RON CARTER IN ALBA (ITALY), july 2022, by Andrea Palmucci
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Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He is among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and different eras in the history of jazz. Armstrong was born and raised in New Orleans. - Wikipedia
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Jazz legend Tony Bennett has passed away at the age of 96. Rest In Peace, Mr. Bennett ❤️🩹
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Ella Fitzgerald enchanting Dizzy Gillespie, with Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, & Timmie Rosenkrantz, at the Club Downbeat at 52nd Street, NYC, ca. September 1947, by William P. Gottlieb
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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Duke Ellington’s Third Sacred Concert
Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done". He said many times that he was not trying to compose a Mass. The critic Gary Giddins has characterized these concerts as Ellington bringing the Cotton Club revue to the church.
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album five stars and stated "the concert taps into Ellington's roots in showbiz and African-American culture as well as his evidently deep religious faith, throwing it all together in the spirit of universality and sealing everything with the stamps of his musical signatures".
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Three Murals of John Coltrane.
The first one is currently Diamond Streets. The second was on the corner of 29th and Diamond Streets. The last was really the first, it was near 33rd and Diamond Streets. Wish we could have kept them all.
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Mario Bauzá - Son Cubano (Yo Soy El Son Cubano)
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Louis Armstrong ~ “Skeletons in The Closet”
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Pharoah Sanders passed away on Coltrane’s birthday. Father and son now together. RIP 😔🎷
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... when cars were art ...
Herbie Hancock, the jazz legend, born on this day 84 years ago, bought his Shelby Cobra, his first car, from his royalties ... he still owns the car.
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Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins at Newport, 1963
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Crooner's playlist for 2022
You couldn't POSSIBLY thought you were getting away THAT easily-
did you?
"Lullaby of the Leaves" by Ella Fitzgerald
"The Ghost of Smokey Joe" by Cab Calloway
"Spooks" by Louis Armstrong
"The Nightmare" by Artie Shaw
"Cry me a River" by Julie London
"Out of the Bushes" by The Treniers
"Children's Day at the Morgue" by Thurl Ravenscroft
FURTHER HAUNTINGS~
"My Way" by Frank Sinatra
"Dream within a Dream" by The Tiger Lilies
"The Ghost of Stephen Foster" by The Squirrel Nut Zippers
"Pirate Jenny" by Nina Simone
"Whistling Past the Graveyard" by Screamin Jay Hawkins
"Spooky" by Andy Williams
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Goodnight 🌹🖤🌙
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Billie Holiday by photographer Roy DeCarava, ca. 1955
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