May 2012
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May 31st
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May 29th
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May 27th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 23rd
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May 21st
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May 20th
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May 19th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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May 8th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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puzzleoverit asked: thank you for the blue note posts. Many of these were out of print when I was searching for them years ago. First time I'd heard a lot of these.
May 4th
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May 4th
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even...”
–  from “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 28th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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“Monk: It’s the High Priest of Bebop talking. Nellie: (Laughing) Oh,...”
– Private recording of Thelonious and Nellie Monk, circa 1961 [From Robin Kelley’s biography of Monk]
Apr 4th
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“Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good...”
– Dizzy Gillespie, quoted in Dread Diary. (via mills)
Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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