The new reissue label Jazz Dispensary did us all a favor this year by bringing, The Elements , Joe Henderson and Alice Coltrane’s lone collaboration, back to the marketplace, rescuing it […]
Category: Jazz
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium — Volume Three
Volume three of Abstract Truths . If unfamiliar with the series, please first read here about the its genesis and intention. For this installment our friend, record collector and audio archeologist Eothen Alapatt, of Now Again Records , is […]
Ryo Fukui :: A Letter From Slowboat
Everyone loves a good origin story. No matter the creative discipline such tales make even the most potent work seem more revelatory. Enter the late Japanese jazz pianist Ryo Fukui . An […]
Sleepwalker :: The Voyage (featuring Pharoah Sanders)
Visiting Tokyo in 2003, Pharoah Sanders sat in with local spiritual jazzists Sleepwalker at a club gig laying down what would become “The Voyage”. Released the following year as a Japanese-only […]
Nina Simone :: A Very Rare Evening
Nina Simone would have been 84 this week — as such, fans the world over have been celebrating the iconoclast’s deep and dynamic catalog. Incredibly, a new highlight of Simone’s career surfaced […]
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium — Volume Two
Volume two of Abstract Truths, An Evolving Jazz Compendium . If unfamiliar with the series, please first read here about the its genesis and intention. As promised, this installment is courtesy of dj/record collector Carlos Nino . Per his selections, Niî±o notes […]
The John Coltrane Quartet :: Naima – Paris, 1962
John Coltrane would’ve turned 90 today, and even though he passed on all the way back in 1967, the music he made still reverberates with a power and clarity that refuses to […]
Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium – Volume One
Several months back I happened upon a survey stating that, according to Neilson, jazz now held the dubious honor of being the least listened to genre in the US. The piece […]
John Coltrane :: Newport Folk Festival, 1966
I like to ‘check in’ with this clip every now and again. You know, like right now. Footage recorded July, 2 1966, a year prior to Coltrane’s passing the following […]
Charles Mingus :: Live, 1964 / Belgium, Norway & Sweden
Meditate on this: Charles Mingus and company, European tour 1964, captured in Belgium, Norway & Sweden. Free up a couple of hours and wade into these waters. I assure you […]
Nina Simone :: Be My Husband (Live, 1987)
This is everything. Recorded live in Los Angeles, 35 years ago, at the now defunct Vine St. Bar & Grill. Culled from the Verve record Let It Be Me , “Be My Husband” kicks off the […]
Miles Davis :: Vienna 1973
When listening to the electric work of Miles Davis and his bands in the 1970s, the thought that often goes through my mind is: “How the fuck are they making […]
Charles Mingus :: I’ll Remember April – Antibes Jazz Festival
When giants walked the earth! Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, Ted Curson, Dannie Richmond, and Bud Powell all on one stage together, spitting fire, speaking in tongues. Charles Mingus died […]
