Thanks to all who watched @FirelightFilms Sun Ra: Do The Impossible during the @PBSAmerMasters premiere month. Can still be streamed via @PBS Passport and seen on the big screen in Europe, South América and the USA.

Sun RaのOther Planes of There…中古でも宇宙感じたくてたまらない。ジャズって不思議 (CD)Other Planes of There／Sun Ra jp.mercari.com/item/2JSTKPFb…

Héctor Lavoe leading the crowd through "Mi Gente" with the Fania All Stars. Live at Coliseo Roberto Clemente in Puerto Rico, 1974.

#Jazz #ジャズ #CharlesMingus Charles Mingus Sextet - Peggy's Blue Sky Light (Live in Belgium, 1964) I'm walking under the "Blue Sky" now. Charles Mingus – Double Bass Eric Dolphy – Alto Sax Johnny Coles – Trumpet Clifford Jordan – Tenor Sax Jaki Byard – Piano Dannie Richmond – Drums

"Hoje não trabalhamos porque vamos ver Pelé" - Cartaz colocado em um Teatro do México durante a Copa do Mundo de 1970. Nostálgico!

Now all we need is for #NYC to finally rename the Williamsburg Bridge, the "Sonny Rollins" bridge.

Thelonious Monk - Caravan (Live in Berlin, 1969)

Em 10 de junho de 1931 nascia João Gilberto | 🇧🇷

On the Earth Plane....

“Jazz, R&B, soul, rock and roll — it’s all just the BLUES, man!” Remembering one of my favourite guitarists, Grant Green, born June 6th 1935 in St Louis, Missouri.

Love this essay by @MarcusJMoore on my favorite producer, the almighty @madlib & his "warped horn phrases, staggered bass lines, and drum breaks" "The music moves with a crooked logic that feels equally unruly and purposeful, rickety yet calculated." pioneerworks.org/broadcast/m…

Sun Ra and John Cage performed together at Coney Island NY on this day June 8 1986

Nobody thought or sounded like James Blood Ulmer... open.spotify.com/track/3GEAS…

At the family’s behest, this sad news is finally being shared. I’ve known since Friday that he left this plane on Wednesday morning.The feeling of loss, for me, & many in my circle, is profound. Blood was 1 of 1. He was made of the stuff that Blues is made of. Raw. Pure. Elemental.

Spent a great afternoon at SAMM- the Smithsonian American Art Museum -- seeing Nick Cave's elephantine instalation "Mammoth" and works like... americanart.si.edu/artwork/e…

It takes an omniverse: great orgs teaming up to screen Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, Friday, June 5, in D.C. @woollymammothtc panel and reception to follow. homerulemusicfestival.com/su…

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself. (Sun Ra)

"Memories of Underdevelopment" (1968) premiered in 1968, but the Cuban film could not be seen in the USA until it was included in the 1972 edition of the New Directors/New Films series, presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. A month after it was screened, Federal agents seized the prints before it could be shown at the festival New Cuban Films, which had already been disrupted by Anti-Castro exiles. The film finally opened in 1973 at a small theater. It received glowing reviews and was selected for an award from the National Society of Film Critics. The US State department denied Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's request for an entry visa. A visa application for Saul Yelin, director of Cuba's National Film Institute, who had asked to accompany Mr. Gutierrez as an interpreter was also turned down. Hollis Alpert, The Chairman of the critics group said that he had been warned by an US Treasury official that it would be a violation of the Trading With the Enemy Act, 1917 for anyone to accept the award on behalf of Mr. Gutierrez. Andrew Sarris, speaking at the awards ceremony which Alea couldn't attend, hailed the director as a courageous dissident. ("U.S. Refuses Visa To Cuban Director To Get Film Award", David Binder, The NY Times, 1974 & "Outside Cuba’s Revolution, Looking In", J. Hoberman, The NY Times, 2018) P.S: On this day, 58 years ago, Memories of Underdevelopment" (1968) premiered at the Pesaro Film Festival, Italy.

Brooklyn, NY...

Casa do Mestre Vitalino, foto de Pierre Verger | 🇧🇷