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Stritch Manzello
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Music lover for whom sound causes intense pain, so I don’t listen very often. Spend most of my day reading old crime novels.
No politics, sports or doom!
This is sooooo good 👍😎

Dinah Washington - After Hours With Miss D (2004 CD reissue of 1954 LP)

Dinah backed by some of the greatest jazz musicians around. Such a great album!

#NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal
JazzSky
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Starting the day with…

Dawn - Marc Van Vugt & Ineke Vandoorn With The Metropole Orkest (2006)

Jazz, classical & third stream played by a huge orchestra, and smaller offshoots, featuring the amazing voice of Ineke Vandoorn.

Absolutely incredible stuff 👍😎

#NowPlaying #Jazz #EuroJazz
JazzSky
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Bop City, San Francisco 1951 - left to right, Roy Porter, Specs Wright, Bernie Peters, "Jimbo", "Pat", Betty Bennett, Kenny Dorham, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Don Jeffries; front row, Ernie Lewis, Sonny Criss, Milt Jackson, Carl Perkins, Jimmy Heath, "Cowboy", "O-Yama", Percy Heath
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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As if I needed another reason to listen to more jazz.

#jazzsky, #jazz, #musicsky

Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The great Hank Ballard (d. 2003) born Nov. 18, 1927, Detroit.
Lots of hits, also wrote/originally recorded “The Twist.”
Member Rock HoF.
“Sexy Ways,” a hit from 1954:

youtu.be/KMkWkDLEC0g?si…
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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NOVEMBER 18TH…
Happy Birthday Tom Turpin!
Thomas Million John Turpin (November 18, 1871 – August 13, 1922) was an American composer of ragtime music.
open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

#November19 #November19TH #OTD #BOTD #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm #EarlyRecordings #Music
NOVEMBER 18T
Happy Birthday Tom Turpin!
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"I have always tried to remember the first time, when my mother first gave me a horn. And that's what's important to me. That's what music is really about - the infant happiness, the infant happiness, beautiful!"

Happy Birthday Don Cherry
born November 18, 1936
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Norman Simmons (piano), Wardell Gray (tenor saxophone), Victor Sproles (bass) and Bert Dahlander (drums). Possibly Bee Hive Lounge, Chicago, IL, c. 1954. Photo courtesy of Malcolm Walker
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is absolutely phenomenal 👍😎

Dakota Staton - Softly / ‘Round Midnight (2001)

Softly (1960) - all ballads

‘Round Midnight (1961) - half ballads, half swingers

Benny Carter provides the music on both!

#NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzVocal
JazzSky
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Happy B'Day Nov 18 to Hank Ballard renowned for The Twist & Work With Me Annie among other hits!
Work With Me Annie youtube.com/watch?v=Np8q...
The Twist youtube.com/watch?v=2qoY...

#singer #rhythmandblues #vocalist
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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youtube.com/watch?v=yKKY... Etta James A Sunday kind of love
A Sunday Kind of Love
YouTube video by Etta James - Topic
youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE CONDON!!
Born: November 16, 1905

Albert Edwin "Eddie" Condon, Guitarist/Banjo Player/Leader

Born: Goodland, IN, USAhttps://substack.com/@onthisdayinjazzagemusic/note/c-177869682?r=my6i5
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE CONDON! Born: November 16, 1905 Albert Edwin "Eddie" Condon, Guitarist/Banjo Player/Leader Born: Goodland, IN, USA
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November 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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1966 - Miles Davis - Stanford University
#jazz #MilesDavis jazzsky
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Guitar great Hubert Sumlin was born today in 1931 in Greenwood, Mississippi. The mainstay of blues legend Howlin’ Wolf’s band for over two decades, Sumlin entered the Blues Foundation’s prestigious Blues Hall of Fame in 2008. Sumlin passed in 2011.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Easing into the day with…

Ralph Sutton & George Barnes - Swinging On Stratford

Recorded live in someone’s home, 1966.

White label with insert and previous owners’ track listing.

Piano and guitar perfection 👍😎

#NowPlaying #Jazz #Vinyl
JazzSky
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Happy Birthday Nov 15 to Little Willie John blues & r&b vocal legend!
Fever youtube.com/watch?v=y27v...
Need Your Love So Bad youtube.com/watch?v=hFo7...
All Around The World youtube.com/watch?v=9czw...
Leave My Kitten Alone youtube.com/watch?v=PY_s...

#Blues #rhythmandblues #singer #vocalist
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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"I was about eleven years old and had some difficulty in seeing over the 28-inch bass drum. Now I am older I have learned to like more types of music, but I have always liked some­thing that really swings. I liked the jazz bands."

Happy Birthday Gus Johnson
born November 15, 1913
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Starting the day with a couple of World Broadcasting System Inc. transcription discs 👍😎

Disc R-746 “Collector’s Corner”
Joe Marsala Orch. / Ted Heath And His Orch. / Glen Gray And His Orch.

Disc R-650
Joe Marsala Jazz Band / Woody Herman Orch.

#NowPlaying #Jazz #Swing #Dixieland
JazzSky
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM