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One line especially stayed with me — Ron Carter speaking about bass players once being kept “behind the palm trees”… treated as timekeepers rather than creative voices. Fascinating perspective from someone who helped redefine the role of the bass in modern jazz.

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2,000.
Music matters.
Thank you for listening with me.

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OMA at Blue Note NYC
A Manchester band steps into a larger room.

I’ve had 36 hours to sit with OMA’s Blue Note New York debut.

OMA are a Manchester instrumental quartet operating between hip-hop, house, lo-fi and downtempo groove. They already carry a committed international following and a strong live reputation — this wasn’t a discovery moment. It was an expansion.

A Manchester band on the Blue Note stage — that alone was reason enough to go.

Originally booked as a four-piece, drummer Sam Healy couldn’t make the show. With barely sixteen hours’ notice, the band reworked the set as a trio — bass, guitar and keys — with live drum programming handled by the keyboardist/producer, Corben Lamb.
Chris Larcombe on guitar and James Harper on bass.

It could have felt like a compromise.

It didn’t.

The pocket was deep. The transitions controlled. The mix precise enough for every instrument to sit clearly without losing the collective groove.

OMA don’t simply perform covers. They reconstruct them — hip-hop classics, jazz motifs, soul textures — filtered through a distinctly Manchester sensibility. Groove first. Ego nowhere.

I went in new to them. I left understanding the following they’ve built.

This wasn’t a beginning.
It wasn’t an arrival either.

It felt like a band operating at a pivot point — tightening, expanding, stepping into bigger rooms.

Blue Note New York City debut complete.
Blue Note Los Angeles next.

Manchester sound, moving outward.

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A beautiful run of gigs ahead.

Bowie lineage.
Don Was.
Michael League.

Listening first.

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I have been waiting to see the one and only Don Was live for quite some time. I love the interviews I saw him do as Blue Note Records President with Maestro Ron Carter and Mr Ronnie Foster.
Don Was and The Pan Detroit Ensemble will be at Blue Note Jazz Club in Jan 2026. This track is insane !!! 🔥🔥🔥

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“I need to sit and just think about what happened.”

On the morning of the last day of the Oasis Reunion Tour…
it feels a little biblical.
A little majestical.

A quiet little film is coming…
to close my chapter.

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Tonight it starts.
Buenos Aires. El Monumental.
The songs that shaped us.
Music matters. It was golden💛



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#oasis
#oasis2025 #riverplate #buenosaires
#maradona

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Notes from the front row…where music breathes and time slows.

Maestro Ron Carter and Bill Frisell at Birdland- what a night.
The set closed with ‘Billie’s Bounce’ ( written by Charlie Parker, 1945), one of my absolute favourites.

For anyone who thinks Jazz isn’t for them… I get it. I was the same. But over the past few years, I’ve come to appreciate the genre deeply.
Maybe it’s because I love music history-learning about the greats-and realizing that, no matter the style, it’s all music to me. And music matters, it transports us in many ways words can’t.

Listen people😉
Ron Carter- the maestro.
He’s recorded with everyone from:
Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Herbie Hancock and Aretha Franklin to Paul Simon, Billy Joel and A Tribe Called Quest. He’s in the Guinness book of records as the most -recorded bassist in history- still going strong.

October is #rontober at Birdland.
This week, his New Jazz Trio
Next week, Ron Carter’s Foursight Quartet and closing this month, Ron Carter’s Great Big Band.

And it all happened here - the legendary Birdland, NYC, where Jazz still lives and breathes. 🎶
#roncarter #billfrisell
#birdland #rontober
#cherid

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The elegant Ron Carter, the Maestro with Bill Frisell this weekend. Always a joy and privilege to watch and listen to those bass lines 💛

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