I just found out about this from a friend today as we stood in a record store. Very sad news. He poured his soul into that place. Lucky to have known him.

The 1970 Jimmy Lyons LP “Other Afternoons”

Jamming this Jimmy Lyons 1970 release on the French Actuel label.

One of the best releases on the label? MAYBE SO.

#jazzvinyl

A dimly-lit office with a grey couch, a lamp, and a shelf with classical records on it.

Look to the left while seated in my office chair and this is what you’ll see

It’s unexpectedly vibe-y at night

Sometimes I nap on that couch

My parents saw them on that tour (I was too young), and then we saw them together in 1994 (then a senior in high school).

Would've loved to see them circa '75 or '77. I've heard lots of boots from that '77 Animals tour that are pure magic!

Of course the Pompeii show would've been good, too. 😀

I have a special place in my heart for The Division Bell — bought the album and a Timex wristwatch at Walmart with my summer job money. Later that summer, I got to see them in concert on that tour. Cheers to you, as well!

I’ve been listening to Meddle and Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon consistently for 30 years but somehow left this out of rotation.

It really suits my grown-up ears now. It’s weird and urgent and I’ll probably play it again this weekend.

Junior Mance’s 1960 LP, The Soulful Sounds of Junior Mance

Junior Mance’s 1960 LP, The Soulful Sounds of Junior Mance, sounds fresh as ever.

#jazzvinyl

Thanks to Roadrunner Records in Minneapolis for having this mint OG promo copy.

Pink Floyd’s 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.

Pink Floyd’s 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason aged way better than I ever thought it would.

I heard it countless times as a dubbed cassette copy on my parents boombox.

Had it on CD in high school, and probably haven’t listened to it since then. UNTIL TONIGHT.

Let’s!

Do we use hashtags here for that? I still feel like a newbie.

Side A has some lighter, shorter pieces, saving the HEAVY improv for side B.

It’s one of the magical things about this music for me, especially the Carnatic style from South India—that edge-of-the-seat, endless stream of pure sound creativity.

SO GOOD

A 1970s-era Indian classical music LP situated on a record shelf

Some blistering Indian classical improvisation from 1970, courtesy of the Indian maestro Chitti Babu. #nowplaying #vinyl

In the before times, I posted pictures of what records I had on the turntable

Maybe I do that again here

I have a file on my computer desktop labeled “dot tee ex tee”

I save my TextEdit files there

starting a TextEdit fan club

yes, the simple notepad app

who's in

Sign outside of the Berlin jazz club in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jazz band playing – tenor saxophone, bass and drums in an intimate club

Went to Berlin last night.

(Not the city, but the jazz club in Minneapolis.)

Saw a friend of a friend play the music of Charles Mingus.

Highlight: “Boogie Stop Shuffle”

seeing so many familiar faces on here

feels like we are getting the band back together

it’s the first time in a long while where I’m interesting in logging on in an app and seeing what folks are up to, rather than wading through the algorithm

very nice

Green moss on a log

And it sounds great, too!

This place is like my second home, anymore.

I like to stay until I’m the last one to leave the hall, when only an usher or two collecting discarded programs remain.

I take out a little notebook to carefully cursive some thoughts while the music is still in the air (or my mind, at least.)

The Minnesota Orchestra on stage with the iconic Orchestra Hall cubes in blue on the ceiling.

Tonight, I’m hearing the Minnesota Orchestra play Schoenberg’s orchestration of the Brahms piano quartet.

Love moments like that!

I tried “Chocolatey Cookie Cats” but is still feels off

I’m a little leery that they have to tell us that the cookies are intended for people

The room reverberations filled the spaces between the notes, making the hall itself an accompanist.

I’m gonna be thinking about this one for a while.

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos standing with his instrument on a wooden floor in a concert hall.

Attended my 57th concert of 2024 on Wednesday: Leonidas Kavakos performing a Bach sonata and partitas for solo violin.

Wasn’t sure how a solo violin would fill a concert hall, but IT VERY MUCH DID.

it hurts my head like a hundred dogs

Confusing name on two tubs of Trader Joe’s cookies

spent waaay too long trying to work out the syntax of this cookie name

we’re gonna need a colon or parenthesis or something here, folks

dear text fields and word processing software:

I never never never intend to type "THe"

NEVER

The Bluesky experience feels like welcoming an old friend you haven't seen since 2012.

Other things I'd like to see make a 2012/2024 return:
- Google Reader (RSS, we loved you)
- Rdio (Spotify could NEVER)
- Optimism (you know, generally speaking)