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Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-2026)     Abdullah Ibrahim, pianist, now follows James Blood Ulmer, guitarist, who died a few weeks ago; Sonny Rolli...

Reproducing here liner notes to a new CD r eleased by Edition Wandelweiser Records containing realisations of Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’ s score...

Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge, October 7, 1961 © Atsuhiko Kawabata (photographer) /Hanako Kawabata. First published in Jazz Time...

Good News Blues by Karen Borca / Rob Brown / William Parker / Reggie Workman/Todd Nicholson/ Susie Ibarra /Taylor-Baker A subscriber post o...

A relatively spontaneous announcement of a relatively spontaneous gig: this for a new quartet combining poetry and music, with myself (poet...

Reposting here a piece which just appeared on the excellent online journal Little Mirror alongside Luke Roberts’ collection of Prynne memor...

A subscriber post on Substack: three fragments from Daybook , on Mal Waldron/Jeanne Lee (with excursions through Shepp, Coltrane, and Gilroy...