"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

Best conversations about Jazz are when youre just listing a bunch of guys back and forth at each other and nodding in agreement

A minority of his voters perhaps weren't paying attention to anything he represents or says and only cared about prices/economy but the majority knew what they were signing up for. I will die on that hill.

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Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

Jazz OTD: My understanding is that this live recording - from April 8, 2008 at the University of South Carolina - wasn't intended for release, but the untimely passing of the wonderful drummer Tony Reedus a few months later led a change of heart. This track gives some sense of his mastery. #jazsky

Jazz OTD: Max Roach's album with the J.C. White Singers, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," is one of the most remarkable efforts to build on gospel traditions in new ways in jazz. The shattering climax, "Joshua," was one of two tracks recorded April 8, 1971. Great work by Billy Harper (ts). #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: A singularly fiery jazz album, "Johnny Griffin Vol. 2 (aka "A Blowing Session") features the flamboyant tenor saxophonist leading an April 8, 1957 session with John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, and Lee Morgan on horns and a Wynton Kelly/Paul Chambers/Art Blakey rhythm section. #Jazzsky

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

no offense to the hungarian people but i’m sorry, the idea that hungary is some last bastion of “western civilization” is absurd. can’t overstate how much this post-liberal, national conservative nonsense makes you sound like a putz

I have so much fucking work to do and I am doing exactly none of it

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Jazz OTD: I can't help but wish that all of The Bee Gees songs had been recorded instead, as this lovely track was, by Nina Simone. From her album "'Nuff Said!" Most of the tracks, including this one, are from an April 7, 1968 performance at the Westbury Music Fair. #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Bill Evans (p) and Jim Hall (g) recorded two tracks, both original compositions, for their classic album of duets, "Intermodulation," on April 7, 1966. This lovely, textured ballad is a Hall piece, showcasing both musicians at their most lyrical. #jazzsky

WTF, NYTimes? You think that the antisemitic posts from hockey players at an expensive, all-boys Catholic prep school in Fairfield, CT were motivated by pro-Palestinian sentiment? Are you insane? Maybe a word about Nazis like Nick Fuentes? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/n...

OK Senator but are you currently in DC or on your way back? Have Schumer or Jeffries called their conferences back to town immediately?

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

Happy birthday Pete La Roca! Pete La Roca - drums Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone Steve Kuhn - piano Steve Swallow - bass Released - October 1965 Recorded - May 19, 1965 Studio - Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs) Label - Blue Note Producer - Alfred Lion #jazzsky

Happy birthday Freddie Hubbard! Freddie Hubbard – trumpet Joe Henderson – tenor sax, flute Herbie Hancock – electric piano, Hammond organ Ron Carter – bass Lenny White – drums Released - May 1970 Recorded - Jan 27–29, 1970 Van Gelder Studio, NJ Label - CTI Producer - Creed Taylor #jazzsky

Happy birthday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday – vocals Paul Quinichette – tenor saxophone Charlie Shavers – trumpet Tony Scott – clarinet Wynton Kelly – piano Kenny Burrell – guitar Lenny McBrowne – drums Aaron Bell – bass #jazzsky

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

Born this day, 1927: Baritone saxophonist, composer, arranger Gerry Mulligan in Queens NY. Mulligan was one of the musicians who congregated at Gil Evans' NYC apartment, forming the 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭 nonet. Gerry wrote and arranged this tune, which carries his nickname. #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

#nowplaying Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2, (A Blowing Session), recorded OTD 1957 at Van Gelder Studio. Paul Chambers, Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Lee Morgan #jazzsky #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6uH...

#nowplaying 'Blue Moses' (1972, CTI Records)by the great pianist and composer Randy Weston, who was born 100 years ago today in New York City. 'Blue Moses' is a superb, really well recorded (not surprising being a CTI production) large-group album with a great Pete Turner sleeve. #jazzsky

#nowplaying 'Blue Interlude' by the great drummer. sideman and bandleader, Art Taylor, who was born OTD 1929 in NYC. From 'A.T.'s Delight' (Blue Note, 1961) #jazzsky #musicsky #bluenote www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPov...

