#nate mcbride

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MASTERLIST

A masterlist of muses that I have played throughout the years, that I am always willing to play. I do need to go over some of the FC's and probably make some changes since this list is YEARS old. But I will do that and update it!!

Abigail ‘Abbi’ Abrams FC: Victoria Justice 

Addison Smollen FC: Kendall Jenner 

Allison ‘Alli’ Ortiz FC: Madison Beer 

Amelia ‘Mia’ Abrams FC: Torrey Devitto

Ana Flores FC: Camila Mendes

Angelina Rose FC: Clemence Posey

Apollo Kona FC: Roman Reigns

Augusta ‘Gwen’ Porter FC: Hailey Baldwin

Avery Smollen FC: Kylie Jenner

Bailey Allwood FC: Katherine Langford

Bethany DuPont-Hunter FC: Rachel Bilson / FC: Crystal Reed

Benjamin DuPont FC: Theo James

Blaise Zabini FC: Keith Powers

Bleau St. Claire FC: Val Mercado

Braelyn Carter FC: Alycia Debnam Carey 

Caleb Kyriakos FC: Tom Austen

Callie Haverford FC: Gigi Hadid

Cameron Bartell FC: Natalia Dyer

Cathleen ‘Rey’ Murphy FC: Paige / Saraya Jade Bevis

Chasity Dean FC: Troian Bellisario

Clara Spencer FC: Alexis Ren

Connor O’Brien FC: Cody Saintgnue

Cooper Brozene FC: Joel Kinnaman

Cyrus Morgan FC: Scott Speedman

Daphne Greengrass FC: Pia Mia

Darya Smirnov FC: Taylor Hill

Davina Pace FC: Carmella Rose

Dawson St. James FC: Finn Wittrock

Dean Munroe FC: Jake Gyllenhaal

Demi O’Connor FC: Jessica Lowndes

Destiny Savvin FC: Eiza Gonzalez / FC: Salma Hayek

Dev Ambrogino FC: Nathan Parsons

Diya Gupta FC: Naomi Scott

Dorian Porter FC: Justin Hartley

Dylan Boyer FC: Olivia Wilde / FC: Odeya Rush

Eden Hunter FC: Danielle Campbell

Elizabeth Rush FC: Hayley Atwell

Evelyn Perez FC:  Bruna Marquezine

Genivive ‘Ginny’ Kennedy FC:  Alicia Vikander

Gracie Abernathy FC: Nicola Peltz

Harleen Quinzel FC: Margot Robbie

Hudson O’Connor FC: Charlie Hunnam

Hunter Munroe FC: Kit Harington

Irina Savvin FC: Claire Holt

Isabella Martinez FC: Naya Rivera  Christian Serratos

Isobel Garcia FC: Jackie Cruz

Ivy Hartley FC: Maggie Duran

Jack Collins FC: Tom Holland

Jalessa Myers FC: Jade Thirlwall

Jayden Munroe FC: Leigh Anne Pinnock

Jayson Hunter FC: Dominic Sherwood

Jennifer Martinez FC: Diane Guerrero 

Joanna ‘Joey’ Martell FC: Marie Avgeropoulos

Judith Grimes FC: Daisy Ridley 

Karina Smirnov FC: Irina Shayk / FC: India Eisley

Katherine ‘Katy’ Abernathy FC: Katie Stevens

Katya Ambrogino FC: Ariel Winter

Keith Newman FC: Travis Mills

Kimber Rhodes FC: Karla Souza

Layla Abernathy FC: Emily Kinney / FC: Candice Swanepoel

Leah Douglas FC: Nathalie Emmanuel / FC: Amandla Stenberg

Lee McBride FC: Dan Stevens

Lilliana ‘Lily’ Rey FC: Bella Thorne Luca Hollestelle

Lorelei Ambrose FC: Imogen Poots

Maddox Young FC: Amadeus Sarafini

Madison Nolan FC: Ashley Greene

Makenna Dean FC: Shelley Hennig

Mateo Fiore FC: Theo Rossi

Matheus Silva FC: Chay Suede

Matty Dodson FC: Cody Christian

Maximus ‘Mac’ Porter FC: Austin Butler

Melanie Rhee FC: Lauren Cohan

Mickey Wolfe FC: Troye Sivan

Natalia ‘Talia’ Smallwood FC: Emily Ratajkowski

Nate Ballard FC: Randy Orton

Nikolai Savvin FC: Joseph Morgan

Paige Stabler FC: Madison Davenport

Pansy Parkinson FC: Nona Komatsu

Parker Mercer FC: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Phoenix Dattolo FC: Avan Jogia

Piper Romero FC: Maia Mitchell / FC: Giza Lagarce

Priyah Jacobs FC: Alysha Nett

Psyche FC: Sophie Turner

Rami Armand FC: Zayn Malik

Reagan Powers FC: Allison Williams

Rhea Lockhart FC: Julianne Hough

Richard Thorne FC: Jon Hamm

Rose Granger-Weasley FC: Madelaine Petsch

Ryan O'Brien FC: Cam Gigandet

Samantha ‘Sammie’ Barker FC: Arden Cho

Sergei Savvin FC: Max Riemelt

Sierra Tsu FC: Dichen Lachman

Stella La’ei Kona FC: Nikki Reed

Sunshine ‘Sunny’ Jacobs FC: Dove Cameron 

Sydney Pearson FC: Zendaya 

Tanya Dash FC: Khole Kardashian Bree Kish

Teegan O'Brien FC: Lili Reinhart

Titus Kona FC: Jason Momoa

Tobias Graves FC: Travis Fimmel

Trent Lancaster FC: Andrew Lincoln

Valentino De Luca FC: Dominic Cooper

Veda Patil FC: Priyanka Chopra

Wyatt Cahill FC: Ryan Guzman

Xavier Waters FC: Don Benjamin

Zion Waters FC: Ricky Whittle

Zoe DiMarco FC: Bex Taylor-Klaus / FC: Ruby Rose / FC: Ash Stymest

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UHHHH HI. EXPLOSION EMOJI. love your blog btw :3 found it via sneep snorping through a follower of one of my sideblogs's tumblr (b!david is very cool)

