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Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood

I remember once, when I was a kid, hearing Johnny Winter singing “Tired of Tryin’ ” with Muddy Waters on guitar, on the Nothin’ but the Blues album, and hearing him sing and liking what I heard and then looking at a picture of him on the album and double-taking, maybe triple-taking, and then wondering what it meant to be black (or white, or albino)
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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music


Derek Sivers
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A London-based DJ, artist manager, and co-founder of the iconic record label, Butterz, the prolific figure writes daily on sustainable artistic creation, electronic music, grime and rap, web3, community, social media, and his other curiosities in short notes, known as the ‘Yellow Squares’ on Instagram and Twitter. The format is simple but effective... See more