Allen Michie

Jazz and arts critic for Artsfuse.org, record collector, record salesman on Discogs (Blythe Amusement), manager of the Miles Davis Discussion Group on Facebook, and administrator of Jazztodon.com for Mastodon. I'm a higher education administrator in the great city of Austin, Texas. You can read my reviews and articles at allenmichie.medium.com.

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2024-09-20 02:58:08

Sometimes these things aren’t thought through as well as they could have been.
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2024-09-19 11:28:52

Truly a virtuoso performance of stupidity on multiple levels:
"[Nuclear power is] the global warming you have to worry about, not that the ocean's going to rise in 400 years an eighth of an inch and you'll have more seafront property, right, if that happens...I said, 'Isn't that a good thing? If I have a little property on the ocean, I have a little bit more property. I have a little bit more ocean.'"
-- Trump

2024-09-16 00:08:34

Lots of new 45s posted on my Discogs store! Come and gitcher Harry Belafonte, Sam Cooke, Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, Gino Vannelli, Chicago, Boston, Bobby Day, Art Farmer/Benny Golson, Willie Nelson, Terry Huff, Hugh Masekela, Gladys Knight, Fats Domino, J. Geils Band, and hundreds and hundreds more!
https://www.discogs.com/seller/ALLENMICHIE/profile
#discogs #45s

2024-09-15 02:34:53

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https://youtu.be/IYYa14cIlgA

2024-09-15 00:54:50

“The exit is just down that hallway, second door on the left.”
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2024-09-13 01:09:41

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@npub1xg3…nyjk Good lord, he's wearing a polka-dotted tie with a checked shirt.

2024-09-13 01:08:58

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
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2024-09-12 19:40:09

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@npub10pr…qn7d Rodent racism.

2024-09-12 19:38:23

This is not a drill.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2024/09/12/friday-the-13th-2024-deals-krispy-kreme-wendys/75190071007/

2024-09-12 19:10:22

If you ever get a call from an unknown number, pick it up and say “Hi, you’re on the air.”

2024-09-12 16:32:03

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@npub1tah…4mlz And his jive-ass sons, too. Look at them.

2024-09-12 12:29:51

If you wouldn’t give Grandpa the car keys, would you give him the nuclear codes?

2024-09-12 00:53:23

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2024-09-09 18:49:25

This is the only time this has ever happened to me—the album cover and the album label are for a great solo trombone record by Albert Mangelsforff. But the music on the vinyl is from some RTF/Weather Report-influenced fusion band from the 1980s. Anyone else have a record like this? I wonder if it’s worth anything.
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2024-09-07 17:28:46

Dizzy Gillespie was for Critical Race Theory in 1964.
#dizzygillespie
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2024-09-05 16:31:41

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2024-09-02 13:25:23

"You deserve a president who respects you, who talks to you, and who levels with you -- puts it right on the level -- and who always has your best interests, has your back. I have your back, I have your heart, and I have every other part of your body."
-- Trump
“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
—Trump

2024-09-01 15:16:15

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2024-08-31 03:05:07

This from the guy whose wife did nude lesbian photoshoots for a magazine. (P.S. While violating the terms her visa and making her eligible for deportation, by the way.)

2024-08-28 15:52:10

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I'd have to say the duet album with Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor. (It had good intentions, but it just didn't work.)

2024-08-28 15:51:17

What was the most unexpected combination of jazz musicians you ever heard?

2024-08-24 01:47:05

Great CD! Swinging, grooving, funky organ playing from across the jazz, gospel, and R&B traditions.
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2024-08-24 00:31:55

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@npub1tah…4mlz OK, NOW I’ll vote for her…

2024-08-23 21:32:46

I’m gutted to hear about the death of the brilliant guitarist Russell Malone. He was only 60, and he was in the middle of a tour of Japan with Ron Carter’s Golden Striker Trio. He was a fantastic musician and a bright soul. Does anyone know what happened?
#jazz #russellmalone

2024-08-18 01:23:13

Suck-ers!
https://apple.news/A5vSbONh0SOmrOMHaXiXaQw
#grift #suckers #trump #ptbarnum

2024-08-17 16:58:15

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Brecker has a bazillion recordings, but for those recorded under his own name as a leader, these are some great ones to start with:
Michael Brecker
Pilgrimage
Tales from the Hudson
The Very Best of Michael Brecker
Time is of the Essence
Two Blocks from the Edge
Wide Angles

2024-08-15 11:30:51

Here’s your answer why the Republicans aren’t campaigning on policy positions.
"And so, we set an ambitious goal to cut our greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050."
-- VP Kamala Harris
"Nobody knows what that means. Ask her what it means. 'We're going to have a net-zero policy.' What does that mean? I have no idea."
-- Trump

2024-08-14 02:56:21

When you’re famous, they let you do it.
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2024-08-06 20:57:49

Hey Republicans, listen to your great leader and follow his orders!
#trump #gop
https://jazztodon.com/system/media_attachments/files/112/917/077/504/474/018/original/6f70bc007e842de3.mp4

2024-08-05 12:37:50

"A Narcissist's Prayer" by Dayna Craig
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did
You deserved it.

2024-08-05 12:13:34

Today &rom the Very Stable Genius.
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2024-08-03 16:27:49

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Some great records with Bucky Pizzarelli as a leader:
A Portrait
April Kisses
At the Vineyard (w. John Pizzarelli)
Contrasts (w. John Pizzarelli)

2024-08-02 22:04:37

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2024-08-01 01:05:48

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2024-07-31 19:34:08

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@npub10y2…rgqq The couch thing isn’t true.

2024-07-31 02:11:27

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2024-07-30 14:07:54

Clark Terry’s phone book, 1960.
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2024-07-30 03:20:08

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2024-07-30 03:03:56

Democrats: Ethics
Republicans: We’re against it.

2024-07-29 15:36:01

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2024-07-27 15:40:17

Donald Trump yesterday, saying the quiet part out loud.
“You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”
#trump #fascism #tyranny

2024-07-26 14:47:57

“If Sen. J.D. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, were to give Trump ‘one piece of advice,’ he said in 2021, it would be ‘fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people.'”
But we can't have DEI in the federal workforce because we only want a meritocracy. Hmmmm.

2024-07-26 14:46:37

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@npub1esn…jpyd But we can't have DEI in the federal workforce because everything has to be a meritocracy. Oh I seeeeee.

2024-07-26 14:41:51

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 Funny, but not true.

2024-07-22 15:36:28

‘Nuff said. (Plus, she has kids named Ella and Cole.)
https://youtu.be/9uXibRWUCD8?si=Kj4sm04llp3toEFf

2024-07-21 19:28:29

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@npub17ha…t8va I truly thought I could no longer be surprised by how graceless, petty, and mean Trump could be. Compare to Biden giving him a call after the assassination attempt.

2024-07-21 14:08:51

Here’s my latest for The Arts Fuse: a review of Emile Bernard’s “My Friend Van Gogh,” a collection of his prefaces to Van Gogh’s letters.
#vangogh https://artsfuse.org/295066/book-review-going-beyond-the-great-van-gogh-hagiography-machine/

2024-07-18 14:42:12

Bummer.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/07/18/california-jazz-conservatory-end-degree-programs?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=4022c3bd80-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-4022c3bd80-236740034&mc_cid=4022c3bd80&mc_eid=a7eaed37de

2024-07-16 20:10:26

“Midnight Train to Georgia” was originally a country song titled “Midnight Plane to Houston.”
#improvementsmade

2024-07-13 14:33:45

"Real inflation is way over 50 percent."
-- Trump, off by 47 points
"Under Crooked Joe, 109 percent of all net job creation over the last year has gone to migrants."
-- Trump

2024-07-12 01:33:05

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2024-07-11 21:17:23

A complete, slanderous, bullshit lie from Chat GPT.
#ai #blues
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2024-07-11 20:19:16

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@npub1esn…jpyd Can we get the Beatles and Hendrix back?

2024-07-11 19:16:37

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@npub1nz6…egmm Hall also did that on the "Concierto" CTI album with Chet Baker. Meh.

2024-07-11 18:52:50

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@npub1nz6…egmm Shoogie Wanna Boogie!

2024-07-10 01:52:43

If Art Tatum had lived long enough to record “Lush Life.”
#tetemontoliu
https://music.apple.com/us/album/lush-life/159462929?i=159463081

2024-07-07 15:13:03

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Cool to see Dave Holland out touring now in a duet with John Scofield. I hope they come to the US.
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2024-07-06 02:15:55

This is just an impossibly beautiful song.
#jazz #mingus
https://music.apple.com/us/album/duke-ellingtons-sound-of-love/298727381?i=298727410

2024-07-05 16:14:40

Vote for the one with the cognitive ability to correctly use capital letters.

2024-07-05 14:01:57

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2024-07-03 19:28:48

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2024-07-02 13:25:06

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2024-06-30 06:11:54

I’m generally no big Chris Botti fan (and the Joshua Bell solos are ridiculously overwrought here), but damn it’s a beautiful thing with intonation this perfect, a deeply dark brass tone, and the full battery of studio production gloss.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-funny-valentine/1701720434?i=1701720602
#chrisbotti #joshuabell #jazz

2024-06-29 19:24:19

I just can’t love this enough.
#jazz #milesdavis
https://www.communityvoiceks.com/2024/06/28/miles-davis-collection-american-jazz-museum/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2o2_uQyIn_eOSnp7dS_35XpoQTc3pXZYJShgZvs8htdEaUsLRFQEIvecA_aem_887H5mssAfjykmPUfgkJzA

2024-06-27 21:36:56

Beautiful playing from Dave Holland on this track and throughout this fine album.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/three-flights-up/1680823161?i=1680823800

2024-06-25 19:37:37

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2024-06-24 23:34:57

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2024-06-23 14:17:58

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@npub1t72…epdx Well,hopefully, the bassist can do both at once….

2024-06-23 14:16:48

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@npub1kh6…u695 Powerful opening.

2024-06-22 21:54:24

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@npub10pr…qn7d yay toxic masculinity yay

2024-06-22 19:42:07

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Some of the great Dave Holland albums to start with:
Another Land
Conference of the Birds (with Braxton and Rivers)
Critical Mass
Dream of the Elders
Extended Play: Live at Birdland
Extensions
Good Hope
Hands (w. Pepe Habichuela)
Jumpin' In
Not for Nothin'
One's All
Overtime
Pathways
Points of View
Prime Directive
Prism
Razor's Edge
Seeds of Time
Triplicate
Uncharted Territories
What Goes Around

2024-06-18 13:36:44

LOL
"Steve shows great courage. I saw him in the hospital. I can tell your wife really loves you, Steve, because some wives wouldn't care."
-- Trump during his return to the Capitol last week, to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, severely wounded in 2017 mass shooting

2024-06-16 03:40:55

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Recommended Cecil Taylor pt. 2:
Three Phasis
Trance
Tree of Life
Unit Structures
World of Cecil Taylor

2024-06-13 18:17:02

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/claude-barras-ogresse-miyu-cecile-mclorin-salvant-1236029577/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-OxGmTpXfEKAFUkK41Q5Z7L3V0ba2aNcfr_TgWHlLz93HQr9eG_5niu8_aem_AZFrhJM8TG8KcD1IC8ULFC4EchVL6EACvyDDAQF2tEhN8ne-IgVZI9G6lDUWWIv6o5qbbaFdOP6xPpCDEUaYPZll

2024-06-13 17:02:22

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@npub1tah…4mlz Good one!

