Music

Someone posted on Reddit you could add two songs to a jazz playlist, and two songs are always different. It's called Kind of Us .  Jazz musicians I discovered for myself: Ivie Anderson : She was Duke Ellington's go to singer until asthma took her out of it.  Sam Lanin : Early band leader.  Isach Skiedvoll : He only has German Wikipedia entry, but my browser is set to translate everything into English. Theon Cross : Cross is a core member of the jazz band Sons of Kemet . Angélique Kidjo : Beninese-French singer-songwriter, actress, and activist. Kidjo has won five Grammy Awards and is a 2023 Polar Music Prize laureate. She has released many albums, performed around the world, and frequently collaborated with other artists. I did Soppin' The Biscuit by Roy Hargrove and A Go Go by John Scofield, 19 and 20. 

I've always loved Billie Holiday  (1915-1959), even before David Sedaris wrote about singing like her. Before reading about how the FBI sent someone to get her, and he fell in love with her, chained to a hospital bed. Before learned Billie Eilish was named after her. Before I knew she was named after Billie Dove. Before I heard Strange Fruit , her greatest song, lyrics by  Abel Meeropol . Early life bio: She was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Baltimore. "Eleanora Fagan [4] [5] was born on April 7, 1915, [6] in Philadelphia to African American unwed teenage couple Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her mother moved to Philadelphia at age 19, [7] after being evicted from her parents' home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, for becoming pregnant. With no support from her parents, Sarah made arrangements with her older, married half-sister, Eva Miller, for Holiday to stay with her in Baltimore." (Wiki...

Tallest mountain on a planet: Olympus Mons on Mars.  Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil David Bridie Guardian Going to be giving other choices for streaming moving forward (8/6). 8/1 Inglewood Jam 1952(recorded)/1978 release Charlie Parker with Chet Baker YouTube 8/2 Alex Malch 2025 hyacinth spotify 8/3  Fergus McCreadie 2022 Forest Floor spotify 8/4 Fergus McCreadie 2025 Stream (revisited) spotify 8/5 Modest Mouse 2024 Good News For People Who Like Bad News spotify 8/6 John Cooper Clarke 1980 Snap, Crackle & Bop   spotify    YouTube 8/7 Nine Treasures 2021 Awakening from Dukkha spotify   YouTube 8/8 Dharma  2021 Treasury of the True Dharma Eye spotify Dharma on Bandcamp . 8/9 Aaron Copeland 1970 London Symphony Orchestra Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Billy The Kid spotify   8/10 Nice little playlist from NY Times about Roy Hargrove . Spotify 8/11 Billy Harper 1979 The Awakening ...