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[hillo-onyx]

Dungonab & Mukkawar Island National Park 🇸🇸

The park is 125 km north of Port Sudan and includes a highly diverse system of coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, beaches & islets supporting a diverse variety of animals. It's also named after the local beja word for these cute lil guys!

🐠 Sudan is also experiencing a famine and the largest humanitarian crises with over 9 million people displaced!

🪸 Please donate if you can to Khartoum Aid kitchen to improve the lives of these refugees

🦈Discover more facts & critters below✨

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Home to endangered mangrove forests and majestic sea beasts! Dungonab & Mukkawar Island National Park is also a UNESCO world heritage site as of 2016.

Located in the Red Sea, it's home to one of the northern most coral reefs in the world! It's also a habitat for seabirds, marine mammals, fish, sharks, turtles, manta rays & dugongs.

Majestic Sea Beasts

🪸 Don't forget-If you can please donate to the Khartoum Aid Kitchen to improve the lives of hungry refugees

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[dustedmagazine]

Paul Severson & Chuz Alfred – Midwest Jazz/Jazz Youngblood (Fresh Sound)

Presenting… Rare and Obscure Jazz Albums is a series curated by the Barcelona-based Fresh Sound label that delivers exactly on the overture advanced in its title. Producer Jordi Pujol has a vinyl collection that would make most collectors emerald with envy as concerns immensity and the means to reissue selections from said repository in remastered 24-bit fidelity. The combined albums on Midwest Jazz/Jazz Youngblood carry the common denominator of trombone and tenor frontlines, but also evince some intriguing differences.

Trombonist Paul Severson is perhaps most notable for what he would achieve in the decades subsequent his debut as a leader. Prior, he held posts in the Stan Kenton and Chicago Civic Symphony Orchestras as well as a staff position at the Windy City CBS affiliate. After, he would become of the most prolific composers and arrangers of commercial jingles. Radio and television-ready melodies for Doublemint, McDonald’s, Kellogg’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken were among his lucrative, later-career earworm creations.

In June of 1956 Severson was ensconced in a journeyman jazz career. Midwest Jazz forgoes the presence of piano, presenting the leader’s J.J. Johnson-influenced horn and the tenor/baritone foil of saxophonist Kenny Soderbloom, with supple accompaniment from bassist Mel Schmidt and drummer Bob Tilles. The program mixes originals and standards and gets better as it progresses. “One More Mambo” alternates agile horn statements with a bubbling, cymbal-dominated rhythm.

Obvious corollaries include the roughly contemporaneous Cool-canted pianoless ensembles of Gerry Mulligan and Herbie Harper, but Severson and his colleagues avoid untoward derivation. “I Only Have Eyes for You” ambles along with pithy horn exchanges over bass and brushes, punctuating with a salvo of rounded flatulence from Severson’s slide. There’s a flexible economy the tunes and arrangements that allows for a the surprising diversity of fourteen tracks to fit within the vinyl-length set.

The curiously monikered Chuz Alfred was a tenorist operating primarily in the R&B realm with Ozzie Cadena, producer at Savoy Records, tapped him for a record date. Recognizing that several of Alfred’s regular running mates weren’t up to the rigors of a jazz session, Cadena conscripted Savoy regulars Vinnie Burke and Kenny Clarke to handle bass and drums duties. To the Lester Young-enamored Alfred it was like winning the jazz lottery. He admirably acknowledges his lucky break by ceding the first several minutes of the opening “A Message from Home” to his illustrious sidemen.

Originals “Manta Wray,” “Harlequin” and “Love Comes to Mehitabel Brown” highlight Alfred’s nimble writing while corroborating the competencies of trombonist Ole Hanson and pianist Chuck Lee. While none of the three are exactly on par with Burke and Clarke, the ad hoc band still exhibits a refreshing degree of unforced chemistry. Leaning to the obscure end of the series’ stated continuum, these albums not only make for engaging companion pieces, but they also illustrate how inspired instrumentation and writing can counter lukewarm expectations.

Derek Taylor

[clobov]

Some call it a floating city, a flotilla of 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago that is stirring diplomatic tension and raising worries about the threat to sharks, manta rays and other vulnerable species in waters around the UNESCO world heritage site. The Chinese fleet is “very close" to the edge of the exclusive economic zone around the Galapagos, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from the archipelago, said its governor, Norman Wray.

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[lorajackson]

260 Chinese boats fish near Galapagos; Ecuador on alert

Some call it a floating city, a flotilla of 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago that is stirring diplomatic tension and raising worries about the threat to sharks, manta rays and other vulnerable species in waters around the UNESCO world heritage site. The Chinese fleet is “very close” to the edge of the exclusive economic zone around the Galapagos, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from the archipelago, said its governor, Norman Wray.

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