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Listening to Kind of Blue makes me so, so happy.

Bill Evans' liner notes are amazing:

"Direct deed is the most meaningful reflection."

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Bill Evans' original hand-written notes for Kind of Blue There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. Erasures or changes are impossible. These artists must practice a particular discipline, that of allowing the idea to express itself in communication with their hands in such a direct way that deliberation cannot interfere. The resulting pictures lack the complex composition and textures of ordinary painting, but it is said that those who see well find something captured that escapes explanation. This conviction that direct deed is the most meaningful reflections, I believe, has prompted the evolution of the extremely severe and unique disciplines of the jazz or improvising musician. Group improvisation is a further challenge. Aside from the weighty technical problem of collective coherent thinking, there is the very human, even social need for sympathy from all members to bend for the common result. This most difficult problem, I think, is beautifully met and solved on this recording. As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time. Miles Davis presents here frameworks which are exquisite in their simplicity and yet contain all that is necessary to stimulate performance with sure reference to the primary conception. Miles conceived these settings only hours before the recording dates and arrived with sketches which indicated to the group what was to be played. Therefore, you will hear something close to pure spontaneity in these performances. The group had never played these pieces prior to the recordings and I think without exception the first complete performance of each was a "take."
August 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
vanessarwilliams.bsky.social
“Jazz greats at the Super Bowl” #BlackHistoryMonth #EllaFitzgerald #HalftimeShow www.sfjazz.org/onthecorner/...
February 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
johnspithead.bsky.social
Now playing Miles Davis - On The Corner friendica.world/display/84b6...
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LP sleeve of Miles Davis - On The Corner propped up behind a turntable which is playing the album.
August 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM
rigamarock.bsky.social
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January 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
jwieder.bsky.social
RIP Zakir Hussain
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SFJAZZ.org | Zakir Hussain
The SFJAZZ family is heartbroken to hear that musical visionary and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain passed away in San Francisco today at the age of 73.
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December 17, 2024 at 5:31 PM
tonygogodaddy.bsky.social
#MilesDavis #OnTheCorner #vinyl #records #vinylcollector #recordcollector #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinylcommunity #vinyloftheday #jazzsky
September 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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#milesdavis #billlaswell #panthalassa #onthecorner #electricjazz #subterraneanchannel
Miles Davis - On the Corner (Bill Laswell Subterranean Channel Mix)
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March 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Miles Davis
Turnaround (1972, 1973)

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Miles Davis Turnaround (1972, 1973) Vinyl LP
February 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
oldandnewdreamz.bsky.social
#recordoftheday

Miles Davis groundbreaking On The Corner… bought this first press 31 years ago at a fleamarket in Manhattan…

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February 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
westsylvania.bsky.social
Need some after-dinner music?
Happy Thanksgiving from Westsylvania!
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SFJAZZ.org | SFJAZZ Playlist-Thanksgiving
We present our most popular playlist, fully cooked and ready for your Thanksgiving feast!
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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
acost506.bsky.social
#OnTheCorner Miles Davis 1972

Choose #20albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. ☠️ One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13

#MusicSky #MusicChallenge
#20albums
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
tom123456.bsky.social
#Oohfashion
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11_beatnik

"One of the greatest contributions to Beat culture and American literature, Kerouac’s On The Road, took specific inspiration from Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray’s 1947 blowing session “The Hunt."
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The Hunt - Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray 1947
"They ate voraciously as Dean, sandwich in hand, stood bowed and jumping before the big phonograph, listening to a wild bop record I had just bought called “...
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February 11, 2024 at 10:13 AM
jerseystylephoto.bsky.social
"Jazz wasn’t all Stewart did. He worked in many genres, shooting Sinatra, Eartha Kitt, Bo Diddley, Judy Garland and Janis He shot Nina Simone’s first album cover and Gil Scott-Heron’s first two...the Beatles and Led Zeppelin are both in his files."

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May 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
weloveallthat.bsky.social
Funky Maceo Parker playlist, anyone?
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Playlist: Make It Funky, Maceo!
With the sax legend bringing the funk back to the SFJAZZ ...
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December 1, 2024 at 11:42 PM
grapeywine.bsky.social
18 mins of tripped-out-fuzzy freak-jams '72 Miles-style, dig #OnTheCorner #jazzsky youtu.be/IngbKMO6niQ?...
Miles Davis - One and One (UNEDITED MASTER) HQ
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December 10, 2024 at 6:38 AM
grandmacyclist68.bsky.social
Going crazy? No? Listen to this and you just might.😉

Miles Davis - On The Corner - 1972

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February 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
thethealbert.bsky.social
Miles Davis "On The Corner", Columbia, 1972. Produced by Teo Macero. Cover art by Corky McCoy. #milesdavis #onthecorner #columbiarecords #vinyl #herbiehancock #nowplaying #musicsky #vinylsky
April 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
beatgozon.bsky.social
Interview by Richard Scheinen.

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SFJAZZ.org | Meshell Ndegeocello Decodes The Omnichord Real Book
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October 13, 2023 at 2:10 AM
akashbhatt.bsky.social
15-11-24 Fleeting moment with a strange bird
84 x 59cm
#onthecorner #comeback
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
theecaptainofsuave.bsky.social
Today's Top Tune for your well being.. and we back to 1965, for a turn from New Jersey...

The Ad Libs - On The Corner

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#adlibs #onthecorner #todaystoptune
January 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
itswanda.bsky.social
A Duke playlist, if you need an interlude
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SFJAZZ AT Home: Friday 2025
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February 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
mcgeetony.bsky.social
The SFJAZZ Collective in collaboration with the de Young Museum, is using visual artworks as the springboard for a new program of original musical compositions. The museum’s “About Place” exhibition, runs through November 2025

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SFJAZZ.org | "About Place": SFJAZZ Collective write new music inspired by Bay Artist visual artists
This season brings an exciting new project from our flagship group, the SFJAZZ Collective, blending music with visual art. Staff writer Richard Scheinin spoke to Collective members Chris Potter, Mike ...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
weloveallthat.bsky.social
A look back at Vince Guaraldi's seminal seasonal soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas'.
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Founded by Randall Kline in 1983 under the name Jazz in t...
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December 1, 2024 at 6:21 AM
urbanocelot.bsky.social
Old faded advertisement that outlived the establishment it was advertising. #baltimore #southbaltimore #fortavenue #brick #brickwall #redbrick #paintedad #paintedadvertising #oldad #oldadvertisement #faded #fadedpaint #fadedad #fadedadvertisement #rowhouse #onthecorner
Old faded advertisement that outlived the establishment it was advertising. #baltimore #southbaltimo...
February 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM