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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 53m

This is wild. I’ve never heard this story before.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1h

Government by idiots.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1h

These mercenaries jumped at the opportunity to bully POC, period. They serve no one but Stephen Miller.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, merit rears its ugly head.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 7h

Connections
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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 8h

Wordle 1,575 4/6

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 12h

They need to expand the picture to show the terrifying man in a chicken suit. Terrifying, I say!!!

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 12h

It never fails to amaze me how that bloated, junk food gorging toad always manages to be healthier than anyone else in the same situation. It’s almost as if his doctors are lying…

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

He’s like if someone filled a NASCAR hat with the contents of a dirty ashtray, poured in some off-brand schnapps then took a big, steamy shit in it.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Now do X-tians

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Government by people who pleasure themselves while reading ‘1984’

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hadn’t realized we reached the Fascist Leader Talking In An Endless Loop At Sites Of Mass Transit stage of the dystopia.

Good to know.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Brick pic

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Senile, lying or stuck inside a disinformation bubble with other liars? None of these are good options.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

These guys need to go first. Got more than a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Shut the fuck up, keep your head down or it goes in the basket.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

techcrunch.com

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody invoke the Snatch Act

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like he smells bad.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Guys that fantasize about tossing Rosa Parks to the floor of the bus.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, sure…

Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

“I call it…”. Fuckin’ dingdong

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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone is still questioning the crucial importance of public television in the wake of the current regime’s attack on the arts, the King Records documentary premieres tonight.
www.pbs.org/show/king-of...

King of Them All: The Story of King Records

The untold story of King Records, the underdog label that transformed American music and culture.

www.pbs.org

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Connections
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Hipster alert: among the many unrelated clues in today’s puzzle were the words BIG STAR THIRD SISTER LOVERS

Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Moraz was a perennial replacement.

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Me neither

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Funky16Corners @funky16corners.bsky.social · 1d

Denny died in 2023

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