Darius Jones - "Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)” (2024): Jones explores black community mental health with one more intense, overwhelming and sonically penetrating album. Ch. Lightcup (bass) with G. Cleaver complement the unrelenting interplay. Fascinating! **** #jazz
Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year are out...and they are spectacular.
Here's the overall winner, a time-sequence of a solar eclipse that shows deepening shadows from mountains on the Moon. (Credit: Ryan Imperio)
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Folks, @nyrbclassics is having a weekend sale on noir and noir-adjacent titles and if you're looking for some suggestions, here are 4 of mine! Really tough to narrow it down, you can't go wrong with hardly any of the selections.
in the clip from the Tonight Show, at the end of the piano solo, Joan Rivers realizes Fred Rogers has smuggled some serious jazz onto her show and does jazz hands
On this day in 1958, Art Kane photographed 57 musicians at 17 East 126th Street for Esquire magazine. It was a Great Day in Harlem, 66 years ago today.
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This is gobsmackingly great! Ornette Coleman Group live in Berlin 1971. Ornette, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell firing on all cylinders. Sound is pretty great, image pretty good too. Uploaded yesterday, but I only discovered it an hour ago. youtube.com/watch?v=ASMOCAaU…
I mean, the entire architecture of every human expected to be acquiring and financing and maintaining and insuring and operating safely a $50k deadly weapon that randomly gets destroyed – really exposes some… problems.
RIP “An artificial breeze gently wafts from an oscillating fan positioned nearby, while a gathering storm of thoughts erupts from the high technology of projected video light, crackling and popping in a primordial stew” - excellent obit, Mr. Knight