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If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!
Jazz OTD: Pianist Bobby Timmons had debuted his famed composition "Dat Dere" on his own album two months earlier; he recorded this classic version on "The Big Beat" on March 6, 1960 as a member of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. The album was also Wayne Shorter's debut with the group. #jazzsky
Happy birthday Wes Montgomery!
Wes Montgomery – guitar
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – double bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums
Released - November 1965
Recorded - June 1965 and September 22, 1965
Venue - The Half Note Club (recording in June)
Label - Verve
Producer - Creed Taylor
#jazzsky
Happy birthday Howard McGhee!
Howard McGhee - trumpet
Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone, alto saxophone
Duke Jordan - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums
Released - 1956
Recorded - October 22, 1955
New York City
Label - Bethlehem
#jazzsky
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
A lot of you are saying pretty negative stuff about Markwayne but I respect the man for writing Tom Sawyer
So it’s like the crucification meets the Wonderboy baseball bat from the natural
Jazz OTD: The rambunctious "David Murray Big Band Conducted by Lawrence 'Butch' Morris" was recorded from March 5-6, 1991, with a large ensemble of notable musicians - from veterans like James Spaulding to younger players like Frank Lacy - performing a set composed mostly by Murray himself. #jazzsky
Happy birthday Wilbur Little!
Elvin Jones - drums
Fred Tompkins - flute
Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone, English horn, flute, bass flute
Wilbur Little - bass
Released - June 1970
Recorded - September 26, 1969
Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Label - Blue Note
Producer - Francis Wolff
#jazzsky
love to pick up my phone and see 5 - 10 different things each of which successively makes me angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire fucking life
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane
This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster
Me to Paul Newman’s family at the funeral: may his memory be a dressing
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
Balls in a yellow box for a ballpit
A trap door cut into a brown and tan piece of cardboard
A Tupperware on top of the trapdoor, with tape attacking a thin string to the bottom of the container
A shot of the messy room with a weighted pulley (aka a ball taped to one end of the string, which is wrapped around a dangling spool) hanging from the ceiling
6yo decided we should trap a leprechaun by painting something the floor color & putting a trapdoor over a ball pit. She and her mom have now added a pulley system to the ceiling so a Tupperware will also fall and trap him, I guess as a failsafe in case the trapdoor sticks? Unclear, will report back
Chalk up another win for the indispensable Fuck Up Everything It Touches technology
the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial
Jan Garbarek #BOTD Bob Stenson Quartet - "Witchi Tai To" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5d... #Jazzsky
My mother-in-law passed away on Monday after years. She was a really amazing person and her memory is unquestionably for a blessing
Jazz OTD: I see some conflicting information online, but I believe that that the final two cuts on the celebrated, Grammy-nominated album "Long Yellow Road" by the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band were recorded on March 4, 1975. Here's one of them, and it's particularly striking. #jazzsky
Jazz OTD: Unreleased for 15 years, Wayne Shorter's excellent Blue Note album "The Soothsayer" is among his most accessible from the era: highly enjoyable. Recorded March 4, 1965 with Freddie Hubbard (tp), James Spaulding (as), McCoy Tyner (p), Ron Carter (b), and Tony Williams (d). #jazzsky
Jazz OTD: Staying with Stan Getz - he recorded his final album, the now-classic "People Time," over four nights (March 3-6, 1991) live in Copenhagen. He's great on it, but to my mind the star is Kenny Barron, the great pianist in this album of duets. This incredible March 4 track shows why. #jazzsky
Jazz OTD: I'm not terribly knowledgeable about Stan Getz, but two of his albums definitely merit posts today. First, on March 4, 1964, the tenor saxophonist recorded "Nobody Else But Me," with Gene Cherico (b), Joe Hunt (d), and a young Gary Burton on vibes; Burton also composed this gem. #jazzsky
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
Context:
anyway as someone grappling with very fresh grief over the loss of a parent, can I just say read more poetry, folks. For millennia, we've been feeling pain and grief, and translating it into art and poetry, and its all there, waiting for us.
There can be a kind of healing and comfort in that.
American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.
Happy birthday Jimmy Garrison!
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
Released - July 1964
Recorded - April 27 and June 1, 1964
Studio - Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
Label - Impulse!
Producer - Bob Thiele
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Jazz OTD: Many of the tracks on Wallace Roney's "The Standard Bearer" (recorded March 3, 1989) are indeed beautifully played standards, but this closing improvisation between Roney (tp), Steve Berrios (per.), and Cindy Blackman (d) is a delight too. #jazzskiy
Jazz OTD: Often focused on soul jazz, saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded a fine hard bop session on March 3, 1969 with the great Thad Jones on flugelhorn, and a sturdy rhythm section: Cedar Walton (p), Buster Williams (b), Mickey Roker (d), originally released as "Another Story." #jazzsky
"Relatedly we drive on parkways and park on driveways, what's that all about"