jasonisaacdrums

jasonisaacdrums, 3 days ago to nyc

Just walked by a swarm of bees hanging out on a tree, which is not a sentence I have ever said before in New York City.

#NYC #bees

jasonisaacdrums, 6 days ago to random

On my way home from a friend's 50th birthday party, and I gotta say us Gen X folks are really aging well. ☺️

jasonisaacdrums, 10 days ago to random

A friend and fellow drummer just showed up to my practice studio with a case full of new cymbals from the company she endorses and I'm super jealous.

jasonisaacdrums, 14 days ago to random

RIP Duane Eddy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68940716

jasonisaacdrums, 24 days ago to jazz

Today is the 102nd birthday of Charles Mingus, a huge inspiration and IMO one of the greatest of all American composers. I think of him almost every day when I walk by his former residence, which coincidentally is right across the street from the old Time Cafe where the Mingus Big Band played his music weekly for several years.

#jazz #mingus

jasonisaacdrums, 25 days ago to drums

Doing a little late night recording for an upcoming project from an old friend. I'm using the house kit at work - Slingerland drums and Zildjian K cymbals. My favorite fringe benefit of the job. Membership has its privileges.

#drums

jasonisaacdrums, 1 month ago to nyc

Never seen this before: on an uptown A train, two showtime dancers get on the train right in front of me. Before they can start their routine, two other guys at the other end of the car start shouting "showtime!" and cranking their music. The guys near me look at each other and roll their eyes. One of them watches the other guys and critiques their performance, while the other one states straight ahead with a blank expression all the way to 125th Street.

#nyc

jasonisaacdrums, 1 month ago to NewOrleans

Offbeat Magazine published a wonderful obituary of John Sinclair with an emphasis on his New Orleans years.

https://www.offbeat.com/news/john-sinclair-1941-2024/

I will be presenting an hour-long tribute to John on my Crescent City Connection show this weekend, focusing on his jazz and blues inspired spoken word performances with his band the Blues Scholars. Catch it live on Saturday, 10am eastern on @WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Radio stream.

#JohnSinclair #WFMU #NewOrleans

jasonisaacdrums, 1 month ago to random

RIP John Sinclair - manager of the MC5, founder of the White Panthers, marijuana activist, poet, author, spoken word performer, record producer and one hell of a radio DJ. I worked with him briefly at WWOZ and he was one of the most remarkable people I've ever met.

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/04/02/john-sinclair-detroit-poet-cannabis-activist-and-counterculture-icon-dead-at-82/73179306007/

#JohnSinclair #Heads

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to random

I am making final preparations for what is likely to be the craziest weekend of my entire life as a musician. Three gigs in 24 hours, all with Dark Streets playing Pogues music for St. Patrick's Day.

Tonight at Paddy Reilly's, 10pm to 2am
Tomorrow afternoon on the Ferrytale of New York Booze Cruise, 12 to 4pm
Tomorrow night at Mama Tried in Brooklyn, 6pm to 9pm

Wish me luck, and if you're in NYC please join us! The band is really sounding great. Tickets for the cruise are still available.

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to random

I'm playing at Freddy's in Brooklyn today with Sarah Mucho on vocals and Elliott Roth on piano. Sarah calls it the End Times Cabaret, and we'll be playing chilled out versions of songs people know and love. A perfect soundtrack from some late afternoon beers, if you ask me. 5 to 8pm at Freddy's Bar in Park Slope.

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to jazz

NP: Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble (1974)
Perfect jazz for a stormy NYC night. Roy played so beautifully with Bird and Dizzy and Sonny in the '40s and still sounded completely current and hip throughout the '70s, embracing fusion, avant garde and spiritual jazz like he was born into it. Great band with George Adams and a young Hannibal Marvin Peterson in the front line.

@vinylrecords

#jazz #vinyl

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to vinyl

I'm finally listening to Clifton Chenier Live At Tipitina's, many weeks after it was delivered from the Tipitina's Record Club. Some great blues and zydeco on here, sourced from a soundboard recording on an old cassette from 1980. Tight band was playing straight fire. C.J. Chenier sounding good on alto sax (I didn't know he played sax!) but Sonny Landreth steals the show on guitar in his only recording with Chenier's band.

@vinylrecords

#blues #zydeco #vinyl

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to jazz

A Japanese style jazz kissa (listening cafe) opened in Brooklyn this week! Kissa Kissa has a collection of 4,000 jazz records and what looks like a super hi-fi system and great cocktails.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vinyl_Jazz/comments/1b3gsbt/i_opened_a_vinyl_jazz_kissa_in_brooklyn/

I'm not in Crown Heights too often but I will make a special trip to check this out.

cc: @vinylrecords

#jazz #NYC #Brooklyn #vinyl

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to random

Via a reddit post, I just discovered a site called Life On The Road, which is a deep dive into every live recording of Frank Zappa (currently through 1977).

https://zappalifeontheroad.com/

Like many of you, I have been missing the old web, full of niche sites built out slowly by one or two experts on some nerdy topic. This Zappa site reminds me of what we used to find online back in the late '90s (albeit with a modern look).

#zappa

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to nyc

In hyperlocal halal food news, Mamoun's recently raised their prices by 50 cents per item. A falafel sandwich is now $6.50 - still the best deal in town (in my opinion).

Meanwhile, I think the Rafiqi's halal truck near my office also raised prices, with most platters now being $9.75.

#nyc

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to random

I'm gonna say this once and anyone in my TL who cares can just remember it later this year

I'm a hyperpolitical radical leftist fully engaged with electoral politics on every level down to the most local. I just don't talk about it here much. I'm going to keep not talking about it here, and I'm going to mute/filter a lot of political/election related terms. This is not a sign of disengagement. I simply think all social media platforms, including this one I'm quite fond of, suck at politics.

jasonisaacdrums, 2 months ago to random

The Mississippi John Hurt Museum in Avalon, MS was burned down early this morning in an apparent act of arson. (Via the Facebook page of the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation)

https://www.facebook.com/johnhurtfoundation/posts/pfbid0Hi7WsCjyfPJpmTtyBwLWxPLuT8kHZLiPg5x8EvFZoRYkgidd4LJQFCaPPKWMbAgfl

#blues

jasonisaacdrums, 3 months ago to random

On the next Crescent City Connection, we're takin' it to the streets on the last weekend before Mardi Gras with the music of the Mardi Gras Indians. It's an hour of funk and feathers, Saturday morning at 10 eastern on Rock'n'Soul Radio from @WFMU. Two way pocky way!

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136736

mrcompletely, 3 months ago to jazz

Alice Coltrane - Shiva-Loka
(live, Carnegie Hall, 1971)

Preview track from an upcoming live release of this show! Preorder links on the YT page

#jazz #spiritual #MyQueenIsAliceColtrane

https://youtu.be/tsT-ZyTZPtI?si=7aCh6GDzGhWaGQmY

jasonisaacdrums, 3 months ago to random

With only two weekends left till Mardi Gras, I'm having a street parade on @WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Radio. It's the Brass Band Jam - an hour of slammin' brass bands from New Orleans! Saturday morning at 10 on the Crescent City Connection.

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136525

bourgwick, 3 months ago to jazz

#NowPlaying - feeling like perfect platonic #jazz at this moment, overflowing with soft bittersweetness, lester young live in DC (an appropriate place for the prez to perform) with a local combo, december 1956. part of a 4-disc warm-toned collection from these gigs: https://heads.social/@bourgwick/109536767243478682 @vinylrecords