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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!
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This is absolutely incredible 👍😎 The Bill Holman Band - Brilliant Corners: The Music Of Thelonious Monk (1997) Big band arrangements of Monk’s music that takes it to another plane, mind blowing stuff! #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

This is superb 👍😎 Gene Allison - If You Try: Complete Recordings 1956-1962 One of the greatest voices in rhythm and blues, particularly on the ballads! #NowPlaying #R&B Rhythm & BluesSky

Starting the day with… The Bruce Turner Jump Band - Jumpin’ At The NFT (1961, 77 Records) An absolutely fantastic album recorded at the National Film Theatre, London 👍😎 My LP has no cover, so you’ll have to make do with the labels. #NowPlaying #UKJazz #Vinyl JazzSky

Ernie K-Doe (February 22, 1933 – July 5, 2001)

"Buddy" Tate (February 22, 1913 – February 10, 2001)

This is excellent 👍😎 Kid Thomas And His Algiers Stompers - New Orleans Living Legends (rec. 1960/61) Real good time music! I can recommend this one @coffeejazzfilm.bsky.social #NowPlaying #Jazz #NewOrleans JazzSky

BEE HOUSTON ♦️ (1938-1991) Edward Houston Americ. 🇱🇷 sing. & guit. 🎙️🎸 Years active: 1960s-1991 {San Antonio, Houston/Texas blues, gospel, soul} "The hustler" youtu.be/cb3DS6H3VwY?... 💣‼️

Does anyone on JazzSky or anywhere else know anything about these… Single sided, vinyl, 78rpm singles of unissued (at the time) Columbia recordings. I have six 1929 recordings by Louis Armstrong on translucent white vinyl and one 1942 recording by Teddy Wilson on black vinyl. Continued… 👇

Easing into the day with… Jack Teagarden And His Orchestra - 1934-1939 Fantastic stuff from the king of the trombone 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

"Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014)

These Catalan jazz kids are so talented 👍😎 Sant Andreu Jazz Band - Jazzing 3: Live At Palau De La Música Barcelona 2011 Not only is the music fantastic, but the CD and DVD are packaged in a beautiful book with a die cut slipcase. ‘So What’ is incredibly funky! #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

There are some great tunes on this compilation… The Greatest Songs Of Jazz Collection As well as jazz there’s classic pop, rhythm & blues and a dash of funky soul. Marvellous stuff! Thanks again for this @coffeejazzfilm.bsky.social 👍😎 #NowPlaying JazzSky

This is fantastic… Cybill has a great voice for jazz JazzSky

Keyboardist & bandleader Bill Doggett (d. 1996) born February 16, 1916/Philadelphia, PA. Worked with Louis Jordan, EllaFitzgerald, other greats. His 1956 instrumental “Honky Tonk” was a big hit. youtu.be/uhi3tqPyjxs?...

As I’ve been reading about Shake Keane today, this evening I’ve been listening to… I Had The Craziest Dream: Modern Jazz And Hard Bop In Post War London 1945-65, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 Absolutely phenomenal stuff, and Shake features on several tracks 👍😎 #NowPlaying #UKJazz JazzSky

Today’s book… Riff: The Shake Keane Story - Philip Nanton (2021) Biography of West Indian poet, trumpet & flugelhorn master and mover & shaker of the British jazz scene of the 60s. A great read despite being a bit brief 👍😎 #NowReading #Paperback #Jazz JazzSky

Easing into the day with… Stan Getz - Quartet & Quintet 1950-52 Absolutely fantastic 👍😎 #NowPlaying #Jazz JazzSky

Harold Arlen ( February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) one of the Great American Songbook’s most important contributors

"Kokomo" Arnold (February 15, 1896 or 1901 – November 8, 1968)

82 today Happy birthday Maceo Parker born February 14, 1943

Magic Sam (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969)