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  1. On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist Alden Hellmuth discusses her new album 'Tether, which revolves around two bass players carving out separate sonic spaces while staying locked to a shared pulse.

    Much of the conversation centers on 'Tether''s compositional method and how a DIY gig at a Non Plus Ultra, plus a steady diet of Deerhoof and the Japanese punk band Otoboke Beaver, influenced her take on jazz. Hellmuth also talks about what it meant to study at the Herbie Hancock Institute under Ambrose Akinmusire and Herbie Hancock himself, and how that mentorship reframed her music-making.

    It's a fun and enlightening episode — be sure to tune in: podcast.thetonearm.com/alden-h

    #jazztodon #saxophone #jazz @jazz

  2. On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist Alden Hellmuth discusses her new album 'Tether, which revolves around two bass players carving out separate sonic spaces while staying locked to a shared pulse.

    Much of the conversation centers on 'Tether''s compositional method and how a DIY gig at a Non Plus Ultra, plus a steady diet of Deerhoof and the Japanese punk band Otoboke Beaver, influenced her take on jazz. Hellmuth also talks about what it meant to study at the Herbie Hancock Institute under Ambrose Akinmusire and Herbie Hancock himself, and how that mentorship reframed her music-making.

    It's a fun and enlightening episode — be sure to tune in: podcast.thetonearm.com/alden-h

    #jazztodon #saxophone #jazz @jazz

  3. In this clip from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, Maria Schneider describes how her longtime orchestra members approach each note with a shared sense of what the music is supposed to feel like—illustrating the point with the moment when saxophonist Donny McCaslin goes somewhere unexpected, and pianist Gary Versace follows him harmonically into outer space.

    Hear the full conversation on the latest episode of The Tonearm Podcast: podcast.thetonearm.com/maria-s

    #Jazztodon #Jazz #Podcast #MariaSchneider

  4. In this clip from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, Maria Schneider describes how her longtime orchestra members approach each note with a shared sense of what the music is supposed to feel like—illustrating the point with the moment when saxophonist Donny McCaslin goes somewhere unexpected, and pianist Gary Versace follows him harmonically into outer space.

    Hear the full conversation on the latest episode of The Tonearm Podcast: podcast.thetonearm.com/maria-s

    #Jazztodon #Jazz #Podcast #MariaSchneider

  5. On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis joins us to discuss 'Fallows', her debut solo album. Davis recorded the twelve-track set entirely alone during an artist residency at Ucross, Wyoming, using prepared saxophone techniques and an Organelle processing unit.

    The conversation covers the making of the album in close detail: aluminum cans dragged across a saxophone bell, hand-built drum sequences assembled through Pure Data patches, and the ancestral figures — Steve Lacy, Geri Allen, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Connie Crothers — whose presence Davis summoned throughout the sessions.

    Don't miss this particularly fascinating episode: podcast.thetonearm.com/carolin

    #Jazztodon #Saxophone #CarolineDavis #ExperimentalMusic #Ucross

  6. On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis joins us to discuss 'Fallows', her debut solo album. Davis recorded the twelve-track set entirely alone during an artist residency at Ucross, Wyoming, using prepared saxophone techniques and an Organelle processing unit.

    The conversation covers the making of the album in close detail: aluminum cans dragged across a saxophone bell, hand-built drum sequences assembled through Pure Data patches, and the ancestral figures — Steve Lacy, Geri Allen, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Connie Crothers — whose presence Davis summoned throughout the sessions.

    Don't miss this particularly fascinating episode: podcast.thetonearm.com/carolin

    #Jazztodon #Saxophone #CarolineDavis #ExperimentalMusic #Ucross

  7. Hey #jazztodon is there any reason for me to *not* go see Immanuel Wilkins at a super intimate venue a ten minute bike ride up the coast this Sunday afternoon? Seems like a no-brainer to me…
    #jazz

  8. Hey #jazztodon is there any reason for me to *not* go see Immanuel Wilkins at a super intimate venue a ten minute bike ride up the coast this Sunday afternoon? Seems like a no-brainer to me…
    #jazz

  9. Hey #jazz pals, Rachel Eckroth's The Garden is a fun, heavy banger. Deep synth, fat bass, stochastic sax, all funky all over the place.

    Somehow it's good for writing memos...

    #jazz #nowPlaying #jazztodon

  10. Realised last night that I'd never listened to #JohnColtrane 's Love Supreme all the way through. I had just watched #Drumeo and their excellent dive into the drums on the album.

    I've corrected that now and yes, it's everything people said it was. open.qobuz.com/album/006025374

    Definitely up there with Miles' Kind of Blue for me.

    #Jazz #Jazztodon #music

  11. Saw an absolutely banging show at our local beachside jazz club tonight! Sarah Hanahan and her quartet brought incredible energy, just blew the roof off the place.

    What started out as a stunning afternoon turned golden when band and audience together went outside during set break to watch #whales splashing around just off the beach. We watched the sunset as we rode our bikes back home down the coastal trail. Just a magical afternoon really.

