Eugene Holley, Jr.
@holleywoodswingin.bsky.social
A jazz-centric reporter, liner note writer and essayist focusing on the arts, sciences and humanities, who currently contributes to Publishers Weekly, Down Beat magazine and Sound & The Mainstream on Substack.
I had the privilege and pleasure of being interviewed by Bill Kopp of The Tonearm about my liner notes for the just released Bill Evans Trio box set, reissued by Craft Recordings: www.thetonearm.com/friction-int...
Eugene Holley Jr. on the Bill Evans Trio | The Tonearm
From his first encounter with 'Explorations' to writing liner notes for 'Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings,' the jazz historian discusses how Evans, LaFaro, and Motian transform...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I had the privilege and pleasure of being interviewed by Bill Kopp of The Tonearm about my liner notes for the just released Bill Evans Trio box set, reissued by Craft Recordings: www.thetonearm.com/friction-int...
Happy Birthday, Matthew Shipp!
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Happy Birthday, Matthew Shipp!
Reposting my 2017 Down Beat Q&A with my Delaware homeboy, Matthew Shipp.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy Birthday, Matthew Shipp!
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Posting on Ethelbert Miller’s Birthday:
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Sound and the Mainstream (@eugeneholleyjr1)
Today is D.C. based poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller’s birthday. I’m reposting my 8 Bars piece I did on him a few years ago.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Posting on Ethelbert Miller’s Birthday:
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FYI for Jazz journalists, scholars and writers: 2026 marks the centennial birthdays of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Randy Weston.
November 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
FYI for Jazz journalists, scholars and writers: 2026 marks the centennial birthdays of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Randy Weston.
Happy Birthday, Ellis Marsalis.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Happy Birthday, Ellis Marsalis.
Just finished an amazing interview with Bill Kopp of Tone Arm about the music of Bill Evans, specifically the forthcoming box set, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings of the Bill Evans Trio (I wrote the liner notes).
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Just finished an amazing interview with Bill Kopp of Tone Arm about the music of Bill Evans, specifically the forthcoming box set, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings of the Bill Evans Trio (I wrote the liner notes).
Zohran was everything they accused Obama of being: a Muslim born in Africa.
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Zohran was everything they accused Obama of being: a Muslim born in Africa.
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy Halloween!
Happy Birthday, Clifford Brown!
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy Birthday, Clifford Brown!
Checkout my 2012 Q&A with the late drummer Jack DeJohnette: open.substack.com/pub/eugeneho...
A Scientist of Swing: My Talk with the Late Jack DeJohnette
Multiple sources have confirmed the recent passing of Jack DeJohnette.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Checkout my 2012 Q&A with the late drummer Jack DeJohnette: open.substack.com/pub/eugeneho...
Checkout my D’Angelo piece: blacknewsandviews.com/dangelos-bro...
D’Angelo’s brown sugared soul: An appreciation NABJ Black News & Views
When Michael Eugene Archer, aka D’Angelo, who died at the age of 51 on Oct. 14, burst on the scene in 1995 with his mellow-toned, mid tempo hit “Brown Sugar,” he blew me away, not because I hadn’t hea...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Checkout my D’Angelo piece: blacknewsandviews.com/dangelos-bro...
Save The Date: October 19,2025: Greg Tate Day!
October 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Save The Date: October 19,2025: Greg Tate Day!
The trailer for the new film about Keith Jarrett’s iconic 1975 Koln Concert:
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Köln 75 International trailer
YouTube video by ScreenFlanders
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October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The trailer for the new film about Keith Jarrett’s iconic 1975 Koln Concert:
youtu.be/j83Ps9SmpF8?...
youtu.be/j83Ps9SmpF8?...
Posting in honor of Amiri Baraka’s birthday today: My 2013 NPR piece on the 50th anniversary of his seminal book, Blues People:
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Black History Meets Black Music: 'Blues People' At 50
In 1963, a jazz-obsessed, college-educated black Beat poet in New York wrote a "theoretical endeavor" linking the sociopolitical and the sonic. A half-century later, Amiri Baraka's book remains the fi...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Posting in honor of Amiri Baraka’s birthday today: My 2013 NPR piece on the 50th anniversary of his seminal book, Blues People:
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Today is Ronnie Laws’ birthday. It took years for me to figure out what the images on his 1977 Friends and Strangers album cover were.
October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today is Ronnie Laws’ birthday. It took years for me to figure out what the images on his 1977 Friends and Strangers album cover were.
Hello Bluesky!
October 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Hello Bluesky!