#jazzhole

[postcardaday]

The Jazzhole Lagos, Nigeria This bookshop is also a record store, art exhibition space, and café.

Photograph by Olakunle Tejuoso, from This is My Bookstore: 100 Postcards of Beautiful Shops around the World

[pro-royalty]

Jamilla Strand at The Jazzhole in Lagos, Nigeria

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 16 November

The S.S.O. Orchestra - Faded Lady

Kim Weston - Brothers & Sisters (Get Together)

The Impellers - Ed Memes Super Soul Boogalootion

Jack Hammer - Swim

The Bamboos - One Man Entourage

Jazzhole - Love Philosophy

Marlon Saunders - For love

Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

Solsonics - Keep The Rhythm Strong

Jazz Rosco - Hopscotch

Justo Almario & Abraham Laboriel - God Is Able

Freddie Lee - Oh How I Love You

Uraz Kurt - Special C

Arnaud Rodriguez - Turma Do Pole

Gege' Telesforo Groovinators - Here But I'm Gone

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[helloenee]

Free the Robots - Jazzhole

[spgod]

when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool) 💖

Resonance - Home

Jovial - Limes

Poisonous Gas - Anamanaguchi

A Glowing Light, A Promise - Makeup and Vanity Set

Jazzhole - Free the Robots

[sordidamok]

Jazzholes are a specific type of mediocre white guys who try to build their personality out of memorizing trivia and preaching sermons about jazz - as opposed to Scorsese films or craft beers. They love to recite the details of certain recordings - where they were recorded, who the musicians were, what other combos those musicians were in - and to mansplain how the musicians who made "free jazz" were not actually doing what they said they were doing.

"Free jazz isn't free" is jazzhole for "I can't just listen to music, so I'm going to dissect and label every bit of any given album, and make up a bunch of bullshit to strip the music of its raw spontaneity and chaotic beauty to puff up my fragile ego". Sometimes they start yapping about math - as if math was the foundation of reality instead of a language that people invented to explain things. Anything they can't wedge into a box they just wave away.

This one gets extra special jazzhole points for mispronouncing the name of one of the most famous free jazz musicians - Albert Ayler. It ain't like "Ayler" is complicated.

Fuck that shit.

Free jazz started as a way for black musicians to express their individuality and to give the finger to mediocre white men. Free improv took the premise of free jazz and went to the furthest possible extreme, using any possible sound-making implement and any possible approach. Free jazz and free improv are "tohu wa-bohu", formless and void - the state of pure chaos that existed before God began to create. Or they're as close as we can get to that.

If free jazz/free improv isn't free then why is it called that?

Also - Scorsese films aren't that great.

[amouramaryllis]

Jazzhole

[2amcursingyourname-blog1]

My roommate is a college student majoring in jazz composition. But based on the content of her history classes and professors, you'd think she was the first woman to ever even touch a saxophone.

Out of about 8 on staff, 1 is a woman.

At her juries (assessment of her playing) last week, one of the two (male) professors looked her up and down, including her chest, and told her she should’ve done her hair up.

The head of her department asked a graduating female senior if her music sucked, because “that would really be annoying for the musicians.”

For her history of jazz essay comparing two musicians from the bop age, her professor denied her permission to include a woman saxophonist on the grounds that bop wasn’t “in her vocabulary,” and she was “faking it, at best.” They have not covered one female musician so far in the semester, and we’ve hit midterms.

That’s just a sampler of her experience in the jazz comp major.

This kind of mindset is one of the reasons jazz is so unapproachable for the general public, especially women. It’s a toxic environment of dudes with superiority complexes who think the more notes you play, the more scholarly you are and the more worthy of praise. It makes nobody feel welcome.

[the-cardboard-constructionist]

So the Y is closed for the week, which means not only do I not have work, but I don’t have access to exercise stuff for the whole week. 

So I’m going to have to try to do actual runs and body based exercises so that I’m not slacking too hard. 

So last night, I was like... I have some energy left and some time, might as well do some push ups. 

but oh no. the fucking cat is like... oh, you’re got half of yourself propped up? it’s time to go under you and demand pets!

[enneadau]

Fake Ennead Quote:

Yugi: I wish there was a way to block someone in real life.

Anzu: Restraining Order

Katsuya: Fake your death, leave the country and change your name to Hugh Jazzhole.

Ba-Khu-Ra: Murder

-everyone stares-

Yugi: Bakura...

Ba-Khu-Ra: What? It works.

(first person to get the reference, gets a spoiler)

[jojolovenotes]

the f/o playlist game seems so fun! Prosciutto and I are very domestic we love cooking together maybe you have a song to play for the kitchen? :D

self ship music game ✨

Jazzhole - Free the Robots 

This song is all instrumental, but, I just felt like this would be a good vibe when cooking tbh. Also I felt like an electroswing genre song would fit you and Prosciutto best hehe. :) 

[gynandromorph]

idfk why dupe helps me at all i swear to god i’m a hugh jazzhole about it every time

[visualng]

Ayọ̀ Akínwándé's 'Mumu LP Vol.3' audio art project interrogates socio-political issues

‘Mumu LP Vol.3: The Listening Room’ is a sculptural sound installation that foregrounds the ‘voice of the people’ in an ongoing artistic interrogation of political engagements in the public realm.

‘Mumu LP Vol.3: The Listening Room’ is a sculptural sound installation that foregrounds the ‘voice of the people’ in an ongoing artistic interrogation of political engagements in the public realm. This art work is part of a long-term project called ‘Archiving the Future’ which began in 2016, collecting social media screenshots and audio recordings of conversations at bus stops around Lagos. These…

[angelloverde]

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 10 December

Pat Van Dyke - Nautilus

Mr. President Feat. Mounam - Celebrate

Huck Daniels & Co - Foolish Man Pt 2

Prince Fatty Meets Nostalgia 77 - Medicine Chest Dub

Free The Robots - Jazzhole

Skull Snaps - It's A New Day

George Baker- Little Green Bag

Billy Burton - Name Of The Game

Lee Mc Donald - We've Only Just Begun (Patchworks Remix)

S-Tone Inc - In The Mood For Love

Toco - Zum Zum

Kraak & Smaak - Enzo

Yma Boozoo - Bajou

The Greyboy Allstars - Inland Emperor

Gutinstinct - The Girl You Love

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

[metissagesanguemisto]

Qualcuno, tempo fa, chiese alla scrittrice Chimamanda, se in Nigeria esistessero delle librerie. La risposta è NO! Non abbiamo librerie. Abbiamo solo luoghi dove si socializza, si consuma un pasto o un drink insieme agli amici, si ascolta dell'ottima musica.... e solo allora ci guardiamo attorno e scopriamo di essere all'interno di un bookstore or musicstore. Io oggi ci sono dentro. Alla faccia dell'idea che in Africa siamo dei selvaggi. #bookstore #naija #leggere #bookstagram #jazzhole #lagos #libreria #glendorabookshop (presso Jazzhole)

[katskornerco-blog]

One of my goals is to get back to my love of literature. Thanks to #JazzHole for this recommendation. It has certainly made the travel woes a little less woeful. #katskorner #onlocation #intransit #Casablanca