Ted Reichman
@tedreichman.bsky.social
music and art maker, sporadic writer, teacher.
I’m on my way to soundcheck right now. There’s going to be a bonus improv set featuring Joe Morris, Anna Webber, Frank C, our guest artists and yours truly. This will be the first time I’ve played with Braxton in about 30 years.
Anthony Braxton at NEC Tonight
Source: NECMusic. Tonight, Anthony Braxton will present his music for a large ensemble in collaboration with the NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra, coached by Frank Carlberg. Anthony Braxton and special guest James Fei are featured performers. Composition 183…
Source: NECMusic. Tonight, Anthony Braxton will present his music for a large ensemble in collaboration with the NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra, coached by Frank Carlberg. Anthony Braxton and special guest James Fei are featured performers. Composition 183…
Anthony Braxton at NEC Tonight
Source: NECMusic. Tonight, Anthony Braxton will present his music for a large ensemble in collaboration with the NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra, coached by Frank Carlberg. Anthony Braxton and special guest James Fei are featured performers. Composition 183 Composition 40-O Composition 69-O Composition 6J Composition 40-K Composition 58 Composition 59 Composition 55
avantmusicnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I’m on my way to soundcheck right now. There’s going to be a bonus improv set featuring Joe Morris, Anna Webber, Frank C, our guest artists and yours truly. This will be the first time I’ve played with Braxton in about 30 years.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Hey, this very early Sun Ra - excuse me, Sunny Blount - live recording from 1949 just showed up on YouTube. I gather it's on some rarities CD, but I would assume most haven't heard it. I seem to have been the first viewer! Wilbur Ware on bass! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX0...
Sonny Blount Trio 8/17/1949 You Go To My Head / Blue Chicago Blues
YouTube video by Intergalaxtic Music: Rare Sun Ra
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Hey, this very early Sun Ra - excuse me, Sunny Blount - live recording from 1949 just showed up on YouTube. I gather it's on some rarities CD, but I would assume most haven't heard it. I seem to have been the first viewer! Wilbur Ware on bass! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCX0...
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Read an extract from Everybody’s Head Is Open To Sound: Writings On Tom Wilson
In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
Read an extract from Everybody’s Head Is Open To Sound: Writings On Tom Wilson - The Wire
In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life
www.thewire.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Read an extract from Everybody’s Head Is Open To Sound: Writings On Tom Wilson
In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
The Wong Kar-Wai mini-fest at the long-gone Chinatown theater by the Manhattan bridge. Pretty sure that was the first time any of his films were screened in nyc.
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The Wong Kar-Wai mini-fest at the long-gone Chinatown theater by the Manhattan bridge. Pretty sure that was the first time any of his films were screened in nyc.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
I just saw the program for Steve Drury's upcoming solo recital at Jordan Hall. He's playing Wolff's "Hay una Mujer Desaparecida (after Holly Near)" and Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated." I'll say this for Steve, he knows what time it is.
necmusic.edu/events/facul...
necmusic.edu/events/facul...
Faculty Recital: Stephen Drury, Piano
Known for the depth of his repertory and as a champion of contemporary music, pianist Stephen Drury offers an evening of music from Liszt to Christian Wolff. The live stream of this event is available...
necmusic.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I just saw the program for Steve Drury's upcoming solo recital at Jordan Hall. He's playing Wolff's "Hay una Mujer Desaparecida (after Holly Near)" and Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated." I'll say this for Steve, he knows what time it is.
necmusic.edu/events/facul...
necmusic.edu/events/facul...
for your bandcamp friday consideration- excellent young trumpet player/composer/artist Lemuel Marc aka Your Biggest Hater has posted a set of duo improvisations with me... lemuelmarc.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Music for Accordion and Trumpet, by Your Biggest Hater
4 track album
lemuelmarc.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
for your bandcamp friday consideration- excellent young trumpet player/composer/artist Lemuel Marc aka Your Biggest Hater has posted a set of duo improvisations with me... lemuelmarc.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Nobody has pursued the accordion angle on the Epstein shitshow AFAIK yet so I searched this for "accordion" and gleaned this gem, among a few others.
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Nobody has pursued the accordion angle on the Epstein shitshow AFAIK yet so I searched this for "accordion" and gleaned this gem, among a few others.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
Love this song.
