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A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "Silence is what makes #music #sexy. I just move blocks of #silence around. The notes are an afterthought."

• Nicholas Payton
  #jazz #trumpet @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "Everything I've learned, I've learned with #feeling being the generating force."

• Bill Evans
  #jazz #piano @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "#Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect #expression of any #emotion."

• Luciano Pavarotti
  #opera #singer #tenor #jazz @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Art Pepper, Boney James, Gene Harris, Willie Ruff & Teri Thornton born 9/1
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ Just remember to make best #music you have the ability to make. If you do that, you are a successful #musician.
#jazz #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Wilton Felder, Gunter Hampel, Cooper-Moore, Herman Riley, Nate Birkey, Edgar Sampson & Stefano Battaglia born 8/31
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♫♪ "I don't mind being the butt of a joke if it's a funny joke."

• Kenny G
  #smoothjazz #sax @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♫♪ "Diz is it... whenever I want to learn something I go & listen to Diz."

• Miles Davis
  #jazz #trumpet @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "I have to be a star like another man has to breathe."

• Sammy Davis Jr
  #jazz #singer #dance @jazz
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fembot , 10 months ago

The music of Miles Davis paired with photography by Saul Leiter. Heaven.

• Miles Davis – Blue In Green (1959)

Miles Davis – trumpet
John Coltrane – tenor sax
Bill Evans – piano
Paul Chambers – double bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums

• Saul Leiter – photographer and painter known for his lush urban pastoral images of street scenes in Manhattan in the 1940s–50s, and for his fashion work.

#modalJazz #photography #SaulLeiter #NewYorkSchool #MilesDavis #midCentury #jazz @jazz

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3wSjuImGu0

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ You will make a name for yourself in the field of #entertainment.
#music #jazz @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "However it goes, I'll just keep playing. That's where the basic satisfaction is at."

• Kenny Dorham
  #jazz #trumpet @jazz
  • https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations3.html

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Kenny Dorham, John Surman, Rodney Jones & Anthony Coleman born 8/30
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "In Kansas City joints ran 9pm-5am. Pay was a $1.25 a night but somebody special like Count Basie could command $1.50."

• Charlie Parker
  #jazz #sax @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz , 10 months ago

♪♫ "There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me.) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor."

• Dinah Washington
  #jazz #singer @jazz
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