Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"every man in America" I mean sometimes it does feel that way. 100
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I heard "Uptown Top Ranking" in a cafe on Monday and it's been stuck in my head ever since... you're welcome. 030
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Good thread. Like so many other things, orchestras exist in the USA because wealthy people wanted them to exist. That's how they started here and it's how they will continue. If they stop wanting them they will cease to exist. 031
Reposted by Ted ReichmanDarcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 05/10/2026The Trump version targets every music conservatory in the country, including Juilliard, Curtis, the Yale School of Music, and my alma mater, New England Conservatory. 33510
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026tbc I have no idea if what they told him was true... 000
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Many years ago a record I was producing got derailed because the drummer learned his biological father was Marvin Gaye the night before the first session and he disappeared. 122
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Gender studies scholars should take a look at the TV ads Mike Minogue is running in Massachusetts... You wouldn't know he's a republican, but you definitely know he's a MAN. 010
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026successfully got a laugh out of my teenage kid with the phrase "raw dogging a pu pu platter." 030
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026alternating between composing Jack Nitzsche/Van Dyke Parks-ish parade marches and vacuuming water out of my basement... 022
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I just did a google search and it gave me AI results in Vietnamese, which is awesome considering how much data I've fed these clowns, none of which is in that language. 000
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Colson I'm sorry to curse your timeline with this pic but... I saw this at the grocery store earlier this summer. 021
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm sure it's just a coincidence that my appreciation of surrealism has increased like 1000% over the last ten years. Naomi Klein wrote about this not too long ago... www.equator.org/articles/sur...equator.orgSurrealism Against Fascism • EQUATORA century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide? 031
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026got to see this hilarious, disturbing work of multidimensionality, light, genitalia and vegetables IRL at the Art Institute of Chicago last week. 152
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There were guys like this in NYC well into the 2010's when the youtubers took over... or maybe they still do it? 020
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Feldman is on the lower left? Guston is blue. Musa Mayer is the poet (that's her hair on the right). The guy in the middle with the shades and the whip (?) is the sculptor - who would that be? 110
Reposted by Ted ReichmanPhilip Guston @philipguston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Allegory www.slam.org/collection/objects/173… 051
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dillard rejecting me from the one opportunity I had to take her class was one the most important moments in my young life. So I guess she was an important teacher even if I never actually met her! 010
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If I hadn’t overslept I would have been on the R train on my way to my office job in Midtown at exactly the wrong time. Instead I watched it from my roof in Brooklyn. After the second plane hit, my asshole neighbor said, “We let these people into our country and look what happens.” 011
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm starting to think this preservation is a gen x/millennial-specific phenomenon bc of how we experienced culture pre-00's. Young people are in a very different situation now, without an older generation's aesthetics hanging over them as much as the boomers' did through the CD/VHS/DVD/cable era. 020
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I just found my CD of the necks "Aether" and listened to it from beginning to end. I strongly recommend - especially this week. It's also "Aether's" 25th anniversary this year. 041
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I went through a Ballard phase recently and yes, can confirm - few writers have been as right as he was. cf High Rise, Concrete Island, the Drought, etc etc etc etc. Looks like it's a particularly Kingdom Come-esque day in the UK today. 000
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Wendy Eisenberg has a tzadik record- any many other excellent ones including one I produced on VDSQ which is their most Bailey-like 100
Reposted by Ted ReichmanDarcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 01/09/2026As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 611484
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yes I went through this too- it was insane. Rejected multiple times. Had to talk on the phone with someone _very_ far away from Harvard Yard. I did eventually get paid though. 000
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Yes this is always an awkward conversation when I teach film scoring. 010
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Rebennack's instructional video is on youtube when you're ready. I find it really hard to watch- it's not a good time in his life and it's not flattering to his playing. 110
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I mean this band with James Booker on organ (higher in the mix than Mac's piano)... how could anyone not love it? And then there was the time when the Meters were his band. I hope nobody doubts how great this music was. There just happens to be a complex story behind it. youtu.be/1dqmYI1eg7A?...youtu.beLet's Make a Better World - Dr. John | The Midnight SpecialYouTube video by The Midnight Special 120
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026ha- yes I have - that's a classic. and yes you are right re the biz. I think we're saying the same thing. 120
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026oh yeah- he spent decades advocating for NOLA music and musicians. There's no question that he took his need to "give back" seriously. But why was _he_ in the position of "world's foremost avatar of New Orleans music" instead of Ellis Marsalis, Allen Toussaint, etc? Like Judd said it's systemic. 120
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You definitely should read it then! this is really what Toop is working out. I think he would say it's more complicated than your schema above, especially when real religious traditions and history are swept into a not deeply thought out showbiz gesture. 120
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026but obviously it was an era when people like the stones and zeppelin were making bank off of their massively inflated versions of Black music. Toop talks about this too. Rebennack's connection to Black music and culture was very real but again the goofy white guy gets the spotlight and the money. 110
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026nobody doubts his musical connection to NOLA r&b even if his playing is (let's be real) so much worse than Booker and the Prof etc. Toop's analysis of the appropriation question is more the voodoo priest persona and the lyrics- which he definitely did not learn the way he said he did in interviews. 100
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026That would explain Miles's title! I really don't know but anything is possible. Miles (or Teo or whoever) certainly could have known Harold Battiste and been following what he was up to in Hollywood. And a version of the Gris-Gris band did tour- maybe he saw them at a jazz festival or something. 100
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026it's the only one I still listen to! my feelings about the Dr are complex but I do still basically consider myself a fan. I talk about this in the review (though wise editors took out some of my snarkier comments). 120
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'll post more about this tomorrow but yes, I'm very honored that my review of David Toop's excellent analysis of Dr. John's "Gris-Gris" album was posted today at the New York Review of Books. 2295
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I did a tour with doc chad when he was playing the rake and an old timey hand-cranked pencil sharpener he had hooked up to an amp. _many_ stories from that week.... 120
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Pina and I are on a first name basis because she once kissed me on the cheek at her festival in Wuppertal. 001
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Free advice- instead of doomscrolling, you could go to Pina Bausch's website, which is full of gems like Chantal Akerman's incredible 1983 doc about Pina... (h/t Hilton Als who posted a clip on IG, which inspired me to google...) www.pinabausch.org/post/one-day...pinabausch.org‘One day Pina asked...’ by Chantal AkermannDocumentary film about Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater. France 1983, original title: ‘Un jour Pina a demandé...’ 110
Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026read this last summer- very much worth the effort. 010
