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One final clip from the #Jean-LucPonty Legacy concert tonight at #Berklee. Here’s Danish-American jazz violinist Mads Tolling with Berklee faculty violinist Jason Anick performing Chick Corea’s "Armando’s Rhumba” (Jean-Luc was on the original recording with Chick) #jazzsky #jazz #livejazz

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 15h

Great #Jean-LucPonty Legacy concert tonight at #Berklee. Here’s a snippet of Jean-Luc’s “Renaissance” : #jazzsky #livejazz #jazz #livemusic

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 18h

So, #Berklee just gave #Jean-LucPonty a lifetime achievement award. Jean-Luc is watching by live stream and had a statement thanking Berklee, saying he regretted not being able to attend in person, noting Berklee grads he’s worked with. Oh, and it’s also Jean-Luc’s birthday. 🎂 #jazzsky #jazz

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 19h

Heading out soon to see a Jean-Luc Ponty Legacy concert at #Berklee. Been listening to classic 1970s Jean-Luc 🎻, including his first solo album: Jean-Luc Ponty: “Gardens of Babylon” (Imaginary Voyage, 1976). Allan Zavod (🎹), Daryl Stuermer (🎸), Tom Fowler (bass) #jazzsky #jazz #Jean-LucPonty

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The Gardens of Babylon

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#RachelCarson published “The Sea Around Us” in 1951, and #SilentSpring 64 years ago yesterday. An expose’ on the environmental & public health harms from DDT, the latter was a key catalyst of the modern environmental movement. Saw an exhibit of her work at Yale’s #BeineckeLibrary flic.kr/p/2sDsFHN

Color photograph of a large sign on an Exhibit of Rachel Carson’s work at the Beinecke Rare Book Libray at Yale. Carson, a marine biologist turned environmental writer, published The Sea Around Us in 1951 and Silent Spring in 1962 -- the latter about the environmental and public health harm from DDT became a key catalyst in creating the modern environmental movement. It was an interesting and elucidating exhibit.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I braved the Nor’easter to see the #McCoyTyner Legacy Band ( #FranciscoMela (🥁), #BenitoGonzalez (🎹), #SantiDebriano (bass) & #GeorgeGarzone (tenor 🎷)) at the Regattabar. b/c #ColtraneCentennial, they did Acknowledgement & Resolution from A Love Supreme. #jazzsky #jazz #JohnColtrane #Coltrane100

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I braved the Nor’easter to see the McCoy Tyner Legacy Band ( #FranciscoMela (🥁), #BenitoGonzalez (🎹), #SantiDebriano (bass) & #GeorgeGarzone (tenor 🎷)) do a McCoy & Coltrane tribute show at the Regattabar. Here’s a bit of McCoys "Four by Five" #jazzsky #jazz #McCoyTyner #JohnColtrane #Coltrane100

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OK, a final #photo for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme: #lights “Saturday Night Snow (with ghosted snowplow)" #Longexposure of Boston’s Commonwealth Ave. Mall with #holidaylights, #snow and light trails flic.kr/p/5SbVou #photosky #photography #Black&WhitePhotography #EastCoastKin #holidaylights

Long exposure black and white photo of Boston’s Commonwealth Ave. Mall with holiday lights, snow, light trails, and ghosted snowplow.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another #photo for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme: #lights “Looking at the Lights” Abolitionist, women's rights advocate and suffragist #LucyStone. #BostonWomen'sMemorial on the Commonwealth Mall flic.kr/p/98CNuB #photosky #photography #Black&WhitePhotography #EastCoastKin #holidaylights #snow

Black and white photo of a statue of abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and suffragist Lucy Stone in the Boston Women's Memorial on the Commonwealth Mall in winter with holiday lights strung on the trees along the mall. There is snow on the ground and a dusting of fresh snow on the Lucy Stone statue.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another #photo for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme: #lights “Twin Peaks (’Tis the Season)" Holiday lights and Christmas Tree in Faneuil Hall with Boston’s #CustomHouseTower looming in the background. flic.kr/p/2d3iVuw #photosky #photography #BlackandWhitePhotography #EastCoastKin #holidaylights

