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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 4h

I had missed initial coverage a few months ago but it seems pianist Jacky Terrasson (Paris-based, has worked with a lot of NYC musicians) has an abundant history of sexual assault that was an industry open-secret. He's just been criminally charged w/ sexual assault on a 6-year-old, ten years ago.

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« C’était une agression physique, intime » : trois femmes accusent le pianiste de jazz Jacky Terrasson, par ailleurs mis en examen pour agression sexuelle sur mineure

L’artiste est poursuivi dans le cadre d’une affaire où la victime avait 6 ans au moment des faits. Il a également été placé sous le statut de témoin assisté pour viol sur mineure de moins de 15 ans, c...

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First @mediapart.fr revealed gross antisemitic messages and associations w/ Holocaust deniers etc by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen's protégé and presumed PM if she becomes president. Cue mass denials, accusations of fabrication, etc. Now Mediapart drops the — rigorous, devastating — receipts.

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Écrits antisémites de Jordan Bardella : les preuves du mensonge

« Propos délirants », « dinguerie », « faux grossiers »… Depuis nos révélations sur ses écrits antisémites, Jordan Bardella, soutenu par Marine Le Pen et le Rassemblement national, a violemment mis e…

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1) not mind-boggling at all 2) “major country” my ass. (Bernie Sanders also has this verbal habit and it’s annoying.) wtf is a “major country”?

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine someday not being governed by absolute raging assholes, with zero redeeming characteristics, on par with the worst people in history

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You will likely need to sign up for @equatormag.bsky.social to read the whole thing — and you should.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolutely fantastic analysis — by Rodrigo Nunes, interviewed by Carlos Pérez — of the contemporary far right, not just in Brazil where the election is imminent, but everywhere. www.equator.org/articles/bra...

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Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR

The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Zizou is experimenting! Now's the time to do it.

France starting eleven vs. Belgium: Maignan - Kalulu, Jacquet, Lacroix, Diouf - Camavinga, Da Cunha, Akliouche - Doué, Lepaul, Barcola

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September is okra season in Salvador for spiritual reasons. That means lots of caruru, but chefs are experimenting with alternative treatments too. “O quiabo é identidade!", diz. "É a expressão máxima da completude das raízes historico-regionais com os elementos mais contemporâneos”. #okrapolitan

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Na brasa, empanado e com missô: restaurantes de Salvador reinventam o quiabo fora do caruru | A TARDE

Quiabo vai além do caruru e ganha versões na brasa, tempurá e com missô em restaurantes de Salvador. Confira pratos e endereços.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like AOC for Senate. If she wants to go for Prez, good for her — win or lose, her presence improves the primary. But I like her for Senate. (I also don't think she has the toxic egomaniacal traits that drive people to want to be president.)

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

45 years since the TGV entered service, slicing Paris-Lyon journey time from 4 hours to 2 hours. Japan already had the Shinkansen but on its launch the TGV was faster. I remember those orange trains. Maybe in some future century the US will get high-speed rail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvmz...

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TGV : 45 ans à grande vitesse !｜TF1 INFO

YouTube video by TF1 INFO

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oyarzabal slots one in, and it's over. England 2-3 Spain Entertaining

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kane misses a penalty. Then Yamal misses a chance. But now Spain ties it up! Kind of a chaotic match, but entertaining. 2-2

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2-1 England! Cucurella with the disastrous own goal.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fantastic counterattack goal by England after Spain manufacture but fail to quite complete a bunch of chances. 1-1

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do not gift the ball to Lamine Yamal at the edge of the box with only the goalkeeper to beat in the second minute of play.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 26/09/2026

A piece almost as interesting for what it doesn’t say as what it does; the lines, they are not hard to read between www.wsj.com/articles/kim...

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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe

Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The headline and subtitle don't do justice to the contents of the long conversation between El-Sayed and Klein, the biggest part of which is on urgency and mechanics of single-payer health-insurance reform. El-Sayed impressive across the board — moral clarity with an articulated theory of politics.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The opera! And, Fiorello La Guardia referenced, as always.

