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They are at Big Ears so I'm seeing if i want to hear them live.

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly, MESTIZX (International Anthem)

John Coltrane, The Believer (Prestige) King Curtis, It's Party Time (Tru Sound/Prestige)

Yasmin Williams, Acadia (Nonesuch)

Lafayette Gilchrist, Undaunted

Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1931 (Classics)

Sun Ra Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank 1978 Resonance Records LPx2 $56.99 Limited to 1500 copies RESONANCE RECORDS PRESENTS PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD SUN RA DATE LIGHTS ON A SATELLITE: LIVE AT THE LEFT BANK AS LIMITED 2-LP SET FOR RSD BLACK FRIDAY ON NOV. 29 Collection of Thrilling 1978 Performances in Baltimore by Prophetic Bandleader’s Arkestra Also Arrives on Dec. 6 as Two-CD Set Deluxe Package Includes Additional Tracks Recorded by Filmmaker Robert Mugge, Notes by Critic J.D. Considine and Archivist/Band Member Michael D. Anderson, Interviews with Arkestra Icon Marshall Allen, Musicians Gary Bartz and Craig Taborn, and More Sun Ra _ LeftBank CD Resonance Records proudly presents Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank, a blazing set of previously unissued 1978 concert recordings by Sun Ra and his Myth Science Cosmo Swing Arkestra, as a limited two-LP set for RSD Black Friday, November 29. Co-produced by Zev Feldman and Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson (who also played drums on the ’78 concert), the newly unearthed live session is an exciting successor to Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago, another archival find that Feldman issued on his Jazz Detective imprint for Record Store Day this April. The new collection will also be released as a two-CD set on December 6. Prophetic avant gardist Sun Ra’s big band is heard in blistering form — playing repertoire ranging from space age jazz to interpretations of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and jazz standards by Fletcher Henderson, Miles Davis, and Tadd Dameron — on a dynamic 12-track set recorded at a show mounted by the Left Bank Jazz Society at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 23, 1978. Those recordings are augmented by two tracks captured at the concert and featured in the classic 1980 film Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise by the acclaimed music filmmaker Robert Mugge, who also provided images for the new package. The deluxe Resonance packages include an essay by noted jazz critic J.D. Considine (who attended the ’78 show); reminiscences from Anderson, Mugge, Left Bank member John Fowler, critic Dan Morgenstern, and Arkestra veteran and latter-day bandleader Marshall Allen; and thoughts on Sun Ra’s artistry from musicians Gary Bartz and Craig Taborn. Sun Ra. Photo by Alan Nahigan. Sun Ra. Photo by Alan Nahigan. Feldman says of this newest discovery, “It was very exciting to learn from Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson that these recordings from the Left Bank in 1978 even existed. Filmmaker Robert Mugge was also very kind to us by allowing us to borrow the music he had recorded for his film, which is presented here as bonus tracks. Also thanks to Mr. Mugge, we’ve included various high-resolution screen captures from his film that help capture the energy of what it was like to be there at the Famous Ballroom that night.” Sun Ra. Photo by Alan Nahigan. Anderson recalls, “When we played in the Famous Ballroom, it was incredible, being able to be in such a big place….Especially [with] the [Arkestra] dancers. They were one part of the band that a lot of people miss because the dancers are just like instruments, but you have to see it. That’s why when Mugge did this film — he was able to show the beauty of how they danced to the music.” Mugge — whose shoot at the Left Bank show was his maiden voyage as a music documentarian — remembers, “[It] went surprisingly well, our only unresolved question being, could we successfully record a large ensemble without multitrack recording equipment, or even the cables we needed to patch into the mixing board of Vernon L. Welsh’s house PA system? But sound man Bruce Litecky improvised, coming up with usable audio by pointing one mike at the house PA speakers and another at whichever musician or vocalist was currently taking the lead.” Considine notes in his overview that the music at the ’78 concert reached both veteran Sun Ra fans and new, younger listeners: “For the older, regular attendees, there was much of what they had gotten before. Sun Ra’s arrangement of the Tadd Dameron chestnut, ‘Lady Bird,’ was a condensed history of mid-century jazz….And for the younger, rock-raised newbies, there was the sonic splatter of Sun Ra’s synthesizer against Dale Williams’s probing electric guitar in the aptly titled ‘Thunder of Drums.’ There were African rhythms mixed with avant-garde improvisation, slapped electric bass driving classic swing cadences, and unabashed sentiment cheek-by-jowl against transcendental consciousness.” The Left Bank’s Fowler remembers, “Sun Ra was a completely unique experience. And it was just a fun day. I mean, this was when he had all of the singers and the drummers and the dancers. There had to be 30 guys in the group. It was a real theatrical experience and a musical experience. Sun Ra was like nobody else.” Weighing Sun Ra’s impact on jazz, saxophonist Bartz says, “Sunny confirmed that we need to be free as musicians. You can’t get hung up into a genre or a style. If you study music, you study sounds and if you do, like any other study, are you just going to study one kind of a sound? Or are you going to study sounds, period. I don’t study one kind of a music. I study music. I got that from Sunny.” Pianist Taborn adds, “So many people revere him now. His approach was so comprehensive to the Black music experience as a whole. He delivered a commentary on so much of what had happened before and what was going to be happening that it applies itself across time. That’s why I think his music has so much traction now 30 years after he passed.” Saxophonist and flautist Allen, who marked 66 years as a member of the Arkestra on his 100th birthday on May 25, reflects on Sun Ra’s trailblazing methods as a bandleader: “When Sunny was playing, he’d play four bars, and if you didn’t have the music, he’d switch it, he’d play another song, so you had to remember all this music. And then, when he played four bars, I’d come in. If I didn’t, he’d switch the number, and by the time you found that number, he’d be in another one. Above all, you had to be sincere to do what he wanted you to do.”