Black and white photo of a Christmas Tree and holiday lights in Faneuil Hall with Boston’s Custom House Tower looming in the background.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme is : #lights “Skating (under all of the lights)” Skating on the #BostonCommon #FrogPond in December flic.kr/p/2pnMeB1 #photosky #photography #BlackandWhitePhotography #EastCoastKin #holidaylights

Black and white photo of ice skaters on the Boston Common Frog Pond skating rink in late December with holiday lights strung in trees overhead and all around. Holiday lights also outline and decorate the Frog Pond skate rental and concession hut.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday! #FunkyFriday Thundercat : “Uh Uh” (Drunk, 2017) Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) (6 string electric bass), Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) (synth, programing), Zack Sekoff (programing) #funk #jazzfunk #jazzsky #FunkFriday #FridayFunk #Thundercat #FlyingLotus

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Uh Uh

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“We cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently green-lighting harmful acts that do real damage to litigating plaintiffs,” Jackson said. The cases should go through litigation in lower court before the Supreme Court steps in.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket

In a public appearance, Jackson said the high court’s use of the emergency docket was “problematic” and called for more restraint from her colleagues when using it.

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What’s more Philly than Jaleel Shaw, shredding on “Cousin Mary,” on John Coltrane’s 100th birthday, in the shadow of City Hall? (Go Birds!)

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A couple recent #NYC photos around Moynihan Train Hall / Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, with the Empire State Building looming in the background. 1. “Bustle" flic.kr/p/2sBYmAM 2. “Empire State of Mind” flic.kr/p/2sCo2D3 #photosky #photography #NewYorkCity #UrbanandStreet

Color photo in front of the former New York City Main Post Office (Farley Building), now Moynihan Hall in the expanded Penn Station, with Madison Square Garden, Herald Square, and the Empire State Building in the background. Many pedestrians are in the shot, along with four Yellow Taxis, a bicyclist, street vendors, and a young woman in a red hoodie and pink shoes leaning on the Penn Station Subway entrance sign in the foreground.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Celebrating the #ColtraneCentennial John Coltrane: “Compassion” (First Meditations, released 1977) Recorded in 1965 w/ the classic quartet: McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones Meditations was recorded 3 mos later adding Pharoah Sanders & Rashied Ali #jazzsky #Jazz #SpiritualJazz #Coltrane100

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Compassion

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ralph J. Gleason, who got to know John Coltrane on the way up, wrote the liner notes for ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ on Atlantic Records. A memorable first few paragraphs here.

Ralph J. Gleason’s liner notes for ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ on Atlantic Records.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Birthday John Coltrane 🎂🎷 Celebrating the #ColtraneCentennial with a longtime fave: John Coltrane : “Out of This World” (Coltrane, Impulse, 1962) The classic quartet w/ McCoy Tyner (🎹), Jimmy Garrison (bass), Elvin Jones (🥁) #jazzsky #Jazz #Coltrane #HappyBirthdayJohnColtrane

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Out Of This World

YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bluesky / Twitter

Mike Love, pointing and looking like a sexual predator.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 22/09/2026

We hope you’ll join my co-conspirators and me in ringing in this exciting new NYC jazz venue, The Pocket, on Thursday, September 24 — one night only! thepocketnyc.com/event/darcy-...

the pocket
darcy james argue’s
secret society

september 24
130 west 46th street
new york

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Closure is the apotheosis of the wreckage & chaos created in the less than 2 yrs since Trump’s takeover of the Center, once a bipartisan global model of public access to the arts, now subject to the whims of Trump & his hand-picked board. As a result, audiences & donors fled, its finances cratered.🎁

nytimes.com

How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)

Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This isn’t just about NIH grants. It’s about whose health gets studied—and whose gets ignored. Defund research on women and minority communities. Weaken the safety net. Politicize which science gets funded. Different policies. Same consequence: the people who already have the least lose the most.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy Sunday : #SundayJazz Eberhard Weber : “Touch” (Yellow Fields, ECM, 1976) #jazzsky #jazz #ECM #JazzSunday #EberhardWeber (bass), Charlie Mariano (soprano 🎷), Rainer Brüninghaus (🎹), Jon Christensen (🥁)

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Touch

YouTube video by Eberhard Weber - Topic

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One last pair of photos for this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme : #golden "Wing Reflections and the Setting Sun" flic.kr/p/VGrNb4 “Fire Island Golden Hour (with sinking magenta sun)" flic.kr/p/LnPrQx #photosky #photography #EastCoastKin #sunset #FireIsland #FromthePlaneWindow #DramaticClouds

Color photo from an airplane window showing the plane’s wing as a leading line pointing to a sunset-illuminated cloud with a majestic golden glow, fringed in pink and lavender colors. The golden cloud is reflected on the plane’s wing. Darker clouds and a darkening blue sky are visible in the background.

