Jianqing Zheng: Mama Nell
spring sunrise
pear blossoms take on
a shade of red
May 21, 2024 · 9 Comments
Audio: Chet Baker | Leaving
Chet Baker was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the “Prince of Cool”.
January 30, 2024 · 3 Comments
Kristofer Collins: Jack Teagarden Buries Louis Armstrong’s Oriental Strut, Mesa, NM, ca.1926
lifting the tarnished curve of his horn to papery lips, Jack
Teagarden somewhere in 1947, his heart piled up with booze
and debt, but still a suppleness to his mouth, a flash
of something dangerous in the hard set of his jaw
May 10, 2022 · 3 Comments
Video: Bessie Smith, “St. Louis Blues”
. Josh Jones writing for Open Culture says of this scene: Released in 1929, the “flawed, but absolutely essential” film St. Louis Blues frames Bessie Smith’s character through the lyrics … Continue reading
October 24, 2017 · Leave a comment
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