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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3h

all-time banger:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxHo...

No Shit

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3h

Verifying connection

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3h

The same was true for big dictionaries (Webster's big one lost money; it was the abridgements that sold).

The Balbus Catholicon is thought to have been printed by Gutenberg, but in doubt? 1460.

TT 442: Brief Overview: Thelonious Monk on Record

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Bird Lives @birdlives1.bsky.social · 23h

#jazzsky

Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday to Sphere. All the jazz greats knew what they were doing, but Thelonious Monk REALLY knew what he was doing. It was Precise. iverson.substack.com/p/tt-442-bri...

October 10 is Sphere's Birthday

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in Stockholm those nights, hope to hear you!

Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 1d

Are you playing anywhere next week?

Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk from 'Brilliant Corners'

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Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com · 1d

1/Happy birthday, Thelonious Monk! Obviously, his compositions and performances are awesome and iconic, but I also love the music of people who have taken inspiration from him. Take “Brilliant Corners, for example…
#music #musicsky #jazzsky #jazzmusic #happybirthday

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YouTube video by Thelonious Monk

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 1d

i disconnected mine, it only made me jump out of my skin

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

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Robert Beauchamp @robertmtl.bsky.social · 1d

La Tour infinie des Livres » est une œuvre d'art public situé à la Bibliothèque municipale de Prague.

L'œuvre de l'artiste slovaque Matej Krén s'appelle « Idiome ». Elle est composée de plus de 8 000 livres, empilés dans une colonne creuse avec des miroirs en haut et en bas.

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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 2d

Every other town in Massachusetts.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 2d

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 2d

If I had a bunch of beads and one of them was considerably older than the others, I would call it the venerable bead

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

I often tell students that one of the major differences between modernity and pre-modernity is that pre-modernity regarded "innovation" as a very bad thing.

Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 3d

The Innovation Illusion: Most of what’s worth knowing in education isn’t new, and most of what’s new isn’t worth knowing.

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the centennial of Alvin Stoller, maybe the best drummer you've never heard of. First choice for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Oscar Peterson, Stan Freberg, and nearly every record made in LA in the 1950s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXC...

Frank Sinatra With Billy May And His Orchestra – Come Dance With Me!

YouTube video by RetroGrafix

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

That is exactly right! And I know that listeners expect perfection (& announcers need to know how to pronouce Saint-Saëns & von Dohnányi and the like).

I am second to no one in my appreciation of Terry Gross, but the two times she interviewed M-W editors, she clearly expected harsh prescriptions.

Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

And yes, @npr.org stations play this music...no one else does.

As a culture, we pay lip service to the importance of Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald or Miles Davis...but who actually PLAYS THIS MUSIC ON THE AIR?

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

A sampling of what I was spinning @nepublicmedia.bsky.social tonight, all Alvin Stoller sessions.

YouTube video by Oscar Peterson - Topic

Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

Here's Alvin Stoller on brushes with Oscar Peterson...masterclass in energy and taste.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCS...

Oh, Lady Be Good

Frank Sinatra With Billy May And His Orchestra – Come Dance With Me!

Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

Alvin Stoller replaced Buddy Rich (!) as Tommy Dorsey's drummer, and spent the rest of his career in the studios as "the Buddy Rich who can sight-read."

(Buddy Rich himself never learned to read music.)

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the centennial of Alvin Stoller, maybe the best drummer you've never heard of. First choice for Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Oscar Peterson, Stan Freberg, and nearly every record made in LA in the 1950s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXC...

YouTube video by RetroGrafix