Let’s dig a little on vibes day. Here’s Roy Ayers Ubiquity performing their song ‘Vibrations’ in 1976. This is the title track of their album released that year. I wish I knew more about this video but mostly I’m just grateful it exists. Enjoy! #jazzsky #livejazz #musicsky youtu.be/xc7DAOH-58E?...

Where I’m at today. I dream it too. We need it. We need it. No exceptions, and, or buts. Here’s Lakecia Benjamin performing ‘Amerikkan Skins’ in 2023. Off her 2024 album, Phoenix Reimagined. Amazing to watch her soar #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazz #music youtu.be/2actqJNMb2M?...

Billy Paul #Soulsky

Some rare live video of Dizzy Reece in NYC, 1988. Here performing with Cedar Walton, whose birthday would be today, performing Cedar’s tune ‘Hindsight’. With Junior Cook on tenor. #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazz youtu.be/eXPzCMkUAnw?...

In celebration of Eartha Kitt’s life. Here she is singing ‘Yellow Dog Blues’ with Nat King Cole on piano in 1958. This is from the film St. Louis Blues. #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazzmusic #jazz youtu.be/U8LcFzikK8Y?...

In celebration of the life and music of Sam Moore. And Sam & Dave, and Isaac Hayes who helped write so many of their amazing songs that inspired many greats that followed. Legends! Here they perform ‘I Thank You’ on the Ed Sullivan show, 1969 #soulsky #musicsky #nowplaying youtu.be/6_jH-TXUhzU?...

“the wise man and the fool side by side, which one is you? the fool i played once before that was then and this is new yeah but the darkness of my mind and the love thereof” Kassa Overall: ‘Darkness In Mind’. Just Beautiful. Album: I Think I’m Good #jazzsky #musicsky youtu.be/9BFgIlolBnQ?...

Feeling this on a few levels. Relates to a lot more than Jazz and that’s one reason this guy is a legend. Here is the one, the only, the great Gil Scott-Heron performing ‘Is That Jazz?’ In 1982 #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazzmusic #soulsky youtu.be/IFxFIJxZyrw?...

Where I’m at today. I dream it too. We need it. We need it. No exceptions, and, or buts. Here’s Lakecia Benjamin performing ‘Amerikkan Skins’ in 2023. Off her 2024 album, Phoenix Reimagined. Amazing to watch her soar #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazz #music youtu.be/2actqJNMb2M?...

Inspired by the timeline. Here’s master arranger, composer and saxophonist, Oliver Nelson. Performing ‘Black, Brown and Beautiful’ in Berlin, 1970. This is the title track off his album released that year. #jazzsky #jazz #music #nowplaying #musicsky youtu.be/-U61F0nJrDY?...

Music & art is the bridge. Love & empathy is the bridge. Spirit is the bridge. We are the bridge. Let’s help those that need it the most, that’s it. Here’s Aretha Franklin performing ‘Bridge Over Troubled Waters’ in 1971. #HappyNewYear #JazzSky #MusicSky #SoulSky #nowplaying youtu.be/FoVezjpRgKE?...

One of my favorite combinations. Here’s Jimmy Witherspoon & Ben Webster performing ‘Ain’t Nobody’s Business’ in 1962 with the Vince Guaraldi trio. Jimmy’s voice and Ben’s playing is peak soulfulness #jazzsky #bluessky #musicsky #nowplaying youtu.be/oFk80zFNkNY?...

Enjoy this wonderfulness. Here’s Odetta performing a 30 minute set on Belgian tv in 1964. With Leslie Grinage and Peter Childs. Set list in the next skeet. Hope everyone is safe and well taken care of #soulsky #jazzsky #bluessky #musicsky #folksky youtu.be/2A9askVdzI8?...

Another random cool. If you’ve never seen this, buckle up. This is Lalah Hathaway performing ‘Something’ w/ Snarky Puppy in 2013. It’s all good, but at 6:10 in this video LH sings multiple notes at once during her solo. It is beyond amazing #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying youtu.be/0SJIgTLe0hc?...

Just random fun shit. Here’s Esperanza Spalding & Robert Glasper doing a totally improvised blues at Blue Note in NYC. They are so good and this is funny. With Justin Tyson on drums #jazzsky #jazz #nowplaying #musicsky #jazzmusic youtu.be/p6ORkLQkaSk?...

I’ll be with gathering with big family and things over the next week or two. I’ll probably still share some videos everyday but not as ambitious as usual. Just a head a up. I appreciate my peoples who love this music as much as I do. This is fun and definitely not over

Tonight’s Blues features the fiddle (and some flute). Here is Clarence Gatemouth Brown on fiddle performing ‘Song For Renee’ in 1983. He was so talented. This song is on his album released that year: One More Mile #bluessky #musicsky #nowplaying #blues #bluesmusic youtu.be/-N8TcJkCxkU?...

Wrapping up today’s flute day with something special. Here is Charles Lloyd on flute with Keith Jarrett in 1966 performing ‘Of Course, Of Course’. This is the title track off Lloyd’s album released in 1965. Enjoy! #jazzsky #musicsky #jazzmusic #nowplaying youtu.be/pF1VILfIN_4?...

Jazz flute #3. Here is Yusef Lateef on flute performing ‘Yesterdays’ in 1972. Beautiful stuff. This song is on his 1960 album: Cry! - Tender #jazzsky #nowplaying #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazz youtu.be/nkf-MwHfnjk?...

Next up on Jazz flute day we got Hubert Laws performing as a duo with Russell Malone in 2010. This features him so nicely and Russell really understands how to accompany as a guitar player. The tunes are ‘Sophisticated Lady’ and ‘Corcovado’ #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying youtu.be/XFb34HF4xpw?...

Jazz flute today. Kicking it off with James Newton performing ‘Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child’ in Brazil, 2003. This is nice #jazzsky #jazz #musicsky #music #nowplaying youtu.be/MlFtgDB5D9s?...

Today’s theme

Blues tonight is piano great Little Brother Montgomery performing his song ‘Vicksburg Blues’ in Chicago, 1976. LBM first started leading his own bands in the 1930s. His biggest influence is Jelly Roll Morton who would visit his house as a kid #bluessky #musicsky #bluesmusic youtu.be/ZXcWyKWopUg?...

Closing out today’s vibraphone day with a treat. Here are two masters, Milt Jackson and Gary Burton, performing ‘Night in Tunisia’ at Umbria Jazz in 1995 #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazz #livemusic youtu.be/7ZTNPV8gI6Y?...

Let’s dig a little on vibes day. Here’s Roy Ayers Ubiquity performing their song ‘Vibrations’ in 1976. This is the title track of their album released that year. I wish I knew more about this video but mostly I’m just grateful it exists. Enjoy! #jazzsky #livejazz #musicsky youtu.be/xc7DAOH-58E?...

This next guy is known as the father of Ethio-Jazz which combines traditional Ethiopian music and Jazz. Here is Mulatu Astatke performing ‘Motherland’ in Brazil, 2011. This song is from his 2010 album called Mulatu Steps Ahead #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazz #livemusic youtu.be/yXinA5cXOmw?...

Feeling a vibraphone day. We’ll start with Warren Wolf performing the Bobby Hutcherson tune ‘Herzog’ this year. This is a great band. The song is from Wolf’s album released this year called History of the Vibraphone #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazz youtu.be/LfrIgpQX6j4?...

Something special for my nightly Blues. Hound Dog Taylor and Little Walter perform ‘Wild About You Baby’ in 1967. #bluessky #musicsky #nowplaying #blues #bluesmusic youtu.be/gtnJM8iUy38?...

Wrapping up today’s female Jazz vocalist day with an icon. Here is Billie Holiday performing ‘Fine and Mellow’ in 1956 with an all-star band if there ever was. Probably the most viewed Jazz video ever. You’ll see why #jazzsky #jazz #musicsky #music #nowplaying youtu.be/pcRNe02N2bY?...

Let’s dig! Dee Dee Bridgewater is like every kind of singer in one. Hard to show her incredible range in one video and I won’t attempt it. Here she is in 1997 performing ‘Mr. Paganini’ w/ Ray Brown and the WDR Big Band at JazzFest Berlin #jazzsky #jazz #musicsky #nowplaying youtu.be/eLYYvUm8mmc?...

Next up we feature a woman equally amazing and totally different. Here is Cecile McLorin Salvant performing ‘Le temps est assassin’. Shades of Sarah, Nina and Edith. So gorgeous and deep. This is off her 2023 album: Mélusine. #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazzmusic #jazz youtu.be/KvAZv7RkEzA?...

Today is female Jazz vocalist day. Gonna kick it off with this amazing woman. Here is Jazzmeia Horn performing ‘Free Your Mind’ in 2019. She crushes this. This song is from her album released that year: Love and Liberation #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazzmusic #music youtu.be/fg09FqHDVe8?...

My nightly Blues is something sweet and still. Here is Elizabeth Cotten in 1965 on the tv show Rainbow Quest. Hosted by Pete Seeger. Cotten performs ‘Honey Babe’, ‘Willson Rag’ and ‘Freight Train’ and tells stories too #Bluessky #BluesMusic #musicsky youtu.be/JAPibSxgIyw?...

