Category: redemption

John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Bill Evans | Don Hunstein, 1958

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26jh4r
Miles Davis & his friends for a great show at Paris in 1991
Credits
Alto Saxophone — Jackie McLean, Kenny Garrett  Double Bass — Dave Holland
Drums — Al Foster, Ricky Wellman Electric Bass — Darryl Jones, Richard Patterson (2)
Electric Guitar — Joseph Foley McCreary*, John McLaughlin, John Scofield Electric Piano — Chick Corea Keyboards — Deron Johnson, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul  
Soprano Saxophone — Bill Evans (3), Wayne Shorter
Tenor Saxophone — Steve Grossman Trumpet, Keyboards — Miles Davis & Friends at La Villette 1991 – Vidéo Dailymotion

Misogyny Blues

“The majority of men are not sexual predators.” Joan M. Cook, Associate Professor of Psychi8atry, Yale University

Reality Persists…

No fear, no compromise, no surrender…
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”

Death is Specific…

Death… is very specific. https://youtu.be/9Ta9FUOQ4oY?list=RD9Ta9FUOQ4oYMother Nature’s Son Right choices allow us to endure, survive and prevail… https://youtu.be/TLV4_xaYynY?list=RD9Ta9FUOQ4oY All Along The … More

Evil is goin’ on…

When I was a youngster, I have memories of when we lived in an apartment on the South Side of … More

Comet Blues

Yes, two comets, Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN, are visible on October 22-23, 2025. Comet Lemmon is more likely to … More

Invisible Religion

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

What’s goin’ on…

on the day before his 45th birthday, Gaye was shot and killed by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., at their house in Western Heights, Los Angeles

Stardust

https://youtu.be/_T6WKdrxzyY?t=9 Willie Nelson / Stardust                               … More

1930s… Hot Blues, Cool Jazz and Big Bands…

Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington

Human Beings

Humans are characterized by bipedalism and high intelligence. Their scientific name is Homo sapiens, of the order primates.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Voting for Evil no longer an option. ~OO~

All of us are more than fed up with mediocrity, hypocrisy, lesser-evil, trickle-down, less-than-perfect settling

Love, faith, hope and human kindness…

Jesus, a Jewish carpenter and rabbi, died nearly 2000 years ago. But the human race goes back 200,000 to 300,000 … More

I Shall Be Released

“You’ve got to learn to leave the table, When love’s no longer being served.”
Nina Simone

We can choose peace, people and planet. Corporate wars of aggression must end!

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
~Anais Nin

Dust my Broom

Elmore James – The Sky Is Crying –
https://youtu.be/kFn538A_yBA?list=RDkFn538A_yBA

More than one way home…

“The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.”

Raymond Burr…

“The turning point in Raymond Burr’s life came one day on the set of Perry Mason in 1957 when he met his life partner, an actor and Korean War veteran 13 years his junior, Robert Benevides, who was always known as Bob. …

Thelonious

“Jazz is freedom. You think about that.” Thelonious Monk
https://youtu.be/zBY7lBkyCs8?list=RDzBY7lBkyCs8

Animal dreams…

Humans cannot be the only animals on this planet who dream. But we know less about animal dreams of dogs, … More