#Trad Jazz

[katokardio]

New Orleans Clarinetist Doreen Kitchens serenades her grandson.

[spilladabalia]

Orbiting Human Circus - It's So Peaceful in the Country

[didsomeonesaygo]

You're giving me a art attack

Started off the day with a tour of L'Accademia di Belle Arte with Francesca from Firenze. She was an art history major, and it shows. She was not only knowledgeable, but also a great storyteller, and she lived in New York for a year, so her English was fantastic. She walked us through how religious art changed from the middle ages (portrait style with a gold background representing heaven, flat/2D images that stare you down without emotion, the Baby Jesus is like a doll) to the renaissance (story scenes with realistic background and images using perspective, the Baby acts like a baby). This change meant that for the first time, the (mostly illiterate) populace could begin to engage with the stories on their own - they no longer needed the church to "translate" for them. (I might have been more fascinated by all of this than P was; we have no photos of this part. But you can google it - I did.)

And then, 🥁🥁🥁, David ! As usual, our photos do little justice. We did not expect him to be so big - 17 feet tall. The detail is crazy - veins on the backs of his hands, dimples on the sides of his knees... It's enough to make a girl Feel Things. Francesca also pointed out that his hands and head are slightly oversized to represent that man can shape his own destiny by his thoughts and his actions. (David is Deep.)

There was more to the museum, but really, what can follow David? Well, a lot of people wanted a lot of things to follow David - MA was a hot commodity at that point, but still couldn't really say no to the church. So when they commissioned a set of sculptures for the pope's grand mausoleum, he took the job, but also took his sweet time on it. So there is a series of sculptures that he never "got to" finish before he died. #quietquitting 😂 (There is also some speculation that he liked them this way because it represented the form emerging from the marble. Which you can also see.)

We don't usually get that excited about art, but Francesca made us want to learn all about it - she's now the bar against all which all other tour guides are measured. After L'Accademia, we stopped at the caffe where she used to get coffee on the way to school, and then rolled right into the walking tour with her. She explained that it wasn't just a coincidence that so much art and science came out of Florence - being far from Rome (i.e., the church) actually enabled the free thinking that led to the works of Galileo, Michelangelo, DaVinci, and many other (often STEMmy) creatives.

We had a couple of hours before the Uffizi, so we walked over to the Santa Croce to see the tombs of our dudes Michelangelo and Galileo. (Dead people are our fave, and there have been surprisingly few really interesting tombs on this trip. I'm sure they're out there, but we've missed them, apparently.) The church is beautiful (shocker!), but if I'm honest, they're starting to run together (Mere was not wrong)- every single one is gorgeous, and there are over 100 just in the little town of Florence.

Then we toured the Uffizi Gallery with Norma from North Hollywood, who came here in the 90s to study art, and never left. Of course there are tons of beautiful art pieces, but we called this day Mary Here, Mary There, Mary, Mary Everywhere. One of the Marys was this round one, Michelangelo's first painting on canvas. He always said he was a sculptor, not a painter, but when a nobleman asks you for a painting, you give him a painting. Shortly thereafter, he went on to paint a little thing called the Sistine Chapel.

We also saw Caravaggio's Medusa (P got the shirt. No, really.) and a couple of Judith beheading Holofernes, including Artemisia Gentileschi's, which I had read a book about, so that was cool. The word uffizi has become uffici in modern italian - offices. The building was originally sort of a civic center, and Cosimo I de' Medici used to invite nobles and visiting dignitaries to his office to see his private collection. It opened to the pubic in 1769, and officially began operating as a museum in 1865.

Afterward, we found a little bar in the alley around the corner from the hotel (have I mentioned that alleys are my jam?) - I don't remember the name of it, but we met a couple from Alabama and a Canadian, and the server gave us an excellent dinner recommendation for dinner at Il Ricettario. He was not wrong, and we were stoked for THE best veg soup we've had in a long time. (And it wasn't meat stock making it taste good - we asked!)

We skipped dessert to get gelato at the place Francesca had recommended, but it was closed, seemingly for the season, mahr. But while on the gelato hunt, we ran into street musicians playing trad jazz! I may or may not have commandeered their megaphone and sung "Dr. Jazz" in whatever dude key they were playing it in. Which seemed like a good note to end the night on.

