mongrel musician

[hep-cat]

Ask me about bop of all kinds and jazz fusion. I also like/reblog/post about the blaxploitation genre, some art history and the Harlem Renaissance (lit/music/visual art/whatever man).

I’m probably going to be using this blog to post assorted things I find + reblog dope ass shit. Check this out while you’re here!

[leomatsuda]

[jareckiworld]

Beauford Delaney -  Portrait of Charlie ”Bird” Parker   (oil on canvas, 1968)

[bookends-theme]

Miriam Makeba, 1956

[vitaltransfrm]

where is jazz rpf fandom

[mepaintsme]

Beauford Delaney, Charlie Parker Yardbird, 1958, oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 29 ½ in. 

[chantssecrets]

The Dark Rupture (portrait of James Baldwin), 1941, by Beauford Delaney

[jareckiworld]

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)—Dreams No. 1 [gouache on paper, 1965]

[neshamama]

francis criss, “alma sewing,” 1935, oil on canvas

[davidhudson]

Charles Mingus, April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979.

Joni Mitchell, A Chair in the Sky, 1979.

[hep-cat]

[allweknewisdead]

Lord Shango (1975) - Ray Marsh

There’s always a struggle when a restless soul tries to enter a body not yet born.

[bagofbonesmp3]

marlene clark in ganja & hess (1973)

[fangerine]

"That day, I decided that I was a disease."

GANJA & HESS (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

[fishandloaves]

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

[dashes-and-letters]

[izzy-b-hands]

James Booker Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1978