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Music lover for whom sound causes intense pain, so I don’t listen very often. Spend most of my day reading old crime novels. No politics, sports or doom!
OCTOBER 31ST
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHEL WATERS!
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977)
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#Ocotober31 #October31st #EthelWaters #EvaTaylor #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #78rpm #TinPanAlley #Jazz #Music #OnThisDayInJazzAgeMusic
"I still get discouraged. I feel I can do a lot better, and I suppose I'll go on striving until I die. Sometimes things get very lean, and I feel like throwing the horn out of the window. There's nothing on earth I like better than playing music."
Happy Birthday Booker Ervin
born October 31, 1930
"People have to express their individual way. I don't copy after no one; I'm inspired by other people but it's my own ideas, it's my own music most of the time and it's original. It will always be that way, as long as I can play."
Happy Birthday Illinois Jacquet
October 31, 1922
This is absolutely phenomenal 👍😎
Adrian Ingram / Ben Crossland Quartet Featuring Jim Mullen & Eryl Roberts - Spread The Word (1996)
Two guitars, bass and drums = an incredible groove!
Available on Bandcamp
jazzcatrecords.bandcamp.com
#NowPlaying #Jazz #UKjazz #JazzGuitar
JazzSky
I’ve not heard of that one, looks good 👍😎
30.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Born 100 years ago today: New Orleans bandleader Tommy Ridgley. He died in 1999.
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Skeleton Frolic (1937) Charles Mintz Productions. Directed by Ub Iwerks
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Easing into the day with a funky Mel Torme 👍😎
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (1970)
Mel covers hits if the day with a fantastic blend of jazz, easy listening and funk!
Absolutely amazing stuff!
#NowPlaying #Vinyl #Jazz #Funk #EasyListening
JazzSky
FunkSky
"About Clifford Brown, I'll put it like this. If any musician of the present day can be compared to Parker, it's Clifford. I can honestly say that he is the most unblossomed talent of this generation." - Quincy Jones
Happy Birthday Clifford Brown
born October 30, 1930
"Doodle Oodle" Live at the Flat in Greenwich Village
#RossanoSportiello (p), #ScottRobinson (ts), #HarryAllen (ts), Neal Miner (b), Dennis Mackrel (dr)
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#jazz jazzsky
Dorothy Dandridge, Shelley Winters, Farley Granger and Harry Belafonte at a New York City nightclub in the 1950s.
29.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 60 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0Yes I do! Thanks for sharing, I must get more by the Mills Brothers 👍😎
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OCTOBER 25TH
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#October25TH #October25 #EddieLang #RoyFos #Rag #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #OnThisDayInJazzAgeMusic #RedHotJazzArchive
Happy B'Day Oct 28 to Graham Bond British r&b pionee (1937-1974)!
The Sound of 65 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
There’s A Bond Between Us youtube.com/watch?v=07UV...
Solid Bond youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#rhythmandblues #gingerbaker #jackbruce #jazzrock
Easing into the day with…
Egil Johansen Quartet Featuring Scott Hamilton - Stockholm 1986
Scandinavian jazz with added Scott Hamilton, fantastic stuff 👍😎
#NowPlaying #Jazz
JazzSky
"If you think about it and plan it you're missing the point, ideally it's just pure reaction and exchange of energy. It only happens with people who have that knowledge, when it's flowing it's very powerful, but the chemistry has to be right."
Happy Birthday Elton Dean
born 28 October 1945
Pete Deuchar recorded very little, so for this to be his 2nd recording is amazing!
Kid Thomas Party (2005 reissue of 1957 10” LP)
Recorded at a private party in New Orleans 1957, Pete gets to jam (and drink) with his heroes. It’s very rough and ready, but a lot of fun 👍😎
#NowPlaying #Jazz
JazzSky
This is the first thing they’ve done that isn’t modern jazz. As usual though it’s very limited, 100 copies I think
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Just finished reading Jazz In Britain’s latest book
Northumbrian Blues:The Lost World Of Big Pete Deuchar Vol.1 1935-60 by Colin Harper
As well as telling Pete's story it also tells of the 50s trad jazz scene, particularly in NE England.
A great and informative read, very recommended 👍😎
JazzSky
"In playing improvised music it's a matter of what the ear is telling me to play and that my job, my discipline in that, is to be able to play what I'm hearing in my head."
Happy Birthday Barre Phillips
born October 27, 1934
"Nothing ever dies; everything is infinite. We've been taught a watered-down version of what "time and space" is, that we're in a three-dimensional reality, which we are not. We're in a multidimensional reality."
Rest in Peace Jack DeJohnette
👍😎
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Surf guitar legend Dick Dale playing "The Wedge" live in studio on KEXP in 2009. Originally on 1963's Checkered Flag. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jbon...
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This is superb 👍😎
Buck Clayton - Complete Legendary Jam Sessions: Master Takes (2004)
Six hard-swingin’ jam sessions, featuring Buck Clayton and a host of big names, recorded 1953-56.
So damn good!
#NowPlaying #Jazz
JazzSky
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26.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re the kiddies when it comes to Dixieland jazz, they used to be in Bob Crosby’s bands (Bob H wrote ‘big noise from Winetka’). They later formed The World’s Greatest Jazzband. Anything with either of them on is well worth picking up
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Detroit Jr. “Chicago Urban Blues” record album. Cover photo of Jr. playing piano. 1976 reissue of 1971 release
2 CDs by Detroit Jr.
Blues musician Detroit Junior (Emery Williams, Jr.) was born October 26, 1931 at Haynes, Arkansas.
*died August 9, 2005.
Piano player, backed Howlin’ Wolf, others.
Best known for writing “Call My Job,” which was covered by Albert King, Son Seals, more.
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Can’t go wrong with Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart 👍😎
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"Everybody can feel suffering when you sing a spiritual. We all carry different kinds of burdens and each person interprets the spiritual in his own way. It's more than just words. It's the feelin'. It lingers after the song is ended."
Happy Birthday Mahalia Jackson
born October 26, 1911
I’ll always buy radio transcriptions, for a few years (42-45) they were the only recordings, due to the strike. If it weren’t for them there’d be a big gap in jazz development
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