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Ex-British Army. Mountain bike. Nature. Animal welfare before food. Forestry maintenance. Modern Jazz. A bit of 🎹. Adrift in the outskirts of philosophical coherence. Francophile. Aspiring socialist. 📷 🏏 🏉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 (🖕Trump⛔️)

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · May 19

Old Comrades…
Before ‘veterans’ became a thing.
Active service.

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 6h

She's a lady, she's got time/
Brush back your hair and let me get to know your face/
She's a lady, she is mine/
Oh, brush back your hair and let me get to know your flesh
— Peter Gabriel, Genesis, 1973

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

Photo of a white pillow with the head and shoulders of a sleeping woman sewn into the fabric

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 6h

OG. Right there.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 6h

That’s a What’s-happening-to-me-now? vibe.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 7h

Lennie Tristano live in a club. The drum and bass original gangster.

@rickmclaughlin.com :)

#jazzsky

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 7h

Is there a picture there?

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 7h

ChatGPT reverts to Eliza #GOFAI #AI

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a shame.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 7h

We believe in welfare, not warfare. Do you? Join us at yourparty.uk

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 7h

I like jazz.
I like classical.
I like prog.
So:
Don’t make me like punk!!!
For goodness sake let’s at least have some decorum!

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Bryan Godbe @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 19h

“The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 7h

It no longer registers on iTunes. It was a massive find for Lennie/Lee/Warne fans. Also rare recording of Willie Dennis’ technique, almost like a valve trombone. Dave Franks gave me the nod and I downloaded. Wanted to share a song when I realised it was no longer available.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 8h

Jeez. Hegseth double take.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 8h

Big Leggy !

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 8h

#LeeKonitz’ Rewrite over Jerome Kern’s classic ‘All The Things You Are’. From the 17th measure Konitz’ composition modulates from Ab to D to close.

#jazzsky #botd

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Thing'in (feat. Oliver Strauch Group & Peter Decker) par Lee Konitz sur Apple Music

Morceau · 1996 · Durée 7:46

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 8h

I bought on iTunes Lennie sextet (Willie Dennis) in Chicago 1951. Absolute dynamite. But subsequently the record company has withdrawn the album except Sax of Kind and Palo Alto. Really angry. Don’t know where the fault lies. But someone’s mucking about with history.

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

‘Sound Lee’, based on
‘Too Marvellous for Words’.

My choice for #LeeKonitz’ birthday.

It portends so much but was serenely beautiful and avant-garde in 1949.

Thanks to @rickmclaughlin.com for the reminder.

#jazzsky

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Sound - Lee par Lee Konitz sur Apple Music

Morceau · 1951 · Durée 4:04

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

#LeeKonitz #botd Without whom…

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

Remarkable. Like you say so much work. I tend to return to 1949 with Sal Mosca (‘Hi Beck’ is simply outstanding). Then the European tour with Warne, 1975-76. Lee and Warne were peerless.

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Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com · 9h

Happy birthday, Lee Konitz! Too many incredible performances of his to mention so here’s one that is taking on new meaning as I get ready for the George Russell concert on Nov 9.
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky #happybirthday

youtu.be/w0TDLzs78yI?...

Ezz-thetic

YouTube video by Lee Konitz - Topic

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ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

I think I may constitute the transcendental proof of dancing.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

More difficult since my day. We just had to eat the crayon and kill the fucking enemy.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

Magnificent song.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

I’m regressing.

ralphbrooker.bsky.social @ralphbrooker.bsky.social · 9h

Footage of some of the treatment meted out to Nazi camp guards by allied liberators. Noem, Hegseth, Miller, Johnson, Trump, et al. They deserve no better when and if liberation comes.