Category: Black creative artists

Al Jarreau – Take Five.

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© 1976 Live German Television

Piano/Rhodes – Tom Canning

Bass – Jerome Rimson

Drums – Nigel Wilkinson

© 1959 Take Five, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Out:

Piano – Dave Brubeck

Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond

Bass – Eugene Wright

Drums – Joe Morello

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My Favourite Things.

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John Coltrane Quartet, 1965, Belgium

Nothing finer…  Merry Christmas.  Happy holidays and thanks for your continued patronage.  I love you more…

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Do Nothing ‘Till You Hear From Me!

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© 1994 Lena Horne music by Duke Ellington & Sidney Russell

The first time I heard this music, I was arrested by the opening chords as I stood still in the middle of my living room on the third/top storey of 878 Gilford Street in Vancouver’s West End.  At the end of Lena Horne’s passionate singing, I screamed and laughed uncontrollably with tears running down my face.

I had been standing half naked before getting ready for work and decided that the experience was too great to do something so ridiculously banal as go in to work that day.  Naturally, I had been standing with tape recorder in hand – after having just recorded the dreams dreamt.  Quickly, I grabbed a new cassette and recorded the newly released song from the CBC FM radio station as Ross Porter had waxed on long enough about the new Lena Horne Jazz recording for me to have pounced into action.

I spent the rest of my stay in Vancouver listening to this recording at least four times weekly.

This is the music that let’s you leap off into truly sublime dream experiences.

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Happy 90th Anniversary James Baldwin.

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James Baldwin Art

Watercolour

© 2013 James Gayles

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Born in the year of the Rat and on the same day (August 2) as me, James also happens to be an entity mate.  Though I never met him, Merlin did.  As we drove from actor, Joe Morton’s Upper West Side tiny apartment from his annual Halloween pumpkin kill in 1982 – we were en route to Times Square and Frederick Jones’s where we would first meet, had also met Joe Morton for the first time that night – Merlin spoke lovingly of James Baldwin whom he had met the year prior through a Black American writer friend of Frederick’s whom I never met as he had died in a car crash in July 1982.  James ever will remain one of my favourite writers.  Of course, it goes without saying that whilst he was alive, I dreamt often of James thanks to our being entity mates.

Happy birthday entity mate.  

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Thriller.

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© 1982 Thriller © 1982 Michael J. Jackson © 1982 MJJ Productions Inc. The most glorious human being who imparted his creative genius musically in the 20th century. I love you more Michael. Here’s to the most beautifully realised child-ego state and creative genius! Sweet and blissful dreams, as ever. _____________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2026 Arvin da […]

Scream.

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Scream © 1995 Michael J. Jackson © 1995 MJJ Productions Inc. One of my favourite MJ videos/songs; it perfectly reflects what it is like being focussed in the waking state and being Black and having every little bigoted shitwit projecting their racially predatory shrapnel onto you… Alas, such moments for moi are ever only fleeting […]

Baby, It’s Cold Outside.

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One of the most beautifully phrased duets in the Jazz, if not any, idiom.  Simply exquisite.   Ray Charles & Betty Carter set the standard for the Jazz duet.   _________________________________________ Ray Charlie and Betty Carter © Recorded 1961, Frank Loesser lyricist. Because it really is damn cold out there!   _____________________________________________________________________________ © 2013-2025 Arvin da Brgha.  All […]