Happy birthday Gary Burton! Gary Burton – vibraphone Carla Bley – conductor, piano, organ Michael Mantler – trumpet Jimmy Knepper – trombone, bass trombone Howard Johnson – tuba, baritone sax Steve Lacy – soprano sax Gato Barbieri – tenor sax #jazzsky

Happy birthday Django Reinhardt! Django Reinhardt – guitar Stéphane Grappelli – violin Gianni Safred – piano Carlo Pecori – double bass Aurelio de Carolis – drums Label - Bluebird #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: On January 23, 2025, Joe Farnsworth, one of the world's finest hard-bop drummers, led a remarkable sextet - with Jeremy Pelt (tp), Sarah Hanrahan (as), Joe Ross (vb), Emmet Cohen (p), Yasushi Nakamura (b) - for "The Big Room," certainly among the best new album of last year. #jazzsky

Someone just called me a believer in "purity tests" because I think the Democrats who just voted to fund the president's unaccountable masked goon squad deserve to be primaried. If your definition of "purity" is that basic, you're beyond helping

Something lost on JD Vance—and much of the news media—is that no legal or other reason existed to arrest the 5-year-old child’s father either. Not even the administration has articulated any reason to cage people while their asylum or other cases are proceeding.

My friend walking into his house to find a Maya Daren movie on and me in front of it like a boomer dad with a football game: What are you watching? And why are you standing?

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

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whether you think america is literally the great satan founded on a bedrock of violence or you think america is a deeply flawed country with a celebrated tradition of resistance, i think we can all agree it's only one of those and anyone who disagrees with your read is naive or irredeemably evil

One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation. We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.

The level of humility it takes to do the unglamorous, non-confrontational work is a story that people need to think about more. The shops that don’t get raided and might not be under threat! The people who follow ICE cars so they can’t do surprise stops. The people who you will never see.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

I'm not saying to dunk on this person AT ALL but because I want this point elevated. I don't want you to be ashamed to be a white American. The history of white Americans who sided against whiteness and acted in solidarity with others has been suppressed as ruthlessly as the history of violence.

I don’t think it’s ever morally okay to abuse children for political ends and that is what this is. It is depraved and evil.

Looking at this picture of this preschooler -- this five year old child! -- terrified and baffled and torn away from his family, and all I can see is every bandit, every rotten-toothed soldier and raider and overseer and slave taker, who ever stole a child away from their family for money

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There are times when I can feel in the moment that something is permanently engraved in my often shitty memory. This picture is one of them. The blue hat in particular, so similar to hats my own 6 year old has worn. Every time I look at I start crying. He must be so fucking scared

Happy birthday Juan Tizol! Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn – piano Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Willie Cook, Clark Terry – trumpet Ray Nance – trumpet, violin Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman – trombone Juan Tizol – valve trombone Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone #jazzsky

Happy birthday J.J. Johnson! J.J. Johnson – trombone Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone Horace Silver – piano Paul Chambers – bass Kenny Clarke – drums Released - 1956 Recorded - June 6, 1955 Studio - WOR Studios, NYCVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ Label - Blue Note Producer - Alfred Lion #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: The Modern Jazz Quartet recorded most of the tracks on "Fontessa," one of their most memorable albums, on January 22, 1956. The day's work included the striking opening track. John Lewis (p), Milt Jackson (vb), Percy Heath (b), and Connie Kay (d). #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: I posted about Miles Davis's "E.S.P." a couple of days ago, but since his "second great quintet" recorded about half of the album on January 22, 1965, I take the opportunity to do so again now. The preposterously talented drummer Tony Williams, only 19 years old, opens this track. #jazzsky

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

it doesn't matter if you don't want to have this fight, it doesn't even matter if it's not politically optimal to have this fight the fight is here and sitting it out is not an option if you can't see that get out of the way

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

"why is no one in the US protesting"

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."

A good snapshot of what it's like right now: “If we’re not doing something, we really are bystanders,” [67-year-old neighbor Terri] Sullivan said. “Doing nothing isn’t okay.”

Jazz OTD: Miles Davis and his nonet made history on January 21, 1949, recording four tracks in the first session for what would become the profoundly consequential “Birth of the Cool.” One was this Davis and Bud Powell composition, arranged by the session’s pianist, John Lewis. #jazzsky

Happy birthday Jason Moran! Jason Moran – piano Sam Rivers – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piano Tarus Mateen – bass Nasheet Waits – drums Released - August 2001 Recorded - March 16–17, 2001 Studio - Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY Label - Blue Note Producer - Greg Osby #jazzsky

hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.

Man, I hate his fucking face so much. Can I mute a face

A thing that I want to express is that it seems like it might be fairly easy to keep your head down and just go with the flow if you’re a privileged (white) person here, and not a single person I know has done this, despite fully knowing the risks. All are enraged by this ethnic cleansing campaign.

A thing to keep in mind about capabilities ascribed to ICE is that state actors do have a lot of ways to go after people if they want to, and if they want to track and target you specifically, they can. These Keystone Kops on the street though? They’re not hacking your car. They’re doing this

I really do think this is a New Guy in some ways, born of posting. Again and again I think about my late dad, a conservative with a number of Bad Views but absolutely someone who would’ve rather gone into hiding than whine about people not liking him on television

Born this day, 1929: Drummer Jimmy Cobb, in Washington DC. Played with Miles from 1958-1963, including on the classic LP 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦. Here he is, firing up the Miles sextet at Newport in 1958 with John Coltrane- ts; Cannonball Adderley- as; Bill Evans- p; Paul Chambers- b #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

any Democrats afraid of including threats of ICE prosecution and dissolution in campaign messaging should go get a job in retail or lawn care

As I wrote for Rolling Stone, this was the most dangerous bill for trans health care of the Trump 2.0 era because it would potentially include a Hyde amdt for trans care without the votes to kill it. That it’s not in the bill is a big deal and reveals it was a poison pill for Dems to fund the govt

Jazz OTD: On January 20, 1961, the wonderful tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded a sextet set - w/ Stanley Turrentine (ts), Bennie Green (tb), Sonny Clark (p), Milt Hinton (b), and Art Blakey (d) - leading to different releases but ultimately brought together on the 2014 "Easy Living" CD. #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Charles Mingus recorded one of the all-time great jazz albums, "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady," on January 20, 1963, leading a 12-person ensemble. Still absolutely fabulous decades later. #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: From January 20-22, 1965, Miles Davis and his "second great quintet" (Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) began recording their brilliant first album together, "E.S.P." On the 20th, they recorded 2 pieces, including the title cut, a Wayne Shorter composition. #jazzsky

this is it. this is the way forward.

Happy birthday Jeff "Tain" Watts! Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone Kenny Kirkland – piano Nat Reeves – double bass Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums Released - May 1997 Recorded - January 7–8, 1997 Studio - Sear Sound, New York City Label - Warner Bros. Producer - Robin Burgess #jazzsky

Happy birthday Jimmy Cobb! Nat Adderley – cornet Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone Jimmy Heath, Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, oboe Tate Houston - baritone saxophone Wynton Kelly - piano Les Spann - guitar Sam Jones - bass Jimmy Cobb - drums #jazzsky