    Thanks to @digginjazz for introducing me to Sarah Hanahan on his podcast In The Groove: Jazz and Beyond!

    #jazztodon #sunset #beach #jazz

  12. Saw an absolutely banging show at our local beachside jazz club tonight! Sarah Hanahan and her quartet brought incredible energy, just blew the roof off the place.

    What started out as a stunning afternoon turned golden when band and audience together went outside during set break to watch #whales splashing around just off the beach. We watched the sunset as we rode our bikes back home down the coastal trail. Just a magical afternoon really.

    Thanks to @digginjazz for introducing me to Sarah Hanahan on his podcast In The Groove: Jazz and Beyond!

    #jazztodon #sunset #beach #jazz

  13. #TunesOnTuesday shares Bobby Hebb's classic song "Sunny" on a hot summer day in DC. BMI ranked it the number 25 top song of the 20th century. #jazztodon #jazzpiano #solopiano #sunny ohljazz.com/2025/07/15/tunes-o

  14. #TunesOnTuesday shares our rehearsal of "Nothing To Say" for our gig at the Lamond-Riggs library DC (6.26, 6:30 pm, 5401 South Dakota Ave NE, free!). Vicki Golding added a beautiful second verse to my song inspired by writers block. #JazzSky #songwriter #songwriting #washingtondc #jazz #jazztodon #ballad ohljazz.com/2025/06/24/tunes-o

  15. Remarkable finish there by the Pacers! #nba
    Now time to kick back and chill.

    #nowPlaying Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
    #nowdrinking Glenlossie 10 - 2013 Adelphi
    #nowreading Tad Williams - To Green Angel Tower (p2)

    #jazz #jazztodon #scotch #whisky #books #fantasy #bookstodon

  16. #TunesOnTuesday shares a Dave Frishberg tune I'm preparing for my show at Blues Alley in #washingtondc tonight. I'll play "Can't Take You Nowhere" along with a song I wrote in Frishberg's honor after his passing. Lots of other original songs (and a few surprises) in the set! Tickets still available at bluesalley.com #jazztodon #jazzmusic #jazz #jazzpiano #songwriter #songwriting

  17. Today's the day! Find "Grown Up Since Tuesday" on your favorite stream and YouTube! Find the music at bit.ly/grownup-ep And join us at Blues Alley in Washington, DC on May 27 to celebrate the release. #songwriter #songwriting #newmusic #newrelease #jazzmusic #jazzsongs #jazztodon

  18. Does anyone have a really good ear for jazz chord progressions? I'm tearing my hair out trying to work out the forth bar of the intro to the James Taylor version of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire. The song's played in B but the intro starts in C, something like (going mainly from the guitar):

    | Cmaj9 C6add9 | C C11 | A A11 | A . F#dim7 C7 |

    resolving to B for the verse in bar 5. But the cadence doesn't sound quite right. Help me, #jazztodon, you're my only hope.

    youtu.be/dEKFEolkx9Q

  19. "The Susceptible Now, available on Pi Recordings this Friday...The opening track is “Peresina,” a composition by the late pianist and Philadelphia jazz hero McCoy Tyner, originally featured on his 1970 album Expansions."

    Hear a track from Tyshawn Sorey's new album, 'The Susceptible Now' - wrti.org/arts-desk/2024-10-09/

    #jazztodon #mccoytyner #tyshawnsorey

  20. "...it was 1960’s Giant Steps that thoroughly and inexorably changed the saxophonist’s game going forward. With that change in Coltrane came seismic shifts in jazz itself."

    LEAPS AND BOUNDS - Ravi Coltrane on John Coltrane’s evolutionary jump
    on the 1960 masterpiece Giant Steps: magazine.waxpoetics.com/articl

    #johncoltrane #jazztodon #jazz

  21. Let me be the first on #Jazztodon to post that #Kamala evoked the names of #Miles and #Trane in her acceptance speech at the #DNC. #Jazz

  22. Tunes on Tuesday shares "Sunday Night Blues" from our rehearsal for my August 26 show at
    Blues Alley in #washingtondc. Barbara Papendorp will sing the live premiere of the tune. I've been working with her for years and enjoy her talent for bringing out the story in a story song! ohljazz.com/2024/08/20/tunes-o #jazz #jazzmusic #songwriter #songwriting #composer #lyrics #piano #jazzpiano #music #musician #sundayscaries #jazztodon

  23. SUN RA: Door Of the Cosmos by Drew DeNicola — Kickstarter

    "With the invaluable support and collaboration of archival producers, Irwin Chusid and Michael D. Anderson of the SUN RA Estate, we will feature never-before-heard music, poetry and excerpts from SUN RA interviews across the decades."

    They are asking only $75k by July 17, 2024

    #SunRa #alterdestiny #SunRaArkestra #jazztodon

    kickstarter.com/projects/sunra