This incredible Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina Model B music cabinet is among the rarest and most advanced automatic music players of its time. The remarkable machine, crafted by the renowned Leipzig firm of Ludwig Hupfeld, is one of the most mechanically complex music players ever
💬 "Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians." – Dave Brubeck
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"I want to be a force for real good. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good."
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John Coltrane.
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"My music is the spiritual expression of what I am –my faith, my knowledge, my being. When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups. I want to speak to their souls."John Coltrane.
“In A Silent Way” recorded in one session date on February 18, 1969.
In a rave review, Rolling Stone writer Lester Bangs described IASW as "the kind of album that gives you faith in the future of music. It is not rock and roll, but it's nothing stereotyped as jazz either.
Benny Golson taking a solo on the tune "A Night in Tunisia" alongside Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers including Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Jymie Merritt, and Bobby Timmons live in Belgium, 1958.
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"I never practice my guitar — from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."
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Wes Montgomery performing the Thelonious Monk composition "Round Midnight" live on television.
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"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water."
Ray Charles.
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"As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time."
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The Bill Evans Trio including Bill Evans (piano), Chuck Israels (bass), and Larry Bunker (drums) performing the tune "How My Heart Sings" in London, 1965.
💬 "I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini."
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🎉 Remembering Paul Desmond who was born on movember the 25th in 1924.
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
BB King’s subtle string bends are the sound of a musician completely immersed in his communication medium, speaking a special and unique musical language that he has been inventing for a lifetime. The great man is gone, but his blue notes will live forever.
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"The group I had with Coltrane made me and him a legend. Whenever we played the clubs were packed, overflowing back into the streets, with long lines of people standing out in the rain and snow and heat.
📷 Miles Davis and John Coltrane performing at Cafe Bohemia in 1957.
Kristīne Balanas performing Ernst’s arrangement of Schubert’s Erlkönig for Solo Violin.
Next week, Kristīne makes the first of three debuts in three weeks performing Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the Szczecin Philharmonic. This is followed by performances of Beethoven’s
"A great day in Harlem!" 💜 On this day
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📷 took one of the most iconic jazz picture, in summer of 1958. Who you recognize in the photos? 👇
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One of Martha’s favourites Piano Concertos as well as composers- Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in a minor. Here is a very interesting angle.
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