Taj Mahal Newport Folk Festival, 1968. Photo by ©Elliot Landy

Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema (1964) “The Girl from Ipanema” won a Grammy in 1965 for record of the year and Gilberto received nominations for best new artist and best vocal performance. #Bossanova

Joni Mitchell with Wayne Shorter at Electric Lady Studios, NYC during the recording sessions of her 1979 album, 'Mingus'

Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and wrong chords in jazz. #smlpdf #sheetmusic sheetmusiclibrary.website

Grandmas aren't the solution to the childcare crisis. Some have other plans for their retirement. Some live too far away to care for grandkids. Some have health problems that make caregiving too difficult. Some can't afford to retire. Some families don't have grandmas at all.

Miles Davis - Live In Rome 1969 #Jazz Miles Davis-tp Chick Corea-kb Jack DeJohnette-d Dave Holland-b

#ModernDay #1710MeritoriousManumissionUndefdeatedSTILL

For Friday. For Our Culture. Enjoy listening to our ancestor Ms. Sarah Vaughan.

A #FlashbackFriday: Sept 1986, the release of the Academy Award Winning #RoundMidnight soundtrack (ft. yours truly w/such greats as #HerbieHancock #WayneShorter #DexterGordon #FreddieHubbard & #TonyWilliams). Listen: ow.ly/wTZJ50MhzbY #moviesoundtracks #roncarterbassist

I’m just curious do white people understand why black institutions or anthems exist? It’s not because people just woke up one day and said let’s make an HBCU or an anthem it’s was out necessity because of things like slavery, segregation and Jim Crow. When they wrote that anthem

This must be how they were raised. ... I blame the parents. :)

Looking for a great book to help you understand what racism is not, please read this 👇🏾 And if you want to be an "anti-racist," please read this book instead of that "how to" book. 🤷🏾‍♂️

My two favorites stop-and-frisk stats are: 1. In 2011, the NYPD stopped & frisked more young Black men (14-24) than the total # of young Black men in NY 2. Black men were more likely to be stopped BUT every single year, white men were more likely to have illegal contraband.

Those who aspire to & reach the pinnacles of higher ed administration should have the capacity to distinguish between Zionism and anti-semitism. Failure to perceive the distinction is disgraceful. To understand it and still insist on the conflation of the two is evil. Full stop.

Harriet Tubman's great nieces, Eva and Alida Stewart, 1910.

Sonny Rollins was born in New York City on this day in 1930. The Saxophone Colossus turns 94 years old today. 📸 Martin Schoeller #SonnyRollinsBridge

Unsurprisingly, Dr. Naomi Wolf is wrong: Martin Luther King, Jr., was never convicted of a felony.

Happy Birthday Sonny Rollins, born: September 7, 1930

Happy 94th Birthday to the master, Sonny Rollins 👑🎉

Racist Woman Confesses to Plowing Down Two Kids for This Sickening Reason youtu.be/WDjNN_FmpyU?si… via YouTube