arch.

high plains drifter.

[McCoy Tyner @RealMcCoyTyner]

“Afro Blue” live with @JohnColtrane, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones in 1963.

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Tony Allen JID018.

The 18th installment of Jazz Is Dead, ft. the founding father of Afrobeat & one of the most influential drummers in modern music. A legend who blended Yoruba polyrhythms, Highlife, jazz, & funk into a timeless groove that continues to echo around the world.

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

“Starlight & You” by Lonnie Liston Smith. The king of cosmic jazz.

“Expand your mind so we can have a vision of a new world where the whole world will work in harmony and peace” — Lonnie

Live on Soul Train (1977).

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

Fela Kuti rehearsing "Authority Stealing," footage from Lagos, 1970s.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

This isn't a performance; it’s a blues sermon.

Howlin’ Wolf reminding us where Rock & Roll was born.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

John Coltrane only played “A Love Supreme” live a few times, and this rare video from 1965 live in Antibes, France, is one of them.

[Earl Landix 🇺🇸 @EarlLandix]

Black Grandma Aesthetics

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Tony can swing and play his ass off. He’s a motherf*cker. I don't think there's a drummer alive that can do what Tony Williams can do.”

— Miles Davis

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Rock With You” by Michael Jackson but it’s a rare ‘strings’ studio version. Unreal.

[Drew-Jit-Su @HipHopSince76_]

Ron "Amen Ra" Lawrence shows us his equipment & how he chopped the samples for Where I'm From.
#MPC3000

[arch. @archoninfinite]

@Southside_Gunn found this out the other day. still in shock https://t.co/URvc3WaZPJ

[arch. @archoninfinite]

@TheOXGod 🎮

[ArtDontSleep @ArtDontSleep]

Labi Siffre performs "My Song" live on The Harry Secombe Show, 1972.

#labisiffre #artdontsleep

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Guitar doesn’t get cooler than this — Wes Montgomery live with “Full House”

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A Great Day in Harlem by Art Kane (1958)

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 on ‘Mas Que Nada’ – smooth bossa vibes, killing it back in the day…

[arch. @archoninfinite]

Bilal ft Questlove, Common, Robert Glasper, & Burniss Travis – Something... https://t.co/GiOroIx3hK

[ArtDontSleep @ArtDontSleep]

King Yellowman live & direct from Volcano Sound System, one of Jamaica's legendary dancehalls, 1984

#soundsystem #reggae #artdontsleep

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

Ol' Dirty Bastard on set for the "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" video shoot 🎬️ (1995)

Photo by Al Pereira