YIYAVERSE

my side a' town.

[yiyaverse]

who say, that one day, I will sink... when all this time I've been floating?

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[badandbrown]

Celia Cruz // 60s/70s

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green palms

blue refuge

la la revolución

la révolution

the revolution, dark shadows

of our past.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Eugene Smith - The jazz loft

[yiyaverse]

Black Music (2010) by Amiri Baraka

[yiyaverse]

The major flaw in this approach to Negro music is that it strips the music too ingenuously of its social and cultural intent. It seeks to define jazz as an art (or a folk art) that has come out of no intelligent body of socio-cultural philosophy.

Amiri Baraka, "Jazz and the White Critic" from Black Music (2010)

[yiyaverse]

Manhattan’s Long Lost Era of Loft Jazz

Ed Blackwell, Dewey Redman, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, at Prince Street May 1971 © Val Wilmer Once upon a time, before Manhattan pri

[dirtylowdown2]

"The Animal loves you wear it in your eyes..."

[guy60660]

Don Cherry | Ornette Coleman | Lee Friedlander

[yiyaverse]

vicennials

I like to look at movements in twenty-year periods aan not ten-years. It seems to be gradual shifts within two decades that feel more of a complete story, than looking at just one decade.

[yiyaverse]

i'm tired of apologising for this cushion pin heart. she's been through a lot. she has space for more.

[jazzplusplus]

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers avec Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons et Jymie Merritt en Belgique - 1958

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Archive: The Miami Times

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[almostsomewheremaybe]

I think of you, and everything in me breaks.

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"America the Beautiful", Norman Lewis, 1960.