SO BASICALLY i have these four little guys who are in a BAND together !! their names are BENNETT, PIPER, NATHOS, AND ASH !! i plan to make a videogame about them and one of my closest friends helped design two of them (more like redesign really, i made the four guys before i decided on them being in a band together and so their designs were all over the place and so i made their designs more coordinated with eachother, and my friend redesigned piper and ash with me mentioning the basic things i had in mind) (i also very slightly changed the redesigns (as in i literally just made ash's eyes purple to match with xer jacket color and some other tiny things HGJFIKM))

gonna just copy and paste their artfight bios here, wouldve done the links but you need an account to actually view the links HGANKFJN

Name: Bennett Hubbard Nickname/s: Benny Boy (jokingly) Age: 21 Birthday: November 3rd Species: Human Height: 6'2 Gender: Male Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: No one knows Relationship status: Single Occupation: Bassist for the band The Drawing Board, burger flipper on the side Personality: A bit blunt, but means well. Will stand up for what is right. Likes: Music, his friends, sweet and spicy food (not at the same time), bugs Dislikes: Ignorant people, pickles (will only eat them when he absolutely has to)

Name: Piper Cline Nickname/s: N/A Age: 21 Birthday: May 24th Species: Human Height: 5'5 Gender: Female Pronouns: she/her Sexuality: Pansexual Relationship status: Single Occupation: Keyboardist for the band The Drawing Board, repairwoman on the side Personality: A bit shy at first, but once she knows you well enough, she'll trust you with her life! She's a bit of a nerd. Likes: Music, her friends, science Dislikes: Pretty much anything wet and squishy. Sensory issues </3

Name: Nathos McBride Nickname/s: Nate, Natorade Age: 21 Birthday: July 14th Species: Human Height: 6'4 Gender: Male (transmasc) Pronouns: he/it Sexuality: Pansexual Relationship status: Single Occupation: Drummer for the band The Drawing Board, side job TBD Personality: Super sweet! He's calm and collected, and ready to take on anything, as long as it isn't too caught off guard by anything that comes across. Likes: Music, its friends, stuffed animals Dislikes: Rude and arrogant people

Name: Ash Lopez Nickname/s: N/A Age: 21 Birthday: February 16th Species: Human Height: 6'4 Gender: Non-binary Pronouns: xe/xem Sexuality: Greysexual Relationship status: Single Occupation: Guitarist for the band The Drawing Board, side job TBD Personality: Literally the silliest guy ever. Chronic practical joker. Likes: Music, xer friends, bright colors Dislikes: Being taken advantage of

i also put the 4 of them into separate rps !! the one bennett is in is the only one thats started. also that where i got the nickname benny boy from (but the things that happen in their respective rps arent considered canon, more like an au, also that would be wayyy too much trauma to stuff into them when im already gonna give them trauma in the videogame story itself HGAKFJNDCJKM)

ANYWAY !! here they are, bennett piper nathos and ash respectively :] formatting is bad so have One Giant Ash

and heres piper and ash, drawn by @pastel-bleu-art !!!

a bit hard to tell from the pics (ILL MAKE A BETTER REF SOMEDAY ...) but piper is a bit chubby :] ANYWAY thats about all i have to say about em because i dont wanna say too much because of GAME SPOILERS ... but just. quick synopsis: they are chosen by the great goddess oda to save the universe by defeating the cacophonous six !! but shit goes down. oh and btw i feel that it's important to mention that they are essentially weezer but gay /silly

i LOVE gay and silly people <2

[mcbride]

I posted 4,919 times in 2022

That's 4,341 more posts than 2021!

422 posts created (9%)

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#stranger things - 1,384 posts

#not twd - 842 posts

#house of the dragon - 415 posts

#movies - 347 posts

#eddie munson - 329 posts

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#steve harrington - 300 posts

#stranger things spoilers - 293 posts

#tvedit - 272 posts

Longest Tag: 126 characters

#how i went from protect bae nate in s1 to wtf nate you destroyed all the good in yourself cause you're so jealous and insecure

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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My #1 post of 2022

#reluctant Hawkins team dads

JOSEPH QUINN as EDDIE MUNSON and JOE KEERY as STEVE HARRINGTON STRANGER THINGS 4.01 // 4.03

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[fakebookreport]

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

This book was SO MUCH FUN to read! I generally do not like books with too many characters; it's hard for me to keep track of a bunch of names of usually minor characters who can oftentimes be combined into one character. On the other hand, it's also irritating when there are several characters whose only defining feature is a catchphrase or uniform (think: cartoon characters).

Before we get too far into this, I would like to point out that this book contains two individual scenes of sexual assault.

However. This book blew me away with how vivid and detailed each character was. I had no trouble keeping track of who was who, remembering each character's backstory and goals, and the way McBride handled dialogue was excellent. The psychic distance was kind of zoomed out, but with so many intertwining characters and plot lines going, it was necessary not to get too close to any one particular character. McBride did a great job of weaving a complex plot without being predictable or too unbelievable. With every page, something new was revealed.

I wished that the ending had been different. Spoilers below the cut.

I knew that Dodo would be rescued, but I really wanted the conversation between him and Nate in which Dodo understood that he wasn't in trouble and someone explained why no one came to visit him. We never got it. I will say, though, that the epilogue was satisfying as far as the Dodo plotline was concerned.

The other thing I liked was that Malachi's presence was never explained. I was torn on whether this added or detracted from my enjoyment of the novel, and I think it was additive in the end. A little bit of mystery can be good sometimes.

And if you're wondering, the characters who commit sexual assault get punished in the end.

