Ojos De Rojos YouTube video by Cedar Walton Quartet - Topic

Jazz OTD: There was no finer hard bop pianist than the great Cedar Walton, and here he is - on "Bluesville Time," from April 21, 1985 - with his regular partners David Williams (b) and Billy Higgins (d) as well as the young Australian saxophonist Dale Barlow. A terrific album. #jazzsky

On Green Dolphin Street YouTube video by Joe Henderson - Topic

Jazz OTD: Given the bluesy finesse of the Wynton Kelly Trio (the pianist joined by Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb), Joe Henderson could probably have mailed in his performance with the group. But on "Four!" - recorded on April 21, 1968 - Henderson memorably lets it rip. #jazzsky

McCoy Tyner - Passion Dance YouTube video by Santoszzz

Jazz OTD: Here's the opening track to McCoy Tyner's first Blue Note album as leader, "The Real McCoy." Ethan Iverson calls it one of the greatest jazz albums of all, and I find it hard to disagree. Recorded April 21, 1967 with Joe Henderson (ts), Ron Carter (b), and Elvin Jones (d). #jazzsky

Neo (Live at the Black Hawk, San Francisco, CA - April 21, 1961) YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic

Jazz OTD: Hank Mobley Day Part 3 - somehow Mobley's time with Miles Davis is a bit forgotten between the "great" quintets, but he's here from April 21, 1961 at San Francisco's Blackhawk on one of Davis' best live albums of all. With Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers (b), and Jimmy Cobb (d). #jazzsky

Lee Morgan,Hank Mobley - 07 "Nutville" YouTube video by Penta Shack-G

Jazz OTD: Hank Mobley Day, Part 2: Recording quality is rough, but this April 21, 1958 date was part of a regular jam session series at Birdland; Mobley (ts) is with Lee Morgan (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Billy Root (ts, bs), Ray Bryant (p), Tommy Bryant (b), and Charles "Specs" Wright (d). #jazzsky

Hi Groove, Low Feed-Back YouTube video by Hank Mobley - Topic

Jazz OTD: Hank Mobley Day, Part 1 - Recorded April 21, 1957, the aptly named "Hank" has Mobley leading a terrific hard-bop sextet with Donald Byrd (tp), Bobby Timmons (p), Wilbur Ware (b), Philly Joe Jones (d), and John Jenkins (as), whose talent merited more success than he had, sadly. #jazzsky

Released - 1960
Recorded - February 11 & 15, 1960
Studio - Bell Sound (New York City)
Label - Atlantic
Producer - Artie Shaw

Assevervation YouTube video by Slide Hampton Octet - Topic

Happy birthday Slide Hampton!

Slide Hampton - trombone, arranger
Freddie Hubbard, Ernie Royal, Bob Zottola - trumpet
Bernard McKinney - euphonium
Bill Barber - tuba
George Coleman - tenor sax, arranger
Jay Cameron - bari sax
Nabil Totah - bass
Pete La Roca - drums
Bill Frazier - arranger
#jazzsky

Benny Goodman Quartet 1937 YouTube video by harryoakley

Lionel Hampton #botd 1908. Man, these guys 👇 The Benny Goodman Quartet. 1937. Two minutes of 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #jazzsky

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Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing in the street outside as they were pursued and then destroyed by a nameless malevolent force, something neither I nor anyone else could control, a great darkness that was, somehow, all my fault. Today, that childhood dream is finally coming true. Today I can finally say the sweetest nine or 10 words in the English language: Global Tetrahedron has completed its plan to control InfoWars.com. I’ve had a lot of time to think about InfoWars in the last year and a half. As the seasons have changed, my ambitions for the project have grown grander, crueler, better aligned with market data. Come, friends, and imagine with me…

Imagine a roaring arena packed to the rafters with pathological liars. High above you in the nosebleeds are podcasters, screaming that you’ll die if you don’t buy their skincare products. Below, on the floor, imagine demonic battalions of super-influencers physically forcing people into home fitness devices designed to dismantle their bodies bone by bone and reassemble them into a grotesque statue of yourself. Out of the throngs, an extremely sick looking man approaches you. He puts his hands on your shoulders. He explains that he is your life coach and that you owe him $800. Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.

