Gary Kennedy
@jazzsnob99.bsky.social
Former chronicler of jazz lives. Not sure what happened.
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Gary Kennedy
@jazzsnob99.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Guitarist Pat Metheny requests that “fusion” not be used in reference to his music; he prefers the term “Big Wave," explaining: “It's a combination of New Wave and surfing music." ("Potpourri," DownBeat, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Feb. 1980), p. 12)
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Forgot it was Bandcamp Friday. Thanks for the orders and support. Just put the complete discography offer to 50% (€ 24.50) if anyone feels like splurging. Hope everyone is surviving and beyond... frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
Psychic Resynthesis, by Mark Fell
10 track album
frozenreeds.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Forgot it was Bandcamp Friday. Thanks for the orders and support. Just put the complete discography offer to 50% (€ 24.50) if anyone feels like splurging. Hope everyone is surviving and beyond... frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
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Continuing with live Blue Note Elvin…. Transitions from Coltrane Quartet to leader in his own right. These recordings by happen chance only two weeks following Trane’s passing
Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone, flute
Billy Greene - piano
Wilbur Little - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone, flute
Billy Greene - piano
Wilbur Little - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
February 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Continuing with live Blue Note Elvin…. Transitions from Coltrane Quartet to leader in his own right. These recordings by happen chance only two weeks following Trane’s passing
Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone, flute
Billy Greene - piano
Wilbur Little - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone, flute
Billy Greene - piano
Wilbur Little - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
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My fellow Americans: did you know you needed a Visa to visit the UK? I didnt, but you do. Getting the visa on the ETA app is super easy. Just need yr passport, yr phone, and a way to pay. Took a total of 15 minutes. Now I can stay there for up to 186 days and it doesnt expire for two years.
February 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
My fellow Americans: did you know you needed a Visa to visit the UK? I didnt, but you do. Getting the visa on the ETA app is super easy. Just need yr passport, yr phone, and a way to pay. Took a total of 15 minutes. Now I can stay there for up to 186 days and it doesnt expire for two years.
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Just in time for Super Bowl Weekend, our excerpt from The Believer today is an interview with one of the best football analysts in the biz, @minakimes.bsky.social.
Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Mina Kimes
“My goal isn’t to be the best, because I’m not and never will be. It’s just to be better than I was yesterday—which is a very sports-brain thing.”...
buff.ly
February 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Just in time for Super Bowl Weekend, our excerpt from The Believer today is an interview with one of the best football analysts in the biz, @minakimes.bsky.social.
now playing [cd - Warners (UK) 8122796920A V01 LYO]
February 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
now playing [cd - Warners (UK) 8122796920A V01 LYO]
apropos of nothing - Steve Khan "Tightrope" (1977 Columbia/Tappan Zee)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tightrope - YouTube
youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:15 PM
apropos of nothing - Steve Khan "Tightrope" (1977 Columbia/Tappan Zee)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
now playing [lp - Columbia CS 8163]
February 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
now playing [lp - Columbia CS 8163]
U.S. Folks - The Canterbury Scene book that Sid mentions is available via Wayside Music. Preordering can be done here: www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Produc...
I'm lucky enough to be reading the new, soon-to-be-published English language version of Aymeric Leroy's definitive survey of the Canterbury Scene, Legends In Their Own Lunchtime. It's the book Canterbury fans like me have been waiting for.
www.mandai.be/leroy-aymeri...
www.mandai.be/leroy-aymeri...
February 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
U.S. Folks - The Canterbury Scene book that Sid mentions is available via Wayside Music. Preordering can be done here: www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Produc...
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Hey folks, Bandcamp Friday is back. Bandcamp waives their processing fees today. Helps us musicans get a couple extra dollars.
My music is spread over a whole bunch of bandcamp pages, but here's a great place to start:
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
My music is spread over a whole bunch of bandcamp pages, but here's a great place to start:
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
Dan Blacksberg
Trombonist and composer Dan Blacksberg is one of the premiere practitioners of modern and traditional klezmer on the trombone, and an established voice in experimental music. With work spanning avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, improvised music, and klezmer, Blacksberg has developed a complex style to carve out new spaces for the trombone in modern experimental and Jewish music.
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Hey folks, Bandcamp Friday is back. Bandcamp waives their processing fees today. Helps us musicans get a couple extra dollars.
My music is spread over a whole bunch of bandcamp pages, but here's a great place to start:
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
My music is spread over a whole bunch of bandcamp pages, but here's a great place to start:
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
Dan Blacksberg
Trombonist and composer Dan Blacksberg is one of the premiere practitioners of modern and traditional klezmer on the trombone, and an established voice in experimental music. With work spanning avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, improvised music, and klezmer, Blacksberg has developed a complex style to carve out new spaces for the trombone in modern experimental and Jewish music.
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Hey folks, Bandcamp Friday is back. Bandcamp waives their processing fees today. Helps us musicans get a couple extra dollars.
