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@jazyjef.bsky.social

Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://www.change.org/p/rename-the-williamsburg-bridge-as-the-sonny-rollins-williamsburg-bridge • urban planner • amateur

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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 2d ago

In Zagreb, was kindly invited by a table of Croatians to join their birthday party for dessert. A band was playing for them. Found out the band of Chileans had been traveling Europe busking at the park that day & were hired on the spot to play the bday. Fun night. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, 8.3.19

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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 4d ago

Naná Vasconcelos was born in Recife 🇧🇷 on this day in 1944. A year after Naná death, a 4.5-meter-high sculpture of him was unveiled in Recife’s Marco Zero square, where he had led the opening of the Recife Carnival for over a decade. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, 3.4.23

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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Musicians in NYC rarely have the luxury of practicing at home. Those unwilling to shell out for private rooms are driven, often, outdoors to any sliver of public space that might serve as rehearsal space. Sonny Rollins…famously practiced in the middle of the Williamsburg Bridge” #SonnyRollinsBridge

The Bagpiper’s Endless Quest for a Place to Practice

A tour of New York’s cemeteries, toxic canals and industrial zones where a great Highland bagpipe can drone in peace.

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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Rollins was the last embodiment of jazz’s restless need to evolve. From his earliest bebop recordings to his later embrace of the avant-garde and the Caribbean beat of calypso, few musicians shaped American music more than Rollins. None better exemplified what jazz should be.“ Nate Wooley

Let Everything Change | Nate Wooley

I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...

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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 4d ago

Am grateful to the diggers who’ve helped give a 2nd life to many African records esp. from Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Mali, Kenya, Congo, South Africa & Ethiopia It’s come in waves: 1st the v/a compilations, then single artist comps, & in the last decade esp. more full albums are being reissued

jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 5d ago

“What feels newer, and far less predictable, is the way these three scenes have begun to lock into one another, forming a dense transatlantic circuit that is quietly redrawing the map of jazz. The exchanges are no longer occasional; they are constant, almost structural.”

A New Jazz Order. The New Transatlantic Axis | Oltreoceano

What if the future of jazz is being written between Johannesburg, London, and New York? In his latest article for oltreoceano, Nils Bourdin explores the emergen…

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