Applications open! 📚 Covert Talent Development Programme returns for 2025–26, supporting 12 Black, Asian & ethnically diverse/BPOC writers with workshops, mentoring, + publication in Covert 6. Deadline: 15 Dec, 9am Theme: Water/Water in People's Lives💧 writingourlegacy.org.uk/whatwedo/cover…

A rare musical reunion: Miles Davis revisiting Gil Evans’ arrangements, guided by Quincy Jones at Montreux.

Start your day with a groove, it’s the easiest way to lift your spirit.

Thanksgiving is here… I'm taking a moment today to reflect on the things in life I'm grateful for, and I encourage you all to do the same. Sending my warmest wishes in this holiday season, -Maestro

Fun fact: “Birth of the Cool” waited 7 years in the vault because the label said it was “too soft”. Then it changed jazz forever.

Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle An inner-city dispatch on a community drinking itself to death, set to a jazz-funk groove so irresistible that the message can easily be missed. Reggae Sunsplash. 1983.

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the

I've been reading and loving William Blake for close to 30yrs. Happy Birthday, Genius, Mystic, Madman, Poet #BlakeFriday

This album is pure perfection

‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’ Tom Stoppard 1937 - 2025

We're recommending a book & a campaign to materially support (bookstore, library, writer) every day of #ReadPalestine Week. Day 2: Cannot resist this all-time favorite, a collection of conversations with Mahmoud Darwish. A book for reading & re-reading and hanging around with.

Album of the day. Universally lauded as one of the all-time best bassists the world has ever known, Jaco Pastorius’ 1976 self-titled debut marked the formal arrival of a singular virtuoso and composer who redefined the fretless electric bass forever. Having honed his chops with

Love's Holiday • Earth Wind & Fire [1977]

Jenny Mitchell's poems are 'a spiritual parchment of pain that transforms into a wild dance of hope' - rmcfarlane63 . Hear for yourself as I share poems from my 3 collections on West Wilts Radio. Many thanks to Dawn Gorman. westwiltsradio.com/shows/the-poet…

How many people could even conceive of doing THIS, let alone then do it and pull it off so brilliantly - on a primetime, mainstream TV show. ORSON WELLES transforms himself - full costume hair & make-up - into ‘Falstaff’ on THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW in 1968.

Covert Literary Magazine Issue 5 cover artist, Tireni Adeniji, shares the meaning behind the stunning painting for our latest issue, Rest Yourself, co-edited by Akila M. Richards and Sea Sharp (Sea Sharp ) 🎨✨ 📚Buy your copy now from £13 + postage writingourlegacy.org.uk/product/covert…

Louis ‘Thunder Thumbs’ Johnson hitting the bass like a force of nature.

Harold Nicholas performs in the 1944 film “Carolina Blues”. Harold Nicholas. One half of the legendary Nicholas Brothers - who showcased pyrotechnic displays of a pure technique rooted in their affecting personalities and likability which gave their dancing a personable quality.

"As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation — and here's a look at the closing stocks..." Gil-Scott Heron’s “‘B’ Movie” — live at the Wax Museum nightclub in DC, 1982. #GilScottHeron #Reflections #JazzIsDead

🥁Thrilled to share our 2026 #poetry list. Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news Including books by Jennifer Wong (she/her) Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 Daniel Sluman rmcfarlane63 & Mary Mulholland