Little Miss Soul

There is another world but it is in this one.

[theimpossiblecool]

“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.”

[macrolit]

“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”

— Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

[scavengedluxury]

Green Park tube. London, October 2016.

[topcat77]

Tracey Emin

[gottahavesoul]

Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling (Thembi, 1971)

Personnel

Pharoah Sanders – tenor and soprano saxophones, alto flute, koto, brass bells, balaphone, maracas, cow horn, fifes

Lonnie Liston Smith – piano, electric piano, claves, percussion, ring cymbal, shouts, balaphone

Michael White – violin, percussion

Cecil McBee – bass, finger cymbal, percussion

Roy Haynes – drums

Clifford Jarvis – drums, maracas, bells, percussion

Nat Bettis, Chief Bey, Majid Shabazz, Anthony Wiles – African percussion

James Jordan – ring cymbal

wondrous sounds…

[beautymyeyes-see]

Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell

[mariannaraskin]

[perfectfeelings]

“If a girl send you a song and tells you to listen to it, you better pay attention to the lyrics.”

—

[kvetchlandia]

Dennis Stock     Thelonious Monk Performing at Town Hall, New York City    1959

“Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to New York and open their ears.“ Thelonious Monk

[uschi-the-listener]

Nina Simone- Here comes the sun

Happy Birthday, wherever you are…

[jazzplusplus]

1961 - New Year’s Eve - Carnegie Hall.

Sonny Rollins & co. , John Coltrane Quintet, Thelonious Monk and his band, Nina Simone

[musician-photos]

Alice Coltrane

[beautymyeyes-see]

What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen?

What old December’s bareness everywhere?”

William Shakespeare, the opening lines from sonnet 97

[elsabertrand2]

By Maurizio Rossi

Jazz

[only-ness-deactivated20211029]

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”

— Miles Davis

[beautymyeyes-see]

Sylvia Plath, from Kindness

[mishproductions]

Thelonious Monk and Sam Jones by W. Eugene Smith  

[didierleclair]

“What I am doing, I prefer to call it Jazz because it is a beautiful word.  I love it.”

DEXTER GORDON, Jazz master