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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 1d

"How can this be any good? We didn't pay anything for it." Nice lookback at this outlaw classic: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...

James Talley On 50 Years of 'Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love'

The veteran singer-songwriter talks with DRTI about his timeless debut, and the half-century since.

www.dontrocktheinbox.com

Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 1d

Two Chicago jazz albums (over 30 years apart) that make time warp around you: open.substack.com/pub/andybeta...

Twofer Tuesday #14

Two albums from Chicago that transcend the confines of jazz and suspend time

open.substack.com

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 1d

And your apartment listing

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 3d

🤷‍♂️

Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact: this is the most 10 of 10s, but PFK eds took off .5 for some unfathomable never-explained reason, probably that it wasn't sung in English or something stupid like that.

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 3d

"When I would speak of those morbid things/When I would speak of those sordid men/When I would speak of this storm/You didn’t listen/You don’t want to believe/But that’s so normal." In the depths of Brazil's fascist regime, Lô Borges (with Milton) provided some hope. RIP to a master:

Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 3d

RIP Lô Borges, read @andybeta.bsky.social:

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Milton Nascimento / Lô Borges: Clube Da Esquina

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit one of the most ambitious albums in Brazilian hist...

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 6d

Now do it with kids

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 10d

In May of 2024, I received an email that Jack DeJohnette would speak with me for the Alice Coltrane book. So thoughtful and direct: "The music wasn't complicated. It wasn't difficult. It was a vibe, you know? Melodies, spiritual feeling, [an] expansive look at being, playing that music."

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 11d

Most people at Frost Bank Center didn’t realize it, but Gregg Popovich was in the building Sunday, and he’d given his blessing to a banner, raised sans ceremony.

How the Spurs planned the perfect Pop tribute:

www.expressnews.com/sports/artic...

How the Spurs planned the perfect tribute to Gregg Popovich

an empty Frost Bank Center, hours before any players or crowds arrived on Sunday, the Spurs hung a simple piece of fabric alongside the jersey numbers of seven legends Popovich had coached.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 10d

Fly on, Jack DeJohnette. 💐🕊️🤲🏾

photo (by me) backstage at Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Nov 2, 2019

A silhouetted figure with greying hair, seen from behind, in shadows

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 10d

Jack DeJohnette doubling as DX-7 wizard: youtu.be/OiilVpyKAY0?...

Jack DeJohnette : Zebra (1985) - 04 Kpledzo (High Quality)

YouTube video by VegTheatre

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Oren Ambarchi_Black Truffle @orenambarchi.bsky.social · 11d

💔

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 11d

Can verify after last night's set at Brooklyn Steel:

frozen reeds @frozenreeds.com · 16d

The Autechre live experience for dummies

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 14d

Me too! Like Proust's madeleine that smell

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 16d

Pure manna: youtu.be/keZulqPcPag?...

João Gilberto - Águas de Março

YouTube video by Bruno Moura

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 16d

And s/o to @orenambarchi.bsky.social for hipping me to João's white album back in 1999 or some such.

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 16d

I’m not going to say I named my child after João Gilberto. But I can't say that I didn’t *not* name them after João Gilberto either.

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 16d

"I hesitate to say that I understood what João was doing with just his voice and guitar; that all really remains an unplumbable mystery." A few more stray thoughts on João and the album I *really* wanted to write about instead of G/G: andybeta.substack.com/p/joao

João

On João Gilberto's gentle genius, the real girl from Ipanema, and the best music genre to ever emerge from a bathroom

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 17d

For @pitchfork.com Sunday Review, I wrote about Getz/ Gilberto, but more importantly, about João Gilberto's gentle genius, the real girl from Ipanema, and the best music genre to ever emerge from a bathroom: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/stan-getz-joao-gilberto-getz-gilberto/João

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 18d

Lament not being able to shoehorn Albizu into it and giving her her due. Her visuals made that whole set.

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Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social · 18d

"Just as unrequited love might never be quenched, so it was with bossa nova. There was always a dark shadow amid its elegant curves, harmonies that didn’t quite resolve as was expected. Gilberto’s sound shrugged; such was life." pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...