gravity-burst.

herbie hancock. (via douglasmartini)

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Anonymous asked: no offense but how do you know so much about jazz music?

first of all, yes offense if the reason why you ask this is for the reason i think it is.

but onto the next.

the thing is, in observation i really don’t know much. while some of my friends grew up with the genre, i hadn’t. i was raised in a stylistics-platters-beatles-bee gees-carpenters-mamas and the papas environment.

growing up, i only knew of jazz in the smooth jazz state. i took notice of other forms based on favorite hip-hop artists and middle school into high school i took a real study to it (hardest shit to replicate though!). in college i removed myself from music programs (a decision i feel in retrospect was half out of time constraints / not getting into music school and then half downright stupidity) however most of the electives i took were jazz related (if you go to depaul and are curious of which professors to take, hit me up). nowadays the jazz references i hear of are from my bf’s dad who was a lounge singer in nyc in the 60s, i believe (correct the year if i’m wrong, kent).

it’s a learning process for me, as with everything else. 

dexter gordon at the royal roost, new york city (1948) by herman leonard.

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includes: 9 tracks
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new esperanza spalding, y’all.

file size: 140.87 MB
includes: 12 tracks
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