Gijs Levelt

@gijslevelt.bsky.social

Trumpet player/composer/educator from Amsterdam. #antifa just so you know where I stand

upcoming concerts 22-8 Soul Demons, Wicked Jazz Festival, Amsterdam 27-8 Gijs Levelt & Friends, Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam 1-9 Press, Rec & Play, Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam 12-9 Ding!, Growing Music, Almere 15-9 Ding!, Hoe hoe hoe met Mylou, Theater de Liefde, Haarlem

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“Musicians in NYC rarely have the luxury of practicing at home. Those unwilling to shell out for private rooms are driven, often, outdoors to any sliver of public space that might serve as rehearsal space. Sonny Rollins…famously practiced in the middle of the Williamsburg Bridge” #SonnyRollinsBridge

The Bagpiper’s Endless Quest for a Place to Practice

A tour of New York’s cemeteries, toxic canals and industrial zones where a great Highland bagpipe can drone in peace.

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“Foreboding and bleak, yet alien and beautiful, ‘Mezzanine’ looked, felt and sounded like nothing that had come before.” The ugly truth behind Mezzanine, the bleak, beautiful masterpiece which ripped Massive Attack apart:

"Are we a punk band now?" The ugly truth behind Mezzanine, the bleak, beautiful masterpiece which ripped Massive Attack apart

Upon its release in 1998, Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine sounded like nothing that had come before. It still does

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Recent kreeg ik mail van de ouders van Roos, die kampte met mentale problemen. Ze werd 17.💔 Enkele dagen ervoor sprak ik een 15-jarige die haar beste vriendin was verloren. Wat een leed. En waarom is er zo weinig politieke urgentie als het gaat om jeugdzorg en GGZ? www.ad.nl/woudenberg/k...

Kamer buigt zich over jongeren als Roos (17), die uit het leven stapte door worsteling met zichzelf én jeugdzorg

Wat is het verband tussen jongeren die uit het leven stappen en het ontbreken van de juiste hulp? Naar aanleiding van het tragische overlijden van de 17-jarige Roos in Woudenberg is deze vraag nu ook ...

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Today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast features trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who spent decades chasing the freedom of the slide trumpet — only to do the opposite. He pared down to a chordless trio, no mutes, no electronics, and called it his first real trumpet record at nearly 65 … #Jazzsky

Steven Bernstein on ResoNation Trio and Ultra Resonance

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein on his chordless trio ResoNation Trio, Scotty Hard's dub reinvention Ultra Resonance, and why he still plays Levon Helm's music.

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this is demodex. it is a species of mite that lives in your eyelash follicles & comes out at night to have sex on your face. it is completely harmless. you have thousands of demodex on/in your body right now because you are a part of nature. say hi to demodex, it helps clean your eyelashes 4 u. 🥰

a close up microscopic image of demodex, with eyebrow lashes in front of it. this is not to scale, just there for artistic effect. another demodex is floating behind the first one. they are both friend shaped.
Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 2y ago

oh i loved when i found out about our microscopic eyelash mites. the idea that i’m a sentient ecosystem of collaborative creatures in a state of mutual symbiosis is so gender for me.

Lieve mensen, Het concert van Cape Crossing bij de Front Porch Sessions van Niki Jacobs in Kunstwerkplaats Quinta Essentia van a.s. zondag wordt uitgesteld. De nieuwe datum is: ZONDAG 22 SEPTEMBER Reserveer nu vast via: info@kunstwerkplaats.com of 0622516991

E-flyer concert met nieuwe concertserie zondag 22 november!