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[Illustrator Jim Flora, known especially for jazz LP covers, was BOTD in 1914. Mambo for Cats, a 1955 anthology, is a popular favorite. On the right, some of the same cats relax after the show in the 1990s.]
January 25, 2026 at 5:25 PM
[Illustrator Jim Flora, known especially for jazz LP covers, was BOTD in 1914. Mambo for Cats, a 1955 anthology, is a popular favorite. On the right, some of the same cats relax after the show in the 1990s.]
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Noël Coward by Edward Steichen (1932).
January 25, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Noël Coward by Edward Steichen (1932).
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Remembering Witold Lutosławski on his birthday 🎂
📷 Krysztof Gieraltowski
"In principle, I write music that I would like to hear, music that is an expression of my own tastes, wishes and desires. I am offering audiences my own internal truth."
Symphonic Variations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7F...
📷 Krysztof Gieraltowski
"In principle, I write music that I would like to hear, music that is an expression of my own tastes, wishes and desires. I am offering audiences my own internal truth."
Symphonic Variations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7F...
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Remembering Witold Lutosławski on his birthday 🎂
📷 Krysztof Gieraltowski
"In principle, I write music that I would like to hear, music that is an expression of my own tastes, wishes and desires. I am offering audiences my own internal truth."
Symphonic Variations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7F...
📷 Krysztof Gieraltowski
"In principle, I write music that I would like to hear, music that is an expression of my own tastes, wishes and desires. I am offering audiences my own internal truth."
Symphonic Variations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7F...
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
William Somerset Maugham, born 25 January 1874.
William Somerset Maugham, born 25 January 1874.
January 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
William Somerset Maugham, born 25 January 1874.
William Somerset Maugham, born 25 January 1874.
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Remembering Somerset Maugham on his birthday 🎂
📷 Slim Aarons, 1955
"He was a passionate, difficult man, capable of cruelty as well as of great kindness & charm, & despite all his worldly success he never found what he wanted."
- Selina Hastings
📷 Slim Aarons, 1955
"He was a passionate, difficult man, capable of cruelty as well as of great kindness & charm, & despite all his worldly success he never found what he wanted."
- Selina Hastings
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Remembering Somerset Maugham on his birthday 🎂
📷 Slim Aarons, 1955
"He was a passionate, difficult man, capable of cruelty as well as of great kindness & charm, & despite all his worldly success he never found what he wanted."
- Selina Hastings
📷 Slim Aarons, 1955
"He was a passionate, difficult man, capable of cruelty as well as of great kindness & charm, & despite all his worldly success he never found what he wanted."
- Selina Hastings
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Remembering Antonio Carlos Jobim on his birthday 🎂
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Remembering Antonio Carlos Jobim on his birthday 🎂
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."
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Composer, pianist, songwriter, singer — widely considered the founder of bossa nova. Many of his songs, including 'The Girl From Ipanema', 'Desafinado', and 'Corcovado' have became standards...
Antônio Carlos Jobim #botd
Antônio Carlos Jobim #botd
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Composer, pianist, songwriter, singer — widely considered the founder of bossa nova. Many of his songs, including 'The Girl From Ipanema', 'Desafinado', and 'Corcovado' have became standards...
Antônio Carlos Jobim #botd
Antônio Carlos Jobim #botd
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"I think Virginia Woolf is probably the person whose technical daring & her skill at doing that kind of thing & moving from one head to another head, from one point of view to another, in the years and in the ways, is the most admirable."
(Ursula Le Guin)
Virginia Woolf, born 25 January 1882.
(Ursula Le Guin)
Virginia Woolf, born 25 January 1882.
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
"I think Virginia Woolf is probably the person whose technical daring & her skill at doing that kind of thing & moving from one head to another head, from one point of view to another, in the years and in the ways, is the most admirable."
(Ursula Le Guin)
Virginia Woolf, born 25 January 1882.
(Ursula Le Guin)
Virginia Woolf, born 25 January 1882.
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Remembering Virginia Woolf on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
January 25, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Remembering Virginia Woolf on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
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Etta James, born on 25 January, singing "Something's Got A Hold Of Me" from 1962.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8z...
Something’s Got a Hold on Me
YouTube video by Etta James - Topic
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January 25, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Etta James, born on 25 January, singing "Something's Got A Hold Of Me" from 1962.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8z...
