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Enjoying Norah Jones's Come Away With Me with an Allagash Coolship Red.
#norah jones#come away with me#jazz vocalist#blue note records#marantz#vinyl and beer#vinyl records#vinyl#records#music#vinyl collection#vinyl community#vintage stereo#allagash#beer#sour beer#coolship red#marantz 2245
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Saturday morning with Grant Green.
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Saxophonist Casey Benjamin Dies at 45
- “I’m forever honored to have shared the stage and my life with him,” Robert Glasper says
Saxophonist and multi-instrumentalst Casey Benjamin, best known for his work with the Robert Glasper Experiment, has died.
Benjamin was 45 and was recovering from surgery when he died March 30, his family said.
“We are still gathering all the facts,” Benjamin’s family said. “We have been deeply touched by the outpouring of love and support from family, friends and Casey’s esteemed music community. Casey stayed true to the art of his music, and the energy of his spirit will live on in eternity.”
Benjamin was “one of the most gifted and talented beings ever,” Glasper told radio station WRTI.
“There is no Robert Glasper Experiment without him,” Glasper said. “The world lost a giant and I lost a brother. I’m forever honored to have shared the stage and my life with him.”
Glasper’s label, Blue Note Records, eulogized Benjamin as “a beautiful soul and singular musician” who was “integral” to the Experiment’s sound. Butcher Brown, meanwhile, called the late musician “one of the greatest of our time.
“Thank you for all of the inspiration, King,” the band wrote on social media.
Benjamin’s session and touring work - on sax, flute and electronics - included gigs with Blackout, Q Tip, Solange and Pusha T, among others.
“Rest in power, Casey Benjamin,” Jeff Coffin of Dave Matthews Band said. “You will be deeply missed, brother.“
4/2/24
#casey benjamin#robert glasper#the robert glasper experiment#blue note records#butcher brown#jeff coffin#dave matthews band#blackout#q tip#pusha t#solange
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Michael Cuscuna, photograph by Jimmy Katz
Michael Cuscuna
Michael Cuscuna, one of my great inspirations and sometime collaborator, passed away this weekend (April 19, 2024) from cancer. Being a cancer survivor last year myself, when someone I’ve known and worked with for over 50 years it hit particularly hard.
Blue Cuscuna: 1999 promotional sampler from Toshiba-EMI [Japan]
Michael has been the most consequential jazz record producer of the past half century, a man who had not only a passion, but the relentlessness necessary to will the entire history of the music into being. Don’t believe it? Check out the more than 2600 (!) of his credits on Discogs. Substantial and meaningful he might have been, but to me, he was a slightly older friend who was always there with a helping hand. Hopefully, I was able to hand something back on occasion.
As I said when he answered “7 Questions” eight years ago: “I first encountered Michael as a college listener to his “freeform,” major station, radio show in New York, and was fanboy’d out when a mutual friend introduced us at [an] open rehearsal for [Carla Bley’s and Michael Mantler’s] Jazz Composer’s Orchestra at The Public Theater (MC has a photographic memory: “It was Roswell [Rudd]’s piece or Grachan [Moncur III]’s. You were darting nervously around the chairs with your uniform of the time – denim jean jacket, forgettable shirt and jeans.”) By 1972 or 73, he’d joined Atlantic Records as a producer, and since that was my career aspiration, I’d give him a call every once in awhile. He’d patiently always make time for my rambling and inane questions, and I never forgot his kindness to a drifting, unfocused, fellow traveler.
“...patiently always make time for my rambling and inane questions...” says a lot about Michael. His raspy voice could sometimes seem brusque, but ask anyone and they will tell you that he always made time to talk. Especially about jazz.
I desperately wanted to be a record producer and Michael was one of the first professionals I encountered. He had already produced my favorite Bonnie Raitt LP when somehow or other I bullied my way into his Atlantic Records office, where he was a mentee of the legendary Joel Dorn. Over the next few years, Michael was often amused at some of the creative decisions I made, but he was always supportive and even would sometimes ask me to make a gig when he couldn’t. When I spent a year living in LA, he invited me over to the studio while he was mining the history of Blue Note Records that would define his life for the next half century. I completely failed to understand what the great service to American culture he was about to unleash. Along with Blue Note executive Charlie Lourie, Michael’s research resulted in a series of double albums (”two-fers” in 70s speak), but little did the world know what was on Michael’s and Charlie’s minds.
The Cuscuna/Lourie Blue Note “Two-Fers” that ignited Mosaic Records
“I don’t think it’s generally understood just how imperiled the musical and visual archives of Blue Note Records were at one point, and just how heroically Michael stepped in to make sure this unparalleled American music survived for future generations. If you like jazz, you owe the man.” –Evan Haga
(Joe Maita does a great interview about Michael's career here.)