[theloniousbach]

GOING TO SMALL’S FOR THE TENOR PLAYER

BEN WOLFE with NICOLE GLOVER, Brandon Goldberg, and Aaron Kimmel, 9 FEBRUARY 2024, 9 pm

DAVY MOONEY with JOHN ELLIS, Glenn Zaleski, Matt Clohessy, and Jimmy McBride, 7 FEBRUARY 2024, 7:30 pm

Despite having JOHN ELLIS on my list to keep an eye out for, I hadn’t seen him on a Small’s gig for months. He has a dry, spare tone and weaves thoughtful melodic solos. Whatever minimal insights the Coleman Hawkins/Lester Young dichotomy yields, sorting players into one camp or another doesn’t help one bit. Still, I came upon else as I was reappreciating the likes of Stan Getz, Warne Marsh, and Mark Turner, imagining that it was the muscular, bluesy players that I liked. Though not particularly bluesy, the NICOLE GLOVER I became a fan of was “a bad ass” in Nate Chinen’s estimations who would regularly pin my ears back in front of a trio, her big sound replacing the piano. I’ve seen her often enough over the past year when she stepped away from her regular late night slot at Small’s. Those gigs, including with her tasty trio of Tyrone Allen and Kayvon Gordon with whom she doesn’t have to roar, reveal an even subtler player who can let the music come to her. Further, free of being the leader, she can just play.

BEN WOLFE is a fellow Portland, Oregon, native who writes worthwhile tunes for a solid band to play. GLOVER though is the standout, particularly as her style deepens and breathes. She synced up with Wolfe’s bass and/or Brandon Goldberg’s piano figures or held notes or played the jaunty line on Unjust (while hinting at the Monk tune Evidence for which it was a contrafact making it a contra contrafact of Just Me, Just You, or swinging along before hitting a double time section without breaking a sweat. As at the last gig I saw her at, she took on Body and Soul in her newer lighter not Coleman Hawkins style.

Before I might have seen JOHN ELLIS at the other end of tenor spectrum from Glover, but now I’m not so sure. He was the point of interest, though his bandmates, reliable Small’s regulars, were stronger than Glover’s support overall. But, I’m afraid, DAVY MOONEY’s tunes were less substantial. They suggested the right things—samba, New Orleans strut, pop song, even Bach—but there was just less there. His guitar work, similarly, was out of Pat Matheny but was just lighter. Still Ellis was smart and gave the material a good run. Seeing him as leader with Glenn Zaleski, Matt Clohessy, and Jimmy McBride (worthwhile to see him without partner and Partner Miki Yamanaka to fix just how much he contributes) would be very promising.

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New Country 27e jaargang  #T1212 (S771) (C16)van 15 januari 2024  (wk 03) uitzending op Smelne fm & Crossroads Country Radio

Suzy Bogguss - Somewhere Between *maandartiest

Martina McBride – Wrong Again #1 25 jaar

Jelly Roll – Son of a Sinner   # 1 2023 

Charley Crockett/ Willie Nelson - Thats What Makes the World Go Around

Zach Top - Sounds Like the Radio  

The Castellows - I Know It’ll Never End  

Megan Moroney - What Are You Listening To .

Ryan Larkins  -  King Of Country Music    nw  59

Nate Smith - World on Fire    #1.

Gabe Lee – The Wild   Album vd week

Gabe Lee – Even Jesus Got The Blues    album

Lady Antebellum – I Run to You     single of the year        2009

Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend  1975

Trace Adkins – You’re Gonna Miss This 13/1  1962

Merle Haggard – Branded Man      

Callum Kerr & Chris Andreucci – Tamed by Tennessee   favoriet 

Jimmie Allen – Pray     *sofi  

Buck Owens - I' Ve Got A Tiger By The Tail album from the past

Buck Owens -  Cryin' Time

Rodney Crowell - Loving You Is The Only Way To Fly

The Pink Stones - No Rain, No Flowers

Florida Georgia Line  - Stay (3 in 1)

Florida Georgia Line - Cruise

Florida Georgia Line – H.O.L.Y.

Gabe Lee - Drink The River  Album van de week

Morgan Wallen –  Born With A Beer In My Hand    #1 album.

Brent Cobb – “When Country Music Came Back to Town.

Lori McKenna – Happy Children

Lainey Wilson – Watermelon Moonshine

Zach Bryan – I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)

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Suzy Bogguss – Cross My Broken Heart   maandartiest

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Chris Stapleton - Always On My Mind     Album vorige week

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Savannah - Lay Down Beside Me   Dutch corner

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Freddy Fender Wasted Days And Wasted Nights   #5  A Year in music . 1975

