“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” ― Miles Davis

McCoy Tyner performing a solo on “My Favorite Things” alongside John Coltrane on soprano saxophone, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums live in Belgium, 1965. #smlpdf https://t.co/KOduF8QzRB

Name that tune (it's very obscure)

Remembering the great Horace Silver who was born on this day in 1928. Silver was a pre-eminent founder of what became known as hard bop or soul jazz, an extension of bebop, with elements of rhythm and blues, gospel, and Latin-American music added. His piano style, terse,

Happy birthday, my dear friend Mulgrew Miller. Mr. Miller man who I deeply admired and loved. He was part of my Golden Striker Trio for quite some time, and I miss him every single day. #planetelegance #roncarter #jazz #mulgrewmiller

Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin & Kurt Cobain

A warm welcome with a water salute! From now on Air India will fly from New Delhi to Schiphol and back four times a week ✈️🎥

Why does marketing music require more energy than actually making music 😭😭

CHARLIE ROUSE plays sax tribute at the funeral for THELONIOUS MONK at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 54th St. and Lexington Ave photo:Dick Lewis/NY Daily News Archive

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com

It’s not every day you get to hear Duke Ellington make music with Louis Armstrong—but this happened in 1961.

Coltrane said: "I would have liked to have worked over all those numbers again, but then I guess the performances wouldn't have had the same spontaneity. And they mightn't have been any better!" Recorded on this day in 1962 Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. What's your fave track?

Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali outside the Village Vanguard, New York, May 28, 1966 photographed by by Ch. Stewart. Photo cover of the album "Live at the Village Vanguard Again" 1966.

being a self-employed musician/solo artist has a lot of perks…but it also is REALLY difficult. The grind is real.

Synapse Magazine, June 1977

In jazz school they don't teach you about getting home from the gig at 2am and waking up at 7am to take your kid to school.

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born on this day in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she is performing “Up Above My Head” on the TV Gospel Time program in Chicago in 1965.

Charlie Parker & Red Rodney watching Dizzy Gillespie 1947 #jazz #jazzgiants #altosax #trumpet

John Coltrane ,Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison performing at the Jazz Workshop Photo by Bernie Moss #jazz #jazzgiants #tenorsax

“My brain don’t really work like the rest of y’all”