"Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. His compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources. and field recordings. His debut album released on the UK based Somehow Recordings in January 2012. Some of Shallow is taken directly from the fens and streams, some from the sky and rain, and some from soft breezes in the trees (as in White (Shiroimori) Forest),"
This recording from a live stage performance in 1971. The record only included one track -- Africa, released as a bootleg -- while the actual set list included: Journey in Satchidananda - Shiva-Loka - Africa - Leo. The captivating performance, held four years after John Coltrane’s untimely passing and recorded by Impulse! for eventual release, marks Alice’s first performance as a leader at Carnegie Hall. The concert arrived at a pivotal moment in both Coltrane’s career and her spiritual journey: she had just released her fourth solo album, Journey in Satchidananda, and had deepened her spiritual quest over a five-week trip to India. Clifford Jarvis was on the date. Jarvis & Patty Waters were a thing...had a baby together. Also, bass – Cecil McBee, Jimmy Garrison; Drums – Ed Blackwell; Harmonium – Kumar Kramer; Piano, Harp – Alice Coltrane; Tambora – Tulsi; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Percussion – Pharoah Sanders; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Percussion – Archie Shepp
"Here, Waters joins the ranks of those covering this tune from Porgy & Bess. Settling in Manhattan in 1964, Waters (b: 1946 in Iowa) spent her days waitressing on Wall Street; by night she haunted the jazz clubs. She was especially drawn to the freer players: Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk. Sometimes, _late at night,_ she transcended her bruised confidence and sat in with Ben Webster or Chick Corea or Bill Evans. Keith Jarrett invited her to his home. _I sang at parties too,_ she says-parties she went to by herself. _I was a loner. I was very quiet._ Soon she became lovers with Clifford Jarvis, the black drummer who toured with Sun Ra. But he was often gone, and the interracial affair brought trouble. _My parents disowned me,_ she says. _They said I'd never loved them, I was never capable of love, that I would be poison to the family and not to come home._ Albert Ayler, the saxophonist whose ferocious honking defined free jazz, heard Waters in a club one night. Fascinated, he introduced her to his record producer, Bernard Stollman...In Ayler's apartment, Waters played and sang for him. A week before Christmas of 1965, she was in the studio, recording this album... Waters tied Betty Carter for second place in the 1967 International Critics' Poll. THen, with some momentum building, Waters disappeared. Using her small savings, she spent months vacationing in a string of cities throughout Europe. Singing there didn't seem to cross her mind, even though she saw her albums in shops. Once home in New York, she resumed her job as ticket-taker at an East Village movie house. Her nearby apartment was _like a closet,_ jazztimes.com 2004 Click link for full artice: Patty Waters, Priestess of the Avant Garde"
"From his bandcamp page: I'm a singer-songwriter, studio engineer/producer in Denver, Colorado. I'm also part of the LongPlaya collective, including the bands Warkitten and The Colorado."
Oliver Nelson – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone..... Eric Dolphy – flute, alto saxophone..... George Barrow – baritone saxophone.... Freddie Hubbard – trumpet.... Bill Evans – piano..... Paul Chambers – bass.... Roy Haynes – drums.
"Back up singers: Brenda Bryant, Margaret Branch, Patricia Smith. Full band listing, click link. Flack recorded & released this song on her 1969 debut album, First Take, which popularized it. "
Time:
4:36
Artist:
Telstar Ponies ["Patty Waters, Sally Wood, Leonard Thompson & Sean McCain"]
Introducing the piece as a poem “having to do with the two kinds of women that there are: older ones, and younger ones,_ Judy Grahn concludes her reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art on October 2, 1974, with “A Plainsong from an Older Woman to a Younger Woman,_ a poem that focuses on _feminine rhymes,_ before leaving the stage.
"Ronald Earsall DeVaughn; April 30, 1947 – August 10, 2022) was an American cellist known for his work in jazz and classical settings. Jazz musician and fellow composer Tomeka Reid hailed Abdul Wadud's _Camille_ (from this album) in a 2020 feature in the New York Times on music that one could play to make friends fall in love with the cello -- wiki His improvisory collaborations with Julius Hemphill & with James Newton are worth seeking out."
"No information is available, other than it appears to come from Rwanda. My guess is that Apolliinaire is the harp player. Taken from Youtube clip (Murage Mwiza)"
"In 1969, Waters-whose vocal hysteria belies her almost pathological shyness-fled a fragmentary career in New York to settle in northern California. There she raised a son fathered by drummer Clifford Jarvis, who had deserted them. According to a 2004 interview (see link) her albums, reissued worldwide, have earned her, to date, a total of $350. Since the release of the second, she has hardly sung at all. More detail in the playlist above,"
"Picked this out of Linda's mix from Friday night 6-7p Mindblown. Allen (b: 1951) is a Canadian dub poet & reggae artist. She was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica (as was Grace Jones and Prince Far I), and moved to NYC in 1969 before eventually settling in Canada. THere is a TV series released in 2006 (Heart of a Poet) based on Allen's life. "
"Kash Killion is a San Francisco based cellist, bassist, sarangist, vocalist, and composer, who began his professional music career at age ten. Kash is a visionary musician who stretches the boundaries of what one would expect from string instruments. Kash's interest in avantgarde jazz was ignited by Sun Ra in 1978 and further heightened by playing with Pharoah Sanders. In LA, Kash has played bass as his primary instrument, but became more interested in cello when he moved to the Bay area in 1987, he switched almost entirely to cello, because of the freedom to use it in roles as diverse as a horn, or a guitar or a bass. Click link and scroll down page for fuller bio"
Schumann was a virtoistic pianist and one of the great Romantic composers of his time… born in Germany in 1810. Tragic life... he suffered from a mental disorder that first manifested in 1833 as a severe melancholic depressive episode—which recurred several times alternating with phases of _exaltation_ and increasingly also delusional ideas of being poisoned or threatened with metallic items. What is now thought to have been a combination of bipolar disorder and perhaps mercury poisoning led to _manic_ and _depressive_ periods in Schumann's compositional productivity. After a suicide attempt in 1854, Schumann was admitted at his own request to a mental asylum in Endenich (now in Bonn). Diagnosed with psychotic melancholia, he died of pneumonia two years later at the age of 46, without recovering from his mental illness. Click link for bio no Olafsson (b: 1984), a rising star in the world of classical pianists
After his father’s death, Harnetty inherited his tools, radios, speakers, a typewriter, and a workbench. Harnetty began to think of the objects as conduits between past and present, living and dead. He began to ask: are there sonic traces of a person embedded in these collected, repaired, and loved objects? And do the objects have their own agency, which we can activate and listen to? The Workbench was commissioned by The Johnstone Fund for New Music, for the Unheard-Of Ensemble. It was also supported with a Funds for Artists Award from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. - bandcamp
"Williams suffered a stroke in 2020 and has been on a path to recovery. Unable to play her guitar, she's worked out inventive collaborations and intends to record a new album, which will be really interesting to hear. See link for a short list of albums turning 50 years old this year, includine Browne's Late for the Sky."
