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James Brandon Lewis Omni and Deface The Currency ( Spotify ). He's a soulful jazz saxophone with some free jazz mixed in.   Sahara Blues by  Tinariwen , from Algeria, world music: Hogar (2026) spotify , YouTube . Amatssou (2023) spotify . Singers who lost their voices: Julie Andrews: The legendary soprano lost her pure, four-octave singing range after a botched 1997 surgery to remove benign vocal nodules resulted in irreversible scarring on her vocal cords. Steven Tyler: The Aerosmith frontman was forced to retire from touring in 2024 after fracturing his larynx during a 2023 performance, an unprecedented injury from which his vocal cords could not recover. Branco Mello: The singer from the Brazilian band Titãs lost his ability to sing and speak entirely after undergoing medical procedures for a tumor in his larynx. Elton John: While not completely silent, a 1987 throat surgery to remove nodules permanently altered his range and took away his signature falsetto. Lin...
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Live at Smalls

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Andrew Kushnir / Drums Chet Doxas / Tenor Sax Matt Dwonszyk / Bass YouTube
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Sonny Rollins

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Sonny Rollins passed away at 95, yesterday in Woodstock New York.  Someone said all the people in the A Great Day In Harlem famous photo are dead now. Gemini AI confirming it's true. (Miles Davis was born 100 years ago today.) Top 3 Sonny Rollins Albums on Spotify: Night At The Village Vanguard  (1957) ( Wikipedia ) Saxophone Colossus  (1956) ( Wikipedia ) Way Out West  (1957) ( Wikipedia ) All 3 playlist Links to articles: 2020 NY Times interview NY Times Obit Guardian 2022 interview
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May

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  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...
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April Album Listenings

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  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...
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March Listenings

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  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...
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