In Search of Tossed Lime

(in dignified ventriloquy) /// PhD “student”; I think jazz is literature and literature is jazz

[In Search of Tossed Lime @BenPapsun]

How do I get the job as the guy who decides what chord a train’s horn produces?

[miss talk sum @shootmeadub]

“You can still feel it when you go hear Sonny Rollins…or when you read Toni Morrison — living Orishas who carry on a tradition whose true genius lies in making forms & notions as abstract, complex, & philosophical as soul, jazz…seem so deeply & universally felt.”

— Greg Tate

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Four poems by Toni Morrison

[Harmony Holiday @Harmony_Holiday]

The golden era jazz musicians were better organizers than all the pseudo militants in all the land in that they came together in practice rather than theory and made a revolutionary sound grammar few will ever learn well enough to speak aloud

[Harmony Holiday @Harmony_Holiday]

Long live Sonny Rollins, my favorite aphorism of his 'my greatest joy is everything.'

[soli @solisolsoli]

The speed of jazz music, 50s-60s, by Francine Winham

[foxygen @foxypiano]

Nathaniel Mackey on clarity & obscurity in black writing.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

It's an aporia bro. It's literally a lacuna. It's an antinomy. It's literally irreducible to any metalanguage. It's ineffable bro. It's literally an impasse for Enlightenment thought

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Turner, The Angel Standing in the Sun

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Michael Snow - Chords, 1974.

[❦. @filmsbratz]

— untitled, ballerina at brooklyn music school, 1992. 🩰⋆𐙚₊˚⊹🦢🎼

📸 by: leroy w. henderson

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

The man who changed the organ forever.

Jimmy Smith, “Walk on the Wild Side” live on Jazz Scene USA, 1962. The Hammond B-3 in the hands of a master.

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Kansas, April 29, 1896

[In Search of Tossed Lime @BenPapsun]

@synekura_audio @HermanoMotheo This confluence of thinkers is amazing. Does anyone know to what source Baraka is referring when he quotes “What is to become of us”?

[Namwali @namwalien]

And maybe my favorite quote from Morrison about difficulty, from the opening remarks to a ribbon cutting for a center being named the black jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams: /8

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

The Washington Post, June 23, 1912

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

59 years ago today, John Coltrane recorded “The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording”

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large. https://t.co/gdJqjjtj11

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Extraordinary, instantly canonical new albums of previously unreleased live recordings by Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, and Joe Henderson, now available thanks to Zev Feldman, @ResonanceJazz, and Elemental Music: https://t.co/g6hZhGo1S2

[nature @Nature]

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests

https://t.co/SiIxVgJRZ7