#be bop

[federer7]

Be Bop en cave. Paris. 1951

Photo: Robert Doisneau

[jazzandother-blog]

Dizzy Gillespie

[travsd]

The Charlie Parker Centennial

Jazz great Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was born 100 years ago today. It’s an oversimplification, of course, but there’s truth to Miles Davis’s formulation that the entire history of jazz could be boiled down to two lightning rod figures, Louis Armstrong, and Parker. The claim isn’t that they were the only ones who made great music. It’s about what they discovered, Armstrong as the most…

[maggiethecatchatterley]

Hit Road Jack

Don't you come back no more🎶

[ozkar-krapo]

Charlie PARKER

"L'immortel Charlie Parker - vol.1"

(LP. Savoy. 1959 / rec. 1945/47) [US]

[notamamiboye]

Happy April Fools 2024

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a banger

VeryVeryVinny

[jazzandother-blog]

Bobby Timmons with Hank Mobley and Art Blakey at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on March 8, 1959.

"Just Coolin'" recording session by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.

Photo by Francis Wolff

Just Coolin listen here:

Drums: Art Blakey

Piano: Bobby Timmons

Tenor Saxophone: Hank Mobley

Double Bass: Jymie Merritt

Trumpet: Lee Morgan

Source: AFRO BLUE CATS

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

Robert Doisneau - Be Bop en Cave - Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, Paris, 1951.

The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a performance hall located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, between the Saint-Germain and Montparnasse districts, just off Rue de Rennes.

Opened by Jacques Copeau in 1913 to replace the former Théâtre Athénée-Saint-Germain, the venue has had a rich but eventful history. Its founder intended it to be a venue for "dramatic renewal," a break from the commercial activity of the Right Bank theaters. Successive directors—including Jean Tedesco, René Rocher, and Bernard Jenny—presented avant-garde cinematographic and theatrical works there.

Jean-Paul Sartre's play Huis Clos (No Exit) premiered there in 1944, directed by Raymond Rouleau. The theater's cellar was also used as a jazz club starting in 1948, hosting Claude Luter's New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. The audience at the Club du Vieux-Colombier can then listen to Sidney Bechet, Boris Vian, Geo Daly, etc.

Translated from French from : offi.fr

1951 Be Bop Cellar | Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France | Atelier Robert Doisneau courtesy of GAMMA-RAPHO Agency

Source: blog.ricecracker.net

[thatgirlellie]

KENDRICK JUST SAID SIT DOWN BE HUMBLE IN FRONT OF DONALD TRUMP WITH PERFORMERS IN RED WHITE AND BLUE TELL ME THATS NOT A COMMENTARY

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so we are all just whacking each other with pool noodles on this fine april's day

[travsd]

The Sarah Vaughan Centennial

Singer Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) was born 100 years ago today. Vaughan is often characterized on the short list of great 20th century jazz and blues singers, along with Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, and others. However, Vaughan considered herself more of a pop singer, as her repertoire (indeed many of her hits) consisted of Broadway show tunes that had little technically to do…

[thepastelknight]

I really need fanart of an au where Baxter got to raise his kids.

Next up on "things I noticed upon second viewing of Mutant Mayhem", it looks like Stockman's middle finger on his right hand is naturally shorter than the others.

Aside from being a really good, subtle way to physically indicate his self-professed outcast status and support the themes of societal hostility, it also accounts for:

Superfly's right claw, which seems to have developed as he grew up. If it's something he genetically inherited from Stockman, it all tracks.

[mimorobo]

Definitely not me trying to find an excuse to do stop motion... :) It's very messy and it's not that good, but it was cool to do.

(She's around 2cm tall if you'd like to know... Very smol!)

(Aaaaand They're going the wrong way...)

[ozkar-krapo]

The KING COLE Trio

"Instrumental Classics"

(LP. Capitol rcds. 1955 / rec. 1944-49) [US]