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More Eddie Gomez 🎂🎉 inspired listening. 1967 this 👇 That late 60s Philly Joe album. I forgot how nice the recording sound is on this one. Let's go. And hbd Eddie Gomez! 🍷 #jazzsky, #nowplaying

CD cover Bill Evans, "California Here I Come." Recorded in NYC, 1967.

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Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social · 6h

Watching Eric Reed with Willie Jones III Quartet, very nice #nowwatching @theericscottreed.bsky.social #nowplaying #jazz #music #jazzsky #musicsky

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Somewhat Pointless 🐈 @somewhatpointless.eurosky.social · 7h

I don't know this record. Excited to listen to it tomorrow 🤩 Apparently Eddie Gomez can be polarizing. Some people find him aggressive, over the top. For me he's always been one of the most creative basists I've ever heard. Happy bday maestro!

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Don Berryman @donberryman.bsky.social · 9h

#LunchtimeLP Two great jazz bassists have their birthdays today, Steve Swallow's 86th and Eddie Gomez's 82nd. To commemorate I'm listening to two of my favorite albums. Gomez played on Bill Evans' You Must Believe in Spring. Swallow played on Pete La Roca's 's. Basra. #jazzsky

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Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 12h

The last two times I’ve gotten on a Delta flight, the boarding music has been a pianist playing “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 13h

Eddie Gomez 🎂 inspired listening 👇 2010 this. Gomez given a lot of space on this Bill Evans tribute double CD. Maybe too much space?😏 Bah, not today! Hbd Mr. Gomez. ☕️ #jazzsky, #nowplaying

CD cover Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Paul Motian, "Further Explorations" (2010)

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Sandro Janßen @sandrojanssen.com · 15h

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Sunday. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to one of my absolute favorites. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, featuring Coltrane playing saxophone.

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 19h

"Be-Bop it was called. It spread like wildfire. Grasshoppers did the lindy to it. Even the jitterbugs waltzed to it. All the insects wanted to learn it. But you couldn't be jiving. You had to earn it." Happy Birthday Walter Bishop, Jr. born October 4, 1927

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Saturday evening. Loud please. 🍷 #jazzsky, #nowplaying

CD cover Wayne Shorter, "Speak No Evil" (1964)

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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recording - Balade du 10 Mars Label - Soul Note (1999) Track - Gang of Five (Motian) - 6:39 Martial Solal - Piano Marc Johnson - Bass Paul Motian - Drums www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6bp...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/10/2026

Cyrus began consistently documenting New York City in the nineties. His images of Harlem—its streets, its jazz clubs, its dark, soulful nights—evoke the place like nothing else. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

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Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life

Cyrus began consistently documenting New York City in the nineties. His images of Harlem—its streets, its jazz clubs, its dark, soulful nights—evoke the place like nothing else.

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next to listening to jazz, my favorite thing is deciding what to listen to next. 🍷

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Bob McWilliams @radiobob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the 10 pm CDT hour of Jazz in the Night tonight on Kansas Public Radio, from the Vinyl Vault, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker from 1948 on a 2 LP album from 1976. #jazzsky Also streaming at kansaspublicradio.org

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reposting this again bc I love it so much.

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next to listening to jazz, my favorite thing is deciding what to listen to next. 🍷

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dave Brubeck’s 1960’s Connecticut home was as cool as his music.

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Onward! Trombone. So much trombone. 🪊🪊 1960 this. Some guy named Evans on piano. 🍷 #jazzsky, #nowplaying

Album cover "The Great Kai & J.J." (1960)

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Scott Routenberg @scottroutenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION: Recording Academy members, thank you FYC of Scott Routenberg Trio Live at Merrimans' Playhouse: Oscar Peterson Tribute. Best Jazz Instrumental Album Best Jazz Performance, "Kelly's Blues" Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical www.scottroutenberg.com/fyc #jazzsky

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok, inspired by the #jazzsky atmosphere. "The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 1." Perhaps it was imminent 😏. 1953. 🍷 #nowplaying

Album cover The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Vol. 1 (1953)

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#jazzsky | While Clifford Brown was playing with Max Roach in California, Dick Bock recorded this album featuring Brown accompanied by Zoot Sims and the cream of the West Coast—Russ Freeman, Shelly Manne, Carson Smith, Joe Mondragon, Jack Montrose, Stu Williamson, and Bob Gordon.

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Shoulder2wheel @shoulder2wheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The #FBI just knocked on my door and asked me if I was at the Montreux Jazz Festival this past summer. I had to explain to them that I was at the #MontrealJazzFestival.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 30/09/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. Philly Joe Jones as the Bebop Vampire. (*Not* Dracula. *For* Dracula.)

Philly Joe Jones, Blues For Dracula album cover

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The music that suits my personal emotional needs the best was made by Duke Ellington in 1938 without his knowing or caring anything about me or my needs whatsoever

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buddy Rich 🎂 #botd And you know what that means.... Time to watch how quotes from the Buddy Rich tapes were incorporated into Seinfeld. 👇

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Wednesdays We Wear Black 🖤

Album cover Buddy Rich Big Band, "Mercy, Mercy" (1968)

Buddy Rich botd 1917 🎂

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Martin Johnson @martinvjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morning Listening, 09.30.26

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buddy Rich 🎂 #botd And you know what that means.... Time to watch how quotes from the Buddy Rich tapes were incorporated into Seinfeld. 👇

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All right, all right, all right. Seeing all the great news about Immanuel Wilkins. A BIG congrats! So #jazzsky... Where should I start? Keep in mind I'm a traditionalist fuddy duddy at heart. But with an open mind. Hit me with recs - really recs for any of us newbies.

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Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive @milestones-archive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't often do this but... I just came across this photo purporting to be Miles and Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot in 1957. It appears to be an obvious AI fake (unless you know different). Nothing can be trusted anymore. I hate this shit so much.

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why hello Jazztet. So nice to meet you. #jazzsky, #nowplaying

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nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Awfully fun sitting around the house listening to a bunch of Bud Powell. I don't really do that with Powell the way I do with Monk, Evans, OP, etc., etc. May need to change that. 🍷

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Evening soundtrack. I've mentioned it before, but I'm always taken aback when I listen to Kenny Burrell to think that he isn't the greatest jazz guitarist of all time. Great illustration here, too, of how well Coleman Hawkins kept up with the times. Not everyone grows as they age, but he did.

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Kenny Burrell & Coleman Hawkins - Bluesy Burrell ( Full Album )

YouTube video by All That Jazz Don Kaart

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bud Powell 🎂 #botd inspired listening. 1958 this 👇. Nice upbeat trio set, with a wonderful recording sound. RVG Edition. Was even listening on headphones. Philly Joe especially inspired. 🍷 #jazzsky, #nowplaying

Album cover "Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4" (1958)

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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If I had to choose a single musician according to his artistic merit and the originality of his creation, but also for the greatness of his work, it would be Bud Powell. Nobody could measure up to him." Bill Evans on Bud Powell, born 27 September 1924.

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