Color photo of a sunset in Fair Harbor, Fire Island, NY taken at the golden hour as the sun (seen here in magenta color) sinks just above the horizon. Dramatic clouds are illuminated with a golden glow along with pink and lavender shades and the water of the Great South Bay shimmers in golden color from the setting sun.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another trio of photos for this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme : #golden Sunlight-illuminated windows on the Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church on Union Park Street in Boston's South End: “Shine a Light” flic.kr/p/2phQTJZ #photosky #photography #EastCoastKin #goldenglow #sunlight

A trio of color photos of Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church on Union Park St. in Boston’s South End with late afternoon sun illuminating the church windows in an intense golden glow.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So, this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme is : #golden Here's a trio of photos of the soda fountain & hallway with gilded ceiling in the gorgeous #ArtDeco Omaha Union Station (now the Durham Museum) #photosky #photography #gilded #OmahaUnionStation #DurhamMuseum #EastCoastKin #ArtDecoArchitecture

Color photo of the gilded ceiling and upper portion of the hallway leading to the Swanson Gallery in Omaha Union Station, now the Durham Museum. In addition to the gilded gold leaf, the ceiling is decorated with painted designs. A lamp hangs down from the ceiling illuminating a stained glass window above the marble-flanked doorway to the gallery.

Color photo of the soda fountain and gift shop in the old Omaha Union Station, now the Durham Museum. The photo also shows the gilded ceiling and the hallway leading to the Swanson Gallery. In addition to the gilded gold leaf, the ceiling is decorated with painted designs. A lamp hangs down from the ceiling illuminating a stained glass window above the marble-flanked doorway to the gallery.

Color photo of the gilded ceiling and ceiling lamp in the hallway leading to the Swanson Gallery in Omaha Union Station, now the Durham Museum. In addition to the gilded gold leaf, the ceiling is decorated with painted designs.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Friday! #FunkyFriday Herbie Hancock : “Spank-A-Lee” (Thrust, 1974) #jazzsky #jazz #jazzfunk #funk #FunkFriday #HerbieHancock (Fender Rhodes 🎹, synth), Bennie Maupin (tenor 🎷), Paul Jackson (bass), Mike Clark (🥁) [btw, this version of the Thrust Lp cover is the best one]

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"Spank-A-Lee" performed by Herbie Hancock

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump Admin. push to strip a core protection of the Endangered Species Act that would be a seismic shift in protection and would lead to extinction of the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale -- of which there are fewer than 400 remaining, only about 70 of which are breeding females. 🐋

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Narrowing Endangered Species Act will likely drive right whales to extinction, experts warn

A memo from the Fish and Wildlife Service suggests that only intentional killing of endangered animals should be illegal. This interpretation would dramatically narrow the scope of the Endangered Spe...

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump Admin is quietly moving to strip a core protection of the Endangered Species Act that would be a seismic shift in protection. “This is an assault on the act like we’ve never seen before, one that would take all of the force out of what we have all understood the act to mean." Gift 🎁 article

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gift article 🎁 of the NY Times #PeterMax obit : #ripPeterMax Peter Max, whose trippy posters of Day-Glo flowers, butterflies, rainbows, stars and planets sold by the millions and expressed the blissed-out exuberance of the countercultural 1960s, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 88.

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Peter Max, Trippy Artist of Counterculture Era and Beyond, Dies at 88 (Gift Article)

With work that breathed the spirit of the 1960s, he became fabulously wealthy from licensing his paintings and posters in all their euphoric Day-Glo glory.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#ripPeterMax Just saw the news that the great psychedelic, day-glow graphic artist whose trippy art and posters defined much of the late 1960s counterculture has passed at 88. His art fired my imagination and defined my sense of cool as a little kid. #PeterMax #artsky #psychedelia #PsychedelicArt

Peter Max’s “Cosmic Runner” poster. Multicolored, day glow, psychedelic graphic art depicting a man running across the green world and blue sea, with birds, clouds, and a orange and yellow sunset in the background.

