man sat in a train, he is playing a trumpet as the other passengers look on

Donald Byrd, New York City
William Claxton, 1959

He played a late night set at Wrongbar in Parkdale at Jazz Fest 2012 - the year Black Radio came out. He and his bands are so amazing.

Space is the place! Going back to this early Soul Jazz comp.

The Artemis capsule descending to Earth, with three red-and-white parachutes deployed and a wide white course cloud behind it.

Humanity: Pretty awesome, sometimes.

How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Let Melvin Gibbs Explain.

"After decades of research as both a scholar and performer, he’s sharing his findings in a revelatory new book, “How Black Music Took Over the World,” out April 14."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/a...

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

Chicago’s Aadam Jacobs gets an AP news story

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The Sounds of War: Drones Over Ukraine | The Quietus In an exclusive extract from his new book Ukrainian Field Notes, author Gianmarco Del Re explores the soundscape of ScanEagles and Shahed drones turning the skies over Kyiv into a sonic warzone

"For Russolo, the growing complexity of machinery and urban noise meant that music and noise were destined to converge. What he imagined as an aesthetic future now returns in darker form: the sounds of war entering the everyday soundscape and, eventually, music itself."

Drones Over Ukraine:

Meet the Artemis crew on NASA's first moon mission in more than half a century This first Artemis crew includes a woman, a person of color and a Canadian, products of a more diversified astronaut corps.

"As one of NASA's few Black astronauts, Glover ...

The 49-year-old Navy captain and former combat pilot from Pomona, California, makes it a habit to listen to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon" and Marvin Gaye's "Make Me Wanna Holler" from the white-dominated Apollo era."

Higher Ground!

Reminds me of one of my favourite Christmas albums

Hold all my calls. I'm in a conference godammit.

The Great Northern out of Cheyenne...

A new graphic novel chronicles the real-life heroics of music legend Fela Kuti | CBC Arts Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery use magical realism and Afro-futurist symbolism to reimagine the life of the legendary Afrobeat pioneer and activist.

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Look into the CEO's back story. He's got an interesting history.

The Police - 1979-03-23 - Toronto, Canada (FM) **The Police** 1979-03-23 The Edge Toronto, Canada FM broadcast 320 kbps Artwork Included 01. Truth Hits Everybody 02. So Lonely 03. Fallout 04. Born In The '50s 05. Hole In My Life 06. Be My Girl > Sally > Peanuts 07. Roxanne 08. Landlord 09. Next To You 10. Can't Stand Losing You ** ** **The Police - 1979-03-23 - Toronto, Canada (FM)** ** ** **1979 - #6:** In early 1979, The Police went on tour in North America in support of their debut album, Outlandos d’Amour. The tour kicked off on March 1 at the legendary Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles and ran until May 25, with the band criss-crossing the US and Canada. They often played 2 shows a night, and rarely took a day off. Given that the album had flopped when initially released, the band felt compelled to tour relentlessly in hopes of gaining exposure for themselves and airplay for their songs. The strategy seemed to work, as the album eventually climbed to the #23 position on the Billboard charts in the US, and rose all the way to the #2 position in the UK. In addition, 3 singles from the disc – Roxanne, Can’t Stand Losing You and So Lonely - charted in the top 20 in the UK in 1979. Roxanne also climbed to the #32 spot on the US Billboard charts. This soundboard recording captures the band early on in that tour, on March 23, 1979, 47 years ago today.

The Police - 1979-03-23 - Toronto, Canada (FM) so-many-roads-boots.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-police-1979-...

Georgia Sea Island Singers' Beulah Land:

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So much amazing music in this archive! For starters, Georgia Sea Island Singers' Knee Bone:

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Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

BUDDY MILES - Them Changes YouTube video by NoRosesForMe

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microphones at Grateful Dead show

concertgoers hold boomboxes at Polish music festival

tapers sidestage at bluegrass festival

man in t shirt that reads Tape Master

snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!

Like a Human Flood: Attempting to Uncover the Real Sleng Teng Story | The Quietus Wrongtom undertakes some detective work around the birth of the most famous digital dancehall riddim and discovers something unusual

It's 41 years to the day since the big sound clash where Jammy debuted Wayne Smith's 'Under Mi Sleng Teng didn't happen

If you've never read it, here's @thequietus.com piece I wrote for the 40th anniversary of it not happening last year thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

it was the night the USA Olympic hockey team beat the Soviet team

Got a bag o' Sleng Tengs?

Miles Davis meeting Kenny G is one of my fave photos ever. His look is priceless.

miles liked kenny's playing and they were touring together when they took this pic!! here's kenny telling the story of this picture in his book :)

Billy Preston’s Music Was ‘Pure Joy.’ But His Life Ended in Tragedy.

"Never, however, had they seen Preston as an artist in his own right — until a showstopping moment at the Garden when he tore through his jet-propelled gospel rocker 'That’s the Way God Planned It.'"

Billy Preston’s Music Was ‘Pure Joy.’ But His Life Ended in Tragedy. (gift link):

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U-Roy and Bob Marley & The Wailers – Kingston 12 Shuffle (Trenchtown Rock D.J. version) / version
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Podborski’s Start (Sarajevo Olympics)
Ken Danby
1984

Fela Kuti to receive Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award Almost 30 years after he died, the Nigerian will posthumously receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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