Pannonica (Thelonious Monk)

I Mean You (Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins)

Ruby My Dear - Jazz Standard

evidence

Cool jazz radio show on www.radio-maestral.hr This edition features various artists from golden era of jazz. Track list:
Joe Pass Quartet - There Will Never Be Another You 5:05
Bob Brookmeyer Quintet - Sometime Ago 4:08
Thelonious Monk - Think Of One 6:05 
Benny Green - Little Ditty 3:58
Blue Concept by Nat Adderley 7:50
Tal Farlow - Night And Day 4:23
Curtis Fuller Sextet - Judyful 9:05
Dave Brubeck - trolley song 3:03
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Along Came Betty 6:12 
Jimmy Giuffre Septet - Nutty Pine 3:15
Lee Konitz Quartet with Warne Marsh - Topsy 5:33
Stan Getz Quartet - Nobody Else But Me 4:49
Miles Davis - Summertime 3:16
Miles Davis Sextet - Fran-Dance 7:16
Zoot Sims - I Cover the Waterfront 4:12
Louis Armstrong - Georgia on My Mind 3:12
Duke Ellington - Rockin' In Rhythm 3:02
COUNT BASIE - GREEN ONIONS 3:56
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen tons

Cool jazz 122 ( 29.5.2025. ) Various artists from golden era of jazz

Round Midnight

The Loneliest Monk

Cool jazz radio show on www.radio-maestral.hr This edition features two albums - Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco: Cool & quiet, Gigi Gryce: Nica’s Tempo . Track list:
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Wow 3:22
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Crosscurrent 2:50
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Yesterdays 2:48
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Marionette 3:06
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Sax of a kind 3:01
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Intuition 2:29
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Digression 3:06
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - The boy next door 2:35
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - A bird in Igor’s yard 2:53
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - This time the dream’s on me
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Bud’s invention 2:39
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Penthouse serenade 3:03
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Extrovert 2:56
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Good for nothin’ joe 2:47
Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco - Aishie 3:00
Gigi Gryce - Speculation (4:03)
Gigi Gryce - In a Meditating Mood (4:22)
Gigi Gryce - Social Call (2:43)
Gigi Gryce - Smoke Signal (3:34)
Gigi Gryce - The one i love 3:29
Gigi Gryce - Kerry dance 3:03
Gigi Gryce - Shuffle Boil (Thelonious Monk) – 4:59
Gigi Gryce - Brake's Sake (Thelonious Monk) – 4:45
Gigi Gryce - Gallop's Gallop (Thelonious Monk) – 5:25
Gigi Gryce - Nica's Tempo – 6:06


Cool jazz 135 ( 28.8.2025. ) Lennie Tristano & Buddy DeFranco: Cool & quiet, Gigi Gryce: Nica’s Tempo

TEXT download pdf is at http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/on-love-and-learning.pdf

BACKGROUND music: VIRIDITAS, a soundpoem for Strings, Harp, & Two Trumpets on Hildegard von BINGEN’S “O noblissima viriditas”
And: from the StarCYCLE DUO “alpha PYXIS” for two piano, the Thelonious MONK movement

IMAGE: Native Balsamroot, flowers first appearing in Spring, the WALLOWAS, OREGON

On Love, Learning and the World-wide Tragedy of Public Schools, 18 miniatures

01 Quatres - 00:00
02 Transition rude - 01:26
03 Aqua 10 - 01:56
04 Double chrome - 03:44
05 Transition yo - 04:50
06 Lol accords 3 - 05:36
07 Large - 06:30

Made in Marseille by Timo Jolivet

Guitar Journal Vol. 003

01 Aqua 3 - 00:00
02 Parallol - 02:14
03 Mobile pair - 03:19
04 Valse - 04:39
05 Doublette - 06:13
06 Triplette - 07:01
07 Petit nuage - 09:00

Made in Marseille by Timo Jolivet

https://jolivet.org/
https://timojolivet.bandcamp.com/

Guitar Journal Vol. 004

Off-Minor

01 Minor thing - 00:00
02 Double tap - 01:42
03 Level 77 - 03:32
04 Longitude - 04:49
05 Tertio - 07:52
06 Pullulation - 09:20
07 Lol accords 4 - 10:12
08 Sponge meteorite - 10:52
09 Superpose - 13:13

Made in Marseille by Timo Jolivet

https://jolivet.org/
https://timojolivet.bandcamp.com/

Guitar Journal Vol. 005

Bemsha Swing by Thelonious Monk with lyrics by yours truly performed by The Sarah McDonald Quintet at The Cool Room at The Northern Arts Hotel in Castlemaine featuring Kumar Shome on guitar, Ron Romero on sax, Luke Andresen on drums, James Lockwood on bass, Sarah McDonald on voice.