[kamrinortiznumberonefan]

[gregpoppleton]

Henry 'Red' Allen Trad and Mod Trumpeter - Phantom Dancer 9July 2024

Henry ‘Red’ Allen was an American trumpeter and singer,. He was the first to incorporate Louis Armstrong’s trumpet innovations and he was a Downbeat poll winner for both trad and modern trumpet. He’s your Phantom Dancer featured artist this week. The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix…

[teledyn]

This Saturday, 11pm to 2am

[ebitenpura]

Grand Trad/Rain + Night

[ghost-cwunch]

Post hibernation quick art dump and it's Lucille :3

I love her so much smsnhdgshahs

[gxthkyle]

“𝑺𝒐 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕, 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔”


＞＜﹐Veronica/Vee﹐🦇

🕯﹐she/her + 16 + abro﹐★

🖤 Hi!! I’m Veronica!! This blog page is just me a silly little goth gal!!﹒🪦

🕷️﹑likes: The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Echo & the Bunnymen, Christian Death, Depeche Mode, Korn, Slipknot, Paramore, Beabadoobee, emo, gothic rock, new wave, dark wave, post punk, punk, rock, alt rock, nu metal, alt pop, jazz, little nightmares﹒⟡﹒⤿🕸️

⛧ ﹔🥀﹒: BASIC DNI!! ﹐ıllı

“𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕, 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒚𝒆”

[thurstongrey]

[doverstar]

Please do start. Give me your Susan thoughts please please please please i love narnia but don't really interact w the fandom so i dont totally know what is up w them but i wanna know what u think. Nothing i love more than reading long posts about people's thoughts on characters fr fr please rant to your heart's content <3

oh my goodness, you are the best kind of person, ready to hear other people's opinions even if you don't agree just because you want to understand what/how/why they think, teach me to be like you- Okay, I'll try! Be prepared for me to get vitriolic. I get that way about this stuff.

Listen, I wrote a huge response to this and as ever, Tumblr tried to break and not let me post it. So instead of shortening it, I took screenshots of my answer and Google's angry spellcheck lines and placed them below. Happy reading!

[proper non-screenshot link to what my friend said about Susan having always been that person]

[depressedraisin]

cancel me for saying this but- listen i love laufey's music. like LOVE her albums. i think she's very very talented. but whenever someone calls her a "saviour of jazz" of this era, a part of my soul dies

[jesswithane]

Apparently I am bad at guessing what people are talking about on social media or something

I was getting a lot of videos about "Tradwives/wife's" (I have no idea how to spell it idc enough).

And here I am, being dumb, going "Oh...trade wives?? Like they know a trade? That's good I guess. Wonder why people are mad"

Then I ask my younger brother and he goes "no... traditional wife, Tradwives. They basically are like traditional gender roles and staying home, etc"

And I was like "...oh...that's no fun, my word is better. We should all get trades."

Anyway, so there's the point: fuck traditional roles I want to see people with trades like baking/cooking, sewing, and blacksmithing.

[guywithbeer]

Start your weekend with the legendary Frank Sinatra.

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[would-they-listen-to-that]

How to Make a Self-Ship Playlist (when you're too afraid to ask)

hey there! you! yeah, you, lurking in the f/o tag, i see you. so you wanna make a self-ship playlist but don't know where to start? welcome to "would-they-listen-to-that" radio, ran by a self-shipping veteran! this post is a special request from an anonymous caller, so let's get into it! how do we make a self-ship playlist when we have zero idea what we're doing?

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ STEP ONE: BLORBO ROULETTE ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡

The first step is to pick someone who catches your eye! Who's that fictional character lurking in the back of your mind? Who have you thought about snuggling with to distract yourself from the monotony of a three-hour geometry lecture? Whose tag did you take a "casual stroll" down last night? If you've got someone in mind from those questions alone, there's your target!

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ STEP TWO: DATING ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡

No, not that kind of dating. I'm talking about historical dating! The time period your character comes from influences the music they listen to! Are they a vampire from the late 1980's? Try some early trad-goth bands and hair metal! Are they a magical girl from the early 2000's? Try some y2k girl groups and rnb! "But mod, what if my character is anachronistic, and their whole shtick is they act like a 1940's jazz singer yet they live in 2020?" If you somehow catapulted Ella Fitzgerald into the nowadays, don't be afraid to be anachronistic with your playlist! Billie Holiday can go right next to Billie Eilish!

