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Saxophonist, Composer, Writer. The Illicit Sextet, What Would Mingus Do?, Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop. Wausau to Minneapolis to Buffalo to Boulder. James Carter ruined my life (look it up). Oxford comma enthusiast. I will Like your cat photos.
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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

tried to do the heart shape with my fingers and long story short i’m in a gang now

Took this shot eight years ago today, on an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon at the Albright Knox in Buffalo.

True words.

Eating those sweet sweet half-price-day-after-Valentine's-Day Russell Stover chocolates.

Gonna talk to the manager about the bad attitude of my checkout person today.

Fifteen years ago today, playing to a full house at the storied Jazz Club Torino in Turin, Italy. A magical night and the last day of an amazing winter tour in the French Alps and Italy.

Fifteen years ago today in Briançon, France: the day began with sightseeing, followed by an evening performance at the Altitude Jazz Festival, AND a post-performance gig in the wee hours of the next day at Bar de la Vigne.

"The people who persuaded me that Republicans are fascist are Republicans. What this tells me is that actions are persuasive in ways words are not. I mention this because a lot of people seem to think that what is needed in this moment is persuasion." www.the-reframe.com/youve-persua...

I don't believe in God but I'm trying to refind my faith so I can pray for that asteroid to hit.

It was 8° and crummy out when I headed to the gym this morning and I kind of thought I might have the joint to myself but of course it was SLAMMED because I forgot this entire state is populated by Coloradans and "being fit" is this thing they do and also this thing that I now do as a Coloradan.

Fifteen years ago today, in the French Alps, pumping gas on the way to a gig.

This is alternate reality level stupid. This is something you wake up from and go "Oh thank God that was just the most fucked up dream!" Would someone please unplug the simulation and then plug it back in?

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

Love this Philip Glass quote...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/hea...

Irrational and impossible thing that I definitely believe secretly to be true is that someone unknown to me monitors my behavior at the grocery store and makes sure that right at the moment I'm about to grab my broccoli the veggie mist sprayer thingy turns on to make it soggy.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

So I guess we're using "compute" as a noun now. I suppose I was inattentive, and I certainly wasn't consulted: this is a horror I would've nipped in the bud (or in the butt, as I've seen online from time to time).

Current sitch.

Every time I come across one of those slow close toilet seats I like to pretend that I've hacked the matrix.

Hell yeah, @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social and @thenation.com!

Thinking of adding a little touch of class to the joint.

It's hard to believe that someone, their name forever lost to us, invented Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

I think this is the januariest of the 5 Januaries I've spent here.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

Recorded 50 years ago today!

It's so weird how all of these Nazi-adjacent people keep accidentally striking this physical pose that they insist has nothing do with Nazism.

Once again Trump supporters filled the Capitol, but at least this time they didn't smear shit on the walls and spear cops with flagpoles: it's heartwarming and uplifting to witness such discipline and growth among MAGA Americans.

Hate got out the vote (along with ignorance, resentment, and delusion), and now we all reap what's been sown.

Took this shot of Nellie three years ago today. No one knows how she does it.

Imagine him swearing on the Bible to uphold the Constitution, after what we've already seen. The inauguration should have a laugh track, because in any sane world that would be a moment of deafening hilarity. If God is real that Bible will burst into flames.

Ira Gitler's liner notes to "John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio," written in 1957, are insightful and surprisingly prescient! (h/t to @techdef.bsky.social for posting these!)

Two days ago it was in the 60s and people were wearing shorts.