Thought this was the cover of Yasiin Bey's "The Ecstatic" for a sec. Wonder if there's any connection? 🤔

It's like a new version of the lottery, except you don't have to buy a ticket and instead of winning money they send you to a foreign blacksite torture camp

STAND TOGETHER OR ALL FALL DOWN

Ok #jazzsky so last night at pub trivia, there's a round of jazz covers of pop songs: Wonderwall, Dancing Queen, etc.

One of them was "Summertime".. So.. the answer is Gershwin?

Nope, they wanted "Doin' Time." Triv master legit thought jazz artists were covering a Sublime original from 1996. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

spotify is not a music platform, it’s a tech platform designed to extract wealth from musicians and place it into the pockets of executives. hope this helps.

100% what it feels like to be an artist rn

Thoughts and prayers for all the musicians coming back to their instruments after taking the holidays off practicing

#jazzsky #musicsky

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

Just as I was complaining about the fake artist issue being underreported.. We get this bombshell piece of investigative journalism. The entire fake artist scheme is laid bare here, and it's just as bad as we feared.
harpers.org/archive/2025...

@lizpelly.bsky.social – you're a rockstar for this 🙌🏻

The fake artist problem is so depressing. Stumbled upon "Breakfast Jazz" today. This "band" has hundreds of thousands of streams. Every track is either AI generated or completely unintelligible gobbledigook. No record of the band ever existing.

1/3

#jazzsky

Yacht Rock doc: "jazz influence" is a necessary component of the genre. That's why Fleetwood Mac isn't Yacht.

Also Yacht Rock doc: (Christopher Cross "Never Be The Same" looping the most common cookie cutter pop chord progression in history) This is quintessential Yacht!

😮‍💨

#jazzsky #musicsky

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So my friend and sometimes collaborator Dane Paris plays drums on this.

Sold out opening night crowd for Ernest Cole: Lost And Found at the #IDFA yesterday, and right in the middle BOOM here's this tune. I almost jumped out of my seat. Way cool and well deserved.

youtu.be/y62yYslF3n8

#jazzsky

Still on some Roy Haynes this week. To think that he's on this gig as a sub (!) for Elvin Jones (!!) at the height of the Coltrane Classic Quartet (!!!).. and then delivers this absolutely transcendent performance.. Unreal.

youtu.be/YBCPCok5l_s?...

#jazzsky