Listener comments!

  6:00pm
: Am I in the right place?   6:02pm
BenZWPB: Greetings DJ Peter and listeners   6:03pm
BenZWPB: Blood Ulmer! Nice! 6:03pm
ChristinaInCanada: It's warm here too, 82F
Hi DJ Peter and Clockwatchers   6:03pm
Listener Gregory: DJP: Musicians’ stories about when they first heard Charlie Parker fall into two camps—those who immediately quit the saxophone and those who immediately took it up.   6:05pm
BenZWPB: I saw James Blood Ulmer once in NY at the Bottom Line around 1980. Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society opened. 6:06pm
ChristinaInCanada: Too hot to cook, really, but! I am preparing Chinese Beef and Broccoli, with rice, maybe Sweet & Sour Chicken or Spring Rolls, have a free sample of Five Spice Powder, will solidify my melted self with a Cuba Libre while I listen ♥ 6:06pm
DJ Peter: Gregory this is here!
BenZWPB greetings to you
ChristinaInCanada so it's hot enough that you came inside? ♥ 6:07pm
DJ Peter:

↳ ChristinaInCanada @6:06

You don't say! my experience is that Cuba Libre's contribute to my dissolution! 6:10pm
ChristinaInCanada:

↳ DJ Peter @6:06

Yes DJ Peter it's hot enough I came inside. Yesterday was a mad scramble through our small downtown mostly, with a triumphant goal score of Cream Puff Tree and Pugliese Bread at an Italian bakery on Commercial drive.
I am frugal with the rum, as I have housework, or what I prefer to call 'inside geocaching' this afternoon ♥ 6:12pm
DJ Peter:

↳ ChristinaInCanada @6:10

Inside Geocaching LOL   6:13pm
Listener Gregory: Didn’t Medeski, Martin, and Wood have an album called “End of World Party (Just In Case)”? ♥ 6:15pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @6:13

I don't know, but if they did, we should keep it at hand. Just in case. 🕰 ♥ 6:16pm
Doug Schulkind: This is awful pretty. ♥ 6:18pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Doug Schulkind @6:16

It's a nice combination of instruments!

How are you Doug? Any tips for whoever is crazy enough to fill in for your Friday slot this coming week?

🕰 ♥ 6:19pm
WR:

↳ Song: "When Day Becomes Night" by "Hannah Marks"

Nice turn from these folks 🕰 ♥ 6:21pm
pot8o: hi everyone! ♥ 6:22pm
DJ Peter:

↳ WR @6:19

glad you dig, WR. something about it is very "young lions"-y to me?

Hey pot8o!

♥ 6:23pm
adamdoesit: Hi DJ Peter and bopologists! ♥ 6:24pm
DJ Peter: Hi adamdoesit! Was the Knicks Party loud where you were? ♥ 6:28pm
adamdoesit:

↳ adamdoesit @6:23

Weird, I lost my clock. DJ Peter, I didn't slight you during the Marathon, did I?

We walked out of the upscale pizza place where we watched the game into a crowd starting to spread the news that they were leaving today. On our few blocks home, several drivers honked, everyone smiled, and there were not a few hands in the air. My wife said, "If we lived in Manhattan, it would take us three hours to get home tonight." We were there in seven minutes. I remain as I was last night: happy, and hoarse.

♥ 6:30pm
DJ Peter:

↳ adamdoesit @6:28

We'll have to ask Sam Segal, he's good at knowing what to do when one loses things!

So people in New York, New York announced they were leaving today... for New York, New York?

🕰 ♥ 6:36pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Listener Gregory @6:13

www.discogs.com... 🕰 ♥ 6:43pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Show Me Your Love (America)" by "James Blood Ulmer"

Pretty sure I have this, but I don’t think I’ve played it in this century. That will be shortly fixed. ♥ 6:43pm
adamdoesit:

↳ DJ Peter @6:30

They were singing along with Frank, and who could blame them? Funny thing, in the moment after the win, some guy asked me if I was "from here." I brushed it off; but later it occurred to me: Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns, and every other Knick save Jose Alvarado moved here for work. Mike Brown's from Ohio for crying out loud! If anything is to bury NYC nativism once and for all, this should be it.   6:48pm
LG: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/music/james-blood-ulmer-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share ♥ 6:48pm
DJ Peter:

↳ adamdoesit @6:43

Here's hoping the love lasts!

Now my SuperSonics have probably the longerst drought. Although to be fair they haven't really been trying.

🕰 ♥ 6:56pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ LG @6:48

Obituary mentions that Ulmer briefly played with Art Blakey. Boy I would like to hear some of that (not recorded, I assume). ♥ 6:56pm
adamdoesit:

↳ DJ Peter @6:48

SubSonics you might say. ♥ 6:58pm
DJ Peter:

↳ adamdoesit @6:56

there are rumors of NBA expansion coming soon.

The WNBA Storm ownership invested in the arena and now it's good enough for the men to return. Oy.

♥ 6:59pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @6:56

indeed, no trace of that in the Tom Lord discography.

Only guitarist I'm aware of Blakey featuring was Kevin Eubanks

🕰 ♥ 7:03pm
Listener Gregory: His obituary says he tuned all his strings to the same note!   7:08pm
Fred R: Nice set Peter! I actually saw James Blood Ulmer when he opened for Captain Beefheart at the Beacon Thtr in 1981 and was great stuff ♥ 7:10pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Fred R @7:08

wow, that must have been an amazing happening, Fred R!

I saw him twice in the last decade or so. Both times he sang more and played guitar less than I wanted. But still great!

  7:14pm
Fred R: I was pretty young at the time so wasn’t that familiar with his work but wish I could turn back the clock! 🕰 ♥ 7:23pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Ezz-Thetic" by "Max Roach"

These guys are good. ♥ 7:24pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:23

!! 🕰 ♥ 7:34pm
Jeff Golick: Thanks for rectifying my overall Bloodlessness, DJP! 🕰 ♥ 7:35pm
Listener Gregory: I don’t have enough food in the house to cook dinner, so I’m heading out for sustenance. Have a harmolodic night, everyone. Thanks, Peter. ♥ 7:37pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:35

look both ways before crossing, Gregory! ♥ 7:37pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Jeff Golick @7:34

It takes more than one pallbearer, after all. ♥ 7:43pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "Peace" by "James Blood Ulmer & Ravi Coltrane"

Did anyone attend this concert? Prospect Park! ♥ 7:52pm
adamdoesit:

↳ Song: "It Could Happen to You" by "The Miles Davis Quintet"

Recently I've concluded that there's nothing better than this. Different, yes. Better, nah. 🕰 ♥ 7:53pm
Jeff Golick:

↳ DJ Peter @7:43

I sadly did not. ♥ 7:54pm
Cemetery Dave: ust wanted to come on the boards briefly to say how much I'm enjoying your show, DJ Peter. Cheers. ♥ 7:54pm
Cemetery Dave: Just* ♥ 7:58pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Cemetery Dave @7:54

thanks C.D.! ♥ 8:00pm
DJ Peter:

↳ adamdoesit @7:52

agred! how COULD it be better? ♥ 8:02pm
Deano de los Muertos: Been enjoying the show, thanks Peter ♥ 8:04pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:02

glad you're here D de los M 🕰 ♥ 8:11pm
Jeff Golick: Y'know, I've never really cottoned to the speedy live "So What" tempos, but I am really enjoying this one. ♥ 8:12pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:11

I did not realize it had sped up so quickly! Over the Summer I guess 🕰 ♥ 8:12pm
doctorjazz: Hey, back from dinner, hi DJ Peter, Streamers! 🕰 ♥ 8:12pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Trane's Blues" by "The Miles Davis Quintet"

Listening, i'm thinking, Paul Chambers is so great, why didn't we hear more from him. Reading, I'm like: oh, damn, right he died aged 33 in 1969. ♥ 8:13pm
DJ Peter: doctorjazz, welcome (back)!

Yeah WR, towering influence. Arguably no one better with the bow.

🕰 ♥ 8:17pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "So What" by "Miles Davis"

I know it can get old playing the old hits the same way night after night, but I've never understood why Miles dropped the perfect groove of So What at the Kind of Blue album for the "off to the races" versions he mostly did afterwards... ♥ 8:18pm
adamdoesit:

↳ Song: "So What" by "Miles Davis"

First time hearing this and I'm all in. I kind of love how far forward Jimmy Cobb is in the mix. ♥ 8:23pm
adamdoesit:

↳ doctorjazz @8:17

imo? If there's one thing Miles always did, it was push. He was never one to settle for perfect. 🕰 ♥ 8:23pm
doctorjazz: Blood Ulmer tribute...
www.npr.org... 🕰 ♥ 8:25pm
doctorjazz:

↳ adamdoesit @8:23

True, and it's just me I'm sure, but the tempo and feel of the Kind of Blue version was exactly in the pocket... ♥ 8:26pm
DJ Peter:

↳ adamdoesit @8:23

I think in his "as told to" autiobiography he pretty much says "we had to go faster to make it more dynamic" -- Red Norvo's drummerless trio had the same philosophy 🕰 ♥ 8:28pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Odyssey" by "James Blood Ulmer"

Got to see Ulmer a few times back in the day...
one more tribute...
open.substack.com... 🕰 ♥ 8:32pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Open Doors" by "Odyssey The Band"

One of a kind guitar style, don't where it comes from... ♥ 8:32pm
adamdoesit:

↳ doctorjazz @8:25

Yeah, it's just right. He wasn't gonna let us have that twice. 🕰 ♥ 8:37pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Yasmin" by "Milton Michaeli, Asaf Shchori, Hamid ...

Tel Aviv, odd place to record free jazz... ♥ 8:38pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "Open Doors" by "Odyssey The Band"

anybody want to interpret the "back in time" album cover for me?

Pi Recordings, by the way!

🕰 ♥ 8:39pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @8:37

I'm guessing Shchori is Israeli...
(daughter RebeccaJazz is seeing a jazz flute choir in Brooklyn tonight, her friend is an Israeli Jazz flautist (I was invited to come, but it's a school night...) ♥ 8:41pm
adamdoesit:

↳ DJ Peter @8:38

An orc playing a melodica? 🕰 ♥ 8:42pm
doctorjazz: Speaking shows I'd like to see (but lilely won't because it's a school night), tomorrow night at Mezzros in Manhattan The Alan Broadbent trio is playing-saw him once (there), he's fabulous! ♥ 8:43pm
DJ Peter:

↳ adamdoesit @8:41

actually... hmm... yeah that makes more sense than what I saw ♥ 8:44pm
Cal Zone!: Beautiful sets tonight Clockmeister! ♥ 8:44pm
DJ Peter:

↳ doctorjazz @8:42

when I'm in town there's usually just a local band at Mezzrow's. Would love to see Broadbent ♥ 8:44pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Cal Zone! @8:44

Thanks Cal! Trying to segue into a good hand-off! 🕰 ♥ 8:44pm
WR:

↳ DJ Peter @8:38

Looks like a photo of an African mask I saw at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. ♥ 8:45pm
Cal Zone!:

↳ DJ Peter @8:44

You always do! 🕰 ♥ 8:48pm
WR: Since y'all were commenting on the contrast between So What on the Kind of Blue album and on subsequent live recordings and I just started reading the Miles auto-bio I decided to skip ahead and see what Miles says about it. ♥ 8:49pm
DJ Peter:

↳ WR @8:48

reading ahead is a time-honored practice 🕰 ♥ 8:50pm
doctorjazz:

↳ DJ Peter @8:44

Broadbent plays there fairly often (every couple of months, I'd guess), and always on a Monday night for whatever reason (I always check the listings). I happened to be in NYC for something else the night I caught him.
www.smallslive.com... 🕰 ♥ 8:50pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Five Excursions" by "Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch"

Like this! 🕰 ♥ 8:51pm
WR: To paraphrase, he said that All Blues and So What missed what he was trying to do: go get a sound and feeling of African finger piano. 🕰 ♥ 8:52pm
WR: to get a sound... 🕰 ♥ 8:53pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Five Excursions" by "Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch"

Hersch is the most interesting player-came up labeled as a Bill Evans follower, but he does so many other interesting things... ♥ 8:53pm
DJ Peter: ah, right!

everybody else thinks those tracks are perfect, Miles had an unrealized vision.

so much art fits that description: I wanted it to be even further out! glad you like it but it disappointed me

♥ 8:54pm
adamdoesit:

↳ doctorjazz @8:53

He's back at the Vanguard this week with a trio. Always a good show.

Thanks DJ Peter!

🕰 ♥ 8:54pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @8:51

I believe Miles said that, but are we to actually believe that he was being honest (or, put another way, can you hear African thumb piano in the fast versions of So What?) 🕰 ♥ 8:55pm
doctorjazz: Thanks, DJ Peter! (got 2 hours to catch up with in the archives...) 🕰 ♥ 8:59pm
doctorjazz: Arthur Blythe was also on Columbia for a short time, back when major labels felt they had a responsibility to present important music (commercial or not) 8:59pm
ChristinaInCanada: Thanks DJ Peter! 🕰 ♥ 8:59pm
WR: thank you, Peter. Laters folks. ♥ 9:00pm
DJ Peter: Thanks everybody! Be Cool, Stay Cool! ♥ 9:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks, Peter!