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Craig M., California-based fan of avant-jazz, improvised music, and the like. Formerly spun on KZSU-FM. Quieter these days but still listening.

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Spending an evening binging some Sonny Simmons, and preparing a blog post about encountering his music. https://t.co/EeisQjnG1a

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Keyboards on this album are all electric, which I didn't realize when I bought it. (The back cover lists the instruments Chick plays, so it's not supposed to be a surprise. I just had no idea about things back then.)

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NP - Chick Corea, "Again and Again." I picked it up early, when I was still toeing the jazz waters. Didn't 'get' it at first but I liked that stuttering theme to "Quartet #3" and it stuck in my head all these years. https://t.co/Tri7uU5Y9J

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NP - Emmeluth's Amoeba. Free jazz from Oslo, a quartet led by saxophonist Signe Emmeluth. Crackling stuff. https://t.co/hRjkqhn4tU

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Caught the end of the Friday set -- very nice. It's available on replay for 24 hours. Another show Saturday.

[Kris Davis @krisdavismusic]

Please join us! Village Vanguard this Friday and Saturday at 8pm https://t.co/DABCWuR1JZ

[Angry Santa Elf @angrysantaelf]

Now in British Columbia. The toys left keep asking what will their new home be like. I say “I don’t know.” They say “You’re making us live in a place you’ve never been to with people you’ve never met?! What kind of operation are you running?!” Then I close the sack tighter.

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Kyle Bruckmann: oboe and electronics solo concert. Streamed back in November with professional filming, multiple cameras -- very nice. Blog post https://t.co/L8Us4iwfmX ... Actual concert: https://t.co/xd4FckgpZi

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NP - "No Energy Crisis," 1974 Impulse compilation with Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra, Dewey Redman, Marion Brown, many others. Fiery stuff. A used vinyl find from last year.

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Today 4pm PST! @KyleBruckmann solo oboe, English horn, and/or electronics, live online from Berkeley.

[ericleonardson @eleona]

Using a friction mallet to induce vibration in a metal plate so that grains of salt collect in nodal points revealing Chladni Figures.

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@vijayiyer A strong step is to challenge the 'winner-take-all' strategy that makes the electoral college so unrepresentative of the citizenry. See https://t.co/vjDYAcGbGe and https://t.co/5SQfnPx2D1, and follow @lessig

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NP - Craig Taborn New Trio (Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith) live from Roulette. https://t.co/n0zYXky99z Part of Jazzfest Berlin, the Berlin x NYC edition

[Karl Evangelista @grexsounds]

Lockdown Festival 3 TONIGHT, 4-9pm - https://t.co/EngysrDO4l - Proceeds to the great #MilfordGraves + #ACLU

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happening now!

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"Rejoicing" is nice, with nimble treatments of Ornette songs like "Humpty Dumpty." And then you run into the track "The Calling" and its trumpety-guitar friction and outright noise improv, and you're like "Um..." Awesome track though, a precursor to Zero Tolerance for Silence.

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In late Nov. '83, @PatMetheny, in the fast company of Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, cut 'Rejoicing', a superlative jazz set with material by Ornette Coleman, Horace Silver and Charlie Haden, + 2 Metheny originals. Out on HiRes download, CD and stream: https://t.co/s4XyBXN1bp

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Multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Roscoe Mitchell turns 80 today. He has been a restless explorer of forms, ideas and concepts for more than 50 years and, as player, composer and thinker, has been an inspiration for successive generations of musicians. Happy Birthday

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Terrific interview in which Charles Tolliver recounts his time in L.A. and NYC and offers some hope for the November elections. Hope he's right. Oh, and he has an album coming. NP: Paper Man, his 1968 record, as prep homework. https://t.co/QAHQWKINzV

[Ben Beaumont-Thomas @ben_bt]

Thank you @rhodri for this lovely tribute to Tim Smith of Cardiacs – as well as his kindness, humour and fervour, it gives a great sense of the small but hyper-energised community he created around him with his unique music.

https://t.co/CrkpnXCUHH

[CatSynth / amanda c - @[email protected] @catsynth]

I’ll be talking electronic music and doing a short performance. 11AM PDT. Today on https://t.co/cs8uqv19p0 #modularsynth #eurorack #electronicmusic https://t.co/jAVXiL2ouW

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Happening now ...

[CatSynth / amanda c - @[email protected] @catsynth]

I’ll be talking electronic music and doing a short performance. 11AM PDT. Today on https://t.co/cs8uqv19p0 #modularsynth #eurorack #electronicmusic https://t.co/jAVXiL2ouW