Charles Mingus (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979)

Paul Chambers (April 22, 1935 - January 4, 1969)

Jef Jaisun - Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent HQ Novelty Songs YouTube video by TheGrayCat

Happy 4/20.

Tito Puente (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000)

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Anti-fascist Friday from Dr. Seuss.

Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976)

Freddie Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008)

Gerry Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996)

“Better to die in Iran for your country and your pride,
Then to live in a nation that would ask you to be kind.”

Thank You Jesse Welles!

South African trumpeter and flugelhorn player Hugh Masekela (April 4, 1939 – January 23, 2018), pictured here in 1954. Photo by Jürgen Schadeberg.

"Experts are dubious"

Anti-fascist Friday.

Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984)

Booker Little (April 2, 1938 – October 5, 1961)

What the fuck, indeed. What are Y'all waiting for, GOP Congress? Are you THAT chickenshit to stand up against the Fanta Führer?

Los Angeles citizens chasing ICE thugs

I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of this. People are fed up.

Anti-fascist Friday.

How to Read Ezra Pound
by Martín Espada

At the poets’ panel,
after an hour of poets debating Ezra Pound,
Abe the Lincoln veteran,
remembering
the Spanish Civil War,
raised his hand and said:
If I knew that
a fascist
was a great poet,
I’d shoot him
anyway.

Sarah Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990)

Cecil Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018)

Trump's plan to send ICE to the airports makes it clear that ICE isn't really an immigration enforcement force. It's Trump's personal Gestapo, his goon squad ready to act out the dictator's fever dreams, no matter how reckless and stupid.

Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982).

Portrait by R. Crumb.

Blue Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979)

Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015)

Wes Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968)

Intelligent Life of Earth A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Intelligent Life on Earth -
existentialcomics.com/comic/644

Rory Gallagher (March 2, 1948 - June 14, 1995)

Anti-fascist Friday.

John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968), "In Dubious Battle" (1936).

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990)