Rob Ewing
@robewing.bsky.social
SF Bay Area musician. Director of the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA. Always happy to chop it up about music theory and jazz records. Here’s one of my records: https://robewing.bandcamp.com/album/these-lines
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Rob Ewing
@robewing.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Hi, I’m Rob. Multi-instrumentalist (mainly trombone and bass guitar) into all sorts of music, but rooted in jazz. Involved in music ed (running a community music school) and active in various bands and freelance gig situations. Enjoy talking theory, culture, etc. Happy to connect!
Digging this Herbie bootleg! Berkeley Jazz Festival 1980. Check out Jon Lucien on Rashida. #jazzsky
Herbie Hancock & Friends (feat. Santana, Clarke, Mouzon and more), Berkley (1980)
YouTube video by bigfootpegrande
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June 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Digging this Herbie bootleg! Berkeley Jazz Festival 1980. Check out Jon Lucien on Rashida. #jazzsky
Excellent newly uploaded Keith Jarrett feature. #jazzsky
Keith Jarrett - 1979? Interview and solo piano at home
YouTube video by Karel Cuelenaere ROIO Archive
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February 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Excellent newly uploaded Keith Jarrett feature. #jazzsky
Nice find, today. Jackie Wilson and the Count Basie Orchestra play soul hits of the day.
Manufacturers of Soul by Jackie Wilson & Count Basie on Apple Music
Album · 1968 · 11 Songs
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January 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Nice find, today. Jackie Wilson and the Count Basie Orchestra play soul hits of the day.
Feeling for the people in my childhood hometown of Altadena. My family lived in a multi-home communal living set up on Rubio Street in the 80s. A fun place to be a kid. All gone now as far as I can tell. Tough times.
January 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Feeling for the people in my childhood hometown of Altadena. My family lived in a multi-home communal living set up on Rubio Street in the 80s. A fun place to be a kid. All gone now as far as I can tell. Tough times.
Accidentally clicked on this one and glad I did. The trio sounds great and bassist Cleveland Eaton is dealing! #jazzsky
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Summer Breeze (1973)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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January 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Accidentally clicked on this one and glad I did. The trio sounds great and bassist Cleveland Eaton is dealing! #jazzsky
Newly discovered silent footage from this classic session! Shared by Loren Schoenberg. #jazzsky
Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - FILM
YouTube video by Loren Schoenberg
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December 30, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Newly discovered silent footage from this classic session! Shared by Loren Schoenberg. #jazzsky
Music for Metro-Northing. One of the less known Miles Davis records with excellent brass ensemble writing from John Lewis and JJ Johnson. Repertory bands: give this one a read! #jazzsky
Miles Davis & The Jazz and Classical Music Society- Music For Brass, 1956 | EXCLUSIVE REMASTER
YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
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December 25, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Music for Metro-Northing. One of the less known Miles Davis records with excellent brass ensemble writing from John Lewis and JJ Johnson. Repertory bands: give this one a read! #jazzsky
Xmas eve practicing: working through a tune on the piano - play slowly through the changes, hear an idea, then play it. You can have all the chops and know all the theory but if you’re not hearing what you play it’s not going to feel quite right.
December 25, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Xmas eve practicing: working through a tune on the piano - play slowly through the changes, hear an idea, then play it. You can have all the chops and know all the theory but if you’re not hearing what you play it’s not going to feel quite right.
Enjoying this new release from Charles Owens. One of my favorite undersung (but who isn’t?) contemporary tenor saxophonists.
The Music Tells Us by The Charles Owens Trio on Apple Music
Album · 2024 · 14 Songs
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December 24, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Enjoying this new release from Charles Owens. One of my favorite undersung (but who isn’t?) contemporary tenor saxophonists.
Love this one, and one of favorite album covers from the period too.
Jazz OTD: The sustained originality, rigor, and improvisational space of Don Cherry's "Complete Communion" - recorded December 24, 1965 - continue to inspire awe. A remarkable piece of work with superb collaboration between Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, and Cherry. #jazzsky
Complete Communion: Complete Communion/And Now/Golden Heart/Remembrance (Remastered)
YouTube video by Don Cherry - Topic
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December 24, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Love this one, and one of favorite album covers from the period too.
The Plugged Nickel record was recorded in Dec 65. This show from the following May is the next known recording of the quintet, with Richard Davis in on bass. MD is in much better shape here. Plugged Nickel is essential for Wayne, but I think the band as a whole is stronger here. #jazzsky
Miles Davis- May 21, 1966 | Oriental Theatre, Portland, Oregon [REMASTERED] REPOST
YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
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December 23, 2024 at 5:29 AM
The Plugged Nickel record was recorded in Dec 65. This show from the following May is the next known recording of the quintet, with Richard Davis in on bass. MD is in much better shape here. Plugged Nickel is essential for Wayne, but I think the band as a whole is stronger here. #jazzsky
This recording, which made the rounds a few years ago (Wayne, Herbie, Tony, Gary Peacock), pairs nicely as a companion piece to the new Henderson, Tyner, Grimes, and DeJohnette record. I #jazzsky
Miles Davis's Quartet: Village Vanguard 1965-08-xx
YouTube video by bellsystem_1877
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December 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM
This recording, which made the rounds a few years ago (Wayne, Herbie, Tony, Gary Peacock), pairs nicely as a companion piece to the new Henderson, Tyner, Grimes, and DeJohnette record. I #jazzsky
Reposted by Rob Ewing
The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects!
www.loc.gov/free-to-use
www.loc.gov/free-to-use
October 8, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects!
www.loc.gov/free-to-use
www.loc.gov/free-to-use
MD was off for most of 65 but there was supposedly about a month of gigs leading up these dates. No recordings that I know of from that period. Would be good to hear to put Tony’s “anti-music” idea in context.
