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1 month ago

Wes Montgomery

2 months ago

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2 months ago

Black music and the internet

Say what you will about America, but I’ll be damned if they didn’t give humanity two of its greatest assets of the past hundred years.

3 months ago

There’s a film on YouTube you can watch called Paris Blues (1961) which features Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as two American jazz cats who pretty much just hang out in a cafe and get drunk and smoke A LOT of cigarettes and meet pretty Yankee girls and that’s it really.

Features the music of Duke Ellington (above right) and a fucking sweet guest performance by Louis Armstrong (above left).

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3 months ago

Mr P.C .

3 months ago

Bill Evans

“The longest suicide in history”.

(Source: musicians.allaboutjazz.com)

3 months ago

Jazz and red wine make me believe everything in the world is possible.

5 months ago

McCoy Tyner.

7 months ago

We didn’t go out and make speeches or say, ‘Let’s play eight bars of protest.’ We just played our music and let it go at that. The music proclaimed our identity; it made every statement we truly wanted to make. »Dizzy Gillespie

(Source: historymatters.gmu.edu)

10 months ago

My idea of good luck is being at the right place at the right time doing the right thing before the right people. »Duke Ellington

10 months ago

Strange fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

(By Abel Meeropol)

11 months ago

Real.

11 months ago

I think what we looked for is freedom with responsibility. In other words, there is no requirement to do anything at a certain time, but we like to feel that we are responsible for the total performance. »

Bill Evans (1970)

This seems to hold true on levels far beyond the realm of music.

11 months ago

Bill Evans.

11 months ago

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. »Thelonious Monk

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