'Start being the director, actor, producer of the movie of your own life. This is a challenge. I believe that life is the ultimate adventure. The single moment is the DNA of eternity. Nothing will be destroyed.' - Wayne Shorter

#jazz #Destiny

Taking this for a spin soon WBGO
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Life moves at a frantic pace. Here today, gone tomorrow. Taking a moment to give thanks for all that is good. That includes the music and you the members who make @wbgo possible. If you are going through a tough time - hold on and have faith. We got this.

'There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where #jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.'-
Cannonball Adderley

“Where’s #jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”― Thelonious Monk

My family was deeply religious+music was 1 of the ways we prayed+worshipped..Music is still part of my spiritual life.Sometimes I sing my prayers.When I get audiences singing,I hope I’m helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.- bobby mcferrin ahead @wbgo #jazz

I came up in St Louis w/Julius Hemphill, Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake+Phillip Wilson...I love sounds+colors+using everything available in the service of the music. If U just concentrate on notes per se,music can become kinda like typing.-DavidSanborn remembering Sanborn @wbgo #jazz

“Music is about joy. The purpose of music is to achieve a levitation or a trance which is the existence beyond the normal existence.”- Cecil Taylor

'What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do ## #jazz , blues, countrymusic and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.' - RAY CHARLES-
in flight now WBGO

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“Music is my journey. It’s the most beautiful thing that exists in my soul.” - Milton Bituca Nascimento

Four for the score...on the way @wbgo!

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Every #Saturdaynight we let the music be our guide in our PASSPORT feature @wbgo. No matter where U are in the world we are one in the music. Tonight we land in #Brazil w/Milton Bituca Nascimento, Claudio Roditi +Duduka Da Fonseca.

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The first instrument is front and center in my opening set tonight @wbgo... Lizz Wright with Angelique Kidjo AND Take 6 lead us into
#RhythmAndSongWeekend

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'It's meaningful if people hear the music+get some beautiful feelings from it, or inner emotional release..If your ideas mean something to you, you should be able to communicate them.'-McCoy Tyner (Pic: w/John Coltrane)

McCoy pays homage to Trane in my opening set WBGO
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'I’m always talking about using my horn like a machine gun, but not to kill anybody. I want to shoot them with notes of love. I want them to laugh. I want to give them something positive.'-Johnny Griffin

It's all love tonight @wbgo. Join me starting 6pmEST (Griff, Trane+Mobley)

Morning Prayer...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Jackie McLean but today and all days are right to celebrate Jackie. My Dad loved this song.

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Morning Prayer...

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'Giant Steps' recorded May 4th and 5th, 1959.

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'Compose+perform your music free of egotism+with a conscious desire to gratify the listener…Think of yourself as a channel through which the Divine strives to uplift mankind..Become aware of the good that you can do through your talents.'- HORACE SILVER-ahead WBGO
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Going for a spin soon @wbgo with Sonny Stitt...

'We all have our own way of playing. U can’t tell somebody how to live, how to play, or how to feel….I’m going to have a free mind. How are U going to play if you can’t be free?' - Sonny Stitt

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'You see, after all these years, the piano and I have really become friends. I can truthfully say I have a friend there. It's like an arm or a leg, part of me. I can use it for almost total expression.'- McCoy Tyner expresses something beautiful ahead WBGO
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