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s still John Coltrane’s 100th birthday in US time zones as I type this. Have you listened to Coltrane today? It’s still time to listen to Coltrane today (and tomorrow and every day after)

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Ari S. @zzz12312.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Live at the Village Vanguard, November 1961

front cover of John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard, and illustration of the sign outside the venue

back cover of the CD showing the song titles and personnel

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This gets another spin tonight. One of the most important archival releases ever. The bandstand was lifted. #JohnColtrane100 #Trane100

LP front cover to Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, AT CARNEGIE HALL (Mosaic Records/Thelonious Records, rec. 1957, rel. 2005)

LP back cover to Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane, AT CARNEGIE HALL (Mosaic Records/Thelonious Records, rec. 1957, rel. 2005) (showing erroneous "digital transfer" information from the CD - the LP was an all-analog cut)

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Andrew Clarke @andclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Picked this up in Melbourne last week. Happy 100th to the great man.

A vinyl sleeve of John Coltrane’s Africa Brass Sessions, vol. 2

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"sometimes you have to take a thing as it comes, and be glad...the people can give you something, too": "John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics," DownBeat, 12 April 1962

One of the tunes that Coltrane’s group plays at length is “My Favorite Things,” a song, as played by the group, that can exert an intriguingly hypnotic effect, though sometimes it seems too long. Upon listening closely to him play “Things” on the night before the interview, it seemed that he actually played two solos. He finished one, went back to the theme a bit, and then went into another improvisation.

“That’s the way the song is constructed,” Coltrane said. “It’s divided into parts. We play both parts. There’s a minor and a major part. We improvise in the minor, and we improvise in the major modes.”

Is there a certain length to the two modes?

“It’s entirely up to the artist—his choice,” he answered. “We were playing it at one time with minor, then major, then minor modes, but it was really getting too long—it was about the only tune we had time to play in an average-length set.”

But in playing extended solos, isn’t there ever present the risk of running out of ideas? What happens when you’ve played all your ideas?

“It’s easy to stop then,” Coltrane said, grinning. “If I feel like I’m just playing notes… maybe I don’t feel the rhythm or I’m not in the best shape that I should be in when this happens. When I become aware of it in the middle of a solo, I’ll try to build things to the point where this inspiration is happening again, where things are spontaneous and not contrived. If it reaches that point again, I feel it can continue—it’s alive again. But if it doesn’t happen, I’ll just quit, bow out.”

When did he first begin to feel this way?

“I guess I was on my way in ’57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically. It’s just recently that I’ve tried to become even more aware of this other side, the life side of music. I feel I’m just beginning again. Which goes back to the group and what we’re trying to do. I’m fortunate to be in the company I’m in now, because anything I’d like to do, I have a place to try. They respond so well that it’s very easy to try new things.” Dolphy broke in with, “Music is a reflection of everything. And it’s universal. Like, you can hear somebody from across the world, another country. You don’t even know them, but they’re in your backyard, you know?”

“It’s a reflection of the universe,” Coltrane said. “Like having life in miniature. You just take a situation in life or an emotion you know and put it into music. You take a scene you’ve seen, for instance, and put it to music.”

Had he ever succeeded in re-creating a situation or scene?

“I was getting into it,” he said, “but I haven’t made it yet. But I’m beginning to see how to do it. I know a lot of musicians who have done it. It’s just happening to me now. Actually, while a guy is soloing, there

The 1960s are many things that happen. Probably he himself doesn’t know how many moods or themes he’s created. But I think it really ends up with the listener. You know, you hear different people say, ‘Man, I felt this while he was playing,’ or, ‘I thought about this.’ There’s no telling what people are thinking. They take in what they have experienced. It’s a sharing process—playing— for people.”

“You can feel vibrations from the people,” Dolphy added. “The people can give you something, too,” Coltrane said. “If you play in a place where they really like you, like your group, they can make you play like you’ve never felt like playing before.”

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kahil El’Zabar • Sketches for Trane: A Centennial Tribute Reimagining the Music of John Coltrane feat. Isaiah Collier, David Murray, Dwight Trible, & Corey Wilkes out today kahilelzabar-is.bandcamp.com/album/sketch...

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Caleb @calebjcook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Meditatin’

John Coltrane — First Meditations (for quartet)

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my mind, the holiest grail of live recordings. Was gifted it on CD in 1997 & it’s been on my top shelf ever since. It’s all extraordinary but the November 3rd recordings are a favorite.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s John Coltrane’s centennial. Listening to his music taught me as much about thinking as Gramsci, Husserl, Hall, or Anderson. One of the very few historical figures who I’d call a hero.

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India (Live From Village Vanguard/November 1,1961)

YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Probably Live in Japan, four discs of skranking and skronking Coltrane at his best that peaks with a nearly hour long My Favorite Things bsky.app/profile/sidd...

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

not a coltrane led record but wrote about a bunch of perfect ones that feature him not long ago pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... bsky.app/profile/sidd...