I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Always surprised by how good this album is… melody forward/pmg-esque/prog leaning/seated in modern jazz goodness. Aaron Parks – piano, mellotron, glockenspiel, synthesizers Mike Moreno - guitar Matt Penman – bass Eric Harland – drums

1. Bach's cello suites Or 2. Schoenberg's Three Pieces for Chamber Orcgestra

Remembered Sky Whitley Bay 2020 #RememberedSky

Matilda Sissieretta Jones (b. 1868 in Virginia) was a renowned opera singer who performed at the White House (multiple times), at Madison Square Garden (with Antonin Dvorak), headlined at Carnegie Hall in 1893, & toured the Caribbean, South America, & England.

This place hasn't changed at all - it's still as bad.

As a child of the '70s it's important to remind folks that BOC stands for Blue Öyster Cult, not Boards of Canada. You're confusing us olds.

now playing [download - 16/44.1 FLAC] [CD cover is on the left. the LP was issued with two different covers - the red is the original issue (1976), the black was a repress (1978)]

Been thinking about Ananya Ganesh's Precis-Loving from 2023 again.

Jazz OTD: A cast of hard-bop luminaries joined trumpeter Donald Byrd on May 31, 1959 for the "Byrd In Hand" session: Charlie Rouse (ts), Pepper Adams (bs), Walter Davis Jr. (p), Sam Jones (b), and Art Taylor (d). Thoroughly enjoyable, of course. #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Released many years later, the great Sarah Vaughan's performance at Rosy's in New Orleans (evidently recorded, extremely well, for an NPR broadcast) on May 31, 1978 is a delight. With Carl Schroeder (p), Walter Booker (b), and Jimmy Cobb (d). #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: The great Wycliffe Gordon (trombone, tuba, vocals here) has always shown the influence of gospel music on his playing, never more than on his album "The Gospel Truth," as this track beautifully shows. Recorded May 31, 2000 with a sterling ensemble, several of them vocalists. #jazzsky

"Eight pieces of …" ( #jazzsky series 45) BLACK (Set 1 of 2) #3: Black Beauty (for Florence Mills) (Edward Ellington) Duke + 9 pieces incl: Arthur Whetsel: tp Joe Nanton tb Ellington: p/Wellman Braud: db "Barney" Bigard: clt NYC, 26 March 1928 (Victor) Also an early example of black awareness

good morning [cd - ECM 2211/12 / 275 8681]

Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood.

as an unapologetic eastwood fan/apologist, i highly recommend this thread

Five. Not everyone is going to have quite the same banjo/washboard threshold as I do, but honestly this music is just fantastic. This is possibly a transcription of one or more of the Fontana Treasures EPs. The lettering here is hand painted. The level of skill on display is mind blowing.

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"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...

now playing [cd - ECM 1242 / 843 171-2]

The lost art of record collecting; homemade hot jazz and blues sleeves. All the records (often transcription discs) in this thread are housed in hand-drawn and hand-assembled jackets. True labours of love by the original collectors. This is a sub-set of folk art that deserves wider appreciation.

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This is sheer joy.

Tokyo pics: first day in Akihabara

Tokyo pics day 2: trip to Hamamatsu

Day 2 trip to visit Roland…

Day two: more fun at Roland

I wrote for the FT on lost music venues, the subject of a new exhibition at the V&A: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

TC's one of the best guitarists of the 20th/ 21st Cs. He's a beautiful person. I'm fortunate to make music w him. It was his openness to unconventional collaboration that allowed me to make public music & I'm in awe of his easygoing, egoless greatness: tomcarterguitar.bandcamp.com/album/a-bigg...

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Jazz OTD: Thelonious Monk debuted "Let's Cool One," one of his great compositions, on May 30, 1952 with Lou Donaldson (as), Lucky Thompson (ts), Kenny Dorham (tp), Nelson Boyd (b), and Max Roach (d). #Jazzsky

A lovely big pile of these in Judd Books for £7.95. Descend and consume!

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” —  has died.

Sportswriting and the Decline of the US Empire | Robert Lipsyte Reading about sports is another way of understanding where our world is heading www.commondreams.org/opinion/spor...

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vacations are awesome because you don’t even have to go to work or anything like that. you can just hang out and do whatever

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It's a toss-up, both by the Bee Gees 1. Jive Talking 2. Staying Alive argue amongst yourselves

Something a little different from me today: I dug into the numbers and determined that the words “fly ball” don’t work, as a standalone concept. There really ought to be two of them.

“Well, that cat’s doing it again—keeping that poor thing alive just to play with it awhile.”

"(Stephon) Alexander, a jazz saxophonist who now directs the Brown University Center for Theoretical Physics and Innovation...(says) “I would not be the physicist I am today if weren’t for my practice as a musician, especially as an improvisational musician.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I find jazz at this tempo to mostly be stressful but if anybody can make it sound musical, it's Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIq5...

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Find a better sextet, I dare you. And this isnt even one of his "major" albums, whatever that might mean.

We need our muscle tone restored.

Jazz OTD: May 29, 1986 was the first of 4 spring/summer sessions for Wynton Marsalis's superb "Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1," displaying the 25-year-old's imagination as an arranger and virtuosity as a trumpeter. With Marcus Roberts (p), Robert Hurst III (b), and Jeff "Tain" Watts (d). #jazzsky

MUMMY DOESN'T LIKE THE COCKEREL WHO WAKENS HER EVERY MORNING.