#VinylRecords #PorgyAndBess

Of the Earth: Shabaka Interview Sat, April 18, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ➡️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

This 1970 LP features Oscar Brown jr., Jean Pace and Sivuca. Found this small treasure in a dollar bin yesterday. It’s in beautiful condition- both #vinyl and cover. #BlueskyJazz #Jazz #Vinyl #Collector

You know health care is fucked in this country when fucking Bill Laswell needs a gofundme

This 1970 LP features Oscar Brown jr., Jean Pace and Sivuca. Found this small treasure in a dollar bin yesterday. It’s in beautiful condition- both #vinyl and cover. #BlueskyJazz #Jazz #Vinyl #Collector

TODAY IS THE DAY! My Book…….. Is Out www.basicbooks.com/titles/melvi...

"I don't think I ever play right on the beat. I like to improvise in a different way. That's my way of feeling. I don't know what the books tell you, but there ain't no books that can really tell you how to play jazz." Henry "Red" Allen January 7, 1908 - April 17, 1967

@melvingibbs.bsky.social Live interview! www.kqed.org

@bsky.app I can’t view the discover feed because of a “server error”

"Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi." please give what you can if you can! chuffed.org/project/1771...

Are you up on this one? Charles McPherson with Duke Jordan, Sam Jones and Leroy Williams. #Jazz MASTERS! (1975)

Of the Earth: Shabaka Interview Sat, April 18, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ➡️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Richard Davis #botd inspired listening. 1976 this 👇. Any excuse to listen to Hank Jones in a trio setting. And Davis is a genius, of course. (Props to @donberryman.bsky.social for the idea.) #jazzsky, #nowplaying

Sudanese children are being born into conditions 'no child should ever face', Save the Children says.

A great interview "Ahmad is a master at knowing how to draw the ultimate from a musician. He can fit his entire thing to make you sound really a hundred times better than you would normally sound. He has that gift." Vernel Fournier on Ahmad Jamal, WKCR, 1990 tedpanken.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/v...

Sublime version of “Autmn in New York” with the classic trio including Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier. #Jazz #Vinyl #Collection

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.” Robert Hughes

Here's the 1970 version recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood NJ studio. #Jazz @obsofdeviance.bsky.social

Here's the 1970 version recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood NJ studio. #Jazz @obsofdeviance.bsky.social

”Olinga” from Dizzy Gilllespie’s 1976 live 2 LP album “Bahiana” is the vibe for today. Oakland’s own Roger Glenn on a sublime flute solo. #Jazz #VinylRecord #Collection

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Here's an open secret of the Black experience in America: These incredibly talented Black musical artists that the "mainstream" hears on recordings & video? - most Black folks have heard someone in their church, high school or family cookout that is just as amazing but wasn't captured for posterity.

Today, April 6, is the 100th celestial birthday of the great Randy Weston. Join us in celebration this Sunday afternoon in Cambridge, Mass.: calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/blues-...

"My dad told me, 'Listen, we are older than corruption, we are older than colonialism, we are older than slavery; for you to understand me and your mother better, you've got to go back to Africa.'"

"The music you do is here to stay, here to be listened to. You can pass it on for maybe 10, 15 years. Turn it on. And it's still there. That's the kind of music I'm interested in playing." Happy Birthday Horace Tapscott born April 6, 1934

Here's an open secret of the Black experience in America: These incredibly talented Black musical artists that the "mainstream" hears on recordings & video? - most Black folks have heard someone in their church, high school or family cookout that is just as amazing but wasn't captured for posterity.

#Afriscape #VisualCulture A throughline between African (yoruba?) beading traditions, first nations and African struggle for liberation against white settler colonialism, Egun (ancestor veneration) and #NewOrleans funk. Several parts of this brought tears to my eyes. #MardiGras #Indians

"...there's something about Black culture that causes mass histeria..." - Ishmael Reed

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social The Music of Kelan Phil Cohran: Listening Position Interview STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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#Afriscape #jazz #SouthAfrica #Radio

“Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018) was a Nigerian scholar and the first woman to earn a PhD in philosophy in her country. She not only placed Nigeria’s rich Yoruba philosophical tradition on the intellectual map, she also helped redefine African philosophy, a field dominated by men.” #Afriscape #Philosophy

Nice 2025 set from the #PanAfrican Space Station in South #Africa. #Afriscape #Jazz #Afrifuturism

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Nice 2025 set from the #PanAfrican Space Station in South #Africa. #Afriscape #Jazz #Afrifuturism

Scholar Todd Burroughs came with the bars on this segment of iMixWhatiLike #BlackMedia

Hollywood Africans in Front of the Chinese, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5210

“Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018) was a Nigerian scholar and the first woman to earn a PhD in philosophy in her country. She not only placed Nigeria’s rich Yoruba philosophical tradition on the intellectual map, she also helped redefine African philosophy, a field dominated by men.” #Afriscape #Philosophy

Eighteen #vinyl LPs by Gil Scott-Heron. While I have two copies of "Pieces of a Man" I still need "Small Talk At 125th And Lenox" and "Free Will."

Found in a thrift shop recently for $20. Mid 1960s reissue on the Impulse label. Some very nice moments on this one from the legendary Yusef Lateef. #Jazz #VinylRecords #JazzVinyl

#Afriscape #jazz #SouthAfrica #Radio

Nothing beats the jazzy boom nap era. #hiphop #jazz samples. Guru inherited a collection of jazz vinyl from his father Harry Justin Elam sr. , a Boston lawyer and judge. Premier and Guru’s musical sophistication is married to the legacy of jazz music.

South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini expands his soundworld on his 4th Blue Note album “The Myth We Choose” out June 26 www.bluenote.com/nduduzo-makh...

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"Every Wednesday evening we broadcast a piece from our sound library that relates to ongoing or previous research.This week we listen to a 1965 radio programme on “the history of #jazz” produced and presented by South African pianist composer and bandleader Abdullah Ibrahim."@melvingibbs.bsky.social