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verlaineandrimbaud: Charles Mingus.
donotdestroy: “My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves … In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.”—Max Roach
vintageblackglamour: Max Roach, the iconic jazz drummer & composer, on tour in Japan in the mid-1950s. Photo via Dwayne Rodgers of The Black Vernacular who obtained it from Mr. Roach’s family.
musician-photos: Sam Jones
tornandfrayed: Miles Davis in Rotterdam, 1967. Photo by Pieter Boersma.
John Coltrane - Alabama [Live]

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John Coltrane—“Alabama”  [Live]

Live at Birdland (Impulse! 1963).

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behardfreebop: Don Ayler, Bill Folwell, Albert Ayler, Beaver Harris and Michel Samson on November 17, 1966 rehearsing for BBC TV at The London School of Economics. Credit: Val Wilmer.
deeploungemusic: Duke Ellington
atane: Billie Holiday - Songs for Distingué Lovers
atane: Born on this day: J.J. Johnson Photo by Laird Scott (Source)