Fast forward a few years. The air went out of my record producing tires, I became the first creative director of MTV, I quit MTV and along with my partner Alan Goodman started the world’s first media “branding” agency. Leafing through DownBeat one day I saw an ad that started a new relationship with Michael that would last, on one level or another, for the rest of his life: the “mail order” jazz reissue label Mosaic Records.
Charlie Lourie & Michael Cuscuna at Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, Japan 1987. Photograph by Gary Vercelli / CapRadio Music
Long story short, in 1982 Michael returned my check for the first two Mosaic releases with a note asking for some help. Initially, Mosaic wasn’t the sure fire, instant success Michael and Charlie had hoped for, did I have any ideas? I did, but no time to do anything other than make suggestions, we were busy trying to get our own shop off the ground. This cycle repeated itself for another couple of years when this time when Michael called he said Mosaic was on death’s door. Fred/Alan was in better shape, so Alan and I, on our summer vacation, came up with the first Mosaic “brochure,” convinced the guys we knew what we were doing (I’d read a few paragraphs in a direct mail book in a bookstore) and, with nothing to lose, Charlie and Michael took the plunge with us. Success! 42 years later, the former Fred/Alan and Frederator CFO at the helm, Alan and I always answer any call from Mosaic.
The first Mosaic Record box set 1983
There aren’t many people in the world like Michael Cuscuna. The world’s culture will miss him. I will miss him. Most of all, of course, his wife and children will miss him.
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FredFilms ♥️ Horace Silver!
FredFilms Postcards Series 4.6
It’s almost impossible to sum up the 60+ years of Horace Silver’s professional life as a pianist, band leader and composer in a blog post. Suffice it to say that he walked the line of being a sophisticated, acclaimed musician, while at the same time releasing a whole bunch of accessible and popular records, primarily on the BlueNote record label.
(For you yacht rockers, you should compare Steely Dan’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” from 1974 with Horace’s 1964 classic “Song for My Father.”)
“Great Artist” indeed!
PS: And let’s not forget the ‘great artist’ who shot this photography (and another in our series), Blue Note Records co-founder and photographer, Francis Wolff.
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From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
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to receive this limited edition
FredFilms postcard!
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FredFilms Great Artist Series
Horace Silver
"The Jody Grind"
Recording Session
November 2, 1966
@Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Photograph by
Francis Wolff
Series 4.6 [mailed out November 22, 2023]
#FredFilms postcards#Series 4#Horace Silver#Great Artist Series#postcard#jazz#piano#Blue Note Records#postcards#Francis Wolff#photography
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Grant Green — Nigeria
#grant green#nigeria#sonny clark#sam jones#art blakey#jazz#music#blue note#blue note records#classic#cool
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This one stays on my mind
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Hank Mobley, Art Blakey and Bobby Timmons.
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#AlbumPick - Black Radio
Black Radio, the title of the Robert Glasper Experiment's proper Blue Note debut, is a double signifier.
#Gentlemans Code#album pick#Robert Glasper#Black radio#blue note records#jazz music#r&b/hip hop#neo-soul#album#collaboration#erykah badu#musiq soulchild#lalah hathaway
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This Miles Davis record is probably the one I've spun most in 2023 so far?
Anyway I'm blogging from my laptop again. It feels very 2009. Hope you all are well.
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ENTER THE BLUE
Hey everyone! Just wanted to talk about my newest graphic novel ENTER THE BLUE. You can get this one directly from the publisher Z2 Comics RIGHT NOW--it will be available in comic shops and bookstores super duper soon. This one was commissioned by Blue Note Records and is a beautiful, inspiring read that is YA appropriate.
Maybe you've read it already??? If not, take a chance on it!
#graphic novel#comic art#jazz music#blue note records#artists on tumblr#independent artist#music and comics
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News/Announcements: 12th Annual Blue Note Festival Lineup
News/Announcements: 12th Annual Blue Note Festival Lineup
@BlueNoteNYC @bluenoterecords @SonyHall @BeaconTheatre @TownHallNYC @SummerStage @BRICcelebrateBK @ManhattanCenter @SACKSCO
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Since its founding back in 1981, the Blue Note Jazz Club is recognized as being one of the premiere venues in the world. The club strives to preserve the history of jazz while simultaneously encouraging and practicing innovation on a nightly basis. In addition to iconic appearances from the likes of Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, John Scofield, Ron Carter, Chris Botti, Joe Lovano…
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#BJ The Chicago Kid#Blue Note Jazz Club#Blue Note Records#Blue Note Travel#BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Prospect Park Bandshell#Buddy Guy#Central Park Summerstage#funk#Hammerstein Ballroom#hip hop#jazz#music festivals#neo soul#News/Announcements#NxWorries#Pat Metheny#Robert Glasper#Sony Hall#soul music#Summer Festivals#The Blue Note Jazz Festival#The Town Hall
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