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ STEP THREE: SOUNDING IT OUT ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡

If your f/o has one, listen to their soundtrack for inspiration! What genres are present in their soundtrack? If they sing, in what style? What do they sing about? What kinds of music reflect their environment? If the character has any musical inclination or is a fan of certain musicians, take that into account! If your blorbo is a canon Weezer fan or sings along to Frank Sinatra, that gives a strong basis of what they listen to.

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ STEP FOUR: ULTRASOUND ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡

That's right, you gotta look inside yourself. You're a character in this self-ship too. It takes two (at least) to tango! Find songs that are meaningful to you. What types of music do you enjoy? What songs do you believe are integral to your relationship with your blorbo? What songs describe your feelings towards them? If you have an enemies-to-lovers relationship, look into songs that have a similar theme. Don't be afraid to explore new music too! Who knows what you might find? There's always an opportunity to hear your new favorite song!

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ STEP FIVE: BE FREE ‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡

Seriously, cringe culture is dead. If it's not, I'm giving you and your f/o hammers so you can kill it. You're allowed to have fun with fiction. The FBI isn't gonna swarm your house because you wanted to give Batman a kiss. It sounds cheesy, but the first (and only step really) to making a self-ship playlist is to have fun and be yourself. You don't need to listen to this post! I'm not the be-all end-all of self-shipping! Whether you take my advice is totally up to you! There really are no wrong answers here!

If you made it this far into the yap session, thank you so much for reading! I hope this advice serves you well! If not, that's okay too! As always,

thanks for dialing in!

[gardenwalrus]

The Beatles' interview with Gordon Kaye, backstage at the ABC Cinema, Huddersfield, 29 November 1963

KAYE: What do you think of [fans] coming in and then screaming?

GEORGE: Well, they've paid the money so they can scream, can't they? I mean, if they haven't paid and they were screaming, it'd be a liberty, wouldn't it!

PAUL: Aye, aye.

RINGO: Would that, Georgie.

KAYE: What is your, sort of, favourite types of music? Beethoven, for instance?

GEORGE: No, I like trad jazz, you know, Kenny Ball and all that.

PAUL: [to George] You don't! You told me you didn't!

GEORGE: I do. I've changed. Washington Square, I got it.

[CUT]

PAUL: How'd it go? Great, thanks. Yeah it was fine. I think it was one of the best receptions we've had, terrific.

KAYE: Now then, let's know a little bit about your personal life. What do you like to do in your spare time when you get it?

PAUL: When I get spare time? Go to the pictures or watch telly, or erm... r-read, uh, read... comics, you know.

[Laughter]

KAYE: What sort of films do you like?

PAUL: What sort of films...

JOHN: [From across the room] The man and [Inaudible]

PAUL: Yeah, the man and the green basket [???]

PAUL: No, just ordinary films like 'The Trial,' 'The Servants.'

PAUL:  Just ordinary, you know... like Walt Disney. You know, 'The Trial' by Walt Disney. It's great.

KAYE: What sort of music do you like personally?

PAUL: Just, I like everybody else. Stravinsky, Beethoven, all of that.

PAUL: No, American groups actually, I listen to.

KAYE: Female groups?

PAUL: But mainly American records, generally.

KAYE: Now then George, what do you like to do on your spare time?

GEORGE: Umm... Well I uhh... umm... [to the others] What do I do?

PAUL: What does he do? I'll tell you what George does. He goes to the pictures.

GEORGE: I go to the pictures, yeah.

PAUL: Reads Tolstoy.

GEORGE: I read Telstar.

PAUL: Tolstoy.

GEORGE: And umm...

RINGO: Beethoven's poems.

GEORGE: And play records and play the banjo!

PAUL: Beethoven's poems.

KAYE: What are your ambitions in, George?

GEORGE: Umm, to join the Navy, actually.

GEORGE: I want to join the Navy and be a lieutenant commander on HMS Queen Victoria.

[CUT]

KAYE: You've never been on [the television show] Juke Box Jury before?

RINGO: Oh no. John's been on.

JOHN: [yelling] I've been on! I was on!

KAYE: How long?

JOHN: For twenty minutes!