"A life in jazz is a never ending journey, you never stop learning."
Happy Birthday Dave Green
born 5 March 1942
"A life in jazz is a never ending journey, you never stop learning."
Happy Birthday Dave Green
born 5 March 1942
"I feel more at home with the blues, strictly blues. That's me. You can't make a person what he's not, you know. A fellow has to give out what's inside him."
Happy Birthday Johnny Jenkins
born March 5, 1939
😂
05.03.2026 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"He had a great sense of social justice...he wrote and sang about Vietnam and the protest marches in Alabama... about events that shaped modern history, from the perspective of a bluesman" - Ian Anderson
Remembering J.B. Lenoir, born OTD 1929 in Monticello, Mississippi.
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Starting the day with…
The V Disc Vol.1: Jazz Of The W. W. 2nd - Various Artists (1981)
Fantastic Dixieland and swing recorded 1943-46 👍😎
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MARCH 4TH
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#nowplaying 'Blue Mosque' by the Rendell/Carr Quintet, from 'Shades of Blue' (1965).
Don Rendell's soprano sax work is a thing of beauty -
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I’d have a job choosing! They should have an option for a bit of everything 😃
Happy birthday to Mr B 🥃
Starting the day with…
Peter The Great - The Pete Brown Sextette (1955, 10” LP)
Superb small group swing 👍😎
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That all looks very tasty!
04.03.2026 13:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Birthday to Willie Johnson blues guitar pioneer w/ Howlin' Wolf (1923-1995)!
How Many Years youtube.com/watch?v=UDQs...
All Night Boogie youtube.com/watch?v=rwnA...
Everybody’s In The Mood youtube.com/watch?v=bQWZ...
Playlist youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#Blues #howlinwolf #guitarist
"With the contrast of personalities, the contrast in music also came true. And you need that contrast. You don't get fire and vitality if things are too smooth. It's good to have some friction."
Remembering the great Don Rendell, born 100 years ago today in Plymouth, England.
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Glad it’s going well. You’ll be wanting to clean all of your records now!
04.03.2026 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"We must resist the categorisation of music, and of putting all music on punch cards into computers. That just opens the doors to a new way of splitting everything up."
Happy Birthday Barney Wilen
born 4 March 1937
"With the contrast of personalities, the contrast in music also came true. And you need that contrast. You don't get fire and vitality if things are too smooth. It's good to have some friction."
Happy Birthday Don Rendell
born 4 March 1926
"I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us - especially the things that hurt us."
Happy Birthday Miriam Makeba
born 4 March 1932
Definitely don’t dilute! Pour it into the trough so it covers the brushes. I do 10 whole turns (20 half turns) in each direction for each record. When you’re finished cleaning, pour it back in the bottle through the filter. That’s the tricky bit, put a tray underneath
04.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Play it before and after, you’ll be very pleased with the result
I guessed that you were joking about the fluid, was I right?
Will it be the first one to be washed?
03.03.2026 22:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1982 - Miles Davis - Congress Centrum - Hamburg
1982 - Miles Davis - Congress Centrum - Hamburg
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Excellent find 👍😎
03.03.2026 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"I always found it terribly hard to talk about improvisation 'cause for me everything seems to go on a fairly subterranean level, actually, I never quite know where it comes from."
Happy Birthday Lindsay Cooper
born 3 March 1951
"And then I heard Jimmy Garrison, and I began to see that the bass was more than what I was hearing." - William Parker
Happy Birthday Jimmy Garrison
born March 3, 1934
MARCH 3RD
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Such a great tune
02.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"In some instances I was labeled as a tyrant, but on the whole the guys appreciated it. The word spread. If you can't play, don't go on Lockjaw's thing, because he'll ask you off. In doing that we got the best musicians."
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
born March 2, 1922
MARCH 2ND...
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It’s well worth checking out, sound isn’t perfect but doesn’t effect the listening pleasure
02.03.2026 00:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe, like me, most people are here to avoid the outside world
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This is absolutely superb 👍😎
The Danny Thompson Trio - Live In Session 1967 (10”LP, 2020)
Danny Thompson - bass
John McLaughlin - guitar
Tony Roberts - tenor sax, flute & bass clarinet
Live on BBC radio and introduced by Humph
Phenomenal stuff!
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