Gary Kennedy
LightNews LightNews
banner
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
Gary Kennedy
@jazzsnob99.bsky.social
580 followers 290 following 3K posts
Former chronicler of jazz lives. Not sure what happened.
Posts Replies Media Videos
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
Beat Degeneration has it the back panel
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
Also in the liners to Form... they mention the club's name change
Liner notes:
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
good morning [cd - Verve 827 826-2]
info: www.discogs.com/release/2292...
cover art for the late-1980s CD reissue of the album "Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio" first issued by Verve Records in 1958. cover image is a photo of the performers (l to r: Herb Ellis, Stan Getz, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson) tinted orange below a silver banner with white lettering
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
Today's mail - books...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
Now playing two-fer
Cover art for cd reissue of the album "The Portrait of Art Farmer" first issued by Contemporary Records Cover art for the cd reissue of the Art Farmer album "Modern Art" first issued by United Artists Records
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Verve 841 152-2]
info: www.discogs.com/release/9643...
cover art for the Geri Allen album "Twylight" issued by Minor Music in 1989. US issue was on the Verve label.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - ECM 1683 / 557 652-2]
cover art for the John Abercrombie album "Open Land" issued by ECM Records in 1999. Image is a black and white photo of a young child as seen through a train or bus window. Image is intentionally out of focus.
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
good morning [cd - Nonesuch 79468-2]
cover art for the Fred Hersch & Bill Frisell album "Songs We Know" issued by Nonesuch Records in 1998. Image shown is a black and white photo of a room, lit by a small window, with a piano on the right and an upholstered chair with an acoustic guitar across its seat.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Atlantic Jazz (Ger.) 781 402-2 (1696-2)]
cover art for the compilation album "Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner" first issued by Atlantic Records in 1976.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - hatART CD 6088]
info: www.discogs.com/release/2282...
cover art for the Ton Art album "Mal Vu. Mal Dit." issued by hatART Records in 1991
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
good morning [cd - CBS CDCBS 25265 / MK 37793]
cover art for harp player Andreas Vollenweider's album "Caverna Magica - (...Under The Tree - In The Cave...)" issued by CBS Records in 1982
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Vocalion CDSML 8407 (original LP = Deram SML 1069)]
info: www.discogs.com/release/2569...
cover art for the Mike Westbrook album "Love Songs" issued by Deram Records in 1970
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Impulse! GRD-104 (originally AS-9115)]
cover image for the 1991 CD reissue of Stanley Turrentine's "Let It Go" first issued by Impulse! Records in 1966 or 1967. Image is of a white top border with lettering and a photo of Turrentine playing tenor saxophone below.
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Verve 314 514 454-2]
info: www.discogs.com/release/2588...
cover art for the J.J. Johnson album "Let's Hang Out" issued by Verve Records and Gitanes Jazz Productions in 1993
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
good morning [cd - Soul Note 121226-2]
Dave Douglas (trumpet, all arrangements); Mark Feldman (violin); Erik Friedlander (cello); Mark Dresser (double bass); Michael Sarin (drums). Recorded at Sear Sound, NYC, March 17-18, 1993. Engineer: Jon Rosenberg
more info: www.discogs.com/release/1572...
cover art for the Dave Douglas album "Parallel Worlds" issued by Soul Note Records in 1993
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - via Mosaic Select]
RCA/Victor LPM-1161: Thad Jones (as Bart Valve), Joe Newman, Joe Wilder, trumpet; Nick Travis, trumpet, valve trombone; Al Cohn, tenor sax; Dick Katz, piano; Freddie Green, guitar; Buddy Jones, bass; Osie Johnson, drums. recorded Webster Hall, NYC, May 9, 1955
cover art for the album "Four Brass One Tenor" issued by RCA records in 1955 cover art for the three-CD set "Al Cohn , Joe Newman & Freddie Green – Mosaic Select" issued by Mosaic Records in 2007
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
nowplaying [cd - ECM 1463 / 314 511 981-2]
cover art for the John Surman album "Adventure Playground" issued by ECM Records in 1992 photo of the CD for the John Surman album "Adventure Playground" issued by ECM Records in 1992
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Concord Jazz CCD-30095-2]
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, April and August 2005. Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
info: www.discogs.com/release/7765...
cover image for the Ben Riley Monk Legacy Sextet album "Memories of T" issued by Concord Jazz Records in 2006
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - ECM 2481 / 478 1796]
info: www.discogs.com/release/8605...
cover art for the Dominique Pifarély Quartet album "Tracé Provisoire" issued by ECM Records in 2016
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - ECM 1360/61 / 835 008-2]
info: www.discogs.com/release/1355...
cover art for the Keith Jarrett album "Still Live" issued by ECM Records in 1988. Image shown is a full black background with large white lettering, except for red letters spelling out TRIO. There are also small inset photos of each of the musicians Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - ECM 1250 / 829 162-2]
info: www.discogs.com/release/4632...
cover art for the Ralph Towner album "Blue Sun" issued by ECM Records in 1983
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
good morning [cd - 3746351772]
info: www.discogs.com/release/3127...
cover for the CD reissue (Motown Records) of the Grover Washington, Jr album "Feels So Good" first issued by Kudu Records in 1975
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - ECM 1252/53 / 810 622-2] (the "I saw this on my shelves and thought 'have I ever played this?' and can't recall doing so even though I bought it in 1986 or 1987. I must have though, right?" edition)
side angle view of the two-CD set of the Pat Metheny Group album "Travels"
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
jazzsnob99.bsky.social
now playing [cd - Cryptogramophone CG131]
Cuong Vu (tp-1,electronics-1), Myra Melford (p,harmonium), Brandon Ross (el-g-2,bj-2,voice-2), Stomu Takeishi (b-g,electronics), Elliot Humberto Kavee (d). Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY, December 2 & 3, 2003. Engineer: Joe Marciano
cover image for the Myra Melford Be Bread album "The Image of Your Body released by Cryptogramophone Records in 2006
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM