I’m not going to pretend that my schedule has been packed with book tour events (there are none that the publisher is springing for) or a full DJ calendar (it isn’t), but nevertheless I have been busy with a few bits of travel here and there. At the end of April, I trained down to D.C. to have a book talk and spin a few records over the course of two days and then had an afternoon set at Eavesdrop in Greenpoint. My Virgo-ness led me to try and document all of those sets, which I did to the best of my documenting skillset.
Neptune Room (Washington, D.C.)
Much thanks to the homie Michael R. Bernstein, who brought me down to do a book talk and also set up a sweet lil DJ night in D.C. I also got to hit up his shop, HR Records, famous for hosting Kamala Harris when she did a lil dig as VP.
Arnie Lawrence- “Blessed is the Match”
Pharoah Sanders - “Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord”
Phil Cohran - “White Nile”
Brother Ah - “Sekou”
Michael White - “Journey of the Black Star” “The Blessing Song”
Joe Henderson - “Air”
Sun Ra - ??
Phil Musra+Michael Cosmic - “We Love You Malcolm X”
Pharoah Sanders - “Memories of JW Coltrane”
Don Cherry - “Malkauns”
Derf Reklaw - “Olé”
(some selections via Mike B.)
Kirk Lightsey & Rudolph Johnson - “Fresh Air”
Alice Coltrane - “Los Caballos”
Cecil McBee - “Mutima”
Dewey Redman - “Qom”
(a drunken tag team with Mike B. for the last hour of the night)
The Pyramids - “Mogho Naba (King Of Kings)”
Miles Davis - “Prelude”
Phil Ranelin - “Sounds from the Village”
Karma - “Funk de Mambo”
Eddie Harris - “Instant Death”
Weldon Irvine - “Love Your Brother”
Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan - “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”
Eavesdrop 5-2
Saturday afternoon breeziness in Brooklyn…
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