"Larry Appelbaum interviews composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill (b: 1944) about his musical upbringing in Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the story of his life-changing experience in Vietnam, his groups Air and Zooid, and his approach to composition and improvisation. - loc.gov (link to full interview)"
Muhal (1930-2017) aka Richard Lewis Abrams is cited by Threadgill in his autobiography, _Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music_ They're both Chicagoans, Muhal 14 years senior so paved the way. Abrams was a pianist, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, educator and administrator. He co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago. He adopted the forename Muhal in 1967 (discogs). Piano, Voice, Synthesizer – Muhal Richard Abrams; Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Voice [Right Channel] – Henry Threadgill; Bass, Voice – Leonard Jones; Piano, Voice, Synthesizer – Muhal Richard Abrams; Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet, Voice [Left Channel] – Anthony Braxton. Recorded in November-December 1977 at Generation Sound Studios, New York City.
"Coqui are considered an invasive species in HI. Wiki> ...an unofficial national symbol of Puerto Rico; there is a Puerto Rican expression that goes, _Soy de aqu, como el coqui_, which translates to _I'm from here, like the coqui_. They're pervasive now on the Big Island, where I recorded them from my bed on my family's open air lanai. I find their calls to be soothing. "
"Lots of poetry been written about The Duke, but not many know he wrote some of his own. According to discogs, this album uis from informal studio sessions of various small and big band configurations, recorded in New York City, 1969 - 1971"
"Wiki say: Spacemen 3 were an English rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire, by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, known respectively under their pseudonyms Sonic Boom and J Spaceman. Their music is known for its brand of _trance-like neo-psychedelia_ consisting of heavily distorted guitar, synthesizers, and minimal chord or tempo changes. This album was distributed in the United States on Bomp! Records, the label of Greg Shaw, who paid $10,000 for the rights. Spacemen 3 were popular in America and a prospective US tour organized by Shaw was planned to start in September 1989. A dispute arose with their manager Gerald Palmer, and the tour didnt happen. "
Some years ago Rawa Muñoz, singer and artist from Shipibo-Conibo community of the Amazonas region of Ucayali and Berlin based electronic musician Andi Teichmann met in Lima, Peru, for a spontaneous recording session. The recorded song “Sinkitanan non kaya itan shinan bensho anon akanwe” is an icaro. It can be translated as _We unite to heal our souls”. The icaro is part of an ancient tradition that the Amazonian Shipibo Konibo communities use in the ceremonies, as part of a healing ritual. This song is a sacred vibration, a song that carries a message of love that unites, cheers and heals our bodies and souls. Rawa is singing, Andi is using the signal of his voice to create electronic sound-spheres around it. It has been recorded as a catch of the moment in a single live-take. They decided to share the song as a gift, and at a particular moment in time, when the world was suffering under the COVID-19 pandemic. Any income derived from it goes to the Shipido-Conibo via the Community Asociación Civil Despensa Amazónica to buy medical aid. - Youtube. Click link for bandcamp to explore more.
From Müzik Ve Sa_lık Serisi (Music And Health Series) with Dombra, Ya_ar Güvenç; Ney, Rebab, Oud [Kopuz], Oruç Güven. TUMATA was founded in 1976 by Asst. Prof. Dr. Rahmi Oruç Güvenç, to research and promote, the birth and development of Turkish music, its repertory and its richness in instruments. - discogs
"aka Anja Plaschg Austrian, born 5 April 1990). This album compilation presents 17 different rather unusual interpretations of the music of Franz Schubert. " Link for more on her.
Tétreault (1957) is an internationally-renowned Montreal DJ and improviser, originally came from the milieu of the visual arts. He has abandoned the musical citation that he had been using in his work since he began in 1985 and now explores the intrinsic qualities of the turntable: the sound of the motor, of interference, and so on. He also uses needles, prepared surfaces (with thanks to John Cage), and small electronic instruments. - discogs
Composed By, Bass – Sirone; Composed By, Violin, Kalimba, Voice – Leroy Jenkins; Composed By, Xylophone [Balaphone], [Chiramiya], Drums – Jerome Cooper. _The Revolutionary Ensemble. What can I say? Rare performances (among the last) by an underappreciated group that just couldn't get work. These two nights were the only times I saw them. I did do a photo shoot of Jerome Cooper a year later at his practice space in the meat packing district, and I saw him with Roscoe Mitchell at the Wildflowers set; but I don't recall seeing any of these guys again. Certainly not as a unit. Just for flavor, during the quiet moments--especially Leroy's solos--you can hear the cash register at the Tin Palace going ca-ching. I miss that sound! The Palace is now a vacant, ugly mess, haunted by the ghosts of great musicians. R.I.P. Mr Jenkins and Sirone._ - Youtube commentary by ??
"Debussy (18662-1918) wrote just one string quartet, with this movement designated as _quite lively and well-paced_. He was 31 years old. According to wiki, he'd planned to write 2, but completed just this one. "
aka Jonathan Acosta, one account says he was born in Dayton, OH, another Memphis TN, and reportedly now lives in Perpignan, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, France. _Porch Songs_ is his latest release (click link)
More from Larry Appelbaum's interviews for the Library of Congress (see above). Click link for more on Threadgill's military tranfer out from the relative safety the Army concert band into the killing fields of Vietnam for taking creative license with a patriotic song.
"According to Ellington, the song was born in Durham, North Carolina. _We had played a big dance in a tobacco warehouse, and afterwards a friend of mine, an executive in the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, threw a party for Amy. I was playing piano when another one of our friends had some trouble with two chicks. To pacify them, I composed this there and then, with one chick standing on each side of the piano._ - wiki"
The 31 selections on this two-disc set range from 1961 to 1976 and cover Rahsaan Roland Kirk originals, covers, straight jazz, pop/soul, gospel-backed and hard bop workouts, and feature both live and studio segments. - Allmusic.com
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (March 24, 1936 – November 9, 2013)[3] was an American free jazz tenor saxophonist born in Clarkesville, Arkansas but raised in Chicago. Another contemporary (elder) of Henry Threadgill and mentioned frequently in his recent autobiography _Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music_ After his 1981 live album, McIntyre recorded very little, playing on the streets and in the subways of New York. He died in the Bronx at age 77.
"A classic recording from 1939, recorded by John Lomax at the Arkansas State Prison in Gould, Arkansas. The singers are Kelly Pace with a handful of his fellow inmates. Considering the date of the recording, it was of course cut direct to disc which had a limited about of space available You can hear where they turned over the disc to continue the record as the fellows counted down from twelve to one and _Born in Bethlehem._ - Yotube. There's a version sung by the Spelman College Glee Club. So beautiful. Click link"
Features Sam Shepherd on keyboards, Guinia (according to discogs) was born in 1951 in the city Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. He is the second son of the master of Gnawa music, Maâllem Boubker Guinia (1927–2000) and the famous clairvoyant and _moqaddema_ A'isha Qabral. His brothers Mokhtar Guinia and Abdellah Guinia are gnawa Maâllems too, and their sister Zaida is another moqqaddema. He died in 2015.
"Very big storm surges throughout my visit to HI. I wasn't able to get into the ocean very much. In Kona, one good day I had a swim out into the Bay with 3 other women. It's the Iron Man course and, with a snorkle mask, you can watch beautiful fish (sometimes dophins) going out and back. Most of the time, the beaches were closed. Likewise in Kalaupapa, where my bed (inside a structure!) was 40 yards from the shoreline. Crashing all night long! And in Honolulu for a couple nights on my return, I ventured down to a beach crowded with family BBQs to see about getting in one more time before heading to the land of ice and salt (aka Boston). Signs said _no swimming_ but the children were navigating the sets, so I tried to follow their lead. They're experienced (and trained, no doubt), and I am not. Got knocked down and pounded pretty hard, but not before having last dive under a wave before I pulled myself out. See link to get a look at the _Hypothetical Hurricanes_ website. "
Earth Room is the self-titled debut of a new band making music in the spirit of electric-era Miles Davis, classic German space rock, and the “fourth world” studio experiments of Jon Hassell. The band is composed of three veterans of adventurous music in NYC: Robbie Lee on woodwinds and electronics, John Thayer on percussion and synthesizers, and Ezra Feinberg on acoustic and electric guitars. In early 2019 Ezra was asked to play a two hour set for a night called “Planetarium” at the Bushwick club Nowadays, where, instead of dancing, one Thursday each month people came to lie on beanbags.-midheaven.com (see link for more)
