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Animate_Jazz
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AKA Brad Smith. Lover of live music, especially jazz (though i wander), anywhere there are musicians playing and creating in real-time
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"It's after the end of the world (don't you know that yet?)." #SunRa
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rad album
May 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Worked on this documentary film. If you are in New York, June 10-14 come see the premiere! #SunRa
May 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Drums. I was always too focused on John Gilmore's proud tenor to hear Thomas Hunter's remarkable drumming on this 1961 recording in glorious Sun Ra lo-fi.... open.spotify.com/track/75seyK...
Search Light Blues
Sun Ra · Bad and Beautiful · Song · 1961
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April 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Went long on my path through the Big Ears Festival, and the tensions between lofty intentions and root necessities. Featuring Immanuel Wilkins and dozens more.
Everything Done Right at Big Ears
Seeking musical sustenance, and finding it, in Knoxville.
open.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Using data from IFPI's Global Music Report 2023-25, I created a chart for my students. Strongest revenue growth? Middle East and North Africa. Striking was the huge decline in growth in Asia, which IFPI attributes to the decline in physical sales.
#musicbusiness #musiceducation #music
March 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Which #SunRa compositions do you like best? You can only choose 1,000....
March 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Official ⏰to #AWP25 in LA😍 I'll be signing copies of #nosweetwithoutbrine via @poetshouse.bsky.social, supporting @stevenleyva.bsky.social new collection, & doing a panel on writing about the body. Come through for a hug, head nod, or shared space! linktr.ee/cmanick #poetrycommunity #writingcommunty
March 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
www.sciencealert.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Oscar winner Bryan Fogel (Icarus) selected my doc I Called Him Morgan as one of his 10 favorite films for film club Galerie. Tomorrow I participate in an online Q&A abt the 7 yrs making of it. www.galerie.com/watch-party/...
🎟 Promo Code: FILMCLUB (First month free + 50% off the next three months)
Galerie
www.galerie.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I am not a human being anyway, so don’t treat me like them.
#SunRa
February 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Happy Valentine's Day ❤️ youtu.be/hQfp07VgNFM?...
February 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Sun Ra wanted to take us back to the past, because from there we could see the future.
(Marshall Allen)
February 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Happy Birthday Wardell Gray! youtu.be/99CJEPIeGmI?...
Wardell Gray Quartet - Twisted
YouTube video by 60otaku4
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February 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The music comes from the void, the nothing, the void, in response to the burning need for something else.
#SunRa
February 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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The Art Market: Assets, Accumulation, and Aesthetics (In-Person) | March BISR Courses at Property Is Theft |
The Political Economy of Art (In-Person)
The figure of the artist as we know it —independent, irreverent, often economically insecure—is a product of industrial capitalism. Art, likewise, exists within the same system of production and…
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February 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Knoel Scott from Sun Ra Arkestra @ Les Ateliers Claus - Brussels, Belgium - 25 Mar 2017
#knoelscott #saxophonist #sunraarkestra
#lesateliersclaus #brussels
#photography #blackandwhite #concertphotography
February 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Gil Scott-Heron - Live at the Bottom Line 1977
<i><span style="color: #f76388;">Back From The Dead...<br/> Originally posted November 22, 2012</span></i><br/> <br/> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUDXUhbAhYPLQlXXtFawfsUJ-GpSnKrLht9AIxaUMq4gToa9wksFHLUfWmx7A565vpjauyuIC5dd2W36PrYervPc51LGdTiLz2rmu5b-KjC8-JwnqcOplXxG4MUu-DgzcL5yGtIBKXjtv/s1600/Gil-Scott-Heron-1949-2011_large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUDXUhbAhYPLQlXXtFawfsUJ-GpSnKrLht9AIxaUMq4gToa9wksFHLUfWmx7A565vpjauyuIC5dd2W36PrYervPc51LGdTiLz2rmu5b-KjC8-JwnqcOplXxG4MUu-DgzcL5yGtIBKXjtv/w488-h412/Gil-Scott-Heron-1949-2011_large.jpg" width="488"/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Gil Scott-Heron &amp; Brian Jackson<br/></b><b>Live at the Bottom Line</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New York, NY<br/> August 20, 1977</span><br/> Soundboard @320</b></div><br/> Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues." His music, most notably on Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul.<br/> More <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron</a><br/> <br/> <br/><div style="text-align: center;">Set List:</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div> <span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>01. New Deal - 10:19</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>02. Gumbai - 5:05</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>03. Intro to Race Track In France - 1:22</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>04. Race Track In France - 8:06</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>05. Band Intros ~ Lead in to 95 South - 2:45</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>06. 95 South - 4:49</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>07. Intro to Hello Sunday, Hello Road - 1:02</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>08. Hello Sunday, Hello Road - 3:45</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>09. Intro to It's Your World - 0:38</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>10. It's Your World - 6:59</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>11. Home Is Where The Hatred Is - 15:29</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>12. Almost Lost Detroit - 5:59</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>13. Intro to Vildgolia - 1:36</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>14. Vildgolia (Deaf, Dumb &amp; Blind) - 12:24</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>15. Winter In America - 6:54</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>16. Under The Hammer - 5:12</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>17. The Bottle - 15:07</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>18. Intro to Johannesburg - 0:53</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>19. Johannesburg - 5:37</b></span></div></span> <br/><br/> <span style="color: #351c75;"><br/></span><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br/></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-small;">pass - fbsvw</span><br/> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sW8VKEjlePk?si=ffQ4DbrAaW8QLDZB" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </div><div><br/></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bestfile.io/9JOd9oXnIa71e2k/file">Bottom Line '77</a></div> <br/><div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br/></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;</span></div> <div><br/></div><div><br/></div><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1838911155116333600/4993917503050252281" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tRw0b8pQ7KdObMk6uNLK6zatAo80iLrteE92HDwGD-zYdaLVdRi3w4oC0ETkIG4LWarZ8IjEe3HP1KEpeRLVTr2TgnCm4aE0tqGk3htjrFnq8aaAGB04E6HKRT-nvXIw=s0-d"/></a></div> <br/><br/> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div>
voodoowagon.blogspot.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Marshall Allen on Giles Peterson's 6music show BBC Radio 6 Music - Gilles Peterson, with Marshall Allen
BBC Radio 6 Music - Gilles Peterson, Marshall Allen, Neneh Cherry and Naima Karlsson
Gilles speaks with the iconic saxophonist and leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall Allen
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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This morning let’s head to Johannesburg, South Africa and listen to the Mankunku Quartet!

I am currently obsessed with this album and can’t stop listening to it!

Have you heard this album?

#jazz #southafrica #coffee #music
February 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Enlightenment
Is my tomorrow
It has no planes
Of sorrow
Hereby, my invitation
I do invite you
To be of my space world.
#SunRa
February 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Bebop and Black Modernism: an Introduction to Modern Jazz (In-Person) | February BISR Courses at DADA Bar NYC |
Bebop and Black Modernism: an Introduction to Modern Jazz (In-Person)
Modern jazz was birthed, so the legend goes, during after-hours jam sessions in 1941 at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, where Black touring musicians sought to forge a music beyond the appropriation of…
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February 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM