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John Birks Gillespie

aka “Dizzy”

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Herman Leonard Miles Davis, Hand, NYC, New York, 1953 / Miles Davis, Malibu, CA, 1989 Gelatin silver prints :)

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HANK MOBLEY, Soul Station

5th track from “Soul Station” album. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on February 7, 1960. Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Wynton Kelly (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); Art Blakey (drums).

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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

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Jazz for the soul

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Ok but who said old people only like jazz I will use all the force in my 17-year-old body to slap you with a Duke Ellington lead sheet

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John Coltrane watercolor by Maggie Umber, suggested by @bluemonkwrites and @ochregerde

pursuance 

dear john: we are trying to hold a peace that crumbled like dead leaves from months ago i stare out windows from my cliched cave just so i can remember the direction the sun once was it’s cold in my office and the energy it takes to make another cup sits in my pocket in case i need to dodge a bullet

something tells me that as it was for you the early sleep is coming

until then i run through the 12 keys of the love supreme motif trying despite this twisted spine to stretch and flex against the demons of dependence and noonday

meet me john in the spaces between confusion and resignation and sing a psalm for us

–Michael Neal Morris @bluemonkwrites

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La La Land (2016) dir. Damien Chazelle

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weekend…

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I remember when Miles Davis came to my house. As he was passing by my piano, he stopped and put his hands down on the keys and played these eight chords, one after the other. It was so beautiful; he sounded like Bill Evans or Lisa [Coleman], who also had this way of playing chords that were so perfect. I was wondering whether he was playing games with me, because he wasn’t supposed to be a keyboard player. And when he was finished, I couldn’t decide whether it was him or an angel putting his hands on the keys.

Prince, Musician Magazine, 1997 (via neonrendezvous)

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Jeanne Moreau e Miles Davis - “Ascensore per il patibolo” (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), 1957

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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”

—Miles Davis

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Frank Sinatra at home with his hi-fi.

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” - Thelonious Monk

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I don’t believe that jazz will ever really die. It’s a nice way to express yourself.