Peter Max “Peace” poster. Featuring a blue and red peace symbol with orange, yellow, and purple stripes radiating from the symbol to the edges and a group of groovy, psychedelic characters flamboyantly dressed hippy figures running across the bottom of the poster.

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think we should give kudos to the bravery of these musicians dropping out of the tour. Before dropping out, they first had to acknowledge that they were opening for Ed Sheeran

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jazz OTD: Somehow "Trompeta Toccata," recorded September 14, 1964, was Kenny Dorham's last album as leader: his gorgeous, imaginative hard-bop no longer guaranteed contracts and audiences. But it's great, with Joe Henderson (ts), Tommy Flanagan (p), Richard Davis (b), and Albert Heath (d). #jazzsky

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The Fox (Remastered 2014)

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

George “Patches” Gibson. (apologies to hometown hero and G.O.A.T. :

Color photo of baseball card of the great St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson (Omaha’s own, born and raised) circa 1968.

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“All the robots descend from the bus 'Cause Daft Punk is playing at my house, my house You got to set them up kid, set them up” #LCDSoundsystem at College St. Music Hall in New Haven tonight performing : “Daft Punk is Playing at My House” :

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#LCDSoundsystem at College St. Music Hall in New Haven tonight performing : “When Someone Great is Gone” : #musicsky #JamesMurphy

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the 1st Cir. Order upholding Judge Talwani’s injunction:

“The district court made detailed findings about the chaos and widespread disenfranchisement that would occur between now and November 3 should the Final Rule take immediate effect, including the fact that it would be impossible for some States to reprint compliant envelopes; the likely delays in the required USPS envelope review process; the lack of a presently operative portal; and the herculean task that would confront the USPS in scanning tens of millions of ballot envelopes and reviewing for a match with information in the presently non-operative portal. There is no countervailing record evidence disputing the district court's findings.”

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#LCDSoundsystem : “North American Scum” (S.O.S., 2007) “New York’s the greatest if you get someone to pay the rent And it's the furthest you can live from the government Some proud American Christians might disagree Here in North America But New York's the only place we keep them off the street”

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LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (Official Video)

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seeing LCD Soundsystem tomorrow nite in New Haven. Revisiting the first album for starters. LCD Soundsystem : “Disco Infiltrator” (LCD Soundsystem, DFA, 2005) “Bear in mind, we all fall behind from time to time." #LCDSoundsystem #JamesMurphy #ShakeYourWaist #musicsky

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Disco Infiltrator

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excellent #EsperanzaSpalding show @ #CityWineryBoston. Here’s a brief clip of her doing Wayne Shorter's “Endangered Species.” She told a fascinating story about asking #TerriLyneCarrington for Wayne’s email to get his blessing for the lyrics she wrote to the piece. #jazzsky #jazz #WayneShorter

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy Sunday: #SundayJazz Seeing #EsperanzaSpalding tonight at #CityWineryBoston Esperanza Spalding: “Formwela 10” (Songwrights Apothecary Lab, 2021) Esperanza (bass, vocals), Leo Genovese (🎹), Matthew Stevens (🎸), Francisco Mela (🥁) #jazzsky #jazz #JazzSunday #musicsky I absolutely adore this

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esperanza spalding - Formwela 10 (Official Music Video)

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Matthew @imatthewi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Happy Sunday : #SundayJazz Seeing #EsperanzaSpalding tonight at #CityWineryBoston. Esperanza Spalding: "I Know You Know” (Esperanza, 2008) Esperanza (bass, vocals), Leo Genovese (🎹), Jamey Haddad (🪘), Otis Brown (🥁) #jazzsky #jazz #JazzSunday #musicsky tickets.citywinery.com/event/espera...

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I Know You Know

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/09/2026

listening to Boards of Canada, whose songs are all educational filmstrips from the 1960s about if a futuristic hexagon could be Satanic

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