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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 1d

Take 2

Define jazz?

Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...

Blakey was born 10/11/19

Tell It Like It Is

YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 1d

Take 1

Define jazz?

Sure: Billy Higgins' cymbal beat. youtube.com/watch?v=FkuG...

Higgins was born 10/11/36

Soy Califa (2005 Digital Remaster)

YouTube video by Dexter Gordon - Topic

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 1d

Take 2

Define jazz?

Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...

Blakey was born 10/11/19

Tell It Like It Is

YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic

youtube.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 1d

Take 1

Define jazz?

Sure: Billy Higgins' cymbal beat. youtube.com/watch?v=FkuG...

Higgins was born 10/11/36

Soy Califa (2005 Digital Remaster)

YouTube video by Dexter Gordon - Topic

youtube.com

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 2d

Thanks to Richard Sandomir and the @nytimes.com for this obituary for Jim McNeely. I am glad to see his life and music commemorated in the paper of record.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/a...

Jim McNeely, Innovative Composer for Jazz Big Bands, Dies at 76

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 5d

The Boss

One of Sonny Rollins' finest late-period recordings was mostly made 30 years ago today, Oct. 7, 1995. With Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, and Al Foster. This is my favorite track. To play like Sonny, you've got to think like Sonny, and, well, good luck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFo...

I've Never Been In Love Before

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins - Topic

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 15d

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"A word must first be said about the booklet. While Mosaic sets are known for their exemplary liner notes, Mark Stryker raises the stakes with a 10,000-word Sanders primer. Yes, we get all of the requisite biography and sociohistorical context ...

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 15d

"... but, helpfully, Stryker first elucidates the sonic vocabularies forging the Sanders sound ..."

--Marc Medwin, New York City Jazz Record

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 15d

🧵Advertisements for Myself

"A word must first be said about the booklet. While Mosaic sets are known for their exemplary liner notes, Mark Stryker raises the stakes with a 10,000-word Sanders primer. Yes, we get all of the requisite biography and sociohistorical context ...

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 15d

could it violate violence
Bud, like Leadbelly's
chaingang chuckle,
the candied yam
twelve string clutch
of all blues:
there's no rain
anywhere, soft
enough for you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QW...

Dusk In Sandi

YouTube video by Bud Powell - Topic

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 15d

Bud Powell (b. 9/27/24; d. July 31, 1966)

"For Bud,” by Michael Harper

Could it be, Bud
that in the slow galvanized
fingers beauty steeped
into bop liked Bird
weed and Dizzy clowned --
Sugar waltzing
back into dynamite,
sweetest left hook
you ever dug, baby;

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 21d

Awake at 4 a.m. in a Hotel Room

Awake. 4 a.m. Hotel Room

4 a.m. Awake. Hotel Room

a.mz

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 27d

Excellent piece by ⁦Beverly Gage‬⁩ about Richard Hofstadter's landmark book published the year I was born (1963) and which I first read as an undergraduate history major two decades later. It remains as relevant today as the day it rolled off the press. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

The American University Is in Crisis. Not for the First Time.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 27d

Excellent piece by ⁦Beverly Gage‬⁩ about Richard Hofstadter's landmark book published the year I was born (1963) and which I first read as an undergraduate history major two decades later. It remains as relevant today as the day it rolled off the press. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

The American University Is in Crisis. Not for the First Time.

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 28d

Discogs says there's one additional LP. www.discogs.com/release/1152...

Teddy Tanaka - Across The Pacific

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of "Across The Pacific" on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 28d

Do you ever see this? @natechinen.bsky.social's father. I've never seen it in the wild. www.discogs.com/master/21854...

Teddy Tanaka - Mr. Happiness

Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Mr. Happiness by Teddy Tanaka. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 29d

Happy bday to tenor saxophonist Chu Berry, b. 9/13/08. A tragedy he was just 33 when he died in 1941. He delivered sly, expressive improvisations with a sound of soulful a virility, his phrases bursting w/fresh melody, prescient harmony & rhythmic surprise. A master. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHC...

Chu Berry & Cab Calloway Orchestra. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You. 1940

YouTube video by Miles Dewey

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 10

A heavyweight prize fight in Detroit in 1960. The Gold Room at the 20 Grand was a ballroom that could hold about 1,200. The $2 advance ticket would cost $22 today, the $2.50 at the door translates to $27.50. #JazzFromDetroit

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patrick crouch @dirtysabot.bsky.social · Sep 9

highly underrated record - love the title track in particular, Gene still has copies of this record for sale on his website.

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 9

#JazzFromDetroit

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy birthday to one of my greatest heroes, Elvin Jones, b. 9/9/27. Here's Jan Hammer's "Thorn of a White Rose" from one of Elvin's best records as a leader: ELVIN JONES IS ON THE MOUNTAIN (1975). Hammer on keyboards, Gene Perla on bass.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q65x...

Thorn of a White Rose

YouTube video by Elvin Jones - Topic

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Sep 8

a really wonderfully considered piece from @nymag.com.

cultural criticism is the heartbeat of american cultural production and its history. the form gives tangibility to how we remember and how critique brings us to a place of societal betterment…. there is no life worth living without it.

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?

The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.

nymag.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 9

ICYMI

Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fate

It knocks me out every September when I am reminded that Sonny Rollins was born on 9/7, Wilbur Ware was born on 9/8, and Elvin Jones was born on 9/9. As a trio, they made my all-time favorite recording in 1957, “A Night at the Village Vanguard.”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Upsi...

Sonny Rollins Trio at the Village Vanguard - Old Devil Moon

YouTube video by 60otaku4

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · Sep 8

share Mark's view that this is perhaps the greatest jazz recording, a pinnacle of 20th century art. and celebrate the miracle that SR is still with us 🙏

Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fate

It knocks me out every September when I am reminded that Sonny Rollins was born on 9/7, Wilbur Ware was born on 9/8, and Elvin Jones was born on 9/9. As a trio, they made my all-time favorite recording in 1957, “A Night at the Village Vanguard.”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Upsi...

Sonny Rollins Trio at the Village Vanguard - Old Devil Moon

YouTube video by 60otaku4

m.youtube.com

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fate

It knocks me out every September when I am reminded that Sonny Rollins was born on 9/7, Wilbur Ware was born on 9/8, and Elvin Jones was born on 9/9. As a trio, they made my all-time favorite recording in 1957, “A Night at the Village Vanguard.”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Upsi...

Sonny Rollins Trio at the Village Vanguard - Old Devil Moon

YouTube video by 60otaku4

m.youtube.com

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