2024-06-13 11:15:07

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Keep the arts alive! Keep high quality writing about the arts alive!
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2024-06-12 14:00:29

In a post-Willie Dixon world, it's hard to think of any blues records or bands led by bass players. I can't think of a single one led by an electric bassist. I can't even think of any electric bass solos on electric blues records. Can you?
#blues #bass

2024-06-11 16:38:33

It’s interesting to see Republicans suddenly so enthusiastic about proper gun licensing paperwork.
#hunterbiden

2024-06-11 13:38:44

The FBI just announced that crime has plummeted in the first quarter of 2024.
According to the report:
Murder decreased by 26.4%
Rape decreased by 25.7%
Robbery decreased by 17.8%
Aggravated assault decreased by 12.5%
Reported property crime decreased by 15.1%

2024-06-08 19:55:14

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@npub1vua…km9m I believe it’s fixed now—there’s a new 1,000 character limit. Test out out and let me know if it’s not working for you. Not every third-party app may be compatible.

2024-06-08 14:15:25

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@npub1cl6…wr42 Thanks! Fixed. Autocorrect “helped” me.

2024-06-07 14:15:02

Happy D-Day from AI.
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2024-06-06 19:24:03

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@npub1tah…4mlz OK, I’ll look into it. Thanks

2024-06-06 03:57:09

“Take Five” with an Indian twist.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLTvTKe8/

2024-06-05 13:42:37

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@npub1n4a…wzvg Interesting fact: the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary. See for yourself.

2024-06-05 13:41:22

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2024-06-05 13:41:04

The 500-character post limit has been lifted for members of Jazztodon.com!

2024-06-04 18:15:24

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2024-06-01 18:57:54

Here’s my brief review of Ringo Starr’s new EP, “Crooked Boy.”
#ringostarr #beatles
https://artsfuse.org/292883/june-short-fuses-materia-critica-4/

2024-06-01 18:57:04

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@npub1nz6…egmm Odd then that the nice New York Jazz Quintet’s “In Concert in Japan” appeared on Salvation and not on CTI. (A great performance by Ron Carter on this one.)

2024-06-01 15:27:32

Hey @npub1nz6…egmm, what was the deal with Salvation Records? Were they associated with CTI? What was the reason for starting and stopping it?

2024-05-31 01:25:38

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@npub1084…700n They forget "twice impeached."

2024-05-30 23:19:22

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2024-05-25 03:02:30

Suburban camouflage.
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2024-05-18 19:28:56

https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/Sadao-Watanabe-living-legend-of-Japanese-jazz-still-gigging-at-91?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3O7CT0zuX_0eEBRTjMw4MCzSGHGkX8F8CW19KuyC5fkHk-lWb2C2pmfp8_aem_AUytktIbGEhtPRIbMZ6rS92dMTYJRBOhnkbd4K0hslL6VyQFLMoTvmyIcfBdTGWRiCcPK3D8hBpEwXRTT8EwyCxA

2024-05-17 16:44:24

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@npub1tah…4mlz
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2024-05-17 14:03:12

Here’s my latest for the Arts Fuse. “For some listeners, ‘Soul & Salvation’ will qualify as a genuine rara avis of a forgotten session from a major artist. For others, it will be just a curiosity or a blip.”
https://artsfuse.org/292232/jazz-album-review-dizzy-gillespies-soul-and-salvation-the-spirit-is-cheesy-but-willing/

2024-05-16 19:52:12

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@npub1v8l…0wyr <sigh> Just use duckduckgo.com.

2024-05-15 01:35:09

The Downbeat obituary.
#jazz #davidsanborn
https://downbeat.com/news/detail/david-sanborn-influential-alto-saxophonist-dies-at-78

2024-05-14 14:49:32

If you want to hear Sanborn out of his pop, blues, jazz, or R&B bag, listen to his straight playing on this gorgeous saxophone concerto by the greatly missed Michael Kamen. Goosebump stuff.
https://youtu.be/0uN1xGfEO0Q?si=qNn5yvMePQlwG6e3