Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I don't know what you think you are trying to do here, but if the people of Texas have a choice between a wuss and a fascist, go Team Wuss! 110
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There are good books on Getz/Gilberto and an Akiyoshi/Tabackin big band record in the Brazil & Japan subseries (& the "Global" ones I've read seem to be a little more serious than the unmarked 33.3s). 010
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I remain attached to the idea of 33.3 as a platform for interesting writing rather than a canon of albums, but I am often disappointed... 010
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I could see takes about European identity, opera as pop, classical as kitsch, and PBS. 100
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I am aware of a couple of jazz proposals currently under consideration. We'll see if anything makes it! 100
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Is the only classical one the Xenakis book in the Euro series? Does Switched on Bach count? I feel like there needs to be a Three Tenors one in the main series, but I don't want to write or read it. 100
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026To be fair, there are books on Getz/Gilberto and a Akiyoshi/Tabackin record in the Brazil & Japan series. Both are really good. Until your book came out, I thought they had an overt rule against jazz. 200
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Remember when people were upset Carter had "lusted in his heart?" 100
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Looking forward to Kristol apologizing for his entire career and most of his parents'. 110
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Still waiting for apologies from librarians who recommended it. 010
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sounds dubious. I enjoy those Drumeo videos though. Do you know about the Crimson Jazz Trio? 100
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026They did one for me, and I am way more niche and unlikeable than Miriam. 110
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Mahler is some folks’ favorite composer, others think he’s a little excessive or just don’t get him at all… 000
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I don’t know about that. My nephew just saw the punk exhibition at the Skirball museum and said he liked it, although he didn’t like punk. I asked if he’d heard Television. I knew that was a punk band that he’d like more than, say, the Circle Jerks… 020
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I explicitly avoided offering any kind of list like this in my book. What's the point? The most historically important? My favorites? People come to the music with all sorts of agendas too. Is the same person going to like "Journey in Satchidananda," "Mass Projection," and "Creative Music"? 120
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026They are happy to bill us monthly for putting our stuff in "the cloud." 010
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I see your point, but I think the singer is usually the focus, so AC/DC and Sabbath. Also whoever replaced the original Paul McCartney after the car crash. 110
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I came here to find out about the violin recital and maybe find a funny way to point out that rosin goes on the bow hair, not the strings, but instead I learned this. 000
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026It has been a while since I read it, but IIRC a lot of free/loft jazz players show up. I think Lester Bowie has a significant part. 000
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I am proud that, for my entire career, when someone asked for Ayn Rand I refrained from saying: "If you can't find it yourself, she doesn't want you to have it." 936312
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I am happy that my mother-in-law now knows who Mike Watt is. 020
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Replacing Paul Goodman with David Brooks makes the world a worse place. 010
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026These dropped in the late '80s and were a remedial education... 260
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Much easier than Ra. Just about everything was released by a label in a standard format. None of this "every copy has a hand-drawn cover and five of them have a different, otherwise unavailable B-side" business, which is standard on Saturn... Then there's the super-galacto-fidelity. 020
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I note that she called the World Stage "World's Stage" and that no one who works at the Times caught it. And that she called the Hancock Institute at UCLA a musicology program, which I corrected in a comment when the article first came out but no correction was made. It's a performance program. 020
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026That's a damn shame. I wondered what had happened. 000
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026The Times' obit gives a remarkable amount of space to his critics. I'm not saying he was flawless, but I can't really remember seeing one like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...nytimes.comJesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84 000
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026vpam.org/about-vpam/vpam.orgAbout VPAM | VPAMAbout VPAM Photo by Monica Orozco OUR PURPOSE VPAM is a visual arts institution and artist laboratory at East Los Angeles College. Rooted in the diverse 120
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Coming in 2027 from SUNY Press: The Worlds of Cecil Taylor, edited by Peter Valente, with contributions from Matthew Shipp, Anne Waldman, Elliott Levin, Alex Ward, David Grubbs, Damon Smith, Marc Edwards, me, and many more. I am optimistic this will be a good book on Cecil... 2123
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Oh, I see you were on this yesterday. Apologies... 000
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Same thing with the forthcoming Cecil Taylor set! 210
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Top story on nytimes.com and they called it racist, not "racially charged" or any of that hooey.nytimes.comThe New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and VideosLive news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, poli... 010
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 17/01/2026If you would like to keep up on what I'm doing (mostly musical performances around Southern California, but also some writing and recordings, and maybe some minor touring), please join my email list here: jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/m... Thanks!jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.comMailing ListVisit the post for more. 050
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026The correct term is "less lethal." Still a deadly weapon. 040
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 11/01/2026"Your world" created this. If you can't see the continuity in the US right since at least 1964, Rick Perlstein can help: newrepublic.com/article/1609...newrepublic.comThis Is Us: Why the Trump Era Ended in ViolenceThe Capitol insurrection was born of a violent minoritarian tradition that is as American as apple pie—and it isn’t done yet. 030
Jeff Schwartz @jeff-schwartz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What are their recommendations for teaching the Symposium? 010