Bemsha Swing live at The Coolroom 5th of Oct 2024

"Sarah McDonald effortlessly segues from applying a dash of tropical swelter to thirties standards, tinkering with Thelonius Monk torch songs to a soul jazz rendition of an Amy Winehouse classic." 

Joel Shortman, Rathdowne Records.

"..deceptively laid back and self-assured, with an undercurrent of emotions waiting to sweep you by. When she sings “Rusted brandy in a diamond glass”, it’s the rust she focuses on, not the diamond. Tom Waits would approve...

..There’s a lot of nostalgic glamour associated with the ’20s and ’30’s era. Singers who choose to sing this material often end up as replicas of the sultry divas of the past, dressing up in satin gowns and pearls and stale femininity. Not Sarah McDonald. She approaches her material with a tomboyish attitude, phrasing the classic jazz and obscure torch songs that comprise her set list with a punk sensitivity and a kind of modern-day angst delivered by this beautiful, soulful chili-infused chocolate voice of hers. When she opens her mouth, she showers her audience with raw emotion. No pretense, no polished femininity, no nonsense. It helps that she’s sexy as hell when she does it; and that she’s surrounded by a killer band: Ron Romero on tenor sax, Kumar Shome on guitar, Ben Hanlon on the bass and Lewis Pierre-Humbert on the drums. As these musicians spew fire from their instruments, people get up and dance to her singing, even if she sings Monk’s “I mean you” (not the most danceable song out there)."

Nikos Fotakis, australianjazz.net

Sarah McDonald evokes cool smoky jazz club atmosphere with expressive melifluous phrasing contrasting with rhythmic dexterity.  She is a singer who has been as influenced by horn players and drummers as she has by the great vocalists. Having delved deeply into music, she draws from the greats of the history of jazz, blues and soul and selects choice standards, along with original, contemporary and more esoteric repertoire that she infuses with a soulful authenticity.

She has had a wealth of experience performing original music in various guises, playing in a range of contemporary original bands, world music ensembles and playing music for circus, theatre and film.

She also plays flute and sings in Tarab Ensemble, playing classical Arabic music:

https://www.facebook.com/thisistarab/


For bookings contact: iiiiilk.type.kind@gmail.com

Alex Abramovitz is a Kansas City band leader who specializes in the Kansas City Jazz sound created and made famous by the likes of Count Basie, Jay McShann, Mary Lou Williams, among others.

Alex established his first band in 2008, as a duo.  In 2013, Alex began a residency at The Phoenix, a Kansas City jazz club, hosting the Saturday Jazz Brunch for nine years.  The band then continued their partnership with The Phoenix through 2024, creating "The Swing Shift".  In January 2025, Alex and his bandmates move "The Swing Shift" over to Black Dolphin, Kansas City's premiere establishment for jazz and entertainment.  Alex Abramovitz and His Swing'n Kansas City Jazz Band has also served as the house band for The Kansas City Monarchs Baseball Club of the American Association, and has partnered with Worlds of Fun, Big Slick, and the Harry S. Truman Library Institute.

Throughout the years, Alex and his band have entertained many celebrities, movies stars, comedians, athletes, and musicians such as Paul Rudd, Jason Sudekis, The Impractical Jokers, Kevin Pollak, Will Forte, Patrick Mahomes, Jason Kelce, Travis Kelce, Johnny Knoxville, Adam Ray, George Wendt, Weird Al Yankovich, Rob Riggle, Eric Stonestreet, and metal drummer Richard Christy, who has sat in with the band on several occasions.

The band has recorded three albums, "Scamps Alley" (2013), "Ripe off the Vine!" (2014), and "Fountain City Jive" (2019).  The band plans on recording another album to be released early in 2026 which will feature live performances of the band's original material.

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

multi-instrumentalist located in New Orleans, LA
focused on keyboards, saxophones, and harpejji

At the intersect of classical and digital music, leveraging the traditions of Western music through the lens of new technology, speaking to the human heart. For musings, more music and technology see http://scarlile.org/
Find Simon’s music also on

A 2025 City of Chicago Individual Artists Program awardee, Brian Citro’s been playing and writing music on the guitar for 30 years. He studied with Fareed Haque and is a longtime member of The Drastics. He’s performed and toured with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub!, Ackah Blay in Ghana, and many others. Brian’s jazz quartet features Nick Mazzarella, Quin Kirchner, and Matt Ulery, and he co-leads The Hey Lows with multi-instrumentalist Lance Loiselle. Other projects include short video works with award-winning poet (and his uncle) Christopher Citro. Brian is also a human rights lawyer. He’s lived, worked, and played music in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

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