Tel Aviv Jazz festival with Gary Bartz

Tel Aviv Jazz festival with Gary Bartz

  Tel Aviv Jazz festival with Gary Bartz   Gary Bartz Quartet: a few names relating to Gary Bartz: Mccoy Tyner, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey… shall I go on? Apart from being obviously legendary, having not only witnessed but also helped create jazz...
RIP MULGREW MILLER

RIP MULGREW MILLER

A rare soulfulness in improvised music is gone. I remember Mulgrew coming over to my east village apartment to give me a lesson in 1993.  He actually came to me ! and as amazing as that was, that’s just how Mulgrew was. Ask any musician. He was wearing a...
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

As you were and carry on. Humanity was wrong. Focus on a screen. Trading who you are, for what you want to be, even if the jokes on you. ROTFL keeps you under the spell of lies: The medium is the message.  
Trio Feral In Mexico

Trio Feral In Mexico

Feral Trio exhibits funk joints Alterna Jazz Trio Feral (Barney McAll leader / keyboardist, Bill Campbell, drums, and Jonathan Maron, electric bass). Mexico, 12 Apr. (Notimex). – The ninth session of the cycle concertina “Alternative Jazz. Music without...
Poem

Poem

his diamond dances on in distant realms while his music here whispers of veiled light pointing to the moon he covers his eyes as cosmic rhyme covers his tongue word paints sob sing and spark to dethrone the artifice or prophesy while at his crossroads he is half bird...

Ches Smith and Matt Mitchell at Korzo in Brooklyn

Just returned from hearing Ches Smith and Matt Mitchell at Korzo in Brooklyn,  playing duet interpretations of some strange  jazz etudes written by Matt. I was mesmerized, deer in the headlights, inspired. Seems they have been working on the pieces for a number of...
Feral Junior

Feral Junior

Feral Junior Likes: shadows Hates: Django Unchained because co opting another races anger for Hollywood payoff sensationalism is suck worthy Hobby: Macrame