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Gil Scot-Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit
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“jazz”
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Have you seen this cat?
“Miles”
Kind of blue. Nocturnal. Solitary. Warning: Extremely distant, cold and withdrawn. Severe contempt for critics and everyone else. Likely to be confrontational.
My kind of cat.
I miss that cat.
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The limit of my respect for Thelonious Monk tends towards ∞.
“Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.”
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Jan Persson Miles Davis, Berlin 1964
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” Miles Davis
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12 Hands of Miles Davis and His Trumpet, New York, July 1 1986. Photograph by Irving Penn.
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The music began in captivity…on the auction block…that auction block is the demolition, by Europe, of all human standards…This is exactly how the music called Jazz began…to checkmate the European notion of the world…There is a very great deal in the world that Europe does not, or cannot, see: in the very same way that the European musical scale cannot transcribe-cannot write down, does not understand-the notes, or the price, of this musicJames Baldwin, “Of the Sorrow Song: The Cross of Redemption” (via danholepond)
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Move
Sequential taps on the snare timed to an upbeat jazz line. Shoulders ripe with that familiar rhythm, jostled against the social pressure to stay unmoved. Who really doesn’t want to move? A raspy tempered blues fills the seemingly empty space in-between corners and idle crevasses looking for fulfillment. Fulfill it as you may.
“Gonna give it so you can’t say no.”
Inch by inch you feel the melody work on your body. With no place of origin, mere sound vertebrates in and with every cell to the dance of pleasure. Feel this chance to dance-along. Loosen those tense shoulders. Swivel your head and tap your feet along with that growing sense to express your enjoyment. Relax your-self and move-along.
