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

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The amazing Bud Powell was born on this day September 27, 1924. The pianist developed the language of bebop alongside Bird & Diz, and from 1949-58 recorded a series of Blue Note albums that stand as his finest. Browse LPs, CDs & stream our spotlight playlist: bluenote.lnk.to/BudPowellFin...

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A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession

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#OnThisDay in 1912, W.C. Handy, “Father of the Blues,” published “Memphis Blues,” the 1st hit blues song, after hearing a Mississippi man “crooning all of his calls in the key of G, moaning like a presiding elder preaching at a revival meeting.” It was the blues. mississippitoday.org/2023/09/27/1...

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'Lectric Chair Blues · Blind Lemon Jefferson youtu.be/isQuHd_0eN0 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929)

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