jazz
The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
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Born ~1912 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
♪ #nowplaying Ah ya zen - Abd El Rahman El Khatib (Spiritual jazz vol.7 : Islam / Modal esoteric & progressive jazz inspired by Islam 1957 - 1989 - 2016) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
on 05:00:16am Whats playing now?... Reflection Town - Jazz, Blues, Backbeats and Easy Listening.. Now in rotation...The Petal Falls - I Was Amazed Audience: Share passionate, rhythmic and expressive music for disc…
Currently listening to some student work that has shades of EBTG and The Colourfield in terms of jazz coloured pop, so here's one of my fave Colourfield tracks. Everything I learned about being sad I learned from Terr…
No one going to point out that the video shows like allllll men instrumentalists? No one cares that this representation of democracy excludes women? ADD WOMEN TO THE CONSTITUTION. ADD WOMEN TO JAZZ. WOMEN SHOULD MAKE…
Brendon likes the jazz album I gave him
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The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz.
“Ron Everett - Royal Walk [US, Jazz/Soul] (1977) Fairly unknown jazz/soul record, finally repressed by Jazzman Records. https://redd.it/nv50ue https://youtu.be/0-5ktUs5qH4”
— Bluesky· May 2026“10am-12pm: This is not a disco Karl Phillips presents a fortnightly show dedicated to quieter, leftfield leaning new releases and reissues (ambient, experimental, jazz, neo-classical, etc.) randomjukebox.wordpress.com #Ambient #ChillOut #DownTempo #Instrumental #Jazz *⏰CEST”
— Bluesky· May 2026“*interpretive dance* *whispers* "indie games..." *jazz hands* "Yes, this sucks, and Good luck." *mime in a box* "Be the game developer you want to see in the world." *bows*”
— Bluesky· May 2026“14. The Haze’s Query - “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes: Jazz-poetry close, the soul’s suggestion is unnamed, but it is swingin’.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If I get into jazz AND poetry this year, I think that means I’ve officially reached adulthood (?)”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(figurative) , excitement, excitability.
You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudd…
“♪ #nowplaying Ah ya zen - Abd El Rahman El Khatib (Spiritual jazz vol.7 : Islam / Modal esoteric & progressive jazz inspired by Islam 1957 - 1989 - 2016) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip”
— Bluesky· May 2026“on 05:00:16am Whats playing now?... Reflection Town - Jazz, Blues, Backbeats and Easy Listening.. Now in rotation...The Petal Falls - I Was Amazed Audience: Share passionate, rhythmic and expressive music for discovery. 🎧 http://mpgradio.com/rt..”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Currently listening to some student work that has shades of EBTG and The Colourfield in terms of jazz coloured pop, so here's one of my fave Colourfield tracks. Everything I learned about being sad I learned from Terry Hall ; ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeKl...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“No one going to point out that the video shows like allllll men instrumentalists? No one cares that this representation of democracy excludes women? ADD WOMEN TO THE CONSTITUTION. ADD WOMEN TO JAZZ. WOMEN SHOULD MAKE LAWS ABOUT WOMEN. WOMEN’S IMPROV SHOULD BE HEARD.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!
“Brendon likes the jazz album I gave him”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Friedrich Gulda, pianiste qui a influencé nombre d’interprètes, était aussi un compositeur audacieux. Sa liberté l’a mené des grands classiques jusqu’au jazz. Parmi ses disques, aujourd’hui : Beethoven, Debussy, Mozart, Schumann, Schubert… ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/Wfy”
— Bluesky· May 2026“*jazz. But maybe the typo is even better.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“with Jim Baker, Alvin Fielder, Josh Abrams, Douglas Ewart, and birthday boy Kidd Jordan (born on this day in 1935) at Constellation in Chicago in September 2017 for a post Jazz Fest jam session”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Unidentified Subject, Jazz Club Interior, c. 1920s Sepia portrait with flapper adornment Photographer unknown #DragonTuesday”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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