Saturday, August 24th
3n
Don Cherry (1936-1995, pocket trumpet), James “Blood” Ulmer (1940-, guitar), Rashied Ali (1933-2009, drums), New York, published 2008
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Category: guitar
2024
Sunday, August 18th
testify!
Pastor Brady L. Blade, Sr. (1930-, Zion Baptist Church, Shreveport, La.) & The Hallelujah Train, with Brian Blade (drums), Greg Leisz (lap steel guitar), Daniel Lanois (guitar), Zion Baptist Church Choir, et al., “Take Me to the Water,” live, Durham, N.C., 2009
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Friday, August 16th
like nobody else
James Blood Ulmer (guitar, vocals) with Amin Ali (bass), Cornell Rochester (drums), live Berlin, 1981
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2024
Sunday, August 4th
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Bishop Perry Tillis (1919-2004, guitar), live, Savior Lord Jesus Pentecostal Church, Samson, Alabama, 1995
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Saturday, July 20th
what’s new
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano, compositions), Chimaera, with Christian Fennesz (guitar, electronics), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Kenny Wollesen (vibraphone, drums), Drew Gress (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), live, Amsterdam, 7/13/24
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2024
Saturday, July 6th
two takes
“Crying” (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson)
Roy Orbison (1936-1988), 1961
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Julian Lage (1987-, guitar), live, Chicago, 2022
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Sunday, June 30th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Today he is being inducted into the MCOTD Hall of Fame, where he joins drummer Hamid Drake (1955-); saxophonists Henry Threadgill (1944-) and Von Freeman (1923-2012); trumpeter Lester Bowie (1941-1999); gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002); composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987); poets John Berryman (1914-1972), William Bronk (1918-1999), and Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012); and photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009).
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Trouble Will Soon Be Over” (1930)
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2024
Sunday, June 2nd
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Pastor J. R. Jones, “This Joy I Have,” live, Baton Rouge (City of David Church of God), 1992
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2024
Sunday, May 19th
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Rev. Dennis “Clay” Jackson (vocals), Rev. Charlie Jackson (guitar), “Lord, You’ve Been Good to Me,” live, Mississippi (Gloster), 1987
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Tuesday, May 14th
like nothing else
Andy Moor (1962-, guitar), Marta Warelis (1986-, piano), live, France (Montreuil), 2023
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