Music

  Reddit : 5/1 Irreversible Entanglements - Future Present Past (wouldn't be surprised if this ends up my aoty) 5/2 Immanuel Wilkins - Live at the Village Vanguard 5/3 Work Money Death - A Portal to Here 5/4 Gregory Uhlmann - Extra Stars 5/5 Adam O'Farrill - Elephant 5/6 Joshua Abrams - Pulse Meridian Foliation 5/7 Harlan Silverman - Music for Stillness 5/8 Ben Wendel - BaRcoDe 5/9 Morton Feldman 1991 Rothko Chapel YouTube 5/10 Patterns In Motion: The Great Minimalists 2026 YouTube . 5/11 A Feather On The Breath Of God 1982 spotify This is the music of  Hildegard of Bingen , and wow, I quite like it even though I'm a Buddhist. I have written about my respect for her spiritual journey in 2019 when I learned about her, and I've always wanted to find her music. I'm going to look for more versions of her music. One thing you can do on Spotify is choose her as an artist, and then play all the albums. I reverse the order, go from earlier to later.  5/12 Acoustic Gr...

  I saw this glorious painting by  John Singer Sargent at the Met over the summer. At the time it was quite a scandal at the Paris Exhibition with Portrait of Madam X . 4/1 Kacey Musgraves Tiny Desk Concert YouTube 4/2 Deeper Well 2024 spotify . Her new album isn't on Spotify yet.  4/3 Joe McPhee's Nation Time spotify 4/4 John Scofield 2002 Uberjam spotify I've been listening to Uberjam a lot. I like Avi Bortnick on rhythm guitar. I looked through my past postings and I was surprised I hadn't included it. I was reading online about similar albums to A Go Go , which I absolutely love. The drummer reminds me of JD Beck and some Japanese anime music. He didn't drop Madeski, but he dropped Martin and Wood. There's a 20 second rap on the 4th track, "I Brake 4 Monster Booty". Reddit post of European jazz musicians: 4/5 Niclas Knudsen Trio (Denmark) 2025 Nostalgia spotify Guitar with  Anders Christensen (b), Kresten Osgood  (d) 4/6 Neil Cowley T...

  3/1 Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy in Belgium - 1964 YouTube Charles Mingus: bass Dannie Richmond: drums Jaki Byard: piano Johnny Coles: trumpet Clifford Jordan: tenor saxophone  Eric Dolphy: alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet 3/2 Gabrielle Cavassa 2020 spotify Supposedly she's going to get a Blue Note release in 2026.  Switching to Classical music now 3/3  Vox Luminis Kantaten 2025 spotify The ensemble Vox Luminis, led by Lionel Meunier, specialises in English, Italian and German repertoire from the 17th and early 18th century and is internationally acclaimed for its unique sound. A core of vocal soloists is supplemented, depending on the repertoire, with an extensive continuo, solo instruments or a complete orchestra. Vox Luminis is artist in residence at Concertgebouw Brugge. 3/4 Edward Elgar Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63 1994 spotify 3/5 BBC3 Radio is classical music. Great online station.  3/6 Piotr Anderszewski Brahms: Late Piano W...

Focusing on 2025 albums to catch up, keep things fresh and new. Spotify said my listening age was 88 in my yearly wrap.  I'm going to publish these when they're full, I just go ahead and put albums I listen to with the next open date. The amount of amazing music to be had on the cheap is heartbreaking.  2/1 Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts 2025 spotify Mary Halvorson , guitar (1-8), synth (Pocket Piano) (1–3, 8) Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophone (1-2, 4-5) Brian Settles, tenor saxophone (1-2, 5, 8) Adam O’Farrill, trumpet (1-8) Jacob Garchik, trombone (1-8) Patricia Brennan, vibraphone (1-8) Nick Dunston, bass (1-8) Tomas Fujiwara, drums (1-8) Feel like Mary Halvorson is the jazz musician of the year for 2025 as the only artist with two albums on the best albums lists. There are other artists who play on multiple albums, sure, but she headlines two albums that top many lists.  2/2  Yazz Ahmed , A Paradise In The Hold 2025 spotify , YouTube 2/3  Emma Rawicz...

I hate that Spotify took money from ICE.  I watched Heart of Dog 2015, a movie about grief by Laurie Anderson, and while there's only a brief picture of Lou Reed, I'm sure the loss of him in 2013 is present, and the movie ends with a song off Ecstasy, and I realize I'd not listened to any albums since New York 1989, which I love.  1/1/2026 Ecstasy 2000 Lou Reed spotify 1/2 Set The Twilight Reeling 1996 Lou Reed spotify 1/3 Magic and Loss 1993 Lou Reed spotify 1/4 Songs for Drella 1990 Lou Reed spotify The movie Songs for Drella is on Criterion at the moment, and I quite liked that.  1/5  Mister Heartbreak 1984 Laurie Anderson spotify , YouTube "Gravity's Angel" borrows imagery from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Anderson had "wanted to make an opera of that book ... and asked him if that would be OK... He said, 'You can do it, but you can only use banjo.' And so I thought, 'Well, thanks. I don't know if I could d...

I don't like Chet Baker singing more than one song. I tend to like authenticity over precision and from just the neck up, but his flat tones are just too off for me after a while. I think listening to a lot of music has changed my appreciation some, my taste profile away from authenticity, to more precision and complexity.  I hate how drugs killed the life out of so many musicians. He took it up in 1957. He's singing these songs before he's the addict I'm wary of. Maybe I don't like the fame and money that came his way that made him think he could be a drug addict. I certainly don't like him being voted over Clifford Brown and Miles Davis in 1954, that's just pure racism. I mean he's not bad, he's allowed to be in the top 3, maybe top 10 at the time.  I watched Let's Get Lost  (1988), interviews shortly before he died, some footage when he was younger, lots of talking heads. He seemed quite haunted, a husk of a human. That's what addiction do...