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  1. I’d like a word with the Apple Music’s editors please. #jazzsky #soulsky

  2. #Bassists hold a special kind of gravity, an unseen, if not underappreciated role as the quiet force of the band. They hold the #music upright while everything dances above it.” #BusterWilliams #jazz #jazzsky #music #MusicSky open.substack.com/pub/activeli...

    Gravity and Grace: The Spiritu...

  3. Hop into the Sunday Jazz Hour time machine and transport yourself straight to 1935 New York. Think legendary big bands raising the roof at the Savoy Ballroom, featuring Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman & Ella Fitzgerald.🕺💃 #Jazz #JazzSky @[email protected]

    Sunday Jazz Hour - Big bands f...

  4. “From the moment he picked up a horn, it was clear that the ordinary rules of #jazz phrasing, harmony and improvisation were not enough for him. He sought aesthetic and emotional expansion.” #WoodyShaw #trumpeters #music #JazzSky #MusicSky #trumpet open.substack.com/pub/activeli...

    Woody Shaw: A Life in Sound an...

  5. Listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. So great. Gorgeous image by Herman Leonard of Ella Fitzgerald singing as Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Richard Rodgers watch at the Downbeat club in New York City, 1949 #jazz #EllaFitzgerald #HermanLeonard #film #photo #Ella #JazzSky #photography

  6. “I once heard a bootleg tape of #JanGarbarek jamming as a teenager. I couldn’t believe what I heard. He was playing hot #hardbop like he had been born in Philly or New York.” #music #jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky #TedGioia open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

    I Blame Jan Garbarek

  7. “The blessing and the curse of early #Bad Plus was the focus on #rock #covers. Indeed, the brief mention Bad Plus gets in the #jazz history books is frequently confined to the covers.” open.substack.com/pub/iverson/... #MusicSky #music #JazzSky

    TT 565: Structural Features of...

  8. #LarryCoryell once recorded a song called #Toronto Under the Sign of Capricorn. With yet another grey January sky hovering grimly over the moribund metropolis, Larry's #song is much prettier than the real thing ... #music #jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky #guitar #GuitarSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPk...

    Larry Coryell Toronto Under Th...

  9. “I used to be a musical snob and thought that people who were sampling were cheating, but reading #Derrida made me realize that sampling is just a way of manipulating culture. That’s when I embraced it all.” #MelvinGibbs #bassists #music #MusicSky #jazz #JazzSky jazztimes.com/features/pro...

    Amasia, Anamibia, Aestheticism...