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latest releases: COMPASSION / LOVE IN EXILE / TROUBLE // @musicandartmgmt @schottmusic @musicworksintl @unlimitedmyles @harvardmus @harvardaaas // ig @vijayiyer
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Hey! Our album is outttt
Go gettt itttt!!!!
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This poster is currently plastered around campus. It's targeting an individual student.
(I've redacted their name from the photo.)
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Gen Z has agitated for action on gun control, climate change, reproductive justice, trans rights, voting rights, racial justice, immigrant rights, reducing police violence, and stopping genocide. Elders have failed them at literally every turn.
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You know what’s not in the news anymore? The attack on Al-Shifa Hospital, which ended 2 days ago.
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Fucking blistering editorial by the Columbia University student newspaper.
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@ProfesoraLMO
I didn't see it firsthand, but am told that the poster below is thanking them for the bombing of Rafah.
This is information warfare, actively carried out on US campuses
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let's hear it for anarchist jurisdiction
#BREAKING
: A judge just ruled that Eric Trump can no longer delay an interview under oath with my office as part of our ongoing investigation into financial dealings of the Trump Organization.
Eric Trump must interview with my office by October 7th, 2020.
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In Oakland in the early 90s I became the house pianist at a jam session. Once in a while the door would open, the room would part, and Pharaoh Sanders would manifest & float through the crowd and up to the stage
We’d play “When the Lights are Low,” “Polka Dots and Moonbeams,”…
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‘Many are laughing now at Musk, suggesting that he’s “mismanaging” Twitter and that it will end up being taught in business schools as a case study in failure.
‘In fact, it is likely to end up being taught in history classes as an example of totalitarian information warfare’
3/And I expanded on these themes further in this piece for Byline Times. Some people still don’t get it, but it’s mostly because they haven’t studied the history, and don’t care to. And so some people are just wrong and under-informed. That’s okay.
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"tell us you don't pay federal taxes without saying you don't pay federal taxes"
Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of himself on Instagram wakeboarding while holding an American flag and set to the music of the late John Denver singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
I saw it, so now you have to see it too. I’m sorry. I did not make the rules.
Happy
#July4th
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In recent months, Harvard students have been terrorized and harrassed by doxxing campaigns, three Palestinian students were shot while walking down the street in Vermont, and students at Columbia were targeted with a chemical weapon causing at least eight to be hospitalized.
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@ProfesoraLMO
I didn't see it firsthand, but am told that the poster below is thanking them for the bombing of Rafah.
This is information warfare, actively carried out on US campuses
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Whatttttt 😭😭😭😭😭
Congratulations 66th
#GRAMMYs
Best Alternative Jazz Album nominees:
@arooj_aftab
,
@vijayiyer
, Shahzad Ismaily;
@louiscolemusic
;
@realkurtelling
,
@charliehunter
, SuperBlue;
@cory_henry
; and
@officialmeshell
. Watch live:
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this is what passes for okay in jazz journalism
love to my dear sis
@arooj_aftab
for calling it out
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happening again. now.
in case you thought it was a “tragic mistake”
Rafah is currently under heavy bombing , the north is under heavy artillery shelling , when no one stops you from killing civilians you do it over and over again till theirs no civilians , Israel is annihilating us .
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I’m going to mute this thread for my sanity - but please understand that this is an op. It isn’t some lone zealot - it’s essentially an active measure carried out on US soil by foreign agents. It is designed to confuse, enrage, and bait you. Don’t give in to hate, stay focused 👊🏾
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Some academic books take more space telling you what the book is doing than actually doing those things
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Guys, I’ve checked the science, and it turns out classical music DOES have to be ugly to be good. Sorry, I don’t make the rules
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Chi town!!!
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About to enter my third hour in line.
Shout out to the kind orgs giving out food and water.
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…and many a blues. Especially on those, the room’s energy would reorder itself around his tone, swirling and building with him until it would crest and split open into multiphonic glory. He used his powers for good. Music is a healing force. Rest in power, Pharaoh Sanders ✨🕊✨
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Since you're having a good time normalizing her, here are "Megyn Kelly's Top Five Most Racist Moments"
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I don't like when music scholars use the word "performance." It perpetuates a hierarchy between "composers" and "performers." I just use the term "music-making," which is less bound up in a Eurocentric system of value, and affirms many forms of sonic agency. Try it and see.
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you say "google it" or "use a library" but google searches are biased, libraries keep being defunded, and books keep getting banned
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Using my last tweet to tell you that Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, and I made a beautiful album that’s coming out in March.
I can’t wait for you to hear it.
It’s called LOVE IN EXILE.
Blessings to you all. Like tears in the rain etc
🫠
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Today, Harvard students have built, in solidarity with their peers around the nation, a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus. Here is the full statement of support from Harvard’s FSJP. 🧵
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We tend to forget how *young* he was when he defined this sound.
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A technology for sharing music while socially distancing was developed well over a century ago.
It’s called RECORDING.
Musicians pour their hearts and souls into the art of making records.
Many face immediate financial ruin.
Buy their music today if you can.
@Bandcamp
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My best Xmas present was getting to play my new album for my family over zoom yesterday (at Dad's request). Best share-my-screen experience of 2020.
_Uneasy_, a trio album with Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh, coming to you April 9 on
@ECMRecords
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- jazz festival planning meeting
- music cognition conference dinner
- university welcome picnic
- canadian conference on improvisation studies
- record company meet&greet
- jazz educators planning meeting
- composers collective annual retreat
- arts & activism brunch
etc.
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I didn’t even know this photo existed. From Gent, Belgium, July 9, 2010, by Guy Van de Poel.
Thank you for your music & peace to your spirit. ✨🙏🏾✨
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This catastrophe of human suffering is political, not natural.
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This cute thing just happened to me
Shoutout to Cory’s very enterprising team 🙃
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This is good science. However, the equation of “music” with “song” or “melody” in the music cognition literature excludes the musicality of rhythm. Rhythm is routinely and implicitly treated as lower on the hierarchy of what constitutes “music.”
But what do I know 🤷🏾♂️
Check out our brand new paper! We provide new evidence that humans have developed complementary neural systems in each hemisphere for auditory stimuli, leading to specialization for speech and melodies:
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another thread in case you still think the Tr*mp admin is "incompetent" or "insane" rather than actually malevolent
A reminder that Betsy DeVos reached out to accused rapists & "men's rights activists" — including at least one group that the SPLC identifies as a male supremacist hate group — to get their input on the Title IX sexual assault guidance released today.
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Can’t get over the vibes in this photo of my aunt & my grandfather, taken by my uncle at their flat in Mumbai, late ‘50s
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If PhDs expire in three years what does that say about senior faculty 🫣
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Seriously, can anyone who hasn’t literally lied 20,000 times in public corroborate this
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Niche tweet, but:
Classical albums should be mastered with a longer pause between whole pieces than between movements.
Never understood why this isn’t obvious!
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what about another app called Shreds which literally tears your phone to pieces
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By gum, you’re right. White people invented subtlety. That’s why you’re so good at pronouncing our names
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University leaders have also failed to acknowledge that the Israeli military has killed hundreds of Palestinian professors, journalists, and physicians, and demolished entire universities as part of its ongoing flagrant violations of international law.
i will never forgive american academia
for its silence on the obliteration of palestinian science, art, culture, universities and—most of all—scholars and students.
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_Blues People_ turns 60 yrs old this year!
Below is the cover of the first edition.
We miss you, AB 🙏🏾
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Music-makers must also become video directors/producers during this here pandemic of 2020, because creative labor isn't sufficiently undervalued yet
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Just to be clear: bad reviews are fine. If you don’t like something you don’t have to pretend otherwise for our sake.
But if you couch your opinion in disdainful, intolerant rightwing talking points, then you might actually be held accountable for them.
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if we could abolish the term "classical music," what would you use instead?
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Every month or two I come across another academic publication that uses my research without citing it.
It’s typically written by a white scholar who only cites other white scholars.
Academic work is not my main calling, luckily. If it’s yours, approach it with eyes open.
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If your email subject is “PLEASE RESPOND” but it’s your first time ever contacting me, maybe try going for a walk outside
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I am blessed to have known you. Thank you for your wisdom and kindness. Your life’s work radiated a love for all beings.
Listener, researcher, healer, artist, teacher.
“Full mantis, man.”
Rest in power, Milford Graves.
Photo by
@AakashMittal1
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Critics: if you call me or my music “cerebral” you’re being lazy a.f.
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You guys know Coltrane’s Live in Seattle? One of the most majestic live performances in history?
So, a couple of days later in the same run, they recorded A Love Supreme live in its entirety!!???!!??
And it’s coming out!!!!!!??????
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Heyyyy let's greet the day with some good news, for a change: here's my report for
@MorningEdition
and
@nprmusic
about an incredible live recording of 'A Love Supreme,' made in Seattle on Oct. 2, 1965 — and coming soon on
@impulselabel
🤯🙏
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I'm offering a course this fall titled "Music Makers of Asian America." Scholars, kindly bombard me with your reading suggestions in the replies. Thank you 💙💙💙
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here’s that “rampant ant!sem!t!sm” you keep hearing about
What a profound act of love and solidarity. The students are holding Shabbat service at the gates so their suspended friends can join.
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being alive & online on nov 29, 2023
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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"Most of all he helped me do what every musician must do, which is to learn to hear another person, and in so doing, to love them."
I wrote a few words about our dear brother Greg Tate. We miss you, GT.
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Mingus, Haynes, Monk, Parker.
9/13/53, The Open Door, NYC.
📸 by Bob Parent
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Those of you who ordered Uneasy on vinyl via - Steve over at
@musicandartmgmt
is trying to fill your outstanding orders... but, um, there was a mixup from the distributor, and I -
This is 100% true
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“Debate and dissent must be allowed to thrive on Barnard’s campus, and academic freedom must be protected. In your attempt to quell tensions on campus, you have only exacerbated them, and your punitive actions have broken trust and created an atmosphere of repression”
Statement by Barnard alums and current Barnard professors Jhumpa Lahiri and Edwidge Danticat opposing the suspension of students from Barnard campus.
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Something good today! A beautiful feature in the NYT magazine on our dear brother & hero ✨🙌🏾✨ //
The Composer Tyshawn Sorey Enters a New Phase
by
@adamshatz
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There’s a sudden wave of celebration in the streets here in Harlem— it’s been called?!?!
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Never imagined that music theory videos would turn out to be bigger business than actual music
What would happen if SMT evolved into a kind of comic con for the influensplainer set
maybe TEDxSchenker
This is a niche tweet
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Now that the academic year is almost over, I can say that I may have been playing piano during two or three dozen committee meetings
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Someday I’m going to publish my collected recommendation letters. They contain some of my best work, no lie. I’ve been gassing you all up for years
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peace, love, and gratitude to your spirit
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Stop wasting time mocking two geriatric presidential candidates’ verbal slips and start analyzing what further waves of destruction they will respectively unleash on humankind if elected
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