John Dever – I’m Sorry . #4

Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls . #3 

Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy #2

C.W. McCall - Convoy  #1

John Michael Montgomery – Sold 

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Nintendo movie casts

The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2

Chris Pratt as Mario

Charlie Day as Luigi

Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach

Jack Black as Bowser

Keegan-Michael Key as Toad

Jack Dylan Grazer as Yoshi

Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong

Ginnifer Goodwin as Princess Daisy

P!nk as Rosalina

Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong

Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek

Eric Bauza as Diddy Kong

Danny Trejo as Wario

Neil Patrick Harris as Waluigi

Khary Payton as Penguin King

Juliet Jelenic as Lumalee

Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike

Cassandra Lee Morris as Dixie Kong

Mae Whitman as Toadette

Kevin Afghani as Mario’s Dad

Jessica DiCicco as Mario’s Mom

Karan Soni as Chunky Kong

Eric Bauza as Koopa Troopa Soldiers

Eric Bauza as Toad General

Jessica DiCicco as Yellow Toad

Rino Romano as Uncle Tony

John DiMaggio as Uncle Arthur

Jessica DiCicco as Aunt Marie

Brian Hull as Mario’s Grandpa

Denis Leary as Swanky Kong

Jessica DiCicco as Mayor Pauline

Frank Todaro as Blue Toad Guard

Tru Valentino as Yellow Toad Guard

Anna Brisbin as Mario’s Niece

Richard Ayoade as Banktoad

Wallace Shawn as Mailtoad

John DiMaggio as Boom Boom

Cassandra Lee Morris as Pom Pom

Carlos Alazraqui as Toadsworth

Cristina Vee & Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Lumas

Kdin Jenzen as Birdo

Christina Aguilera as Perry the Parasol

Ice-T as Funky Kong

Rosario Dawson as Candy Kong

Terry Crews as Rambi

Zac Efron as Enguarde

Brian Hull as Squawks

Maurice LaMarche as Goomba

Ben Diskin as Koopa Paratroopa Soldiers

Brian Tyree Henry as Sledge Bro

Scott Menville as Dry Bones

Grant George as Hammer Bro

Nate Bihldorff as Shy Guy

Dee Bradley Baker as Snifit

Dee Bradley Baker as Bob-omb

Frank Welker as Piranha Plant

Todd Womack as Spiny

Jason Liebrecht as Buzzy Beetle

The Donkey Kong Country Movie

Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong

Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong

Oscar Isaac as King K. Rool

Eric Bauza as Diddy Kong

Cassandra Lee Morris as Dixie Kong

Karan Soni as Chunky Kong

Ice-T as Funky Kong

Rosario Dawson as Candy Kong

Cristina Vee as Tiny Kong

Jennifer Coolidge as Wrinkly Kong

Cristina Milizia as Kiddy Kong

Jordan Peele as Lanky Kong

Denis Leary as Swanky Kong

Terry Crews as Rambi

Zac Efron as Enguarde

Brian Hull as Squawks

Tim Blaney as Rattly

Kevin Michael Richardson as Squitter

Paul Tibbitt as Expresso

Justin Rupple as Winky

Torbin Xan Bullock as Clapper

Cheech Marin as Glimmer

Sloane Murray as Ellie

ExoParadigmGamer as Perry

Mr. T as Klubba

Jess Harnell as Klump General

Stephen Stanton as The Brothers Bear

Rob Izenberg as Very Gnawty

Alex Hirsch as Master Necky

Cree Summer as Queen B.

Jerry DeCaupa as Really Gnawty

MacInTalk as Dumb Drum

Greg Baldwin as Master Necky Snr.

Alan Tudyk as Krow

Matt Chapman as Kleever

ProtonJon as Kudgel

Steve Carell as King Zing

Steve Purcell as Belcha

Ian Hecox as Arich

Jeff Bennett as Squirt

Danny McBride as Bleak

Cheech Marin as Barbos

The Kirby Movie

Kate Micucci as Kirby

John Mulaney as King Dedede

Antonio Banderas as Meta Knight (in English & Spanish)

Karan Soni as Bandana Waddle Dee

Eric Bana as Rick

Dee Bradley Baker as Kine

Steve Buscemi as Coo

Henry Winkler as Chef Kawasaki

Richard Ayoade as Taranza

James Arnold Taylor as Magolor

Richard Horvitz as Daroach

Mela Lee as Susie Haltmann

Max Mittelman as Marx

Fryda Wolff as Gooey

The Star Fox Movie

Jason Schwartzman as Fox McCloud

Bill Hader as Falco Lombardi

Liam Neeson as Wolf O’Donnell

Blake Shelton as Peppy Hare

David Spade as Slippy Toad

Martin Short as Andross

Ed Harris as General Pepper

Kevin Michael Richardson as Leon Powalski

Bruce Campbell as ROB 64

Brian Hull as Pigma Dengar

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Andrew Oikonny

Jason Isaacs as James McCloud

Bonnie Hunt as Katt Monroe

Bobby Cannavale as Panther Caroso

Ariel Winter as Fara Phoenix

Carolyn Lawrence as Miyu

Deneen Melody as Fay

Anairis Quiñones as Krystal

EarthBound

Marissa Lenti as Ness

Amber Lee Connors as Lucas

Fryda Wolff as Paula

Issac Ryan Brown as Jeff

Roger Craig Smith as Poo

Cristina Vee as Kumatora

Frank Welker as Boney

Pikmin

Timothy Dalton as Olimar

Kevin Michael Richardson as Louie

Red Van Buskirk as Alph

Christopher Wehkamp as Charlie

Tati Gabrielle as Brittany

Keston John as President

Hajime Wakai as the Pikmin

Brian Sommer as Bulborb

Animal Crossing

Kimiko Glenn as Isabelle

Dee Bradley Baker as Tom Nook

Jason Liebrecht as K.K. Slider

Marc Maron as Mr. Resetti

Splatoon

Emichuu as Squid Sister Callie

Cristina Vee as Squid Sister Marie

EmuEmi as Marina Ida

Casey Lee Williams as Pearl Houzuki

Amalee as Shiver Hohojiro

Arryn Zech as Frye Onaga

Caleb Hyles as Big Man

The ARMS Movie

Peter Von Gomm as Spring Man & Springtron

Utada Hikaru as Ribbon Girl (in English & Japanese)

Tadanobu Asano as Ninjara (in English & Japanese)

Mena Massoud as Master Mummy (in English & African)

Dilraba Dilmurat as Min Min (in English & Mandarin Chinese)

Romi Dames as Mechanica (in English & Japanese)

Eva Green as Twintelle (in English & French)

Thomas Doherty as Byte

Doug the Pug as Barq

Miyu Irino as Kid Cobra (in English & Japanese)

Frank Welker as Helix

Kellen Goff as Max Brass

Rose McGowan as Lola Pop (in English & Italian)

Brian Tee as Misango (in English & Japanese)

