Michael

Michael

@mjfromla.bsky.social

Afropunk 1.0 Refugee "Jahluv" @michael_fromla on IG Jazz, Bicycles, Motorcycles (💖 choppers,💖 Vincents), Old Cars, 🦅🌎⚓veteran "Mejor solo que mal acompañado" @mjfromla.myatproto.social on Blacksky

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Happy Birthday Vijay Iyer! @vijayiyer.bsky.social Trio performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 10/31/2024. Prelude: Orison 00:27 Historicity 04:12 Tempest 09:09 Kite (For Refaat Alareer) 18:28 Ghostrumental 25:34 Vijay Iyer - Piano Linda May Han Oh - Bass Jeremy Dutton - Drums #JazzSky #HBD

youtu.beVijay Iyer Trio - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP
Sloth or entropy@ludditerobot.bsky.social

Happy birthday Vijay Ayer! Henry Threadgill – alto saxophone Vijay Iyer – piano Dafnis Prieto – drums released August 21, 2026 Producer: Vijay Iyer Engineer: Ryan Streber Recording dates: Nov 15-16, 2025 Recording studio & location: Oktaven Audio, Mt Vernon, NY #jazzsky #botd

WKCR is pleased to announce our special broadcast celebrating what would have been the 96th birthday of American trumpeter Clifford Brown, broadcast on FM and HD radio and online for 24 hours on Friday, October 30th, 2026.

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Happy Monday Bsky family... #Wordle #Connections Wordle 1955 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1233 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟩🟩🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Ukraine's 475th Separate Assault Regiment CODE 9.2 evacuated two severely wounded soldiers by air using the Ukrainian-made StarGate casevac drone. In one mission, it flew nearly 30 km each way despite heavy Russian EW and loss of satellite navigation. #Ukraine

Sunday chillin'... #Wordle #Connections Wordle 1954 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1232 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Newsstands were all over the place in Los Angeles until the early 2000s. World Book & News was my spot. It's gone. My magazine reading is done on Libby these days. #Media #Magazines #Libby

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com

The closure of former WH Smith stores around the UK is sobering on many levels. The publications they sold were there to be perused, to broaden horizons, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Oct. 24, 1926: The lineups of the Negro League club Philadelphia Royal Giants and Joe Pirrone's Major League All-Stars are seen before a game at White Sox Park in Los Angeles. The Giants beat their opponents, 9-1, for a second straight game, with Bullet Joe Rogan pitching the win and adding 3 hits.

Still up - happy Saturday #Wordle #Connections Connections Puzzle #1231 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Wordle 1953 5/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This one's a good listen... 1st episode of the Mortlake Jazz Appreciation Society show - Tangents in Jazz. This is an expansion of a recurring segment featured on @gillespeterson.bsky.social weekly show. Two hours of jazz piano based on the book Black Mystery School Pianists. #JazzSky

worldwidefm.netMortlake Jazz Appreciation Presents: Tangents in Jazz - Worldwide FMIn This Episode of Tangents In Jazz, Your Host Federico BOLza will Provide Further listening and in Depth Discussion Around the Black Mystery School Pianists with a focus on who is in the SChool and W...

This one's a good listen... 1st episode of the Mortlake Jazz Appreciation Society show - Tangents in Jazz. This is an expansion of a recurring segment featured on @gillespeterson.bsky.social weekly show. Two hours of jazz piano based on the book Black Mystery School Pianists. #JazzSky

worldwidefm.netMortlake Jazz Appreciation Presents: Tangents in Jazz - Worldwide FMIn This Episode of Tangents In Jazz, Your Host Federico BOLza will Provide Further listening and in Depth Discussion Around the Black Mystery School Pianists with a focus on who is in the SChool and W...

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Oct. 23, 1926: Bantamweight boxer Al Brown in a studio photograph in Paris. The recent arrival from Panama is already a sensation before his first fight, scheduled for Nov. 10; he has appeared as a tap dancer with Josephine Baker’s “La Revue Nègre.”

Air quality in Los Angeles! I grew up with childhood asthma. Smog alerts, color coded air quality ratings, sharing inhalers with my asthmatic friends... That was life in the 60s/70s. My kids never experienced this.

youtu.beHow L.A.’s toxic smog changed America forever | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBSYouTube video by American Experience | PBS

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Oct. 23, 1926: Panama enacts a ban on all immigrants from Japan, China and India, as well as Black West Indians whose first language isn’t Spanish. The overtly racist Law 13 comes as backlash to the large number of foreign laborers brought to Panama to build its canal. It will be repealed in 1946.

A Marine's best friend is a Corpsman. We bitch when they prescribe "clean socks and Motrin" when you're exhausted in the field. When bullets start coning downrange, they're on the spot saving our asses. #Corpsman #Squid #Navy

Jim LaPorta@jimlaporta.bsky.social

The Beirut Bombing. 43 years ago. I wrote this back in 2015: Fighting back what he calls the “rolodex of emotion,”Joy said the Navy corpsman “were real miracle workers…when the screams and gunfire start to sound, they are the first to come running.” www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/m...

TGIF! #Wordle #Connections Wordle 1952 5/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1230 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Happy Birthday to the late, great Sonny Criss... #JazzSky #SonnyCriss

youtu.beHampton Hawes-Sonny Criss All Stars ft Joe Turner: Live 1970. "Feelin' Happy/Shake, Rattle & Roll"&YouTube video by コバ“右爺”タク
Ben Finlay@benfinlay74.bsky.social

"I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there." Remembering the wonderful Sonny Criss, born OTD 1927 in Memphis, Tennessee. #jazzsky

Thursday game results... #Wordle #Connections Wordle 1951 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1229 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Ready to go down a rabbit hole on Mr. Lewis. Beautiful art. www.artnet.com/artists/mart...

Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social

'Speakeasy Corner.' (1928) Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; he found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression leaving him to spend last three decades teaching etching including his famous pupil Edward Hopper.