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Peter Shaw

@pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social

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Just the usual.... A mix of many things. Apologies in advance to everyone whom this account may disappoint. You never have to follow me, even if I wish to follow you. Esp with 30 mill+, it's a bit overwhelmin'.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 12h

Brilliant 🤣

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h

A memory from Meryl Streep…
Rest in Paradise Diane🕊️🤍

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

Did you say: I hate bots and fakes generally?

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

Great, I can’t wait to pay $40 for a cheeseburger

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 18h

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

But if it is truly blue, pls seek urgent medical assistance ...

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

IT IS NOT A CRIME

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

And Kenny is an underrecognised spirited talent. A bit like Blue Mitchell, unlucky to have lost out in popular regard because of the new generation of trumpeters springing up from late 1950s (Lee Morgan, Don Byrd, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Nat ... there were quite a number of star young uns)

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

(2) the more I listened to JA, most obviously in his own contexts (with his brother, esp live - also an album with Milt Jackson and another with Bill Evans), the more I got to enjoy his zippy, growling-bluesy, often driving breeziness.

Also his evident affability

Sack O Woe (Live)

YouTube video by Cannonball Adderley - Topic

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 6h

First I heard of Cannonball was alongside Trane. Not so impressed, he seemed - well, a bit stuck in bebop, a bit superficially cheery, compared against Trane's originality (even 1958-9), that deep-soulful hollering-cry sonority of his ... >2

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Mais ... que saije, moi?

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe just river gods, ... or "green men"?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man

Green Man - Wikipedia

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Jacek Brun @jazzfunde.bsky.social · 12h

Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith
Angel Falls
Das Mysterium des gemeinsamen Atems
www.jazz-fun.de/sylvie-courv...

jazz-fun.de Magazin für Jazz Musik

Online Magazin für Jazz Musik

www.jazz-fun.de

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Definitely not among the Calvadon'ts ...

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Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social · 11h

I'm virtually joining my very good friend @richienb.bsky.social in a glass of Calvados.

The week we have #WorldCalvadosDay and it would be remiss of me not to mark this important date in the calendar...

This is the label on the bottle of my 20 year old, double distilled Calvados. You can just make out the glass on the right of the photo.

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

And a notoriously hard taskmaster!

(Though some would say they all deserved it! :D - notice it is towards trumpeters both times. Maybe he too thought none matched Brownie?)

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

And OP was proud of that title - to play music that people liked to hear. Not to play to the gallery for lucre (as some musicians are tempted to do - the worst do so from Day 1!), but to give as well as enjoy pleasure in music & life. He seemed a cheerful spirit, in spite of the bad (e.g. bigotry).

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

I've been fond of Bobo for ages! A top recommendation, I say! :D

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Sad news. And a memento mori too... her being such a vital, animated spark and amiable flibbertigibbet on screen (and it seems, in real life too), makes that jolt of mortality the sharper.

Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Hah! SPRING is an upcoming "theme", if I get to it!

My queries about Blue Spring (obvious album for the theme): is it inot a bit over-arranged?; is Amram's horn not a bit clumsy in places? Clearly, some tracks are more lucid, less dense than others: where Kenny & Cannon shine through, is best.

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Set up a Cross-Pacific Contraband Goods Transport Cell.

I jest, but the issue is serious, and symptomatic of the general ills and abuses when corrupt regimes are allowed to rule uncrushed.

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Well, that would be a new spur, to add to the many existing ones.

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

Probably part of what the Trump regime intend.

Destroy all divergence from pabula & gruel for the subject plebs.

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 7h

We need to have a serious discussion about how the price of used CDs has jumped lately and how Trump tariffs are decimating the Japanese Blue Note CD market. You know? The important stuff.

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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 7h

"Another woke lefty lib centrist commie blob melt moan ..."