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Artist Management, Event Production and Promotion, Record Label Management: #jazzisdead

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“Maze means magic and love. Everybody is in this maze of life together — people of all types, colors and ages.” - Frankie Beverly (Ebony, 1984) Frankie was both magic and love. Rest In Peace to a legend. 🕊️
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Gil Scott Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" performed with husband and wife duo Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, 1980 #gillscottheron #revolution
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De La Soul's legendary producer @djprincepaul on finding beats anywhere 📽️: tv interview '89 #princepaul #delasoul #hiphop #cratedigger #artdontsleep
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Rest In Peace, Amp Fiddler 🕊️ A cut from Hip Hop evolution, Q-tip tells the story of how Amp introduced #hiphop to Dilla.
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A studio rehearsal session with @dionnewarwick , @BurtBacharach & #HalDavid "I Say A Little Prayer," (1967) #artdontsleep
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Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” live in ‘72 🐐 #artdontsleep
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The most important lesson you’ll ever learn #MFDOOM 📹: @soulection
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Happy 50th to Yasiin Bey 🎂
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Stevie Wonder plays a Yamaha GX-1, one of the rarest and most expensive commercial synths ever sold. #Repost @robotussin_vintage_synths
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Minnie Riperton's Midnight Special "Inside My Love" 1975
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Fela Kuti rehearsal session “Authority Stealing”, footage from Lagos, 1970s #felakuti #artdontsleep
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James Brown calls himself to the piano 🔥 #jamesbrown #soul #artdontsleep
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Phife Dawg freestyles over Rahzel’s beatbox on Lorna Little's Lorna’s Corner, one of the earliest places you could see hip hop on TV. #Repost @ambrosiaforheads
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King Yellowman live & direct from Volcano Sound System, one of Jamaica's legendary dancehalls, 1984 #soundsystem #reggae #artdontsleep
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Talking Heads "This Must Be the Place" released 1983 #artdontsleep
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Gil Scott-Heron on the art of writing ✍🏽
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Some incredible archival footage from the equally incredible Lafayette Afro Rock Band via @strutrecords Taken from a garden session from their time in Paris, sit back and enjoy what looks to be the penultimate lawn party.
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Bill Withers performs “Grandma’s Hands” on BBC live in concert, 1973 #artdontsleep
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Prince at sound check "Summertime" in Osaka, Japan 1990 #prince #artdontsleep
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Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 live in Paris, 1986 #felakuti #afrobeat #artdontsleep
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James Brown was legendary 🔥 #JamesBrown with #BootsyCollins and the original JBs live in Italy (1971)
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Rankin Miss P on the 301s a female radio pioneer on London pirate station DBC. #reggae #dancehall #pirateradio #dubmusic #garrard301
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De La Soul on the art of sampling, 1989 #hiphop #samples #artdontsleep
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Kraftwerk live on German television, 1973 #artdontsleep
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Redbone live on The Midnight Special, 1974 ✨
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Herbie Hancock Demonstrating The Fairlight CMI SYNTHESIZER on Sesame Street (1983) Bonus points if you can name the young child star in the clip via @synthnews #herbiehancock #sesamestreet
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Born on this day in 1960, Jean Michel Basquiat 👑
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Dancing into the weekend celebrating the queen, Celia Cruz, on what would have been her 98th birthday! 👑 #celiacruz #fania #cuba #artdontsleep
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Al Green “I Love You With All My Heart” #soul #algreen #artdontsleep
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Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film Downtown 81
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Bridging borders with the "Teeter Totter Wall" in #ElPaso #Texas and #CiudadJuarez created by Ronald Rael and Virgina San Fratello
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Jorge Ben & Trio Mocotó "Chóve Chuva" live in 1970 🐐 #jazzestamorto
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Marvin Gaye in ‘72 photographed by Annie Leibovitz ✨
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Stevie Wonder drum solo, 1971. 📹: Italian television show with the trio “Formula Tre” #artdontsleep
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Love to see it! 5th graders in South Korea cover MF DOOM "One Beer" 📹: @_kusyo kids electric orchestra #mfdoom
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Rest in peace to Casey Benjamin. I think everyone is shocked at this news and the entire music community saddened by this loss. Sending lots of love to his close friends and family. Here’s a clip of him making every hair stand on every arm in the building circa 2012.
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Happy holidays from the the OG uncle @SnoopDogg
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Steppin into the weekend like… 🥃 Sammy Davis Jr. for Suntory Whiskey, 1974.
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Donny Hathaway “For All We Know” live on the Flip Wilson Show, 1972. 🐐Who would you put on the list for top five greatest voices of all time? #artdontsleep
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Remaining true to the experimental and Dada impulses of Tropicália, #TomZ é has been noted for both his unorthodox approach to melody and instrumentation. #artdontsleep
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Towa Tei, & Vivian Sessoms in Kyoto, Japan, 1994 #artdontsleep
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Yami Bolo in '85
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Stereolab live at the Mod Lang record store in Berkeley, CA 1993 #stereolab #artdontsleep
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"Os Tincoas" in the recording studio recording “Atabaque chora,” the opening song on their 1977 album #artdontsleep
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Released 20 years ago today... #Madlib & #MFDOOM #hiphop
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“On October 7th 1978, at the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, Kraftwerk made their debut for the Italian audience with the song “The Robots” taken from the album “The Man Machine”. ” #Repost @disco_bambino
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Alfred Hitchcock photographed by Philippe Halsman & The Notorious B.I.G. photographed by Guy Aroch. The portrait of Alfred Hitchcock served as promotion of his film ‘The Birds’. Biggie’s photograph references his line on ‘Beef’ where he claims to be the ‘’rap Alfred Hitchcock’’
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Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe perform "Aguanile" live on Soul in '72 #artdontsleep
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An interview with Gil Scott Heron, 1985
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Prince performs Chaka Khan's "Sweet Thing" live at Webster Hall, April 2004 #prince #chakakhan #artdontsleep
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Happy birthday @BOBBIHUMPHREY ! 🎂
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"Water Get No Enemy" Inside with studio with D'Angelo and Femi Kuti (Electric Lady Studios, NYC) #dangelo #felakuti #femikuti #artdontsleep
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Aretha Franklin performing “You’re All I Need to Get By” in 1971
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"There is no division between art and life or politics and life..." - Amiri Baraka speaks on being seen as an artist vs. a politician.
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James Brown studio session, 1978 👑
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Nicky Thomas reggae cover of Syl Johnson’s “Is It Because I’m Black” #reggae #soul #artdontsleep
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Jorge Ben & Gal Costa perform "Que Pena" 📽️: Live on TV Globo in Feb. 1982 via @negrasprimaveras #artdontsleep
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Electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos mixing synthesizer recordings that she made at her studio in Greenwich Village, New York City (1989) #Repost @dusttodigital #electronicmusic #analog #artdontsleep
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Tim Maia live in '72 "Do Your Thing, Behave Yourself" #timmaia #blackrio
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Japanese artist Haruomi Hosono live in '75 #haruomihosono #artdontsleep
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Novos Baianos play "Samba da Minha Terra", 1970s #novosbaianos #bahia #artdontsleep
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“Me Gritaron ¡Negra!” Peruvian activist, and composer, Victoria Santa Cruz, 1978 #blackisbeautiful #artdontsleep
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An excerpt from ‘Nuestra Cosa Latina (Our Latin Thing)’, a music documentary depicting the rise of the New York City salsas scene & the #FANIA All-Stars
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@herfavcolor and @exileradio celebrate #BelowTheHeavens turning 15 years old this year! They'll be performing the album in its entirety as well as songs from their entire catalog. Expect lots of surprises, but more over, celebrate a #LosAngeles classic... Tickets are on sale now!
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Happy solar return to this brilliant mind and beautiful soul #RaphaelSaadiq ! 👑
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“It’s a gift and I just do what I feel.” - Doug E. Fresh 1986 interview #nyc #hiphop #artdontsleep
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Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Fela Kuti and Jean-Michel Basquiat through the lens of Andy Warhol, NYC, June 86 #artdontsleep
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Freestyle Fellowship "Innercity Boundries" 1993 #hiphop #artdontsleep
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Azymuth live at #JazzEstaMorto in 2019. These moments are so special and will forever be cherished. Rest in paradise, Mamão 💔 @IvanMamao @AlexMalheiros @kikocont @azymuth_trio
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Smif N Wessun studio session for "Dah Shinin'" in '95 #hiphop #
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"Soul Makossa" Manu Dibango live in '83 🔥
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The Chambers Brothers performing “Time Has Come Today” in 1969 #artdontsleep
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Yellow Magic Orchestra live at The Greek Theatre in #LosAngeles , 1979 #ymo #artdontsleep
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Nicky Thomas performs Syl Johnson’s “Is It Becuase I’m Black” live in ‘73 #bhm #artdontsleep
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One of the best to ever do it, @REALDJPREMIER , celebrated his birthday yesterday! Happy birthday Preemo! Keep inspiring us all✨ #djpremier #hiphop #artdontsleep
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Bahian samba artist Batatinha, Oscar da Penha, MPB Special, 1974 📽️: @negrasprimaveras
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Nelson Cavaquinho & Cartola, 1972 #brasil #artdontsleep
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#gilscottheron takes a walk along the Patomac River 🎶: "Washington D.C." #artdontsleep
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Happy birthday to @mavisstaples who turns 84 today! 📽️: Performing "Respect Yourself" with #TheStapleSingers during the 1972 #LosAngeles concert chronicled in the '73 documentary “Wattstax.” #artdontsleep
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Luther Vandross rehearsal session in ‘86 with Marcus Miller & Nat Adderly Jr. #luthervandross #artdontsleep
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Angela Davis on what it means to be a revolutionary, 1972 #Angeladavis #artdontsleep
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David Van Tieghem’s solo performance on David Letterman, ‘83 📽️: @drumhistory_podcast
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The Gladiators recording session, Excerpt from the documentary '77 Roots Rock Reggae - Inside the Jamaican Music Scene #Kingston #reggae #artdontsleep
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Grace Jones "Feel Up" at her live concert "A One Man Show", 1981 #gracejones #artdontsleep
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@lordfinesseditc don’t miss . he don’t miss.
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Happy bornday #BoDiddley 🎸 Here he is performing “Bo Diddley” live in 1955
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Give the drummer some! #clydestubblefield
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Stevie Wonder Recording “As” LIVE in the studio (1976)
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Sizzla recording a Dubplate for Little Lion Sound on the Still Dre instrumental 📹: @littlelionsound
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23 years ago @jrocc and @djbabuforeal forever changed our lives with this here mixtape! You can’t imagine how many times @WeDontSleep and i played that mix!
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Norma Tanega performs "A Street That Rhymes At Six A.M." circa late 1960s. #normatanega #artdontsleep
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Ahmad Jamal performing “The Awakening” live circa 1973 🐐
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Happy bornday to the 🐐 #FelaKuti who lives forever cause #LegendsNeverDie
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Bilal covers Curtis Mayfield's "So In Love" with German jazz group WDR Big Band in a tribute to the legend, September 2023 #bilal #curtismayfield #artdontsleep
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Black Thought freestyling with Questlove 📹: An excerpt from "On The Go 2: Repeat Offender" created by the '90s #graffitti magazine On the Go #theroots #hiphop
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Kraftwerk performing “ Radio Activity “ in 1978 #artdontsleep
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Sade performing "Cherish The Day" live in 1993 ✨
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