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Further, we see Any train we can catch  any place we can stand 

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“We Are The People of the Sun”

No matter where you from

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Ben LaMar Gay 

Nublu, Nyc 

January 11, 2019 

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50TH ANNUAL AFRICAN AMERICAN DAY PARADE

Sunday, September 15th, 2019 , Harlem, New York, NY

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Remember Coltrane 

The first “ love supreme”  It was the first time I listened Life changed that Sunday in November I learned about love and second chances Spiritual awakenings and sacrifice The gift of life, after the loss of death “Boom da boom, boom da boom” “A love supreme, a love supreme“ Showed me spirituality without the constraints of religion  The sound of discipline, and the melody of timelessness  Resurrection of the spirit and overcoming adversities  A love letter telling me it’s okay to grow up, and grow old Fearing neither life nor death, because it’s all apart of the same.  This is my acknowledgement.

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Dancefloor Jazz!

Peri Bop - Bebop DanceArt Experience

Music: Indigo Jam Unit - Rush

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Dancefloor Jazz!

Irven Lewis Dance Theatre 

Music: Doctor Abstract - Stuck On Jazz

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This song will forever hold a special place in my heart. I remember playing it back and forth from a greatest hits cassette my Father had in his collection. At that time I had no idea what sensuality or seduction really was, but I knew that the prelude to a kiss was a magical moment. The stare, the anticipation, the need to fall deep and never looking back. A kiss will never be just a kiss and much still remains for me. Happy Birthday and thank you Mr. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQz9X9asiY)

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Dig? 

“Shedding.” “Chops.” “Rataricious.” You know your jazz slang? 

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It’s finally here... The Trailer that is. 

I’ve been waiting on this movie for so so long (Junior High School Long) and it’s almost here, and it looks great!! 

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Dashingly pleasing rendition of Merry Christmas Baby with the great Ramsey Lewis Trio, featuring Eldee Young (bass) Redd Holt (drums)

enjoy

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The cynical, bah-humbug "Blue Xmas" was probably not what Columbia executives had in mind in 1962 when they asked Miles Davis to record a track for a planned Christmas jazz compilation album. Davis turned to Bob Dorough, whom he had met in Los Angeles in the late '50s and would have sit in with his band to sing "Baltimore Oriole." Miles dug Dorough's hip, laid-back singing style. Dorough left L.A. with a song in hand, met with Miles and arranger Gil Evans, and was soon in the studio with Miles's sextet singing the incendiary words to "Blue Xmas."

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“I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want, and then these really tiny, laser highs if I want, as well.”

Cécile McLorin Salvant, 26, brings much of her touring set list to the Grammy-nominated jazz vocal album, For One To Love on Mack Avenue Records, released on September 4, 2015. Nothing about the songs on this album, or this young artist, says meek, mild, or clean — unless it’s the efficient way Salvant cuts through the crap down to the meat of the bare bone of the covers and originals she takes on.

The daughter of a Haitian doctor and French/Guadeloupian/American teacher, the Miami-based Salvant spoke about her aversion to sounding “clean and pretty” in a November 5, 2015 NPR interview.

The classically trained singer turned to jazz later than most. But when she did, she did on her own terms — with strictly intelligent, in-depth material in mind, sometimes harking way back to ancient times, with her own modern, multi-cultural, feminist spin. (Have you heard her do “John Henry” or “Stepsisters’ Lament?” She’s awesome.)

"I never wanted to sound clean and pretty," she told NPR. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want, and then these really tiny, laser highs if I want, as well."

Salvant is up against some stiff competition: Denise Donatelli’s Find A Heart, Lorraine Feather’s Flirting With Disaster, Jamison Ross’Jamison, and Karrin Allyson’s Many A New Day. But then the vocal album category is usually the biggest jazz deal, year after year, and the most recognized outside the genre — next to best jazz instrumental.

Other notable jazz-related Grammy nominations announced yesterday morning include bassist Christian McBride for “Best Improvised Jazz Solo” on “Cherokee” from Live At The Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue) with his trio, saxophonist Jimmy Greene for “Best Jazz Instrumental Album” on Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue) and “Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals” on “When I Come Home,” smooth jazz saxophonistKirk Whalum for “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” on The Gospel According To Jazz, Chapter IV (Rendezvous Records), and Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” on Cuba: The Conversation Continues (Motéma Music).

The 58th annual GRAMMY® Awards airs on CBS live from the Staples Center in L.A., February 15, 2016, 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).