Gerry Mulligan (born OTD 1927 in Queens) & The Concert Jazz Band perform "As Catch Can" at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. From 'Jazz On A Summer’s Day' (1959). Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax)), Art Farmer (trumpet), Bill Crow (bass), Dave Bailey (drums). Composed by Gerry Mulligan. #jazzsky

BOTD, 1934: Horace Tapscott (d. 1999). Here he is playing the Billy Strayhorn classic "Lush Life," recorded right down the street from my old record store. #1001CoverSongs Song # 289: youtu.be/QTNqgzCzg3k?...

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

Finger on the pulse as ever. I wonder if he thinks Biden can pull it off

Jazz OTD: I had to Wikipedia J.R. Monterose to get a sense of his work; a terrific stylist, the saxophonist recorded only sporadically, particularly in his later years, but this album of duets with the legendary pianist Tommy Flanagan is a reminder of his talents. Recorded April 6-7, 1981. #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: I believe that "The Great Jazz Trio" (Hank Jones, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) had been assembled originally for a Sadao Watanabe album on Japan's "East Wind Records" in 1976, recording another eight for the label, including this lovely one with Jackie McLean on April 6-7, 1978. #Jazzsky

Jazz OTD: If I've got it right, Nina Simone recorded this wonderful track for "Pastel Blues" on April 6, 1964. Simple and utterly masterful. #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Roy Haynes's creative, thoughtful album "Cracklin'" is as much of a showcase for his "with" guest, saxophonist Booker Ervin, as it is for the great drummer. Recorded April 6, 1963 with Ronnie Mathews (p) and Larry Ridley (d). #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Booker Ervin's debut album "The Book Cooks" has him paired, a bit oddly, with another tenor saxophonist, the dissimilar Zoot Sims; it showcases his distinctiveness. Recorded April 6, 1960 with Tommy Turrentine (tp), Tommy Flanagan (p), George Tucker (b), and Danny Richmond (p). #jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Hank Mobley (ts), Donald Byrd (tp), Horace Silver (p), Doug Watson (b), and Art Blakey (d) made history on April 6, 1956: the first session for the debut album "The Jazz Messengers." This opener captured the hard bop mastery long associated with the group's various iterations. #Jazzsky

Jazz OTD: Five years before his famous "Weather Bird" duet with Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong recorded the song as a member of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, part of their magical day in the studio on April 6, 1923. The composition has been credited variously to Armstrong and Oliver. #jazzsky

Happy birthday Horace Tapscott! Horace Tapscott - piano Arthur Blythe - alto saxophone David Bryant, Walter Savage Jr. - bass Everett Brown Jr. - drums Released - 1969 Recorded - April 1–3, 1969 Label - Flying Dutchman Producer - Bob Thiele #jazzsky

Happy birthday Randy Weston! Randy Weston - piano Ray Copeland - trumpet, flugelhorn Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson - trombone Julius Watkins - French horn Aaron Bell - tuba Budd Johnson - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone #jazzsky

Happy birthday Art Taylor! Bud Powell – piano Paul Chambers – bass Art Taylor – drums Released - 1959 Recorded - December 29, 1958 Label - Blue Note Producer - Alfred Lion #jazzsky

Happy birthday Charlie Rouse! Joe Gordon – trumpet Harold Land – tenor saxophone Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone Thelonious Monk – piano John Ore – bass Billy Higgins – drums Released - 1960 Recorded - April 29, 1960 Black Hawk, San Francisco Label - Riverside Producer - Orrin Keepnews #jazzsky

Happy birthday Gerry Mulligan! Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone Bob Brookmeyer - valve trombone Red Mitchell - bass Frank Isola - drums Released - 1955 Recorded - June 1, 1954 Salle Pleyel, Paris, France Label - Disques Vogue (France)/Pacific Jazz (USA) #jazzsky

Happy birthday Bill Hardman! Art Blakey – drums Bill Hardman – trumpet Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone Thelonious Monk – piano Spanky DeBrest – bass Released - May 1958 Recorded - May 14–15, 1957 Label - Atlantic Producer - Nesuhi Ertegün #jazzsky

We are so, so small. #Artemis

A lot of hypocrisy on display, but also: good

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world.

Jazz OTD: Bobby Watson, the fluid and nimble alto saxophonist who has been a mainstay of the hard bop scene for decades, recorded the splendid "Back Home in Kansas City" on April 5, 2022 with a wonderful band: Jeremy Pelt (tp), Cyrus Chestnut (p), Curtis Lundy (b), and Victor Jones (d). #jazzsky