Shaft's Big Score

Mostly things I like and want to remember. Fodder for wasting time on the Internet.

[cosmonautroger]

Santo & Johnny Farina, Sleepwalk, 1959

[jazz-improvisation]

Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley (born July 7, 1930) poses with his instrument during the recording session for his A Caddy for Daddy album 1965

Hank Mobley No Room For Squares 1963

photo: Francis Wolff

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"My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being." - John Coltrane

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Multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy (born June 20, 1928)

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Tom Thomson (Canadian 1877-1917), Campfire, 1916, Oil on wood, National Gallery of Canada

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Multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945)

[transpondster]

Sonny Rollins passed away today at 95 years of age, the last of the great jazz players in this classic 1958 photo by Art Kane, titled "A Great Day In Harlem".

NY Times story from 2024, including an interview with Sonny Rollins about the day the photo was taken.

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[jazzacoin]

Gerry Mulligan Jazz Essay ’54 1954

Photo Eliot Elisofon

[vintagecamping]

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays"

1841

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Silent Running lobby cards (1972)

[jazzplusplus]

Coda Magazine #190 (Canada) - June 1983 - Ed Bickert & Don Thompson