Jazz OTD: Among the famously querulous community of jazz nerds, my sense is that the Miles Davis Quintet’s (Shorter, Hancock, Carter, Williams) December 22nd/23rd, 1965 sets at the Plugged Nickel are the closest things to consensus picks for jazz perfection. Shorter and Williams stand out. #jazzsky
Miles Davis- December 22, 1965 Plugged Nickel Club, Chicago (1st set)
YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
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December 22, 2024 at 6:36 AM
MD was off for most of 65 but there was supposedly about a month of gigs leading up these dates. No recordings that I know of from that period. Would be good to hear to put Tony’s “anti-music” idea in context.
Deep into Mwandishi (listening) and reading this book. Inspiring.
December 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Deep into Mwandishi (listening) and reading this book. Inspiring.
Reposted by Rob Ewing
This album presenting a choice selection of Turkish/Ottoman Gazel vocal improvisations on 78 RPMs accompanied by ud lute, violin or ney flute, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/11/turk...
#Turkey #ud lute #ney flute #violin #vocals
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/11/turk...
#Turkey #ud lute #ney flute #violin #vocals
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Watched Pablo Held’s interview with Eddie Henderson last night and realized all of the players from the original Mwandishi line up are still playing. Kind of amazing and that’s a reunion I’d like to see. #jazzsky
December 18, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Watched Pablo Held’s interview with Eddie Henderson last night and realized all of the players from the original Mwandishi line up are still playing. Kind of amazing and that’s a reunion I’d like to see. #jazzsky
Barry Harris and Curtis Fuller both born on this day? Some transcribing is in order. Starting with:
Lolita (Live From The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, CA / May 15 & 16, 1960)
YouTube video by Barry Harris - Topic
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December 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Barry Harris and Curtis Fuller both born on this day? Some transcribing is in order. Starting with:
I hear Jamie Saft playing against the rhythm section groove. Straight against swung (a dissonance reinforced by use of clusters) but also placing chords slightly ahead or behind the subdivision - not quantized. This gives the music its texture. An approach suggested by Monk and taken further here.
Raise Four, by Jamie Saft Trio
from the album Jamie Saft Trio Plays Monk
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December 15, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I hear Jamie Saft playing against the rhythm section groove. Straight against swung (a dissonance reinforced by use of clusters) but also placing chords slightly ahead or behind the subdivision - not quantized. This gives the music its texture. An approach suggested by Monk and taken further here.
Reposted by Rob Ewing
The best jazz albums of the year
The Best Jazz Albums of 2024 | Treble
Our year-end coverage dives into the work of veteran players and young lions alike in our list of the best jazz albums of 2024
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December 15, 2024 at 4:41 PM
The best jazz albums of the year
Go Larry, go Larry.
Larry Goldings -"You"
YouTube video by larry goldings
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December 15, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Go Larry, go Larry.
I try to practice jazz standards everyday because it’s fun, though they rarely come up on most of the gigs I play. Today: You’re My Everything, If I Were A Bell. Now off to the gig to play Sweet Caroline, etc.
December 15, 2024 at 2:23 AM
I try to practice jazz standards everyday because it’s fun, though they rarely come up on most of the gigs I play. Today: You’re My Everything, If I Were A Bell. Now off to the gig to play Sweet Caroline, etc.
Tuned into Smalls jazz jam livestream, I think: Develop understanding of resolution points within the form and let this guide your choices, whether soloing or accompanying. When I hear a meandering soloist or a drummer playing random stuff it's because they aren't playing toward resolution points.
December 14, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Tuned into Smalls jazz jam livestream, I think: Develop understanding of resolution points within the form and let this guide your choices, whether soloing or accompanying. When I hear a meandering soloist or a drummer playing random stuff it's because they aren't playing toward resolution points.
Joe Henderson 1966 activities - part 14. (Final Post!) 12/7 back to Van Gelder's to record Duke Pearson's Sweet Honey Bee album for Blue Note. Joe's fleet-fingered, light-toned approach on DP's harmonically-tricky "Gaslight" reminds me of his 90s sound. Joe's comment below:
Gaslight
YouTube video by Duke Pearson - Topic
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December 12, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Joe Henderson 1966 activities - part 14. (Final Post!) 12/7 back to Van Gelder's to record Duke Pearson's Sweet Honey Bee album for Blue Note. Joe's fleet-fingered, light-toned approach on DP's harmonically-tricky "Gaslight" reminds me of his 90s sound. Joe's comment below: