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hbd Alice Coltrane
Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.
my god
I’m actually crying
BBC Arts & Ideas: Miles Davis & On The Corner
A nice little roundtable discussion of Miles Davis' endlessly fascinating On The Corner, which was released 50 years ago last fall. An album we're still coming to terms with!
One of the guests here is bassist/producer Bill Laswell, who dug deep into the Electric Miles era for his Panthalassa collection back in the 1990s. And apparently he's digging even deeper. At some point in this BBC program Laswell reveals that he's working with hours and hours of On The Corner session reels for an upcoming boxed set: "It'll be called Around The Corner, or something," Bill says. There's also a brief mention of some kind of Panthalassa-esque sequel utilizing the OTC stuff (and maybe some other period-appropriate recordings?). I haven't heard anything else about these releases, but uhhhh color me excited.
And speaking of Bill Laswell, he's run into some health/financial troubles in the last year or so — the U.S. Blues, right? He's got a GoFundMe page if you want to help out. You could also grab this terrific double CD-R mix of Laswell's work over the years, with profit going to Bill.
Jazz Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders Dead at 81
- “Always and forever the most beautiful human being,” Luaka Bop label says
Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, whose six-decade career found him collaborating with everyone from John Coltrane to Joey DeFrancesco, has died at age 81, his record label said.
No cause was given.
“We are devastated to share that Pharoah Sanders has passed away,” Luaka Bop said in a Sept. 24 statement.
“He died peacefully surrounded by loving family and friends in Los Angeles earlier this morning. Always and forever the most beautiful human being, may he rest in peace.”
Sanders began his career with Coltrane in 1965. He went on to work with Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, DeFrancesco and others, while also releasing some 30 solo recordings.
“He will be greatly missed,” the Sun Ra Arkestra tweeted.
Though he continued playing live, Sanders went nearly two decades without releasing any new music until 2021’s acclaimed Promises.
“Listening to Pharoah Sanders made me a better human being,” Timothy Showalter, who performs as Strand of Oaks, said in a tweet.
“Transformative art at its highest level. No greater gift someone can give. Rest in power.”
9/24/22
DONALD BYRD (by Francis Wolff)
I am really heartened by the fact that a number of the people I follow have had Donald Byrd touch their lives and loves in one way or another. What would otherwise have been a solitary walk in the park of tributes feels like a beautiful celebration. I’ll dance to that.
Thank you all!
Rest in peace Donald Byrd!
passed today. rest in power.
And will dedicate its next issue to her memory. Please contact Laura Chrisman (Editor-in-Chief) [email protected] if you would like to contribute.
“I crisscrossed with Monk Wailed with Bud Counted every star with Stitt Sang “Don’t Blame Me” with Sarah Wore a flower like Billie Screamed in the range of Dinah & scatted “How High the Moon” with Ella Fitzgerald as she blew roof off the Shrine Auditorium Jazz at the Philharmonic I cut my hair into a permanent tam Made my feet rebellious metronomes Embedded record needles in paint on paper Talked bopology talk Laughed in high-pitched saxophone phrases Became keeper of every Bird riff every Lester lick as Hawk melodicized my ear of infatuated tongues & Blakey drummed militant messages in soul of my applauding teeth & Ray hit bass notes to the last love seat in my bones I moved in triple time with Max Grooved high with Diz Perdidoed with Pettiford Flew home with Hamp Shuffled in Dexter’s Deck Squatty-rooed with Peterson Dreamed a “52nd Street Theme” with Fats & scatted “Lady Be Good” with Ella Fitzgerald as she blew roof off the Shrine Auditorium Jazz at the Philharmonic”
Jazz Fan Looks Back by Jayne Cortez
seeing as how we haven't gotten cracking on our new theme and this got lost at roland cake's and all, might as well take it home to be with its jazz fan looks back sistren...
clifford thornton || communications network
denouement lyricism from jizz relics
closing out the week with this offering from clifford thornton. heads up that the first track is in rough shape- so rough that aside from expressing gratitude for the keening violin on pt. 2, played by lakshminarayana shankar, there's not much to say about side a. but thankfully thornton isn't our focus here.
"words are musical"
jayne cortez || unsubmissive blues
[click cover to get]
def lampin courtesy of nick from discogs
although the backing band on unsubmissive blues is essentially the firespitters, it's useful to note that this album, released between celebrations and solitudes and there it is, has yet to christen them as such. the band is significantly more sparing in its interjections and restrained in its forms than in later albums, sticking mostly to rhythm and blues (tracks 1, 5) and nods to the incipient hip hop scene (tracks 3, 4). the hip hop tip is kinda wild, relying mostly on cortez's syncopation over breakbeat-style drumming, or more eloquently, as bill cole put it on the back cover, "the opportunity to meld together instruments from the non-western (untempered) world with African-American poetry and improvisational styles." also, more than once tracks 3 and 4 reminded me of the slits.
[from here. people in the nyc area should come through]
THE FAMILY OF JAYNE CORTEZ INVITES YOU TO A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 2:00 pm THE GREAT HALL in the COOPER UNION FOUNDATION BUILDING 7 East 7th Street New York, New York
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE...
[from here. people in the nyc area should come through]
THE FAMILY OF JAYNE CORTEZ INVITES YOU TO A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 2:00 pm THE GREAT HALL in the COOPER UNION FOUNDATION BUILDING 7 East 7th Street New York, New York
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE...
wednesday 02.06.13 2pm!
jayne cortez grew up in the watts section of los angeles and in 1964 was a founding member of studio watts, a community arts center with a liberationist orientation. she directed the acting and writing workshop, which developed into the watts repertory theater company, one of many ensembles that came out of the studio. steven louis isoardi relies on interviews with cortez and other artists in the dark tree: jazz and the community arts in los angeles, a book about this hella fertile point in time and space. you can check out excerpts from google, or click the cover to find it at your local library.
Jordan Camp and Elizabeth Robinson speak with revolutionary surrealist poet Jayne Cortez and UCSB Professor of Black Studies Clyde Woods. We discuss the blues, surrealist poetry, Cortez’s new book On The Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems (Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2009), and her upcoming Shirley Kennedy lecture “From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond,” taking place on April 6 at 4 p.m. in UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Theater.
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"everything about the album is some good, Black news"
june jordan reviews celebrations and solitudes for the march 1975 issue of black world/ negro digest.