With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website. The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America. All of this is to say that I believe in us. I believe that with the new InfoWars, we can alchemize the pioneering spirit of amateur inquiry, the profit-maximizing drive of corporations, and the cold mental clarity that comes only with disciplined daily ingestion of mind- and body-altering chemicals. If we can do that, what other great things can we do together?

I don’t yet know, but I’m excited to find out. Welcome home, warriors. The future belongs to us. We’re writing the story now. It’s going to be a long one, and it’s going to be a bad one. So settle in. Make yourself comfortable. Buy a tote bag. Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website. Infinite Growth Forever, Bryce Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

“I know it’s early to talk about Pesach 2027 but I have a few questions” no, nope, absolutely not

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

One of my thoughts on 4/20 is that the general cultural mode of a guy who likes drugs has moved from a kind of hippy let’s all get along sort of guy to a “I am better than you because I do drugs and have become the ubermensch” sort of guy and it’s been a pretty big catastrophe for the human race

Turns out playing Sid Meier’s Pirates obsessively on my parents’ PC in the 90s was time well spent. Just need to capture a frigate to move sugar south from Martinique, maybe see if I can intercept the Silver Train while I’m at it

One time my friend and I thought we’d generate amazing content by recording our conversation over drinks. Just a ready made podcast, bc we are very funny, astute observers of life and culture!

We never listened to it, bc why would anyone do that

Village Of The Pharoahs, Part One YouTube video by Pharoah Sanders - Topic

Pharoah Sanders - "Village of the Pharoahs" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEKa... Joe Bonner #BOTD #Jazzsky

Lionel Hampton - Jam Session (1955) YouTube video by vintage video clips

#OTD #TDIH #April20, 1908 #HBD #LionelHampton! #Jazz #Music #AmericanMusic #Vibraphonists #Xylophonist #BennyGoodmanQuartet #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u657...

Another Monday morning immediately confronted with the American dilemma: read the story about the most recent violent atrocity and be unable to work for hours, or put it off and feel like it’s a moral failing to Work At A Time Like This

My Romance YouTube video by Elvin Jones - Topic

Jazz OTD: Legendary drummer Elvin Jones went with a pianoless showcase for his album "Youngblood," recorded on April 20-21, 1992 with brilliant up-and-comers as the frontline horns: trumpeter Nicholas Payton, with Javon Jackson and Joshua Redman on tenor sax. The great George Mraz on bass. #jazzsky

Luminescence YouTube video by The Barry Harris Sextet - Topic

Jazz OTD: The lifelong bop proponent Barry Harris recorded his wonderful album "Luminescence!" on April 20, 1967 with a sensational group joining the pianist: Junior Cook (ts), Pepper Adams (bs), Slide Hampton (tb), Bob Cranshaw (b), and Lenny McBrowne (d). The opening title track. #Jazzsky

Horace Parlan - Wadin' YouTube video by MrWzzzW

Jazz OTD: Pianist/composer Horace Parlan had a gorgeous touch and a great, bluesy feel, both evident on his album "Us Three." He recorded it on April 20, 1960 with George Tucker (b) and Al Harewood (p). And that Reid Miles cover art! #jazzsky

Blue Monk YouTube video by Jeanne Lee And Ran Blake - Topic

Happy birthday Ran Blake!

Jeanne Lee – vocals
Ran Blake – piano

Released - 1962
Recorded - November 15 – December 7, 1961
RCA Victor Studio, New York City
Label - RCA Victor
Producer - George Avakian
#jazzsky

Released - October 1972
Recorded - 1971
The East, New York City
Label - Impulse!
Producer - Lee Young

Pharoah Sanders - The Healing Song YouTube video by isolitiignoti1

Happy birthday Joe Bonner!

Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone
Marvin Peterson - trumpet
Carlos Garnett - flute, voice
Harold Vick - tenor saxophone, voice
Joe Bonner - piano, harmonium
Stanley Clarke, Cecil McBee - bass
Norman Connors, Billy Hart - drums
Lawrence Killian - congas, balafon
#jazzsky

He inspired one of my all time favorite Letterboxd reviews, by our pal @bransonreese.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bren...

There used to a pop song every year named "Hero" and the chorus was always "You're a hero deep inside / don't ever let your hero hide". But then 9/11 happened, and every pop song was named "Party Booty (Bootyhole Remix) feat DJ A$$crack". And if it isn't true don't correct me.