My music is spread over a whole bunch of bandcamp pages, but here's a great place to start:
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
My music is spread over a whole bunch of bandcamp pages, but here's a great place to start:
danblacksberg.bandcamp.com
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Hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! I've put up 20 new titles on the Leo Records page, including albums by Phil Minton, Eugene Chadbourne, Lauren Newton and others! There are also a bunch of titles that went up in January that I didn't really promote at the time!
leorecords.bandcamp.com/music
leorecords.bandcamp.com/music
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! I've put up 20 new titles on the Leo Records page, including albums by Phil Minton, Eugene Chadbourne, Lauren Newton and others! There are also a bunch of titles that went up in January that I didn't really promote at the time!
leorecords.bandcamp.com/music
leorecords.bandcamp.com/music
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Chadbourne's Insect & Western music is some of his absolute best. And the collective personnel on this is fucking insane.
Carrie Shull
Brian Ritchie
Mischa Feigin
Joee Conroy
Carrie Biolo
Charles Waters
Steve Good
Bob Stagner
Bruce Wagner
Brent Dunn
Tom Heasley
Ashley Adams
...
Carrie Shull
Brian Ritchie
Mischa Feigin
Joee Conroy
Carrie Biolo
Charles Waters
Steve Good
Bob Stagner
Bruce Wagner
Brent Dunn
Tom Heasley
Ashley Adams
...
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Chadbourne's Insect & Western music is some of his absolute best. And the collective personnel on this is fucking insane.
Carrie Shull
Brian Ritchie
Mischa Feigin
Joee Conroy
Carrie Biolo
Charles Waters
Steve Good
Bob Stagner
Bruce Wagner
Brent Dunn
Tom Heasley
Ashley Adams
...
Carrie Shull
Brian Ritchie
Mischa Feigin
Joee Conroy
Carrie Biolo
Charles Waters
Steve Good
Bob Stagner
Bruce Wagner
Brent Dunn
Tom Heasley
Ashley Adams
...
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New Release!
JULIUS HEMPHILL: DOGON A.D.
Julius Hemphill, alto saxophone & flute; Baikida Carroll, trumpet; Abdul Wadud, cello; Phillip Wilson, percussion; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone
*the definitive edition of this seminal jazz masterwork*
www.newworldrecords.org/products/jul...
JULIUS HEMPHILL: DOGON A.D.
Julius Hemphill, alto saxophone & flute; Baikida Carroll, trumpet; Abdul Wadud, cello; Phillip Wilson, percussion; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone
*the definitive edition of this seminal jazz masterwork*
www.newworldrecords.org/products/jul...
Julius Hemphill: Dogon A.D.
Julius Hemphill, alto saxophone & flute; Baikida Carroll, trumpet; Abdul Wadud, cello; Phillip Wilson, percussion; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone (The Hard Blues) “If I have anything to contri...
www.newworldrecords.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
New Release!
JULIUS HEMPHILL: DOGON A.D.
Julius Hemphill, alto saxophone & flute; Baikida Carroll, trumpet; Abdul Wadud, cello; Phillip Wilson, percussion; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone
*the definitive edition of this seminal jazz masterwork*
www.newworldrecords.org/products/jul...
JULIUS HEMPHILL: DOGON A.D.
Julius Hemphill, alto saxophone & flute; Baikida Carroll, trumpet; Abdul Wadud, cello; Phillip Wilson, percussion; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone saxophone
*the definitive edition of this seminal jazz masterwork*
www.newworldrecords.org/products/jul...
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Also available at Bandcamp!
newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/julius...
newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/julius...
Julius Hemphill: Dogon A.D., by Julius Hemphill
4 track album
newworldrecords.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Also available at Bandcamp!
newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/julius...
newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/julius...
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There's a new book about how to play figured bass, lads
February 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
There's a new book about how to play figured bass, lads
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Doing a small repress of Anna Högberg Attack — Ensamseglaren LP. Now available for preorder. Shipping May 1.
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
Ensamseglaren, by Anna Högberg Attack
2 track album
annahogberg.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Doing a small repress of Anna Högberg Attack — Ensamseglaren LP. Now available for preorder. Shipping May 1.
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
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Check out my new record “Revolutions” out now at Bandcamp. Getting the Cantareel working with my steel guitar has really been a mind changer for me. Thanks for all the support out there! ❤️🔥
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Check out my new record “Revolutions” out now at Bandcamp. Getting the Cantareel working with my steel guitar has really been a mind changer for me. Thanks for all the support out there! ❤️🔥
now playing [hi-res download - 24/88.2 FLAC] (the "I've heard good things about this one but never gave it a serious listen before" edition)
February 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
now playing [hi-res download - 24/88.2 FLAC] (the "I've heard good things about this one but never gave it a serious listen before" edition)
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New record! It's been five years since I recorded Music for Four Guitars and it's time for a new jam — proud to present the latest four guitars LP, "Music in Continuous Motion," up for preorder today and shipping next month.
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
February 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
New record! It's been five years since I recorded Music for Four Guitars and it's time for a new jam — proud to present the latest four guitars LP, "Music in Continuous Motion," up for preorder today and shipping next month.
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM