Ari S.

nice one!! absolutely adore this group

taper of said show and self-proclaimed VU-freak Robert Quine conspicuously leaving the Dead off his list of influential mid/late ‘60s bands he cites in the liners (Rolling Stones, Byrds, Jeff Beck w/ Yardbirds, VU)

front cover of Velvet Underground CD Quine Tapes

back cover of Quine Tapes CD showing song list.

front cover of Grateful Dead CD Dick’s Picks Vol 16

back cover of Dick’s Picks vol. 16 showing song list

feel like ppl who would care about this would already know— but mind blown realizing that this wild Velvet Underground set (disc 1 of Quine Tapes, w/ a 24 min Sister Ray) happened the same night (11/8/69) & in same city (San Francisco) as this amazing Grateful Dead show released as Dick’s Picks 16

want/need to hear these based just on the outfits these kings are wearing

inside image of Now Jazz Now book, photo of Milford Graves performing in front of an intimate audience in Paris 1974

inside cover image from Jazz Now Jazz book showing Pharoah Sanders playing tenor saxophone and Sonny Sharrock playing electric guitar from Berlin 1968

cover art of Lester Bowie Numbers 1&2 LP featuring art by Roscoe Mitchell

front and back cover art of Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe Duo Exchange, from featuring a photo of Ali and Lowe posing together and the back each of them playing their instrument

diving in
NOW JAZZ NOW

a holy trinity: Graves, Sanders, Sharrock

-Incredible cover painting by Roscoe Mitchell on the Lester Bowie LP

-From Thurston Moore’s Ali/Lowe Duo Exchange write-up: “Valerie Wilmer photograph cover… is alive with the rapport these two Fire Music players must have felt.”

front cover of vinyl of Hell’s Belles, soundtrack by Les Baxter.

saturday afternoon listening

very groovy and funk-filled soundtrack to a 1969 biker flick, Hell’s Belles, from Les Baxter (!)

fuzz guitar, horns, fat bass, and breaks galore. dig!!!

totally agree. very vivid and fond memories of being in high school and settling in to watch these, rapt

my fav of the B3 masters!! 🙌

cover of CD Blue Mountain, a portrait of older Bob Weir with white hair and beard

Weir’s wistful and beautiful latter-day cowboy/Americana masterpiece

Oh night the daylight stealing
all your gold from the sky
you’re a poor thief you’re leaving
all your diamonds behind

-from Cottonwood Lullaby (in collaboration with Josh Kaufman and Josh Ritter)

RIP Bob Weir ⚡️❤️⚡️

William Parker was born in The Bronx on this day in 1952. He turns 74 today.

📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 6.12.21

a gem!!

ok that’s pretty cool

nothing but hits!!

I own Thelonious - and Nellie’s - copy
of Misterioso (recorded on tour)

wish there would be more releases from that period

cover art of Peter Gordon record Star Jaws and Blue Gene Tyranny Out of the Blue

back notes of Peter Gordon record Star Jaws and Blue Gene Tyranny Out of the Blue

spending the afternoon with Peter Gordon and “Blue” Gene Tyranny —

experimental/new music meets rock-pop in 1977. totally charming jacket design on both by Ariel Peeri

BGT is the reissue on Unseen Worlds
PG is the original on Lovely Music

James Blood Ulmer record cover Are You Glad To Be In America. a painting of a white house with trees and blue sky in the back and in the foreground a woman wearing dark glasses holding a cat and a man sitting on a bench reading a book that says “I am a cat”

James Blood Ulmer

Are You Glad To Be In America

i was at that Claudia Quintet show, but as you said, disappointed in
my younger self for not seeing Derek Bailey a couple days before and right after that, as well as sooooo many others. nice find

✌️
and can confirm, she did in fact see that dynamic duo (Byrne/Eno) hanging at the show

front and back cover of the Wadada Leo Smith CD, Kulture Jazz

triptych of photos of Wadada Leo Smith playing a trumpet, in black and white

celebrating the master,

Wadada Leo Smith who had his 84th birthday yesterday

finding this in the wild a few years ago— on CD — was a thrill.
all the post-Mwandishi dudes’ releases are killers

studio version is a beauty no doubt. i like the early ‘80s versions (see Dead Set)— slower, more melancholic, organ giving the gospel feel,

a photo of Gilberto Gil and Nana Caymmi. Caymmi smiling and looking at Gil and Gil looking at the camera.

Caetano Veloso reflecting on first meeting Gilberto Gil

“… when he met me he felt as though he were leaving behind a great loneliness: when he saw me he was sure that he had found a true companion.”

a beautiful expression of friendship
♥️ 🙏 😊

From Veloso’s Tropical Truth

cover of Jerry Garcia Band CD Electric on the Eel, a green and white eel

excerpt from inside liner notes booklet of Electric on the Eel showing a picture of Jerry Garcia and a selection of photos from the concerts including Wavy Gravy in tie-dye clown makeup

take: Jerry Garcia Band version of They Love Each Other is better than the Grateful Dead’s

from 6/10/89 Set 1
Electric on the Eel

Cover of the LP Caricatures, a black and white Al Hirschfeld portrait of Donald Byrd playing a trumpet

prob lowest on my ranking of Donald Byrd x Mizell Bros collabs

but that is very relative, since it still a stone jammer (expected from a Mizell/Sky High production), all-time cover art (Hirschfeld portrait), and killer band (alphonse mouzon, patrice rushen, gary batrtz, james jamerson, etc)

dig!!!

i like that cool little live set on the Beastie EP

ooooh JBL + Chad Taylor duo very enticing

this is a sweet part

covers of 5 Wackie’s CDs

digging in the part of my haul from the @wfmu.bsky.social record fair last weekend.

5 gems scooped up for $5 a piece

dubby, dank, early ‘80s goodness from WACKIE’s

BRONX FINEST

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