just realized (right after posting 2 shows by elisabeth kontomanou, which you might have missed if you’re reading this) that i had overlooked
just under 500 jazz postings (plus a number of “commentary” postings like this one).
belated happy birthday, cipjazz!
following a recent question, i’ve found that the rss feed is not working. so if you’ve not been getting the feed from feedburner… that’s why. hopefully, i’ve just fixed that. if not, well, we’ll just see, won’t we?
well, a little problem with installing the last wordpress version, but it seems ok now. fingers crossed!!!
enjoying the sligo jazz festival, streaming/playback free on youtube, with lots of details on either sligojazz.ie or jazzireland.ie. (and donations are accepted for the festival!). @sligojazz on twitter.
sadly for us, josé miguel lopez, the host of discópolis & discópolis jazz, is about to retire, after an unbelievable 44 — that’s forty-count-em-four — years with radio nacional de españa and over 11,300 discópolis shows (including the discópolis jazz shows). i’m not sure what will take over that slot in the rne radio 3 schedule, hopefully something along the same lines. this sunday is the last broadcast of ‘discópolis jazz’ before he retires.
adios, josé miguel, ¡un abrazo muy fuerte!
it’s getting very hard to find anything to post here as there is simply so much coming through on dime at the moment. i cannot keep up (not that anyone can, but…) and it’s even harder on a long weekend like this one, not spending hours a day enjoying the jazz while i work (all in all, i’ll take the weekend 🙂 ). it’s the opposite of the old joke about the food.
the .zip files for some older posts here have been archived. if a file is missing, leave a message & i’ll try to repost it
i’m going to be taking a little break to listen to a super series of japanese jazz thanks to josé miguel lopez, the host of discópolis jazz on rtve (radio y television española). there are over 35 in the series so far, from broadcasts going back over 2 years, which you can download from the discópolis pages on the rtve website (link below).
there’s actually a lot more there (not all jazz, but a lot!) — josé miguel only plays the japanese concerts once or twice a week, as far as i can tell. still, at around an hour each, it’s a massive view into contemporary japanese jazz. the shows are all at the nhk fureai hall.
and — a nice surprise — the bold josé miguel doesn’t talk over the music. good man yerself, pepe. and good commentary, to boot.
tracking these was a bit of a conundrum, as the mp3 cutters (not editors) don’t have user interfaces that play nice with me. it’s probably me. so i’ve setup a little assembly line process that ends up with ffmpeg doing the tracking. whatever works, eh?
https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/discopolis-jazz/
https://twitter.com/Discopolis3
https://www.facebook.com/DiscopolisR3/
well after 2 concerts posted in as many hours, here’s a change of pace: a very interesting article on “economics of bittorrent Communities”, using dime as the example on medium, at https://medium.com/@jbackus/private-bittorrent-trackers-are-markets-1d3cc3c9bacd . thanks to erik b. who posted the link on the dime discussion list. not sure i agree with some of the suggestions as presented in the article (have not yet read the actual .pdf), but very interesting reading. thanks, erik b!
it’s jazz month, and tuesday, 30-april, is international jazz day!
i’m planning on going to see a double-header of matt jacobson’s ReDiviDeR and the aoife doyle band, at the wild duck. i saw aoife doyle recently at one of the dublin jazz co-op‘s sunday night gigs at the workmans club, and matt jacobson seems to pop up on drums constantly here in dublin (which is a good thing). it should be an excellent evening!