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Jazz teacher mentioned this in passing a year or two ago. Really really beautiful I’m always trying to put everyone onto this. slow orchestral silky jazz
Shirley Horn sounds like she’s seen it all. Beautiful voice
this year is his last year teaching and because of his class jazz developed a really special spiritual meaning for me. Can’t imagine where i’d be without that training
Jan 23, 2024
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For music I mean… music's so hard. I love music so much. I was looking at this picture called A Great Day in Harlem and it's a collection of jazz artists taking a picture on a stoop in Harlem. It's a very iconic photograph. Sonny Rollins is in the picture and he's still alive– I think he just turned 90. He's been around a long time. Sonny Rollins is my favorite player of all time and that's a hard thing to say because there's a lot of sax players I love.
He's got a record called East Broadway Rundown that is just one of the most astonishing recordings I've ever heard in my life. There's a song on there called East Broadway Rundown and it's quite long, almost 20 minutes long I think. That's one of my favorite songs to listen to. The places it goes to, you just don't hear very often.
There's a big component of the jazz or genre of jazz, I guess called free jazz that can get pretty out there, and a lot of people hear it are like, “oh, that just sounds like cats in pain or something” and they're not really into it, and I can understand that sometimes. It's not for everybody. Sonny, on this song, gets to a place that's even beyond free jazz. It's some world that exists only in this song. I've never heard it in any other song.
Sonny Rollins in general, his devotion to playing, the fact that he was already successful in his field and yet took time off to to practice on the bridge because he wasn't satisfied with where he was at and he wanted to push himself even further. I just always admired the heck out of him.
Feb 12, 2025
I think if I like, really had to think about it, free jazz is the pinnacle of music.
I wish I could dedicate my life to jazz.
watch this sun ra performance. you’ll feel the same way
Mar 30, 2024
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Probably the single best trinket ever made. I have a hard time even defining what it is… A puzzle? An obstacle course? It’s sort of like a portable marble run set except instead of manipulating the marble you manipulate the structure around it. Incredible stuff. Extremely loud and obnoxious in a good way
Jan 23, 2024
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More underrated vocal jazz. RAW POWR!
Jan 23, 2024
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Ive had enough of the irony
It’s time for some of you to bare your heart to the world
Jan 23, 2024
