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Last Seen Profiles
Flight attendant: Trumpet or sax?
Me: Sax
FA: So you trying to be a Kenny G. I sure wish I could.
Me: Yeah. That’s one way to look at it.
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Just before landing...
FA: I looked at the manifest and saw the name Marsalis! No wonder you have a saxophone. Is he your father?
Me: Which one?
FA: Wynton
Me: Yes.
FA: Wow! Tell him I’m a big fan!
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Bruh…..
Multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr. performing “Perdido” on trombone, vibraphone and drums live in 1959.
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Man, she could play.
Remembering Karen Carpenter, gone 40 years today. Here she is performing a drum solo in 1968 at the age of 18.
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When your ligature says farewell, and you don’t have a spare. Back to New Orleans, circa 1977
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When you play your first concert in over a year , make sure it’s not recorded, let alone filmed. 😩
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Only in my town can you shut down a major thoroughfare, and not one car blows their horn. We sent her home in style.
Jazz funeral for Dolores Marsalis including
@wyntonmarsalis
,
@bmarsalis
,
@Delfeayo
,
@JasonMarsalis
in New Orleans
@theadvocateno
@wwltv
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Asked without a stitch of irony.
Who should headline the 50th Jazz Fest: Beyonce, Paul McCartney, ABBA, the Stones?
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scrolling for the morning sounds and came across Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters. In 1973, I had listened to this record at least once a day since it came out. In ‘74 my dad’s band opened for Headhunters at The Warehouse. 9 years later, I was on stage with him. Unreal.
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Only in NY. Walking down W. 4th St., and run into Ron Carter, Jimmy Greene and Renee Rosnes at their soundcheck.
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Who’s that playa at the piano? Thanks to Arthur Elgort for usage.
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Old Man getting ready to receive his honorary degree.
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This is Vladimir Rushing. He grew up in, and played in St. Petersburg most of his professional life. He turned 100 today, and played for us we played for him. It was an honor.
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
~Voltaire
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I have neither heard nor seen any Blue Lives Matter outrage about the death of Officer Sicknick. Seems like everything in a metaphor for something else in our country.
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"I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."
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Past is prologue.
In 1873, Jefferson Davis told a reporter that Southerners had been “cheated, not conquered."
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Honored to be playing Wayne Shorter’s music with his band tomorrow. Been listening the past 2 weeks to more of Wayne’s music than I have in a while. Friend of mine called, heard the music and asked, “Is that you?” I said, “No. well...yes.”
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Musicians, avoid
@British_Airways
. They are now asking those who carry instruments to check them as luggage. The long, interesting day just got longer.
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I had a pet chinchilla once. It's cold in Norway.
President Trump: "In most places of the country -- water is not a problem. They don't know what to do with it. It's called rain. They don't have a problem."
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Just heard Don’t Sweat the Technique for the first time in forever. Still a gem.
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Just sat in with
@DerekAndSusan
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I was having an intense, but pleasant discussion with a “Coronavirus is a Hoax” lady. Until she said, “A good place for your to eat is Outback. They have great food.” Conversation over.
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Red Summer: 100 years ago, white mobs across the country attacked black people. And they fought back - CNN
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Strength is not the projection of strength. The projection of strength is a con.
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Last time I was in this room, Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman were on the sofa.
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A wine celebration of Old Man’s recordings:
‘82 fathers and Sons
‘90 Ellis Marsalis Trio
‘89 A Night at Snug Harbor
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Crisis averted! My man Al Kay scrounged up his Eb Clarinet lig to bail me out!!
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Staying in a cottage that used to be part of a hotel. The owner burned the hotel down when informed that he would have to accept Negroes and Jews. Yet, despite is best intentions, here we are.
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Just heard Oregon Symphony perform Shostakovich Symphony No. 11. This is the second time I’ve cried at the conclusion of a performance.
This band is amazing, from top to bottom. And Robert Trevino’s realization really took me over the top. I’m drained. Now I gotta go to work.
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RIP, Jeff.
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The difference between a boy and a man: Listen to I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry by Sinatra in 1946, then in 1958. The depth his ability to convey emotion through sound is light years a better in the latter recording.
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No Mardi Gras floats? Turn your house into one. Here’s one with Pop, Big Al, Uganda and DJ Midnight Creeper/Brother Jes.
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Yessir, Coach!!!
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A real traditional home going. Wish I could have been there. Peaceful journey, Lu.
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“I bought 4 tickets to Brandon Marsalis in the front row. A week later, I saw that Abba was coming. Well, Brandon Marsalis is jazz, and Abba is… well… Abba. So I bought 4 seats to Abba, and gave the Brandon tickets away. And last week, Abba canceled. What am I gonna do now?” ☹️
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Bullshit has a price now.
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No matter how hard I try, I’m always on the early flight or train. My sax has a leak, and laundry is now a priority, so I’m on the 8:15 to Vienna. Drop bag at hotel, drop saxes at shop, back to the hotel for the laundry. Add to it a master class at 2:30. You gotta love the road.
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This is how you deal with ignorance. I laughed out loud. Power to the People. Mariachi band plays outside home of NY lawyer who threatened to call ICE on restaurant employees
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A rainy day in San Francisco. Sitting in a coffee shop, with the door open to the sound of cars tires meeting water as they drive by. Perfect time for Only the Lonely.
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The Little Dictator is taking this dictator thing too far. Paramilitary troops (with no training) in US cities? Only in ‘liberal cities, of course.
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So we arrive in Gdańsk, and there is no one here to pick us up. When we call, he says “I though you guys were coming in tomorrow.” So he didn’t read the correspondence he agrees to, we have no ride, and no hotel rooms booked for today. 👍🏾👍🏾
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You will be missed, Brother Peterson.
This is my brother from our early days in music. Met him at Rutgers in 1980. We’ve been family ever since. Last night Ralph Peterson lost his battle with cancer. He fought as hard as anyone could. RIP brotha.
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If I got a dollar every time I have been called 'articulate' by a moderately articulate person, I'd have a couple of hundred bucks. Given their own issues with the language, it's a pretty stark irony.
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😱 Pot, meet skillet.
Pompeo on China: "They're incapable of being transparent, of accepting criticism, of allowing reporters to ask them questions that they find uncomfortable."
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Casually Passed to me by our flight attendant. I laughed out loud.
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Sitting in a Peruvian restaurant. The music of choice is salsa. Suddenly, a live band from the rear of the restaurant reals into Autumn Leaves. The sounds are now in competition with each other, and no one is bothered but me. 😑
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The Democrats can’t do anything right. They spend all that time and money, making sure that the election was rigged against Trump, and allowed the GOP to keep the Senate majority. What fuck ups!!!!
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Just finished hearing and playing with Tain’s trio. Up in 4 hours to fly home and hear my man, Harry Connick.
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Excuse me, boss. I’d like to have a week off from my plantation duties to go to Washington and protest against my condition. 🤣🤣
In a stunning sermon, a minister says enslaved people never rallied in DC to protest slavery. Rather, they relied on plantations' "good people" to teach them to read the Bible so they could repent and end slavery. Mike Keller is Anna Duggar's father. v/c:
@itsrowsdower
on TikTok.
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