JazzIan
@jazzian.bsky.social
Jazz programmer. Reader. Frequenter of cemeteries.
I was listening to this yesterday but didn't check the dates...
60 years ago on December 3 & 4, 1965 saxophonist Ornette Coleman was in Stockholm, Sweden recording his Blue Note debut "At The Golden Circle" with a trio featuring David Izenzon on bass & Charles Moffett on drums.
Vol. 1: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
Vol. 2: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
Vol. 1: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
Vol. 2: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I was listening to this yesterday but didn't check the dates...
"Would that I knew the chicken-livered poltroon, the milksop thou hast brought to my door, good Master Cuckoo. I would give much for my eyes to behold this whining cur precede me through thy flaming gate to Heaven - but that doesn't mean I will clutch any turd of a quacksalver to my bosom like thee"
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Would that I knew the chicken-livered poltroon, the milksop thou hast brought to my door, good Master Cuckoo. I would give much for my eyes to behold this whining cur precede me through thy flaming gate to Heaven - but that doesn't mean I will clutch any turd of a quacksalver to my bosom like thee"
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ELLE is officially published today. So here's an updated post with a little video or verse one, and links to the publisher and to previous posts about the 'project': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
ELLE: A VERSE NOVEL is now published
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is now published by Broken Sleep Books Details for ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Bro...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ELLE is officially published today. So here's an updated post with a little video or verse one, and links to the publisher and to previous posts about the 'project': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
Excellent gig by the #FergusMcCreadieTrio tonight @lakesidearts.bsky.social Yes, I know I say it every time I hear him live, "he just gets better and better"...but he does...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
The Shieling, by Fergus McCreadie
10 track album
fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Excellent gig by the #FergusMcCreadieTrio tonight @lakesidearts.bsky.social Yes, I know I say it every time I hear him live, "he just gets better and better"...but he does...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
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Look what just arrived!
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Look what just arrived!
Just when you want to leave the Lincolnshire Poacher, Damian turns up...sober....Been In London selling Picassos....Beer and whiskeys! "Bushmills is a Protestant whiskey!" Don't tell my folks...
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just when you want to leave the Lincolnshire Poacher, Damian turns up...sober....Been In London selling Picassos....Beer and whiskeys! "Bushmills is a Protestant whiskey!" Don't tell my folks...
Incredible gig by @Ahmed this afternoon in Derby. I've always been into avant garde jazz but this was special. Relentless. Tantric. No solos. Everyone improvising for an an hour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
[Ahmed] (Pat Thomas, Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip, Seymour Wright) (Live in London 2022.8.26)
YouTube video by les-sons-du-monde
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November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Incredible gig by @Ahmed this afternoon in Derby. I've always been into avant garde jazz but this was special. Relentless. Tantric. No solos. Everyone improvising for an an hour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
Quiet in the Lincolnshire Poacher earlier. I persuaded them to play Jelly Roll Morton off of their phone. My work is done.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
The Chant - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers (1926)
YouTube video by Atticus Jazz
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November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Quiet in the Lincolnshire Poacher earlier. I persuaded them to play Jelly Roll Morton off of their phone. My work is done.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
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Today’s reprints:
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today’s reprints:
Having recently been made redundant by Nottingham University I'm disgusted to see 48 courses being closed down, especially when they spent c£95m on a new 'campus' which isn't fit for purpose. How many more lives will the destroy.
Sign the to stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at Nottingham Uni.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
www.change.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Having recently been made redundant by Nottingham University I'm disgusted to see 48 courses being closed down, especially when they spent c£95m on a new 'campus' which isn't fit for purpose. How many more lives will the destroy.
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NYC this Friday -- A rare trio concert by Henry Threadgill, Dafnis Prieto, and me!
www.92ny.org/event/henry-...
www.92ny.org/event/henry-...
www.92ny.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
NYC this Friday -- A rare trio concert by Henry Threadgill, Dafnis Prieto, and me!
www.92ny.org/event/henry-...
www.92ny.org/event/henry-...
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Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant nation of Europe and a real rival to that global superpower Great Britain. Then it hit the buzzsaw ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
Recovering from the Jazz Promotion Network Conference in Cardiff. Great to catch up with people I only see once a year. 14 bands in two days and a lot of beer. Favourite gig was by Charlotte Keeffe.
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Recovering from the Jazz Promotion Network Conference in Cardiff. Great to catch up with people I only see once a year. 14 bands in two days and a lot of beer. Favourite gig was by Charlotte Keeffe.
Little box (right) inside big box. Should have ordered 20,000 business cards to make full use of the box and help save the environment...
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Little box (right) inside big box. Should have ordered 20,000 business cards to make full use of the box and help save the environment...
Honoured to have a series of poems by Robert Sheppard dedicated to me.
My recent poems, from a series dedicated to JazzIan, may be read here: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/robe.... They're (round and) about jazz!
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Honoured to have a series of poems by Robert Sheppard dedicated to me.
Forgot to post the link... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q30...
Charles Lloyd - Tone Poem (One night with Blue Note) [HQ]
YouTube video by Jarosław Bieńkowski
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October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Forgot to post the link... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q30...
I first came across Jack DeJohnette in my teens with the Charles Lloyd Quartet in the 1980s with the film One Night With Blue Note. Lucky to have seen him live a few times with the Keith Jarrett Trio and his own Spring Quartet in Birmingham.
When people refer to Jacko I don't think of Michael.
When people refer to Jacko I don't think of Michael.
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I first came across Jack DeJohnette in my teens with the Charles Lloyd Quartet in the 1980s with the film One Night With Blue Note. Lucky to have seen him live a few times with the Keith Jarrett Trio and his own Spring Quartet in Birmingham.
When people refer to Jacko I don't think of Michael.
When people refer to Jacko I don't think of Michael.
Redundancies by the University of Nottingham have forced me out of Lakeside Arts after nearly 24 years. Here I am commiserating with some bearded ladies.
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Redundancies by the University of Nottingham have forced me out of Lakeside Arts after nearly 24 years. Here I am commiserating with some bearded ladies.
Don't know anything about Judah Daniels but will go and check him out tonight at #PeggysSkylight peggysskylight.co.uk/events/judah...
Seen the drummer before a few times...
Seen the drummer before a few times...
Judah Daniels Trio [Jazz] – Peggy's Skylight
peggysskylight.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Don't know anything about Judah Daniels but will go and check him out tonight at #PeggysSkylight peggysskylight.co.uk/events/judah...
Seen the drummer before a few times...
Seen the drummer before a few times...
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3
Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back
goodlawproject.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3
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“The fact is that the Roulette Player was presently the winner in this race, which he ran against one other competitor only: death.” Dive into this archive piece by Mircea Cărtărescu, tr. Julian Semilian here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“The fact is that the Roulette Player was presently the winner in this race, which he ran against one other competitor only: death.” Dive into this archive piece by Mircea Cărtărescu, tr. Julian Semilian here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...