JazzCall for Freedom

𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚 - 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐧̃𝐚 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐕 You’ve got to love how effortless it looks in his hands. The guitar almost seems passive — like he’s not playing it so much as speaking through it. It doesn’t feel like effort; it feels like storytelling. As

"If a man knows not to which port he sails no wind is favorable." Seneca

Here’s the thing about jazz: you don’t have to understand every note to connect to an emotion. The notes matter but the meaning lies beneath.

When a man embraces his mission to serve and pours all his strength into it, change is inevitable.

I sat down with @WalterIsaacson for @AmanpourCoPBS to reflect on nearly 40 years at Jazz at Lincoln Center (@jazzdotorg)... why we started, what we built, and what comes next. Jazz is the perfect metaphor for democracy.

Perspective

This video features Andrés Segovia performing Bach’s Gavottes I and II from the Sixth Cello Suite (BWV 1012), which he transcribed for guitar himself. Filmed in 1976 when he was 84 years old, it was shot at the historic Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain—his childhood city—and is

When my wife and I raised our daughters we made sure Ms. Simone’s music was in the soundtrack of our household. The result: they grew up self-assured. Young, Gifted, and Black. Happy Heavenly Birthday to the irrepressible Nina Simone.

Nina Simone – child prodigy, singer, songwriter, activist, and civil rights activist – was born #OnThisDay in 1933. Simone composed music that expressed the best and worst of the human condition. #BlackHistoryMonth

“Immanuel Wilkins Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard” is a searing 3-volume document of the saxophonist’s acclaimed quartet with Micah Thomas, Ryoma Takenaga & Kweku Sumbry in action at the hallowed NYC jazz shrine. Pre-order “Vol. 1” & hear “CHARANAM”: https://t.co/9Rt2t8uIgd

#NowPlaying John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane (CD, Atlantic)

Proof that we still have three co-equal branches of government.

https://t.co/v8wyU7xRdx “The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible.” Sun Ra

A Starter’s Guide to Cool Jazz

'To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.' - Elvin Jones #jazz #art #quote

PBS will tell the story of Sun Ra and his Philly-based musical collective in an upcoming episode of 'American Masters'

"We don't get to control the length of our adversity. You get to control who you are in it. The fastest way to get from a season of adversity to a season of prosperity is to ... figure out where you need to work and get better and then it will turn at some point."

Pat Metheny is a guitar god

“I am somebody” wasn’t a slogan - it was an intervention. Thank you, Rev. Jesse Jackson. You formed a timeless sermon out of three words.