Joy Clark, Tell It To The Wind (Righteous Babe)

Harlan Leonard and His Rockets 1940 (Classics)

Ernest Dawkins, The Prairie Prophet (Delmark)

The Standard Joe Henderson (Red)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/arts/music/jack-dejohnette-piano.html Lydia and Joan Clancy, the DeJohnettes’ personal assistant, are currently cataloging and organizing his vast sonic archive, containing decades’ worth of unreleased recordings. One tape from this trove is a turbocharged 1966 live set from the storied East Village venue Slugs’ Saloon that features DeJohnette alongside the pianist McCoy Tyner, the saxophonist Joe Henderson and the bassist Henry Grimes. It will come out on Blue Note in November as “Forces of Nature,” a title chosen, he said, “because everybody’s being pulled and pushing each other to the umpteenth level, and it shows.”

Louis Hayes, Artform Revisited (Savant)

https://lafayettegilchrist-morphius.bandcamp.com/album/now-double-album-2cd-set This is the recording of his I've listened to the most.

Six U.S. concerts coming up in November with his trio, all on the East Coast.

November 16, 2024: Matthew Whitaker, Eisemann Center, Richardson December 6, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Sam's Burger Joint, San Antonio Terri Lynne Carrington's New Standards, Cullen Theater, Houston Jonathan Kreisberg, Starr Theater, Fayetteville December 7, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Kessler Theater, Dallas Dedember 8, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Houston Blues Society December 16, 2024: Gregory Porter, Winspear Opera House, Dallas January 4, 2025: Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin January 11, 2025: Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin January 18, 2025: Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin January 24, 2025: Bill Frisell Trio, Brauntex Theater, New Braunfels January 25, 2025: Lakecia Benjamin, Cullen Theater, Houston Jackie Venson, Antone's, Austin February 6, 2025: Davy Mooney, UNT Music Building, Denton February 14, 2025: Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Zika Hall, Houston February 15, 2025: Christian Scott/Chief Adjuah, Carver Center, San Antonio February 22, 2025: Emmet Cohen Trio, University of Texas at Dallas March 1, 2025: Vijay Iyer Trio, Cullen Theater, Houston March 8, 2025: Matt Wilson, Starr Theater, Fayetteville March 15, 2025: Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival March 18, 2025: Anoushka Shankar, Eisemann Center, Richardson March 19, 2025: Anoushka Shankar, Wortham Center, Houston March 27-30, 2025: Bill Frisell, Bela Fleck, Edmar Castaneda and Antonio Sanchez, Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Steve Lehman), Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet, Sun Ra Arkestra, Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, Zakir Hussain, Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey, Alabaster dePlume, Amaro Freitas Trio, Ambrose Akinmusure, Barry Altschul's 3 Dom Factor, Dan Weiss Even Odds Trio, Immanuel Wilkins Blues Blood, Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Vernon Reid/Calvin Weston, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosali, Jeff Parker, Kahil El Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Kris Davis Trio, Mike Reed's Separatist Party, Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Tigran Hamsyan, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 28, 2025: Jason Moran's Duke Ellington Project, Cullen Theater, Houston April 11, 2025: Brad Mehldau Trio with Christian McBride, Cullen Theater, Houston April 12, 2025: Hiromi's SonicWonder, University of Texas at Dallas April 24-27, May 1-4, 2025: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 25, 2025: Branford Marsalis, Carver Center, San Antonio June 6, 2025: Jackie Venson, Jo Long Theater, San Antonio

Catherine Russell and Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time)

Coincidentally, my first Sun Ra LP was also Nothing Is. This purchase prompted the guys at the record store in Austin to wax rhapsodically about some locally legendary appearance of the Sun Ra Arkestra at the Armadillo World Headquarters. I am in agreement with your comments.

I'm glad to have had the good fortune to have heard him in person one time, at Sweet Basil in 1997, leading a quartet.

Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) Etran De L'Air, 100% Sahara Guitar (Sahel Sounds)

Big Eye Louis Nelson, 1949 Sessions/Live at Luthjens (American Music)

Sun Ra, At the Showcase (Jazz Detective)

Stuff Smith, The 1943 Trio (Progressive)

Mike Stern, Echoes and Other Songs (Mack Avenue)

Wayne Escoffery, Alone (Smoke Sessions)