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I don't blab any drab gab. I chatter hep patter.

#jazzsky Clifford Jordan and the Magic Triangle, Firm Roots, Inner City, 1977 [originally Steeplechase (Denmark) 1975]. Jordan, ts f; Cedar Walton, p; Sam Jones, b; Billy Higgins, d.

LP cover. Very dark black and white photo of a Black man (Jordan) playing tenor, turned a quarter towards the left (his right). His horn is mostly visible as spots of light reflecting off the brass, and we can really only see his face and the placket of his shirt, because his suit is also black. He has a quite heavy beard and mustache that wasn't there in his Blue Note years.

#jazzsky Bobby Timmons featuring Sonny Red, Live at the Connecticut Jazz Party, Chiaroscuro, 1981 [recorded 1964, previously unreleased]. Timmons, p; Red, as; Sam Jones, b; Mickey Roker, d.

LP cover. A black and white photo, so intensely contrasty it looks like a silhouette, of a Black man (Timmons) in profile, Just his face and a hint of collar, with his scraggly goatee hanging off his chin, leaning forward, presumably over his piano. Just a hint of reflected light off his lower lip, his nose, and his forehead. We can't see his eyes.

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

Capital One said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team.

Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team.

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#jazzsky Blue Mitchell, Bring It Home To Me, Blue Note, 1967 [this is the 2022 Tone Poet reissue]. Mitchell, t; Junior Cook, ts; Harold Mabern Jr., p; Gene Taylor, b; Billy Higgins, d.

LP cover. All white background, with an illustration in pen and ink, with brown and black watercolor, of a Black man (Mitchell) playing the trumpet.

Awful: “Nursing homes terminated hundreds of workers, including nursing assistants, dietary aides and housekeepers, industry and union leaders said. At airports including those in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Boston, contractors terminated scores of Haitian workers, including janitors…”

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers

The Department of Homeland Security alerted employers this week that it had officially ended humanitarian protections for 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs.

inquirer.com

Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

wired.com

#jazzsky Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, Prestige, 1956 [this is the 1989 OJC reissue]. Davis, t; Milt Jackson, vib; John Coltrane, ts; Thelonious Monk or Red Garland, p; Percy Heath or Paul Chambers, b; Kenny Clarke or Philly Joe Jones, d.

LP cover. Top half is plain white with black text listing the title and the sidemen; bottom half is a yellow tinted black and white photo of a very dark Black man (Davis) blowing his horn, with mute in the bell, turned a quarter of the way to our right (his left). He's wearing an impeccable light colored checked jacket, probably grey, with a dark tie and a pocket square visible. His eyes are closed in concentration.

Am I crazy? Should the chief of police in Seattle live in Seattle, or in Chicago? Mayor Katie Wilson surely has plenty of juice left, USE IT. Get rid of this carpetbagger, maybe? Reforming the whole department is surely impossible but the Chief? What the hell? FIRE HIM.

As a classic boomer child of the sixties, I spend an absurd amount of time mulling over the eternal musical questions of the best bands of the era, like Dino, Desi, and Billy OR Gary Lewis and the Playboys?

Gaslighting people about the literal text of the Constitution and hoping they'll get lucky and SCOTUS will agree in order to cheat and harm nonwhite people is like, this administration's whole deal. It is exactly what you'd expect from a man once sued by the feds for racist housing discrimination.

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Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

#jazzsky Jimmy McGriff, Soul Sugar, Capitol, 1970 [this is the 2018 Vinyl Me, Please reissue]. McGriff, org; Murray Watson, t; Cliff Davis, ts f; Johnny Board, bs; Horace Ott, elec p; Larry Frazier, g; Richard Davis, b; Marion J. Booker, d; Lawrence Killian, perc

LP cover. Sorry, this one is ridiculous. A dramatically lit photograph of a Black woman with a large Afro and long false eyelashes holding a red stick of candy erect with her tongue tickling the tip. It's shiny and wet. Sigh.

#jazzsky The Billy Mitchell Quintet featuring Thad Jones Trumpet, A Little Juicy, Smash, 1963 [this is the Japanese Fontana reissue of 1972]. Mitchell, ts; Jones, t; Kenny Burrell, g; Richard Wyand, p; Herman Wright, b; Oliver Jackson Jr., d.

LP cover. A very grainy, busy black and white photo of a Black man (Mitchell), looking at the camera during a recording session. He's wearing a checked shirt, heavy black rimmed glasses, and a neatly trimmed goatee. Around him, mostly extremely out of focus, is a variety of recording studio gear - microphones, stands, cables, and so forth. The typography is charmingly hand drawn in black or red.

#jazzsky Booker Ervin, Tex Book Tenor, Blue Note, 2005 [this is the 2024 Tone Poet reissue; recorded in 1968 and left in the can for decades]. Ervin, ts; Woody Shaw, t; Kenny Barron, p; Jan Arnet, b; Billy Higgins, d.

LP cover. An orange tinted black and white photo of a Black man (Ervin), with a fine handlebar mustache and heavy hornrim glasses, wearing what looks like a black flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up past the elbows. He's in profile, facing left (his right). Nice watch too.