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The nicest guy - Max Schaaf... #motorcycle #choppers #4QConditioning #Oakland
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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The nicest guy - Max Schaaf... #motorcycle #choppers #4QConditioning #Oakland
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
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
Cross is here! #BikeSky #Cyclocross #Heerderstrand
Cross is coming... #BikeSky #Cyclocross
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Enjoy your 15 minutes sista - hope it pays off.
holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.
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She sat down with the LA Times for a more detailed history lesson #PunkRock #AliceBag
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
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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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
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
Matthew Shipp's initial essay - Black Mystery School Pianists.
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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.
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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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
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...
Happy Birthday to the late, great Sonny Criss... #JazzSky #SonnyCriss
"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
Daughters of the Dust was part of the new wave of Black Cinema that I loved in the early 90s. I hope top see another era like that before I check outta here... #JulieDash #LARebellion
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Ready to go down a rabbit hole on Mr. Lewis. Beautiful art. www.artnet.com/artists/mart...
'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.