Maia Mitchell as Dr. Coyle

Sonic the Hedgehog

Ben Schwartz as voice of Sonic

James Marsden as Tom Wachowski

Colleen O’Shaughnessey as voice of Tails

Idris Elba as voice of Knuckles

Tika Sumpter as Maddie Wachowski

Nicolas Cage as voice of Shadow

Megan Hilty as voice of Amy

Natasha Wothwell as Rachel Handel

Adam Pally as Wade Whipple

Shemar Moore as Randall Handel

Lee Majdoub as Agent Stone

Tom Butler as Commander Walters

Melody Niemann as Jojo

Sarah Surh as Faucet

Jesse McCartney as voice of Silver

Lake Bell as voice of Rouge

John Mulaney as voice of Vector

Bruce Campbell as voice of Espio

Kaley Cuoco as voice of Charmy

Cristina Pucelli as voice of Cream

Eva Longoria as voice of Blaze

Ella Purnell as voice of Sticks

John C. Reilly as voice of Big

David Spade as voice of Jet

Jessica DiCicco as voice of Wave

Bobby Cannavale as voice of Storm

Ryan Reynolds as voice of Mighty

Jake Johnson as voice of Ray

Peter Weller as voice of E-123 Omega

Lindsay Jones as voice of Cheese

Jason Isaacs as voice of Metal Sonic

Gaten Materazzo as voice of Chip

Jack Black as voice of Mephiles

Hamish Blake as voice of Infinite

Chloë Grace Moretz as voice of Sage

Hugh Jackman as voice of Orbot

Marc Maron as voice of Cubot

M.C. Gainey as voice of Zavok

Andy Samberg as voice of Zazz

Diane Guerrero as voice of Zeena

Dennis Quaid as voice of Master Zik

John Goodman as voice of Zomon

Ryan Potter as voice of Zor

Frank Welker as voice of Chaos

Cherami Leigh as voice of Omochao

McKenna Grace as Maria Robotnik

Khary Payton as voice of E-102 Gamma

Anairis Quiñones as voice of Tikal

PAC-MAN

Jesse McCartney as Pac-Man

Andy Samberg as Blinky

Kaite Crown as Pinky

Spike Jonze as Inky

Joe Mantegna as Clyde

[freethejazzblog]

Free The Jazz #102 [for Reid Miles]

1 - Tripleplay - Framinghammer (from "Gambit", 2004 Clean Feed)

2 - Torbjörn Zetterberg - Slutet Och Delar Av Sanningen (from "Krissvit", 2005 Moserobie)

3 - Archie Shepp - Invocation To Mr. Parker (from "Attica Blues", 1972 Impulse!)

4 - Pedro Sousa / Hernani Faustino - Flagstaff (from "Falaise", 2012 Dromos)

5 - John Coltrane - Sun Ship (from "Sun Ship", 1971 Impulse!)

6 - Scheen Jazzorkester & Thomas Johansson - Conversations + Fanfare My Dear? (from "As We See It…", 2019 Clean Feed)

7 - Joe Henderson - El Barrio (from "Inner Urge", 1965 Blue Note)

8 - The OGJB Quartet - GS #2 (from "Bamako", 2019 TUM)

9 - Albert Beger Quartet - The Gate (from "The Gate", 2019 NoBusiness)

Hear it first on 8K Sundays 11amNZT (Saturdays 11pmGMT)

[druidgroves]

tales of misspent youth

fandom: the wayhaven chronicles pairing: nate sewell x f!detective (ramona mcbride) notes:  farah asks unit bravo’s resident human exactly how her rebellious youth lead her to become a detective at wayhaven pd.

* this is a repost from my old blog *

“So,” Farah muses into the comfortable silence that had been permeating the Unit Bravo living room, “Ramona.”

The detective looks up from the book she’d been reading—borrowed by Nate’s insistence from his collection—and raises an eyebrow. Morgan, who had been quietly typing away on the keys of her laptop and ashing her cigarette in a nearby ashtray every so often, looks up at her teammate, as do Adam and Nate from their place at the table behind the couch. There’s a certain energy about the young vampire that the rest of Unit Bravo knows suggests some small amount of mischief with whatever it is she wants to say.

“Yes, Farah?” Ramona replies, closing her book but keeping its place with her finger. She has an amused smile on her face, catching onto the energy everyone else seems to recognize.

Farah leans half out of the armchair towards Ramona, steepling her fingers while that familiar smile spreads across her face, “Remember when you told us about how you joined the force? About your ‘troubled youth’ and how you were almost arrested?”

There’s no judgement in her words, but an amused curiosity instead. Despite this, Nate gives her a reprimanding look and says, “Farah, don’t pry. It’s impolite.”

Ramona looks over the couch at him and smiles, shrugging her shoulders.

“No, it’s fine, I don’t mind,” she says, then turns back to Farah, “It was an…interesting time in my life. What do you want to know?”

Farah’s grin gets bigger, if possible, “What kinda stuff did you get up to? How’d you almost get arrested?”

Ramona laughs a little at the other woman’s eagerness to know about all of the suspect activities she used to get up to in her youth. Looking back on it, a lot of it was regrettable and not something she’d wish to fall back into, but it did give her fun stories to tell at parties.

“When I was a teenager, it was mostly graffiti on the sides of train cars and acting how loud, dumb teenagers usually act in public, but worse,” she begins, putting the abandoned book on the coffee table as Farah hangs off her every word. Nate and Adam pause their work to listen, and even Morgan has long since stopped typing, giving away her attention despite the fact that she was still staring at her screen.

“When I was in high school, I, uh, kinda fell in with the wrong crowd,” Ramona continues, “Wayhaven’s delinquent rich kids noticed me and started inviting me to hang out, mostly because I knew the best places to hide out if we got caught.”

“It’s still hard to picture you as a misguided youth,” Nate says. He’s smiling, but it’s tinted with concern as he listens, “You’ve certainly grown from it.”

Ramona grins back at him, giving him a wink that has his smile broadening before she goes on, “It was fun for a while, to be completely honest. Late nights spent doing things delinquent teens do and feeling invincible. With my mom always away on Agency business, I took to crashing at my so-called friend’s houses after the parties they threw. I even got a few of my ear piercings done at them.”

She pushes a few strands of dark brown hair away from her ear and tugs lightly at the black metal hoops on the top of it, and Morgan gives a slight hum of approval.

“Man, I want a piercing,” Farah says with twinkling amber eyes, “Oh! Can we go get our noses pierced?”

“No,” Adam and Nate say in unison, but Ramona turns her head to give her a wink where they can’t see.

“You’re giving her ideas,” Morgan mutters, going back to lightly typing on her laptop. Farah sticks her tongue out at her before turning back to Ramona.

“Please, go on,” she says, “What else did you do?”

“At that point I’d gotten into trouble with the Wayhaven PD a few times, but my friends had their parents handle it usually, though one time my mom found out about me skipping school to go throw rocks in the quarry, and she was livid.”

“Throw rocks?” Adam asks almost incredulously, “You skipped school to throw rocks?”

