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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 23h

Spending this month rereading all of Euripides and tonight listening to the Chet Baker Quartet on Barclay Disques and reissued on Sam Records.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Getting cozy with Shirley Scott and Reading Hegel.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Going to relax listening to Mendelssohn and reading Derrida's Cinders.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Spinning Hiroshi Suzuki's Cat and reading my copy of B.W. Powe's The Solitary Outlaw, which I read in university when it was first published.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

With the weather growing more unpleasant, it’s best to stay indoors and enjoy Ryo Fukui’s Scenery, and settle once more into some Foucault.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Relaxing tonight with Clark Terry's In Orbit and Heidegger's Bremen and Freiburg Lectures.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Revisiting Derrida's essay on Condillac and Condillac's Essay on the Origins of Human Knowledge and listening later this evening to Azimuth with John Taylor, Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Sonny Rollins, among the finest improvisers on the tenor saxophone since the 1950s. Here he is performing My One and Only Love youtu.be/FxpRNju_Bkw?...

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Sonny Rollins My One and Only Love

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Spring is slow to arrive, so I'll spend the day relaxing with some Oscar Peterson and a volume of Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A relaxing mid-afternoon listening session with Andrew Hill's Compulsion!!!!! and Ernst Cassirer.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Relaxing today with Frank Sinatra and Andrei Codrescu.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Relaxing tonight with The Red Garland Quintet and another Roland Barthes.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Relaxing tonight with Eberhard Weber's Later That Evening on ECM and Roland Barthes.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I cannot think of a better combination for this long weekend than Cecil Taylor and Thomas Bernhard.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

With more snow on the way, best to settle down and listen to Glenn Gould's transcriptions of Wagner's orchestral showpieces and dipping into Edmund Wilson's Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

When you awake to this wintery scene, best to listen to Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and read Donald Barthelme.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Some new Anthony Burgess additions to my home library.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The nights are growing longer, the weather colder, and snow has begun to fall. It feels right to read Hesiod and listen to the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

For this evening, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars and David Markson's Vanishing Point.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

With the first snowfall of the season, best to listen this evening to Gene Ammons on Prestige.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

A new addition to my Wagner collection and tonight's listening choice will be Leo Smith's Divine Love on ECM, featuring Dwight Andrews, Bobby Naughton, Charlie Haden, Lester Bowie, and Kenny Wheeler.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Enjoying Glenn Gould's performance of Brahms' Ballades, Op. 10, and Rhapsodies, Op. 79, followed by Horace's Odes and Epodes.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

For this evening's listening and reading.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Enjoying the evening with a Japanese pressing of Thelma Gracen put out by Emarcy/Mercury Records.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

As summer winds down and work wraps up, I'm diving back into music and reading, starting here:

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Vassily Aksyonov, was one of the finest post World World II novelists from Russia. The Burn (Ozhog), with its anarchic mix of memory, fantasy, and traditional Russian realism, charts many a Russian's responses to their homeland.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

But the “doctrine” of a thinker is that which, within what is said, remains unsaid, that to which we are exposed so that we might expend ourselves on it. - Plato's Doctrine of Truth

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

For tonight, Sweet and Lovely with The Buddy De Franco Quintet.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Relaxing this evening with Abbey Lincoln and reading Kojeve's study The Notion of Authority which should be read alongside Agamben's State of Exception.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Happy to have this now in my library: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence published by Manchester University Press.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Anthony Braxton's Trio and Duet features David Holland, Leo Smith and Richard Teitelbaum, recorded on Sackville Recordings operated by John Norris and Bill Smith who also published the great CODA magazine.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Today is Bloomsday. I have multiple editions of Ulysses in my home library. This Penguin printing has been with me since my final year of high school. A cherished companion through many readings of Joyce's novel.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

For this evening: Ahmad Jamal Trio At The Pershing - But Not For Me, from Quality Records for Canada.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Looking forward to listening to Philly Joe Jones' Dameronia and reading Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste, translated by Charlotte Mandell in this NYRB Classics edition.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Listening tonight to Andrew Hill with Kenny Dorham, Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis and Anthony Williams.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I did not mind this past weekend's weather kept everyone indoors. I had great company to spend that time with.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Will enjoy the evening with Paper Man led by Charles Tolliver with Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers, and Paul Morand's wonderfully unconventional autobiography Venices.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Once this workday ends, I'll settle down with The Modern Jazz Quartet's Prestige recordings and this volume of Foucault essays.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Settling into the evening with Tamami Koyake and Edmund Wilson.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Gadamer and Castoriadis offering two approaches for understanding early Greek philosophical thought and thinkers.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Listening today to Any Old Time with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, featuring vocals by Lena Horne, Billie Holiday and Helen Forrest.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

For this quiet Easter Monday: Crossings with Red Garland, Ron Carter and Philly Joe Jones.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Will be settling down tonight with Ted Hughes and Miles Davis.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

For tonight's reading and listening: Ahmad Jamal's Poinciana with Israel Crosby on bass, and Vernell Fournier on drums; and Henri Lefebvre's Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or, The Realm of Shadows.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Listening now to Alexander Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis with a libretto by Zemlinsky based on the play Der Kreidekreis by Klabund (Alfred Henschke).

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Listening to Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux with Anatol Ugorski on piano and reading Wittgenstein's Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Julia Kristeva's Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia is a perfect compliment upon finishing Leonid Tsypkin's novel Summer in Baden-Baden.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Mosaic Records once again releases an amazing set of rare and hard to come by recordings, this time from Vanguard's Jazz Showcase series from 1953-1958.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Reading once more Opera's Second Death with Zizek on Wagner and Dolar on Mozart.

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Thomas Venetis @gaudierjazz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Listening tonight to Other Afternoons with Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, Lester Bowie on trumpet, Alan Silva, bass and Andrew Cyrille, drums.

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