This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/boyc…

B.B. King Kool Jazz Festival, circa 1976. Photo by David Redfern/Redferns

Wayne Shorter #Jazz #JazzSketches #WayneShorter

“Do you know what perjury is?”

A crucial policy of the Trump administration remains, and that is Cuba’s presence on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. It is critical to Cuba’s ability to pursue economic, trade and humanitarian activities that it be removed immediately from the list codepink.org/cuba-no-terror…

Frank Wess #Jazz #JazzSketches #FrankWess

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Sarah Vaughan Denis Williams photos

Reactionaries love to create fantastical stories to titillate they're own sexual repression and blame it on marginalized communities but when it comes to action on actual kids getting blown to bits in schools they sit in their hands. Pure cowardice.

Memphis Sanitation Workers On Strike against Republic Services after a co-worker was crushed in a vehicle. Teamsters Local 667 Union members demand #SafetyOverProfit.

Cleo Silvers-Painter Memphis & West TN CLC Teamsters Tennessee AFL-CIO MLK50: Justice Through Journalism MLK literally died supporting Memphis santitation workers. The National media and their corporate bosses loves giving him empty platitudes on holidays but fail to raise the profile of these folks trying to improve working conditions for over 50 years!! 😡

“Lacrosse is the greatest sport ever invented by mankind.” - Jim Brown 🙏💛

Trumpeter Louis Smith Born in Memphis on May 20, 1931. photos: Francis Wolff/Mosaic Image / Louis Smith, Charlie Rouse, and Sonny Clark, Album “Smithville” Session in 1958. youtu.be/tHT56qY-SO4 YouTube

Memphis musician who is barely mentioned locally or anywhere for that matter. I try and correct that periodically on my and my radio partner John Buford's WYXR 91.7 FM — Raised By Sound show Let's Get Lost Wednesdays at 10amCST. Stream us at Wyxr.org.

Richard Pryor talks about why media executives censored his shows, to blunt his message of working class unity, and how maintaining racism to keep people divided is intrinsic to capitalism

Monk still confusing the jive over 50 years later. God bless this man.

Not one shoe.

Country musicians are like “Y’all, there’s two things I can’t stand. Socialism, and the exploitation of my labor by the bourgeoisie.”