“Listen, there wasn’t—isn’t—much to do in Wayhaven for a couple of bored teenagers, alright?” Ramona replies, putting her hands up in defense, “Besides, it was technically trespassing and truancy, so my mom wasn’t exactly pleased.”

“But how did you end up almost getting arrested?” Farah presses, now mostly out of the armchair she’d been in, her upper body managing to stretch and rest on the opposite arm of the couch from Ramona.

Ramona leans back on the couch enough to where she can get everyone’s reaction when she says, “I stole a car.”

All of Unit Bravo’s heads snap to look at Ramona, who wears a sheepish but playful smile as she leans back into the couch.

“You what?” Nate sputters while Adam shakes his head and Farah cheers. A small breath of laughter leaves Morgan, who had evidently still been listening.

“I stole a car,” Ramona says again, albeit a little bit softer and with a hint of shame.

“How’d you do it?” Farah demands, fully launching herself out of the armchair and onto the couch next to Ramona, “Did you hot wire it? Was there a high speed chase?”

“No, there wasn’t a high speed chase and I didn’t hot wire anything,” Ramona says with a shake of her head, much to her friend’s dismay, “I had just graduated college, gone through a pretty shitty breakup, and fell back in with the kids I hung out with in high school. It was a dare from them, kind of like a hazing for being gone for so long. And I wasn’t gonna let them down.

“So we pulled up into their neighborhood, trying to decide what kind of fancy sports car they wanted me to take. We eventually decided on a cherry red vintage convertible worth more than my entire college education. The top was popped and the keys were tucked into the sun visor, so it’s not like it was hard to take. We hopped in, started the engine, and peeled out of the neighborhood as fast as it would take us, which, mind you, was pretty damn fast,” she says, an almost wistful look on her face.

“How did you eventually get caught?” Nate asks, a single eyebrow raised and a teasing expression on his face.

“One of the neighbors heard us skulking about before we took the car,” she admits, her cheeks flushing a little, “We weren’t very quiet about it. Some of them were a little drunk, too, so that didn’t help. We got pulled over a few roads from where we’d started and they hauled all of us off to the station. The sober ones got off easy, the drunk ones had to be hit with public intoxication just so they wouldn’t walk away without some sort of punishment, and for me, well…They kinda knew I was a troubled kid. One without the resources to get out of everything like my friends did and a mom that was gone most of the time. They knew I was acting out. So, they gave me an option: go through police academy or face up to a year in jail. I got off incredibly easy compared to most people.”

“And now you’re a fully-fledged detective and reformed human being,” Nate says with a laugh, looking over at Ramona with nothing but fondness in his deep brown eyes.

“I wouldn’t be so sure of that if I were you,” she retorts with an easy smirk, “I’ve still got a few wild tendencies you’ve yet to see, just waiting to be unleashed.”

“You’ll have to show them to me sometime, then,” Nate replies just as easily, causing Ramona’s flirtatious confidence to falter a little, if the growing redness on her face is anything to go by.

“Ahem, uh, seriously though,” Ramona continues through her flustering, “I think I really did come out the other side of it a better person. The training gave me the structure that I needed. Besides, I had a unique perspective when it came to dealing with kids like me that ended up in the station. When my colleagues noticed I got through to them more often than not, they started sending them my way specifically. A few times talking with me and it was rare that they ended up in the same spot again.”

“How nice,” Nate says with genuine feeling behind it. His and Ramona’s gazes connect from across the room, that familiar, fluttery feeling starting up in Ramona’s chest as they do before Farah’s voice pulls her out of it.

“…I want to drive a convertible.”

“Farah, we are literally apart of a government agency.”

“I didn’t say I wanted to steal it—!”

[doodlesimss]

Before long, it was time for Theo to become a young adult. He invited some friends round, and they attempted some dancing...

[nonesuchrecords]

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NPR Music and Jazz Night in America debuted an hour-long set from shows Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade played at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY, just before recording their new album, RoundAgain, last September. The premiere event on Wednesday also included a live Q&A with the musicians and NPR Music's Nate Chinen. You can watch both again here.

[unknown-songs]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)

Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk

Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul

Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop

Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk

When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House

Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock

Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House

Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique

Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul

See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock

Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul

The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B

Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House

Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk  Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk

quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul

Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul

Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop

Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz

Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B

Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul

Spotify playlist 

In memory of:

Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa

Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley

Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott

Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford

Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.

George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen

India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly

Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper

Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington

Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy

M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson

Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.

O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom

Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour

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Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith

Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson

T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders

Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III

Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw

Yusef Kirriem Hawkins

The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)

All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.

All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness. 

All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination. 

...

My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories. 

Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)  Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro

YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)

Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/

[kulturado]

The Story: Electric Miles: Behind The 'Brew'

The Writers: Nate Chinen & Sarah Geledi 

With a link to the Jazz Night in America episode hosted by Christian McBride (photo of Miles Davis and Betty Mabry Davis by Baron Wolman)

[jkottke]

The Best Books of 2020

I'm guessing that for most of you, reading books was either a comfort or a near impossibility during this unprecedentedly long and tough year. For me, I got some good reading in earlier in the year and then, as my focus shifted to writing about and researching the pandemic for this site and managing the logistics of safely navigating this new world, my energy for books waned. The last thing I wanted to do at the end of most days was more reading, especially anything challenging.

I also kinda didn't know what to read, aside from the few obvious choices that were impossible to ignore. As I'm sure it is for many of you, a big part of my "getting the lay of the land" w/r/t books is seeing what my favorite bookstores were putting on their front tables -- and that's been difficult for the past several months. Looking through a bunch of end-of-2020 lists for what books everyone else recommended was especially valuable for me -- there really were so so many good books published this year that are worth seeking out. So, here's a selection of the best books of 2020 and links to the lists I used to find them. I hope you find this useful.

Let's start with the NY Times. Their 10 Best Books of 2020 includes Deacon King Kong by James McBride while their larger list of 100 Notable Books of 2020 has both Maria Konnikova's The Biggest Bluff and The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack on it. The Times' critics have their own list for some reason; one of the books they featured is Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley.

Isabel Wilkerson's masterful Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel (two books I actually read this year) deservedly made almost every list out there, including Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Those two books are also, respectively, on Time's lists of The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 and The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020.

The Guardian breaks down their list of the Best Books of 2020 into several categories. The list of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2020 includes The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and Kacen Callender's King of the Rising.

The year-end lists on Goodreads (Best Books of 2020, Most Popular Books Published In 2020) typically cast a wider net on what a broader audience is reading. Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett made their lists this year.

Kirkus has a bunch of categories in their Best Books of 2020 as well, including the timely Best Fiction for Quarantine Reading in 2020 -- I found What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez ("Dryly funny and deeply tender; draining and worth it") on there.

The NYPL's Best Books of 2020 has separate lists for adults, teens, and kids. For adult poetry, Nate Marshall's Finna made their list. And for teen historical fiction: We Are Not Free by Traci Chee.

Some recommended books for kids from various lists (NYPL, NY Times, NPR): Shinsuke Yoshitake's There Must Be More Than That!, Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (my daughter is reading this one right now for her book club), and Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk.

YA novel Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and Homie by Danez Smith both made Book Riot's Best Books of 2020. Oh, and I'd missed that Zadie Smith published a book of pandemic-inspired essays called Intimations.

NPR's Book Concierge is always a great resource for finding gems across a wide spectrum of interests. Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile and The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante both made their Seriously Great Writing list and their Cookbooks & Food list includes Ottolenghi Flavor by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage and Eat A Peach by David Chang.

Speaking of cookbooks and food, among the top titles for 2020 were In Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan & Julia Turshen and Falastin by Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley. (Culled from Food & Wine's Favorite Cookbooks of 2020 and The Guardian's Best Cookbooks and Food Writing of 2020.

I saw Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia on several lists, including Library Journal's Best Books 2020.

The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson and The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez both made Smithsonian Magazine's The Ten Best Science Books of 2020.

Hyperallergic has selected Some of the Best Art Books of 2020, including Kuniyoshi by Matthi Forrer.

For the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020, dozens of writers selected their favorite reads of the year. Elizabeth Lowry recommended Artemisia, the companion book to the exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi's at The National Gallery and sadly the best way for most of us to be able to enjoy this show.

More lists: Audible's The Best of 2020 and Washington Post's The 10 Best Books of 2020. I'll update this post a couple of times in the next week with more lists as I run across them.

If you'd like to check out what I've read recently, take a look at my list on Bookshop.org.

Note: When you buy through links on kottke.org, I may earn an affiliate commission. This year, I'm linking mostly to Bookshop.org but if you read on the Kindle or Bookshop is out of stock, you can try Amazon. Thanks for supporting the site!

[whileiamdying]

Chick Corea, Jazz Keyboardist and Innovator, Dies at 79

When jazz and rock fused in the 1970s, he was at the forefront of the movement. But he never abandoned his love of the acoustic piano.

The pianist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea at the Blue Note in Manhattan in 2012. In his long career, he recorded close to 90 albums as a bandleader or co-leader and won 23 Grammys.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times

By Giovanni Russonello Published Feb. 11, 2021 Updated Feb. 12, 2021, 12:35 a.m. ET

Chick Corea, an architect of the jazz-rock fusion boom of the 1970s who spent more than a half century as one of the foremost pianists in jazz, died on Tuesday at his home in Tampa, Fla. He was 79.

The cause was cancer, said Dan Muse, a spokesman for Mr. Corea’s family.

Mr. Corea’s best-known band was Return to Forever, a collective with a rotating membership that nudged the genre of fusion into greater contact with Brazilian, Spanish and other global influences. It also provided Mr. Corea with a palette on which to experiment with a growing arsenal of new technologies.

But throughout his career he never abandoned his first love, the acoustic piano, on which his punctilious touch and crisp sense of harmony made his playing immediately distinctive.

Mr. Corea in 2006 at the Blue Note, where his performances often combined reunions with longtime associates and collaborations with younger accompanists.Credit...Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

A number of his compositions, including “Spain,” “500 Miles High” and “Tones for Joan’s Bones,” have become jazz standards, marked by his dreamy but brightly illuminated harmonies and ear-grabbing melodies.

By the late 1960s, Mr. Corea, still in his 20s, had already established himself as a force to be reckoned with. He gigged and recorded with some of the leading names in straight-ahead and Latin jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Mongo Santamaria and Sarah Vaughan. His first two albums as a leader, “Tones for Joan’s Bones” (1966) and “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968), earned rave reviews. Both are now thought of as classics.

But it was playing in Miles Davis’s ensembles that set Mr. Corea on the path that would most define his role in jazz. He played the electric piano on Davis’s “In a Silent Way” (1969) and “Bitches Brew” (1970), the albums that sounded the opening bell for the fusion era.

From left, Dave Holland, Miles Davis and Mr. Corea in 1969. Mr. Corea played electric piano in Davis’s band and on the Davis albums widely considered to have sounded the opening bell for the fusion era.Credit...Tad Hershorn/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

Soon after leaving Davis’s group, he helped found Return to Forever, and he spent much of the 1970s touring and recording with the band, which became one of the most popular instrumental ensembles of its era.

Reviewing a performance at the Blue Note in New York in 2006, the critic Nate Chinen, writing in The New York Times, recalled the innovative sound that Mr. Corea had honed with Return to Forever three decades before: “His Fender Rhodes piano chimed and chirruped over Latin American rhythms; female vocals commingled with the soothing flutter of a flute. Then the ensemble muscled up and morphed into a hyperactive fusion band, establishing pop-chart presence and a fan base to match. To the extent that there is a Return to Forever legacy, it encompasses both these dynamic extremes, each a facet of Mr. Corea’s personality.”

By the time of that Blue Note show, Mr. Corea’s career was entering a chapter of happy reminiscence, full of reunion concerts and retrospective projects. But he continued to build out from the groundwork he had laid.

In 2013, for instance, he released two albums introducing new bands: “The Vigil,” featuring an electrified quintet of younger musicians, and “Trilogy,” an acoustic-trio album on which he was joined by the bassist Christian McBride and the drummer Brian Blade.

Return to Forever, one of the most popular instrumental ensembles of its era, in 1976. From left: Lenny White, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola and Mr. Corea.Credit...Dick Barnatt/Redferns, via Getty Images

He kept up a busy touring schedule well into his late 70s, and his performances at the Blue Note in particular often combined reunions with longtime associates and collaborations with younger accompanists, mixing nostalgia with a will to forge ahead. Those performances often found their way onto albums, including “The Musician” (2017), a three-disc collection drawn from his nearly two-month-long residency at the club in 2011, when he was celebrating his 70th birthday in the company of such fellow luminaries as the pianist Herbie Hancock, the bassist and Return to Forever co-founder Stanley Clarke and the vocalist Bobby McFerrin.

By the end of his career Mr. Corea had recorded close to 90 albums as a bandleader or co-leader and raked in 23 Grammys, more than almost any other musician. He also won three Latin Grammys.

In 2006 he was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, the highest honor available to an American jazz musician.

Though he had become symbolic of the fusion movement, Mr. Corea never put much stock in musical categories. “It’s the media that are so interested in categorizing music,” he told The Times in 1983, “the media and the businessmen, who, after all, have a vested interest in keeping marketing clear cut and separate. If critics would ask musicians their views about what is happening, you would find that there is always a fusion of sorts taking place. All this means is a continual development — a continual merging of different streams.”

Mr. Corea’s first marriage ended in divorce. He met Gayle Moran, who became his second wife, in the 1970s, when he was in Return to Forever and she was a singer and keyboardist with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, another top-flight fusion band.

She survives him, as do a son, Thaddeus Corea; a daughter, Liana Corea; and two grandchildren.

In the early 1970s, Mr. Corea converted to Scientology, and the religion’s teachings informed much of his music from then on, including his work with Return to Forever.

Mr. Corea in 1978. “If critics would ask musicians their views about what is happening,” he once said, “you would find that there is always a fusion of sorts taking place.” Credit...Chuck Fishman

Armando Anthony Corea was born on June 12, 1941, in Chelsea, Mass., near Boston. His father, also named Armando Corea, was a trumpeter and bandleader in Boston, and his mother, Anna (Zaccone) Corea, was a homemaker. He began studying piano when he was 4.

He picked up his nickname from an aunt, who often pinched his big cheeks and called him “cheeky.” The name eventually morphed into the pithier “Chick.”

He moved to New York City to study at Columbia University and Juilliard, but that lasted only a few months. As Miles Davis had a generation before, when he arrived at Juilliard from East St. Louis, Ill., Mr. Corea quickly found himself lured out of the classroom and into the clubs. Some of his earliest gigs came in the bands of the famed Latin jazz percussionists Mongo Santamaría and Willie Bobo, as well as with the swing-era vocalist and bandleader Cab Calloway.

In 1968 he assumed the piano chair in Davis’s influential quintet, replacing Mr. Hancock. The band quickly went into the studio to record the final tracks that would round out “Filles de Kilimanjaro,” Davis’s first album to feature an electric piano. It signaled the trumpeter’s growing embrace of rock and funk music, a move encouraged by his second wife, the vocalist Betty Davis. (One of the two tracks featuring Mr. Corea is a tribute to her, the 16 ½-minute “Mademoiselle Mabry.”)

The group gradually expanded in size as Davis wandered deeper into the murky, wriggling sound world of his early fusion albums. He brought a version of the “Bitches Brew” band to the Isle of Wight festival in 1970, the largest gig of his career, before an audience of 600,000.

Soon after playing that concert, Mr. Corea and the bassist Dave Holland left Davis’s ensemble and joined with the drummer Barry Altschul and the saxophonist Anthony Braxton to found Circle, a short-lived but influential group that embraced an avant-garde approach.

Mr. Corea founded Return to Forever in 1971 with Mr. Clarke, the saxophonist and flutist Joe Farrell, the percussionist Airto Moreira and the vocalist Flora Purim. The following year, the band released its Brazilian-tinged debut album, titled simply “Return to Forever,” on the ECM label.

Also in 1972, Mr. Corea teamed up for the first time with the vibraphonist Gary Burton to record another album for the same label, “Crystal Silence.” The two became longtime friends and collaborators. Taken together, the two ECM albums represented something close to the full breadth of Mr. Corea’s identity as a musician — ranging from the serene and meditative to the zesty and driving.

“We made that record in three hours; every song but one was a first take,” Mr. Burton said in an interview, recalling the “Crystal Silence” sessions. They would go on to record seven duet albums, and they continued performing together until Mr. Burton’s recent retirement.

“I kept thinking, ‘Surely it’s going to run out of steam here at some point,’” Mr. Burton said. “And it never did. Even at the end, we would still come offstage excited and thrilled by what we were doing.”

Return to Forever changed personnel frequently, but its most enduring lineup featured Mr. Corea, Mr. Clarke, the guitarist Al Di Meola and the drummer Lenny White. That quartet iteration released a string of popular albums — “Where Have I Known You Before” (1974), “No Mystery” (1975) and “Romantic Warrior” (1976) — that leaned into a blazing, hard-rock-influenced style, and each reached the Top 40 on the Billboard albums chart.

Mr. Corea released a number of other influential fusion albums on his own, including “My Spanish Heart” (1976) and a string of recordings with his Elektric Band and his Akoustic Band. Later in his career he also delved deeply into the Western classical tradition, recording works by canonical composers like Mozart and Chopin, and composing an entire concerto for classical orchestra.

“His versatility is second to none when it comes to the jazz world,” Mr. Burton said. “He played in so many styles and settings and collaborations.”

In 1997, delivering a commencement address at Berklee College of Music, Mr. Corea told the members of the graduating class to insist on blazing their own path. “It’s all right to be yourself,” he said. “In fact, the more yourself you are, the more money you make.”

Alex Traub contributed reporting.

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 12, 2021, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Chick Corea, Innovator Of ’70s Jazz-Rock Fusion And Pianist, Dies at 79. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe