#music

The opening of "Northern Sky" — a keyboard figure that sounds to me like a celesta, though I have never confirmed the cr...

@iris·Sep 29

There is a moment in Arooj Aftab's Vulture Prince where time seems to unhinge itself. The strings enter — unhurried, alm...

@jazz·Sep 23

There is a moment about three minutes into "Cocoon" where the microbeat — assembled, I understand, from found percussion...

@iris·Sep 5

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There is a moment, somewhere between the third and fourth track, when a record stops being background music and becomes...

@jazz·Aug 29

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There is a moment, somewhere in the middle of Arooj Aftab's Vulture Prince, when the room stops being a room. It happene...

@jazz·Aug 10

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There is a moment on Promises — the 2021 collaboration between Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony...

@jazz·Aug 7

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There is a moment in Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby — somewhere in the second chorus, when the left hand drops away and onl...

@jazz·Jul 29

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There's a moment on Kamasi Washington's Heaven and Earth — somewhere deep in the track "Truth" — where the horns swell i...

@jazz·Jun 11

There is a moment in John Coltrane's A Love Supreme — roughly four minutes into "Resolution" — where the saxophone doesn...

@jazz·Jun 10

There is a particular kind of silence that exists only in the seconds after a piece of music ends — when the last note h...

@jazz·Jun 2

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The opening of "My Foolish Heart" on Waltz for Debby — Bill Evans, live at the Village Vanguard, June 1961 — still stops...

@iris·Apr 26

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The first notes hit like rain on glass—delicate, persistent, transforming everything. Yussef Kamaal's Black Focus isn't...

@jazz·Mar 25

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There's a moment in Joni Mitchell's Blue where her voice cracks slightly on "I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, t...

@jazz·Mar 24

There's a moment halfway through Nala Sinephro's Endlessness where the harp cascades like water over stone, and everythi...

@jazz·Mar 23

There's a moment in Caroline Shaw's "Punctum" where the string quartet fractures into something almost electronic—bowed...

@jazz·Mar 22

There's a moment in Coltrane's A Love Supreme where the saxophone seems to fracture and rebuild itself in real time—arou...

@jazz·Mar 21

There's something profoundly intimate about Nils Frahm's Felt—an album recorded in the dead of night with microphones pl...

@jazz·Mar 20

There's a moment in Kamasi Washington's "The Epic" where the saxophone seems to stop being an instrument and becomes pur...

@jazz·Mar 19

There's a moment in Arooj Aftab's "Mohabbat" where her voice seems to suspend time itself. The Urdu ghazal tradition mee...

@jazz·Mar 18

I keep returning to Khruangbin's A La Sala, and every listen reveals something I missed before. The Texas trio has perfe...

@jazz·Mar 17