#CassandraWilson ‘s “Days Aweigh” (1987) still feels like a masterpiece after all of these years. “Subatomic Blues” is now a masterful and timeless classic. #VinylRecordCollection #JazzSky
Kwadwo Duane Deterville
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Artist, Writer, Scholar of Visual Culture and itinerant Africana Studies Lecturer
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Ahmad Jamal: Tranquility
Ahmad Jamal
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This is one of the first Basquiats (maybe the first) that I saw in print in the early 80s and it still remains one of my favorites for reasons that have grown over the years as I've come to a greater understanding of his work. #Art #Basquiat #Blacksky
Jean-Michel Basquiat@basquiat.bsky.social · 2w agoBoxer, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5049
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
"What we've been doing is of benefit to the people. Some people listen to the music and it helps them. It's got a lot of happiness and love in it, not sadness and gravity - Sun Ra's not about that. It's been highly rewarding." John Gilmore September 28, 1931 - August 20, 1995
"Listen to your heart. It's all there. Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to all the rhythms in your body? All the patterns are already there, man. Happy Birthday Milford Graves born August 20, 1941
Blue plaque unveiled to mark 1964 gig at a Manchester railway station by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the 'godmother of rock and roll'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Godmother of rock and roll's Manchester station gig honoured
The blues guitarist and vocalist Sister Rosetta Tharpe performed at an empty station for TV.
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How can I put this ... WOW! I have heard this tune hundreds of times. I have never heard THIS tune. Pianist Jon Baptiste, on a landmark album - Monk Meditations, strips away Monk's quirkiness, focuses on the laden melodic structure...then explains how Bud would do this! #JazzMusic #JazzSkyh #Monk
Jon Batiste - In Walked Bud (Audio)
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A dramatised history of the Duke Ellington Orchestra starting round 1918 in Washington D.C. & ending with Ellington's death in 1974. A true American epic.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 3w agoyouve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
Featuring Dudù Kouate, a Senegalese multi-instrumentalist who has played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nicole Mitchell, etc. bsky.app/profile/obso...
Observations of Deviance@obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 3w agoIvory Coast welcomes home 'talking drum' looted by French colonial troops youtu.be/xGP5PyHNhCg?...
We live in an age of real life supervillains. They’re called “billionaires”.
Jon Hassell & Farafina: Air Afrique (Wind) - from their 1995 album, Flash Of The Spirit Co-produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Jon Hassell www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zW4...
Air Afrique (Wind)
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After looking at reproductions for a couple of decades I finally got to see the original in the 2005 Basquiat retrospective at LA Museum of Contemporary Art. Magnificent piece. Still one of my favorites but I've added so many other Basquiats to my list of favorites since then. #Art #VisualCulture
Jean-Michel Basquiat@basquiat.bsky.social · 4w agoBoy and dog in a Johnnypump, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5052
Recent acquisition for under 4$ dollars. #Violin #JazzSky #BlackSky #VinylRecords Sublime late night listening.
Interesting that this came into my collection in a year that may see a resurgence of interest in Stuff Smith's music. The String Concerto that he was working on towards the end of his life has been completed for performance. #StuffSmith #Violin #BlackSky #JazzSky
Dave Soldier: how I completed Stuff Smith’s unfinished violin concerto
When jazz violin pioneer Stuff Smith left behind six minutes of sketches for a concerto, composer Dave Soldier set out to complete what he had started. He shares how he transformed the fragment into a...
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Cecil Taylor Anthony Braxton Quartet (Cecil Taylor piano, Anthony Braxton sopranino, soprano, alto saxophone, William Parker bass, Tony Oxley drums, percussion) - Live at The Royal Festival Hall, London, 8th June 2007 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0y...
Cecil Taylor & Anthony Braxton Quartet: Live at The Royal Festival Hall, 8th June 2007
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Recent acquisition for under 4$ dollars. #Violin #JazzSky #BlackSky #VinylRecords Sublime late night listening.
Jim Jarmusch's #film "Dead Man" has a character named Johnny "the kid" Pickett who has resonances with the Nolan Wells murder incident. "the kid" is a teenager who one of the characters says ain't even old enough to smoke and while in the wilderness with two white men ends up dead. #NolanWells
Dead Man: The Conway Twill Cut
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Jim Jarmusch's #film "Dead Man" has a character named Johnny "the kid" Pickett who has resonances with the Nolan Wells murder incident. "the kid" is a teenager who one of the characters says ain't even old enough to smoke and while in the wilderness with two white men ends up dead. #NolanWells
Dead Man: The Conway Twill Cut
YouTube video by Majin Yojimbo
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Well put. #BlackSky #Africa The demonization of African spiritual science and oral traditions has been one of the main miseducation tools of white hegemony for centuries. They still fear #Haiti . @iwiri.bsky.social what do you think?
WHY GREEK MYTHS BECAME LITERATURE (AND AFRICAN MYTHS DIDN’T) #africa #story
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The Ellingtontonian quips at the end of Cat Anderson’s trumpet solo are a surprise highlight for me. “…that was a high C over Hyannis Port. Which is in Massachusetts”. 😆 Duke,even in his status as legend is still underrated as arguably the most important musician composer of the 20th century.
Ma Rainey's Jazz Hounds, Breckenridge, Texas (1922) 📷 Basil Clemons mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcolle...
#NowPlaying Cecil Taylor - Live at the Café Montmartre Top : OG (Debut Records, Denmark 1963). Bottom : UK pressing (Fontana, 1969). With Jimmy Lyons (alto sax) and Sunny Murray (drums).
