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He wrote music scores for Broadway productions and movies, worked with all the great composers and lyricist of his days. 'Tea for Two' is probably Vincent Youmans' best known song. #JazzSky #MusicSky #MusicalSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr0w...

Marion Harris (1924) [TEA FOR TWO]

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JazzIM@jazzinmemoriam.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dead on this day? NAAAAAH, born on this day.

Bud Powell, pianist who co-pioneered bebop. Rough life in which jazz, but also racism, alcoholism and violence were steady features. DOTD in 1966, age 41. #JazzSKY #Jazz #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYL...

Bud Powell - You Go to My Head

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George Gershwin, composer of classical, pop and jazz pieces and songs. Refused by legendary music teacher Nadia Boulanger (she thought her lessons would ruin his jazz-infused approach). George Gershwin: DOTD in 1937, hardly 38 years old. #JazzSky #OperaSky #MusicSky youtu.be/UYlIHI35oak?...

Kathleen Battle sings "Summertime" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

YouTube video by Curtain Call: Curated by Armon Golliday

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Formidable singer, empress and blues icon Bessie Smith. DOTD in 1937. #BluesSky #MusicSky youtu.be/HJLAwV_3dnY?...

Bessie Smith, "Nobody knows you when you're down and out", 1929

YouTube video by Marco Renzini

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Russian immigrant, singing waiter. First song in 1907, first Broadway show 7 years later, followed by a career filled with "the most quintessentially American songs". Many of his songs became jazz standards. Irving Berlin, DOTD in 1989. #JazzSky #MusicSky #Jazz youtu.be/-ZObrL56IK0?...

Always (Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook)

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DOTD in 1968: Swedish post-bop tenor saxophonist Börje Fredericksson. Recorded only one album in 1966, Intervall. Got hardly any commercial succes, but "Scandinavian jazz musicians kept rediscovering his pieces for decades after he died". #JazzSky #MusicSky #Jazz youtu.be/yso5RyFzMMs?...

Börje Fredriksson playing "Katrin" (Fredriksson)

YouTube video by Fredrik Lundin

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DOTD in 1987: the "Paganini of the (fretless) bass guitar", musican-composer-innovator. The video illustrates his musical and personal friendship with Toots Thielemans and his piano skills. #JazzSky youtu.be/jI2y81SS9rk?...

Jaco Pastorius y Toots Thielemans 'Three views of a secret'

YouTube video by Cantante Marina

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Ben Webster, King of Tenors. Part trilby, part Mr Hyde. Lived a decade as jazz royalty on this side of the Atlantic. DOTD in 1973, Amsterdam. #JazzSky #Jazz youtu.be/qAZWFafX6o8?...

"Cotton Tail" (1940) Duke Ellington and Ben Webster

YouTube video by Natalie Zirpolo

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I sometimes visit online jazz guitar groups where the big boys talk about ideal jazz 'boxes' and 'axes'. I wonder if that's also the case on clarinet forums. K, not really 😏. Anyway, just felt like posting a Buddy DeFranco album. #JazzSky #Jazz youtu.be/BH3n_Qqz-9I?...

Buddy Defranco - The King Of Clarinet (1953)

YouTube video by Роман Владимирович Исаев

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#JazzSky #Jazz How I wish the weekend is going to be: youtu.be/hkyJQcmVtZQ?...

Dexter Gordon - Cheese Cake

YouTube video by JazzTuna

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Will Shade aka Son Brimmer is one of my harmonica heroes. He was the leader of several Memphis based jug bands. Hughely successful, but the Great Depression ruined him financially. DOTD in 1966. #MusicSky #JugBandSky From the era when voting twice was considered a crime: youtu.be/JkQ7EROAse4?...

Memphis Jug Band - He's In The Jailhouse Now

YouTube video by Traveler Into The Blue

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DOTD in 1980, Bill Evans. Pianist, composer. He's the one who reeled me into jazz music not an awfully long time ago. Video: Evans and Julian Adderley (who was BOTD in 1928). #JazzMusic youtu.be/nZrxCohQH1I?...

Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans - Who Cares? (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Cannonball Adderley

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BOTD in 1928: Julian Adderley, saxophonist, composer, cannonball. Moved from hard bop to soul jazz and fusion over the years. #JazzSky youtu.be/s4rXEKtC8iY?...

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (1966)

YouTube video by Anthony Valente's Jazz Channel

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4w ago

Much needed energy for this gray and dreary Monday morning. #JazzSky youtu.be/cvVSzj3PGIY?...

Cecil Payne & Duke Jordan - Jordu

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My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

'All of Me' was written in 1931 by Marks and Simons. Belle Baker was the first to introduce it, but I cannot find a recorded version of it (apart from one version far away in the background, I think). #JazzSky #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX5Y...

All of Me - G.Marks and S. Simons (1931)

YouTube video by Marco Modica

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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · last mo.

- career: 7 decades, - output: 60 albums as band leader, +50 as a session musician, - impact on jazz: incalculable, - number of saxophone colosi: 1 Sonny Rollins, BOTD in 1930 #JazzSky #Jazz #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZeG...

Sonny Rollins - Moritat (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins

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Happy birthday Freddie Mercury. He would have turned 80 today.

@mcgeetony.bsky.social · last mo.

The music world is mourning the loss of two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson. Wilson died this morning (September 2) in Jackson, Mississippi. She was 70. #JazzSky #JazzMusic #Jazz #Music www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...

WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson

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Horace Silver, "mercurial pianist", (ex-)Jazz Messenger, hard bop pioneer. BOTD in 1928. #JazzSky #Jazzz #MusicSky youtu.be/Abpm6brSE74?...

Horace Silver - The Natives Are Restless Tonight

YouTube video by jazzhole13

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Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · last mo.

Introduce yourself with ten acts you’ve seen live: Gill Scott-Heron Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Sonic Youth Thee Headcoates (and Headcoatees) Youssou N'Dour Cesária Évora Les Negresses Vertes Violent Femmes Howe Gelb Vic Chesnutt

Introduce yourself with ten acts you’ve seen live: Dolly Parton. Emmylou Harris. Gillian Welch. Laura Cantrell. Joan Baez. Marc Ribot & the Rootless Cosmopolitans Mano Negra. Buddy Guy. The Cowboy Junkies. The Austin Lounge Lizards.

He was Miles Davis' and Bil Evans' favourite drummer, the narrator on the, erm, peculiar album "Blues For Dracula". Sonny Rollins wrote him "Blues for Philly Joe". Philly Joe Jones, DOTD 1985. #JazzSky #Jazz www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrS4...

Tenor Madness (feat. Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones)

YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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Belgian stamp (2000) with two jazz legends.

Dinah Washington was born only a moment ago, in 1924 OTD. #JazzSky #BluesSky #MusicSky youtu.be/b9s-4i33T-w?...

Dinah Washington - Baby Get Lost (1949)

YouTube video by Pop Radio Werner Paul (Pop Radio)

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1/ In 1930 George and Ira Gershwin wrote "But Not For Me" for the musical theatre show 'Girl Crazy'. I found older versions of the son, but I liked Judy Garland's rendition from 1942. #JazzSky #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03u...

JUDY GARLAND: 'BUT NOT FOR ME' FROM 'GIRL CRAZY'.

YouTube video by Michele Bell

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“Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.” Charlie Parker, born on August 29, 1920. youtu.be/KYQCwoas3rk?...

Charlie Parker-The Bird

YouTube video by charlieparkerjazzart

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