I lied. I’m gonna share one more for today for the maybe one other person that digs this. This is one of my favorites. Here is a full set from Eddie Jefferson in 1979. This is an absolute treasure to me. Band and set list in next skeets #jazzsky #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazz youtu.be/uvcWMwIMeLE?...

One more for today’s male vocalist day. This one is so fun. I present Jon Hendricks, Dizzy Gillespie and James Moody ALL singing and scatting together on the tune ‘Ooh Pop Pa Dah’ in 1988. Enjoy! #jazzsky #musicsky #nowplaying #jazzmusic #jazz youtu.be/v1uDKC-wJt0?...

Bobby McFerrin is an alien, but he’s a Jazz singing alien so it counts. Also, if you died and this is the music you heard, you’d KNOW you were in the place you wanted to be. Here’s Bobby McFerrin with Richard Bona, improvising together in Montreal, 2005. 😍 #jazzsky #musicsky youtu.be/aE8b4VyY6ck?...

Back to male Jazz vocalist day. Here is Gregory Porter performing ‘Liquid Spirit’ with an all-star band in Osaka, Japan, 2014. This is the title track off his album released in 2013. It’s really hard not to love this guy #jazzsky #musicsky #jazz #music #nowplaying youtu.be/pcqKt2uReCk?...

Here is Nina Simone performing ‘Mississippi Goddam’ in Netherlands, 1965. The Carnegie Hall performance was in 1964 off her album Nina Simone In Concert. I’ll reply to this with another vid that gives background. #jazzsky #musicsky youtu.be/ghhaREDM3X8?...

Gonna do male Jazz singers today. Kicking it off with Michael Mayo performing ‘Four’ this year. This is off his album released this year called Fly. This is really nice. Check him out #jazzsky #musicsky #jazz #music #nowplaying youtu.be/qAlPI_rKvE0?...

I feel like we kinda got a thing going on. I do. Here’s Billy Paul performing ‘Me and Mrs. Jones’ on the tv show soul train in 1972. This song is from his album released that year titled, 360 Degrees of Billy Paul #soulsky #musicsky #nowplaying #soul #music #soulmusic youtu.be/dSdG0kd4vsk?...

This is so nice! Here’s Ann Peebles performing ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’ on the tv show Midnight Special in 1974. This is the title track off her album released that year. #soulsky #musicsky #nowplaying #soul #music youtu.be/ZW0QSvbRlPc?...

One more today. This is right in all the ways. The Pointer Sisters performing ‘Yes We Can’ in 1974 with a nice drum solo from Gaylord Birch. This is off their 1973 album, The Pointer Sisters. Enjoy! #soulsky #musicsky #nowplaying #music #soul youtu.be/IzZkjjENj_w?...

I’m ready for some soul with a little funk in it. Gonna let Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings take us there, performing ‘This Land Is Your Land’ in 2014. This song is on her 2005 album, Naturally. She is wonderful #soulsky #musicsky #funksky #music #nowplaying youtu.be/1ifbleDsSsI?...

I go rogue on the weekends, usually soul, but sometimes….well… Here is Toots and the Maytals performing ‘54-46(That’s My Number)’ in 1975 at Winterland in San Francisco. This is awesome #musicsky #soulsky #reggaesky #nowplaying #music youtu.be/DrdvtvoDjYE?...

For my nightly Blues I offer you Blues legend, Big Bill Broonzy. Here is Big Bill in 1957 performing ‘Worried Man Blues’, ‘Hey Hey’ and ‘How You Want It Done’. As far as albums go, I recommend The Bill Broonzy Story released in 1960. #bluessky #bluesmusic #musicsky #music youtu.be/N-pShRISHnQ?...

*warning: language in video* One more for today. This is The Last Poets joined by Pharoah Sanders performing ‘This Is Madness’. The spoken word group formed in the late 60s and many say are the foundation of hip hop. Not sure of year/musicians #jazzsky #musicsky #poetrysky youtu.be/i60TcAcYrrI?...

We’ll call today’s theme “outside the echo chamber”. Next up is a band called Katalyst performing their song called ‘The Avenues’ in 2022. This tune is on their album released that year called Katalyst JID013 #jazzsky #jazz #musicsky #music #nowplaying #music youtu.be/6LDgYpEPYAg?...

Next up for today is Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth SWAY performing ‘Muneer Appears’ in 2022. This song can be found on their album Sesc Jazz: Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Sway, released in 2023. Check em out! #WomenInJazz #jazzsky #nowplaying #musicsky #music #jazz youtu.be/jNYsXZNjA-A?...

Not sure where we’re going today but we’ll start here. Here is the band Nérija performing their song ‘Riverfest’ in 2019. This song is off their album Blume, released that year #WomenInJazz #jazzsky #nowplaying #musicsky #jazz #music youtu.be/_3sAIQjh5Mk?...