Fitz Gitler
@techdef.bsky.social
Born after a hockey game, slept at a jazz festival, grew up in a museum.
So this is happening…
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/... #coltrane #jazzrelics #familyheirlooms #altomadness
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/... #coltrane #jazzrelics #familyheirlooms #altomadness
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
So this is happening…
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/... #coltrane #jazzrelics #familyheirlooms #altomadness
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/... #coltrane #jazzrelics #familyheirlooms #altomadness
From a Lenny Bruce/Steve Allen skit that never made it to air...
August 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
From a Lenny Bruce/Steve Allen skit that never made it to air...
Cti / kudu
This was my dad’s…
This was my dad’s…
August 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Cti / kudu
This was my dad’s…
This was my dad’s…
My son just discovered my dad's review of Dave Brubeck's Time Out. So it's time to talk about consequences....
August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My son just discovered my dad's review of Dave Brubeck's Time Out. So it's time to talk about consequences....
From the local library…. Miles Davis graphic novel. With permission/cooperation from Erin Davis & the estate. 2023…
July 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
From the local library…. Miles Davis graphic novel. With permission/cooperation from Erin Davis & the estate. 2023…
This was the magazine:
May 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This was the magazine:
I designed an article, written by Steven Joerg, about PFI for 50 Miles of Elbow Room half a lifetime ago. This is my pick:
May 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I designed an article, written by Steven Joerg, about PFI for 50 Miles of Elbow Room half a lifetime ago. This is my pick:
WTF JFKjr--nuttier than a snickers bar and far worse for your health...
May 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
WTF JFKjr--nuttier than a snickers bar and far worse for your health...
Props to NYC Subway graffiti’s good taste in saxophonists.
April 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Props to NYC Subway graffiti’s good taste in saxophonists.
Pianist George Shearing and engineer Malcolm Addey, recording for Ira Gitler’s KADX radio show, at Malcolm‘s home studio. 1980s
April 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pianist George Shearing and engineer Malcolm Addey, recording for Ira Gitler’s KADX radio show, at Malcolm‘s home studio. 1980s
Kiyoshi Koyama and Ira Gitler, Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao Japan, 1982.
April 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kiyoshi Koyama and Ira Gitler, Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao Japan, 1982.
Dexter’s wife Maxine was a close friend of my family as well. Her book on Dexter is fantastic (and talks a lot about the movie). I’m even in the movie as an extra, for about five seconds in the New York airport scene. /3
March 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Dexter’s wife Maxine was a close friend of my family as well. Her book on Dexter is fantastic (and talks a lot about the movie). I’m even in the movie as an extra, for about five seconds in the New York airport scene. /3
Chilling with Dexter, late 1970s
March 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Chilling with Dexter, late 1970s
From the archives, here’s my dad in front of a few of his records…
March 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
From the archives, here’s my dad in front of a few of his records…
Me in the national security team group chat…
March 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Me in the national security team group chat…
lol at the biographical omission in the Guardian's coverage of Conan's Mark Twain Prize. Jay who?
March 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
lol at the biographical omission in the Guardian's coverage of Conan's Mark Twain Prize. Jay who?
Facebook, seriously wtf!?
March 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Facebook, seriously wtf!?
Here I am getting a piano lesson from journalist/author/song writer/producer Leonard Feather. Mid ‘70s.
March 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Here I am getting a piano lesson from journalist/author/song writer/producer Leonard Feather. Mid ‘70s.
In what world/way/twisted mind is this patriotic/supporting our troops/OK with current or former military and their families? GOP voters hating DEI as a scapegoat, we see how you got to that F’d up place. But this? —-All to give tax cuts to billionaires…
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In what world/way/twisted mind is this patriotic/supporting our troops/OK with current or former military and their families? GOP voters hating DEI as a scapegoat, we see how you got to that F’d up place. But this? —-All to give tax cuts to billionaires…