the age of 98. He is survived by his wife, Ella Marie Forsyth, a fellow musician. Over a career spanning more than sixty five years, he made significant contributions to jazz as both a creative artist and scholar. His work with Chet Baker & Dick Twardzik was of particular interest to me RIP Bob

George Russell - Othello Ballet Suite / Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1 Masabumi Kikuchi – Black Orpheus

This evening will be going to The Century Room to hear alto sax player Tim Green perform with the University of Arizona Jazz Band.

Apparently there are three more Jazz Liisa titles (#16-18) which do not appear to be on Band Camp, but are on Apple Music and perhaps Spotify. Curious... I'm listening to #18 right now.

Miles Davis "In Tokyo--Live in Concert" Sony Blu-Spec CD2 Sam Rivers with Miles . . .I hope in time Sony will officially release the other Japan concerts with Sam Rivers.

Starting off with Dexter as some of my jazz pals were listening to him a lot yesterday. Dexter Gordon “Live at Chateauvallon 1978” Elemental Music 2 cd set Lots of feeling coming out of the horn from Dexter that night.

March 30 Marilyn Crispell - 1947 Met her with Gary Peacock in Göttingen, November 9, 2002

I skipped the lengthy critical preface (to the Penguin edition) because the book is so long, but will have to read it once I finish. There's plenty of other nasty Dombey behavior. I'm about 200 pages in and have been struck by a) the way he bailed out Walter Gay's uncle just to show the young son "the power money has over people" and subsequently b) assigned Walter to fill a position in Barbados, where he is likely to die young because of the virulent diseases there. [Walter being a young man who has a thing for the neglected daughter.] From what I can tell, the critical preface, among other things, relates various characters to Dickens's early life.

Full segment please. I LOVED To Tell The Truth!!!

I love Mary Lou, but playing that solo she reminds of Al Haig when he was trying to play in a "contemporary" way - the line never gets going and is built around repeated patterns. For her best playing I always go back to the '30s and '40s. She was always, harmonically, the hippest of the hip, but to my ears she never successfully made the rhythmic transition from swing to bebop to post-bop. the energy us unfeigned - this was where she was comfortable. and here; she was picking up the harmonies, post-Tatum, but when it came to line she needed the old-style feel: