A #flashbackfriday today to 1948, when Mary Lou Williams hosted a jam session with some female contemporaries in her NYC apartment. Vivien Garry: bass Bridget O'Flynn: drums Mary Osborne: guitar Margie Hyams: vibraphonist & of course, Mary Lou Williams on piano. What a group!

I don’t think any songwriter was better covered than Kris Kristofferson. Sit tibi terra levis, Magister Celestis. m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2dEwY…

Now this is intriguing!

Despite what politics suggests, human knowledge continues to advance. For instance, since this was published an 1878 reference to the Bamboo has been found, identifying it as a standard drink in the European settlements in East Asia.

This is how so many parts of day to day life have changed in the last couple of generations. A whole lot of low-level quirkiness has been polyurethaned over.

Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 59 contr David Wondrich Bank Exchange during the 1850s and 60s, the first stop on San Francisco’s cocktail route, main foci of the sporty, social life of the city; later from the 1890s to Prohibition the home of Pisco Punch.

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49 years ago. Oct. 11, 1975. The very first episode of SNL goes live with host George Carlin and musical guests Billy Preston & Janis Ian. The show introduces itself to the world with the sketch "Wolverines", starring John Belushi and Michael O'Donoghue.

Sunday afternoon spin. Two guitars, one drum machine, no vocals. Lotsa pedals. NYC 1981.

Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Born from a resistance to the Soviet Dry Law, homemade moonshine has become a tradition in Ukraine. Nastia visited her grandma to make moonshine with her and learn her family's unique recipe for moonshine made from jam.

Good morning everyone it's Trafalgar Day! It is the 219th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. At 8am the morning colours are to be raised on HMS Victory followed by the famous 'England Expects' Trafalgar signal. #trafalgarday

Everything from the Mothers and Nico (presumably with the Velvet Underground) to Sun Ra to the folk-song stylings of Uncle Junior Soprano. Got-damn this city was something.

Fuckin’ A!

Cette vidéo marchera toujours.