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"A Sunday Kind of Love" from 1961 by Etta James, born on 25 January.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPO...
A Sunday Kind Of Love
YouTube video by Etta James - Topic
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January 25, 2026 at 4:42 PM
"A Sunday Kind of Love" from 1961 by Etta James, born on 25 January.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPO...
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The great singer Etta James was born on 25 January 1938. Her sense of phrasing and her innate ability to sing the note you always want to hear makes her irreplaceable.
January 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The great singer Etta James was born on 25 January 1938. Her sense of phrasing and her innate ability to sing the note you always want to hear makes her irreplaceable.
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Una mujer fuera de la ley [非常線の女 (Yasuhirō Ozu, 1933)]
DoP: Hideo Mojara
DoP: Hideo Mojara
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Una mujer fuera de la ley [非常線の女 (Yasuhirō Ozu, 1933)]
DoP: Hideo Mojara
DoP: Hideo Mojara
Jimmy Lyons/Paul Murphy - Gossip
YouTube video by Dominic Fragman
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January 25, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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"More than any other art form, I believe music is the best tool for defining and exploring the human soul. It is the most essential mechanism available for the exploration of man's consciousness, spirituality and creation."
Happy Birthday Paul F. Murphy
born January 25, 1949
Happy Birthday Paul F. Murphy
born January 25, 1949
January 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM
"More than any other art form, I believe music is the best tool for defining and exploring the human soul. It is the most essential mechanism available for the exploration of man's consciousness, spirituality and creation."
Happy Birthday Paul F. Murphy
born January 25, 1949
Happy Birthday Paul F. Murphy
born January 25, 1949
Ewan MacColl #BOTD and Peggy Seeger - "Dirty Old Town" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdj6...
DIRTY OLD TOWN ORIGINAL
YouTube video by Albert Mitton
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January 25, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Ewan MacColl #BOTD and Peggy Seeger - "Dirty Old Town" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdj6...
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#MMLifers Born on this day in 1915 and died aged 74 in 1989, James Henry Miller, known as Ewan MacColl.
The Manchester Rambler
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January 25, 2026 at 8:17 AM
#MMLifers Born on this day in 1915 and died aged 74 in 1989, James Henry Miller, known as Ewan MacColl.
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#MMLifers Born on this day in 1929 and died aged 95 in 2024, Benny Golson.
benny golson killer joe
YouTube video by T Iair
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January 25, 2026 at 8:21 AM
#MMLifers Born on this day in 1929 and died aged 95 in 2024, Benny Golson.
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"I feel that when I was involved in that big tenor sound kind of concept, it benefitted me - I didn't feel lost in any way. We have to build on things that we learn from our peers; otherwise we have no direction at all."
Happy Birthday Benny Golson
born January 25, 1929
Happy Birthday Benny Golson
born January 25, 1929
January 25, 2026 at 8:09 AM
"I feel that when I was involved in that big tenor sound kind of concept, it benefitted me - I didn't feel lost in any way. We have to build on things that we learn from our peers; otherwise we have no direction at all."
Happy Birthday Benny Golson
born January 25, 1929
Happy Birthday Benny Golson
born January 25, 1929
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"To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten."
✒ Norwegian writer #ArneGarborg was #BOTD 25 January 1851. #Literature
✒ Norwegian writer #ArneGarborg was #BOTD 25 January 1851. #Literature
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 AM
"To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten."
✒ Norwegian writer #ArneGarborg was #BOTD 25 January 1851. #Literature
✒ Norwegian writer #ArneGarborg was #BOTD 25 January 1851. #Literature
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"To dream costs nothing."
🌍📸 American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist #LuisMarden, a #NationalGeographic legend, was #BOTD 25 January 1913. #Photography #Travel #Filmmaking
🌍📸 American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist #LuisMarden, a #NationalGeographic legend, was #BOTD 25 January 1913. #Photography #Travel #Filmmaking
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 AM
"To dream costs nothing."
🌍📸 American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist #LuisMarden, a #NationalGeographic legend, was #BOTD 25 January 1913. #Photography #Travel #Filmmaking
🌍📸 American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist #LuisMarden, a #NationalGeographic legend, was #BOTD 25 January 1913. #Photography #Travel #Filmmaking