#OTD in 1978 uptown teenagers Althea & Donna hit No.1 in the UK charts with their top ranking single, knocking Paul McCartney's Mull Of Kintyre off the top spot...
youtu.be/q0HrboAqDTw?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
youtu.be/q0HrboAqDTw?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
February 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Love this song.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Reposted by Ted Reichman
This highly influential White House advisor now states openly: use paramilitary forces to intervene directly in our elections.
This is what the conspiracy theories have been for. This moment.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject fascism. We know it won't help any 'side'. It is time to act.
This is what the conspiracy theories have been for. This moment.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject fascism. We know it won't help any 'side'. It is time to act.
Steve Bannon,
"We're gonna have ICE surround the polls...We'll never again allow an election to be stolen."
"We're gonna have ICE surround the polls...We'll never again allow an election to be stolen."
February 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
This highly influential White House advisor now states openly: use paramilitary forces to intervene directly in our elections.
This is what the conspiracy theories have been for. This moment.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject fascism. We know it won't help any 'side'. It is time to act.
This is what the conspiracy theories have been for. This moment.
Conservative and Liberal Americans reject fascism. We know it won't help any 'side'. It is time to act.
Pausing the doom for a second to commemorate the great Eliane Stritch's 100th birthday. I'm not a big Sondheim or B'way person in general, but there are days when I think Pennebaker's doc about the making of Company is the greatest film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsG...
Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
YouTube video by Breathe in life
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Pausing the doom for a second to commemorate the great Eliane Stritch's 100th birthday. I'm not a big Sondheim or B'way person in general, but there are days when I think Pennebaker's doc about the making of Company is the greatest film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsG...
Reposted by Ted Reichman
It's 2019. No one has heard of covid yet. "Old Town Road" is at the top of the charts. A whistleblower represented by Andrew Bakaj files a classified complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General about wrongdoing at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency
Congress hasn’t seen the complaint, which was filed eight months ago with the U.S. intelligence community watchdog’s office.
on.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:37 PM
It's 2019. No one has heard of covid yet. "Old Town Road" is at the top of the charts. A whistleblower represented by Andrew Bakaj files a classified complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General about wrongdoing at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Alfredo Jaar, He Ram, 1991
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137779
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137779
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Alfredo Jaar, He Ram, 1991
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137779
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137779
between this and the "ethical basketball" comment, my respect for Wemby is increasing rapidly.
"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota
Via DonHarris4/X
Via DonHarris4/X
January 27, 2026 at 8:35 PM
between this and the "ethical basketball" comment, my respect for Wemby is increasing rapidly.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
"Watching Trump shimmy to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ at Mar-a-Lago, something curdled and died inside me. I didn’t feel that I could stomach making dance music in the face of this..."
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
buff.ly/Wad6QAt
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
buff.ly/Wad6QAt
January 26, 2026 at 12:05 PM
"Watching Trump shimmy to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ at Mar-a-Lago, something curdled and died inside me. I didn’t feel that I could stomach making dance music in the face of this..."
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
buff.ly/Wad6QAt
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
buff.ly/Wad6QAt
love it
If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
Another London, by Hari Kunzru
Excavating the disenchanted city
harpers.org
January 25, 2026 at 7:36 PM
love it
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Murdered by the state for trying to protect a woman who was being accosted by masked, armed men for exercising her First Amendment rights.
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti
Absolutely heartbreaking
Absolutely heartbreaking
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Murdered by the state for trying to protect a woman who was being accosted by masked, armed men for exercising her First Amendment rights.
Yeah I listened to an extended chunk due to extra slow commute and the only takeaway is: we are cooked.
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Yeah I listened to an extended chunk due to extra slow commute and the only takeaway is: we are cooked.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
Hard to find the words. Something must be done.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Hard to find the words. Something must be done.
I chopped up and painted over the 1965 world book encyclopedia. this is "whitewashing" - paper collage and acrylic on canvas, 36x48in.
January 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I chopped up and painted over the 1965 world book encyclopedia. this is "whitewashing" - paper collage and acrylic on canvas, 36x48in.
Reposted by Ted Reichman
There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.
So basically the government’s policy is “look what you made me do.”
Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"
January 11, 2026 at 6:58 PM
So basically the government’s policy is “look what you made me do.”
“Due process” what a joke.
Thank you for telling us you neither serve nor protect. Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. That was state murder in broad daylight, captured from multiple angles by multiple witnesses, and the people of Minneapolis have eyes.
You support murder.
You support murder.
January 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
“Due process” what a joke.