Comments on: Von Freeman

By: dwight

dwight — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:26:25 +0000

i just don’t get it.

i like *everything* by sean carrol.

and now this: it ends up he’s a jazz lover TOO.

i am sean’s biggest fan forever.

By: Cooter

Cooter — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:01:52 +0000

That’s really sad to hear! I had never liked jazz until one time some friends dragged me down to the Apartment, where I heard Von Freeman play. They completely blew me away! Now I wish I had gone back more often, I’ve never found anything I liked as much as these guys….

By: brett

brett — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:15:17 +0000

That’s what people who understand music mean when they talk about a musician who plays with feeling. The ability to dominate the tempo, rhythm, and melody all at the same time and truly play as yourself. All the background noise and the underscored conversations make that 2nd video perfect.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:24:23 +0000

The second video comes from JazzontheTube.com, a well known jazz video web site. Besides hosting it and serving it over 5,000 times (according to YouTube), they shot it too as a promo for the club’s Tuesday nights with Von. Not bad for a one camera, hand held shoot with no edits.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:21:46 +0000

That’s sad news.

I remembered the night before my thesis defense at Chicago, and I was revising my talk in my office at 9pm, when Sean showed up. He said “You should relax. Have you ever been to the Apartment? Von Freeman is playing tonight!”

So Sean took me down to the Apartment that night, and sure enough Von Freeman was playing. And it was awesome. At the end, Sean introduced me to him, and he gave me a signed copy of his CD (which I still have). I told him he was really great, and he said “Oh no, it’s not me who is great. It is young people like you who study the cosmos that is great.”

By: Mike A.

Mike A. — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:16:44 +0000

Sorry to hear that. This really is a great post. I’m a huge fan of Kurt Elling, and Von Feeman makes a number of appearances on his albums (as does Michael Raynor, who I remember seeing live with Kurt Elling a bunch of times back in the late ’90s).

By: Phillip Helbig

Phillip Helbig — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:42:50 +0000

Maybe I missed some chatter in the blogosphere since I was on holiday, but I note that radio-astronomy pioneer Sir Bernard Lovell died a few days ago, just shy of his 99th birthday.

By: Spiros

Spiros — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:29:16 +0000

What a great tribute to a great man. Thanks for the awesome post.