June Tyson - Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra singer, violinist and dancer - Feb 5 1936 - Nov 24 1992. Now travelling the Spaceways… x

"Well, every gig was a story. And it's always changing; everything is always changing. It may appear to be similar or something to that effect, but there's such a tremendous undercurrent of change that you have to be up to be a part of it." Happy Birthday June Tyson born February 5, 1936

ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC! FEBRUARY 5TH... Happy Birthday Carleton A. Coon! open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #February5 #February5th #CarletonCoon #CoonSanders #CoonSandersNighthawks #Nighthawks #MUSIC #JAZZ #BLUES #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Ragtime #78rpm #JugBand

Louis Jordan on “the Beat” backed by Gatemouth Brown & band. 1966 youtu.be/FCkFrff__QE?...

Thank you @speckledmoose.bsky.social for letting me know about this album, I’m really enjoying it, it’s fantastic 👍😎 The Duke Ellington Orchestra - Digital Duke (1987) This really is a great album, tight band and excellent solos. #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC! FEBRUARY 4TH... open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #February4 #February4th #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #OnThisDayInJazzAgeMusic

This is absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 Tina May - Live In Paris (2000) Tina and an excellent quartet recorded live at Jazz Club Lionel Hampton, Paris, December 4th 1999 Such a great voice! #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal JazzSky

BOTD, 1929: trailblazing rockabilly guitarist Paul Burlison (d. 2003). youtu.be/Uv1xvMjxqcQ?...

Etta James, John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana team up for a live version of the classic James tune "Tell Mama" live in San Francisco in 1986. The driving title tune of Etta's 1968 Chess album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=b34y...

Ok, here's one more. Some seriously joyful dueling going on here. 2019. RIP Ken Peplowski. 🍷 #jazzsky, #jazz, #nowplaying youtu.be/A9SHBOFChmI?...

One more in remembrance of Ken Peplowski In Search Of… (2011) An absolutely sublime album of mostly ballads, incredible stuff 👍😎 Perfect late night listening! The artwork on this album is fantastic too. #NowPlaying #Jazz #RIP JazzSky

I know the album is called "Maybe September," but I'm adding this Beach Boys cover to my summertime playlist. Sad and lovely. RIP Ken Peplowski. 🍷 youtu.be/qgeeGqG9lfU?...

Pouring one out for Ken Peplowski. RIP. 🍷 #jazzsky, #jazz, #nowplaying

RIP Ken Peplowski. Put this on, pour one out. Jazzsky #jazz

ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC! FEBRUARY 3RD… HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIL HARDIN ARMSTRONG!! open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #February3 #February3rd #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music

RIP Ken Peplowski. One of the clarinet greats. Here's Ken on an appropriate track from the absolutely wonderful Hank Jones 1989 album "Lazy Afternoon." Plan to pour one out for Ken later. 🍷 #jazzsky, #jazz, #RIP youtu.be/plDcHUqQHEA?...

RIP Ken Peplowski who died yesterday at only 66 years old! The jazz world has lost a true great, few could match him on clarinet or saxophone. #NowPlaying Ken’s 2013 album “Maybe September“ which contains an amazing version of Moon Ray #Jazz #RIP JazzSky

Really sad news, another great gone ☹️ JazzSky

Miles Davis performs at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, February 5, 1974. Photo by Boyd Hagen

Happy Birthday Feb 3 to Johnny "Guitar" Watson innovative blues guitar maestro! Three Hours Past Midnight youtube.com/watch?v=jF6c... Space Guitar youtube.com/watch?v=5gJg... Cuttin’ In youtube.com/watch?v=fX2P... Gangster Of Love youtube.com/watch?v=KcEL... #jimmievaughan #fender #Blues

ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC! FEBRUARY 2ND... HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMETT MILLER open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #February2 #February2nd #Vaudeville #Ragtime #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #ClassicJazz #Music

This has certainly blown away the cobwebs! Alan Skidmore - A Supreme Love, Chapter Six The 6th and final disc of this incredible box set. The Alan Skidmore Quartet (+ Ed Jones & Howard Cottle) live at Cafe Otto, London, 17 July 2019. Absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #UKjazz JazzSky

Jazz Journal vol 9 n°5 (UK) - Louis Armstrong - May, 1956 #jazz #LouisArmstrong jazzsky

"We all have our own way of playing. You can't tell somebody how to live, how to play, or how to feel. I'm going to have a free mind. How are you going to play if you can't be free." Happy Birthday Sonny Stitt born February 2, 1924

Tonight’s aural treats… Discs 3 & 4 of Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948 Featuring; The Howard McGhee Quintet Unnamed Group The Charlie Parker Quartet Charlie Parker’s New Stars Charlie Parker All Stars Recorded 1946-47 🔥🔥👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz Jazzsky

FEBRUARY 1ST... Happy Birthday James P. Johnson! (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #JamesPriceJohnson #JamesPJohnson #Piano #Jazz #JazzAge #JazzSky #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Music #Vaudeville

This is superb 👍😎 Vintage Acker Bilk Volume 2 Featuring… Johnny Bastable’s Chose Seven - Disc 1 & The Paramount Jazz Band - Disc 2 Serious good time music! #NowPlaying #Jazz #TradJazz JazzSky

On This Day In Jazz Age Music! JANUARY 31ST... See Anyone You Recognize? open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #January31 #January31st #JazzSky #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #78rpm #Music #OTD#BOTD

ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC! JANUARY 30TH... Happy Birthday Roy Eldridge! open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #January30 #January30TH #RoyEldridge #Jazz #JazzSky #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #MUSIC #JAZZ #BLUES

1985 - Miles Davis Oktett - Franken-Halle - Nürnberg / Nuremberg #jazz #MilesDavis jazzsky

1986 - The Modern Jazz Quartet - Tokyo - #JohnLewis (p), #MiltJackson (vib), #PercyHeath (b), #ConnieKay (dr) #jazz #mjq #modernjazzQuartet

Art Blakey - Apollo Victoria Theatre, London, 1971. Photo by Harry Monty

Tubby Hayes in New York, Summer, June 1962. Photo by Val Wilmer

"We may feel like playing something down - or playing fast ones all night. It's purely self expression. Maybe you could fault me there for not really catering for the public. But if I was catering for the public I wouldn't be playing what I'm playing." Happy Birthday Tubby Hayes 30 January 1935

John Coltrane with Shadow Wilson, Thelonious Monk and Ahmed Abdul-Malik at The Five-Spot, New York, NY, 1957. Photo by Don Schlitten

"If you could get out of economic problems, you could find the time, the energy to create. You have to have some peace of mind to create." Happy Birthday Ahmed Abdul-Malik born January 30, 1927

"From my mother I had developed an ear. Anything I heard, classical or anything, I could automatically play. I didn't know what key I was playing in but I could automatically play." Happy Birthday Roy Eldridge born January 30, 1911

"I am constantly thinking music. I'm lucky to hear a good musical line that I think is creative, and I think has a good sound to it, a good feeling to it, and if I'm able to get anything more than that, then I'm more or less blessed." Happy Birthday Buddy Montgomery Jan 30, 1930

Starting the day with this fantastic comp… Homage To The Duke (1987) Side 1: UK - The Keith Christie Quartet feat. John Dankworth (1955) Side 2: US - Ray Nance & The Ellingtonians (1948/55) / Johnny Hodges & The Ellingtonians (1947) Absolutely phenomenal 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz #Vinyl JazzSky

Happy B'Day Jan 29 to Eddie Taylor brilliant blues guitar legend (Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker) 1923-1985! Big Town Playboy youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNR... Bad Boy youtube.com/watch?v=W17M... I’m Jimmy Reed youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Blues #bluesguitar #guitarist #jimmyreed #johnleehooker

Happy B'Day Jan 29 to James Jamerson Motown bass legend (1936-1983)! Reach Out I’ll Be There youtube.com/watch?v=AUZ3... Bernadette youtube.com/watch?v=vQ4e... What’s Goin’ On youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA... Going To A Go Go youtube.com/watch?v=sWt4... #bassplayer #bassist #Motown #steviewonder

Happy B'Day Jan 29 to Bettye LaVette soul diva (1946)! The Scene Of The Crime youtube.com/playlist?lis... I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise youtube.com/playlist?lis... Things Have Changed youtube.com/playlist?lis... #soulmusic #singer #soulsinger #vocalist

Happy Birthday Jeff Clyne born 29 January 1937

"Jazz is a music that combines so many opposites... You have to find that balance, then you have a guideline between freedom and discipline, between rhythm and melody, between body and spirit, between mind and instinct." Happy Birthday Jeanne Lee born January 29, 1939

"You've gotta give, man, you've gotta have a loving feeling. It's a special thing, and there should be nothing but love coming from us. This is what we can do; this is the contribution we can make. There's no blood on the jazz music." Happy Birthday Steve Reid January 29, 1944

She looks 10... She blows like She's a grown woman, and that tone is as good as any male's... From the Barcelona jazz since, where she has played professionally since she was 6, the amazing Elsa Armengou, and it not just her tone, its the nuance she shows in interpretation.... #JazzMusic #JazzSky

I love the artwork on these two books… Jazz On 78’s A Guide For Collectors (1954) & Jazz On LP’s A Guide For Collectors (1956 revised edition) JazzSky

Remembering the great Ronnie Scott, tenor saxophonist and co-founder of the world-famous Soho club that takes his name, born OTD 1927 in Aldgate, London. Of the club, he once said: "I love this place, it's just like home; filthy and full of strangers." #jazzsky #musicsky

"There are such a lot of squabbles that go on in the jazz community about what is jazz and who is jazz and what it isn't. I'd rather keep out of it... jazz is my roots and my sustenance and everything like that." Happy Birthday Robert Wyatt born 28 January 1945

JANUARY 28TH... HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELSIE CARLISLE! open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #January28 #January28TH #ElsieCarlisle #Music #Jazz #JazzTrumpet #RoaringTwenties #JazzMusic #JazzAgeMusic #78rpm #Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Colette #JazzAge