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Gary Kennedy

@jazzsnob99.bsky.social

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Former chronicler of jazz lives. Not sure what happened.

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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · Aug 13

Guitarist Pat Metheny requests that “fusion” not be used in reference to his music; he prefers the term “Big Wave," explaining: “It's a combination of New Wave and surfing music." ("Potpourri," DownBeat, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Feb. 1980), p. 12)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7h

I wish more people knew that there’s virtually no way to prove media or text is AI-generated unless you created it yourself. “AI detectors” aren’t proof. Among other glaring issues, this makes it more difficult for journalists to report on media being AI-generated even when it seems obvious

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 8h

I maintain, Daniel Craig's delivery of "the Nazi child masturbating in the bathroom" is the best line read of the century.

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 19h

Every time the horrible young Republicans group chat stuff is mentioned, I think of Jacob Thrombey. (I should really rewatch Knives Out. It's even a good autumn movie.)

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oliebrice.bsky.social @oliebrice.bsky.social · 5h

Very pleased to be bringing this trio to Norway next week! We're at Blow Out (Oslo) on the 21st and Fri-form (Trondheim) on the 22nd:
westhill.bandcamp.com/album/immens...

Immense Blue, by Olie Brice / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders

3 track album

westhill.bandcamp.com

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 4h

even popular music studies in the US is more influenced by American Studies, Black Studies, Queer Studies, etc., than it tends to be in Europe. in part bc popular music studies largely developed in those depts in the late 80s and 90s.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting to see the discourse about this. The dec the editors put in def oversells my point, which is that I as an American am coming at things from literally another place, by virtue of which I got trained on a slightly different set of tools.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 1d

Read my new piece in The Wire on why I have never found the concept of hauntology especially helpful

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Against The Grain: What’s wrong with hauntology?

In The Wire 501, @robinjames.bsky.social argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Against The Grain: What’s wrong with hauntology? - The Wire

In The Wire 501, Robin James argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuri...

www.thewire.co.uk

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 7h

Them:
I saw you at the art show at the library taking pictures.

Me:
Yeah the stairwell reminded me of the previous two shots on the roll which were of the interior of my microwave.

Them:
youtu.be/Yl566b2__Qw?...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 8h

The case is submitted.

My prediction is that Section 2 is overturned, 6-3 Kav majority, saying that the Section 2 still *exists* but isn't allowed to do anything.

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Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social · 9h

Criterion January releases.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 8h

welcome. It's this one ecmrecords.com/product/the-...

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 9h

Central Pennsylvanian here. They are incredibly Eastern Pensylvanian. Western PA is a whole different vibe.

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Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social · 9h

Still stunned by D’Angelo’s departure. Grateful for the brilliant musical legacy he bequeathed to us. I thought it worth re-posting this meditation on black music and black mortality. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

www.newyorker.com

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 10h

I really want everyone to know about this book of poetry

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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

I'm fascinated by how much louder the trains sound in colder months/air. They sound like distant hi-pitched singing in the warmer months, but once it starts getting colder they sound like a low-pitched drone with oscillating overtones.

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe on the Vijay Iyer trios on ACT? He's also on one of the Chris Potter ECMs iirc: vijayiyer.bandcamp.com/album/accele... or vijayiyer.bandcamp.com/album/histor...

Accelerando, by Vijay Iyer

11 track album

vijayiyer.bandcamp.com

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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, whne i first heard the the guitar it threw me. I had to double check that I was hearing the right album.

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for bring to my attention. She's great. That DG is branching out into Nonesuch territory is interesting, too.

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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

I would think so, but maybe knowing when he last used it was enough. Regardless, it's a fantastic little memento to have.

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

I need to hear this one. Bro has never really been a foreground payer in my experience. That he defers to Smith and Gilmore and only provides sporadic commentary is not surprising - to me anyway. Gilmore's great isn't he? Did you know his grandfather is Roy Haynes?

Have you heard?:

Trio of Bloom, by Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore

11 track album

trioofbloom.bandcamp.com

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 11h

“I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.” —Umberto Eco
buff.ly/3r2gBsA

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Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

thanks

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 10h

The drummer Tony Levin's recording list from his webpage: www.tonylevin.org/category/rec...

Recordings – Tony Levin

www.tonylevin.org

Gary Kennedy @jazzsnob99.bsky.social · 11h

Nothing? I fixed the Wheeler album, and did a quick scroll through the bassist's list and it looks like nothing else is mis-attributed.