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Stritch Manzello
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Music lover for whom sound causes intense pain, so I don’t listen very often. Spend most of my day reading old crime novels.
No politics, sports or doom!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MISS LEE MORSE!!
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#Music
#MusicSky
#SongBird
#LeeMorse
#November30
#78rpm
#JazzAge
Lee Morse - I've Got Five Dollars 1931
YouTube video by warholsoup100
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November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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It’s the wonderful Lee Morse's birthday 🎂
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November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Christine And The Stackyard Stompers Present Sphinx (1999)

This is really great, but unfortunately only the first 14 tracks are playable. It looks like sunlight has bleached out the recording surface! I’ve never known this before, I don’t think it being a CDr helped.

JazzSky

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November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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John Coltrane, Charlie Rouse, Ben Riley, Thelonious Monk and Reggie Workman (out of shot) at Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1967. Photo by Leni Sinclair
November 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Happy B'Day Nov 30 to Robert Nighthawk legendary blues slide guitar virtuoso (1909-1967)!
Live on Maxwell Street youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Bricks In My Pillow youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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#Blues #bluesmusic #slideguitar #bluessinger #earlhooker
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Happy B'Day Nov 30 to Brownie McGhee blues legend famed for work w/ Sonny Terry (1915-1996)!
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Born & Livin’ With The Blues
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#Blues #bluesmusic #bluesguitar #bluessinger
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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These guys were just incredible 👍😎

The Mills Brothers - 1931-1934

On their own and with Bing, Duke, Cab, The Boswell Sisters and Dick Powell. They took vocal harmony to new levels!

#NowPlaying #Jazz #VocalGroup
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November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Mrs Crevatte: Have you been having models up here? Have there been naked women in my establishment?

Tony: Of course not, I can't afford 30 bob an hour. I did that from memory. That is women as I see 'em.

Mrs C: You poor man! Fancy knocking around with women like that!
#TheRebel
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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If you're gonna go through life with a nickname like "Peanuts," best come prepared. Johnny Ancil Wilson (November 29, 1935 - September 24, 1980) brought a cast iron arm.
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Cast Iron Arm
YouTube video by Johnny Peanuts Wilson - Topic
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November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC!
NOVEMBER 29TH…

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#OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #1930s #78rpm #OldMusic #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #1920s #November29 #November29th #GayDivorcee #FredAstaire #ColePorter
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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"I'd rather hear somebody who gets there. I don't see any point in murdering nice tunes. I don't think there's any point in it at all. It's sort of Dada-come-lately. Sort of destroying things for the sake of it."

Happy Birthday Tony Coe
born 29 November 1934
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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"I firmly believe that in fact the more we mix together the better the world is going to be instead of isolating ourselves in factions and so forth and I've had that belief from the very beginning."

Happy Birthday Coleridge Goode
born 29 November 1914
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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NOVEMBER 28TH
Happy Birthday Harry Carroll!
(November 28, 1892 – December 26, 1962)

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#OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #JugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #Vaudeville #1920s
NOVEMBER 28TH
Happy Birthday Harry Carroll!
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November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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"Gigi Gryce was a real warrior, but he dealt with a lot of racism. He tried to get all of us to protect our music, but the establishment didn't want to deal with that." - Randy Weston

Happy Birthday Gigi Gryce
born November 28, 1925
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Al Jackson, Jr (born today in 1935) was one of session giants at Stax Records in Memphis. In addition, Jackson’s drumming was the backbone of Booker T. & the M.G.’s. Everyone – from Elvis to Al Green to Aretha Franklin to Bill Withers – wanted him on their record. Jackson tragically passed in 1975.
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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NOVEMBER 27TH...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE SOUTH!
(November 27, 1904 – April 25, 1962)

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#November27 #November27TH #EddieSouth #GypsyJazz #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #EarlyBlues #Ragtime #78rpm #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #JAZZ #JazzViolin
NOVEMBER 27TH
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDDIE SOUTH!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Art Taylor - Photo by Gerard Futrick
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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"I am rooted in traditional music but I'm also interested in tomorrow's music. I want to speak to everyone on the planet. That’s what I would relay to the people. But, I think it’s an unspoken thing because that idea gets relayed through the music anyway."

Happy Birthday Wilber Morris
Nov 27, 1937
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Arnie Lawrence, Howard McGhee and Cecil Payne - New York City, 1982. Photo by David D. Spitzer
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Random Early Popular Records.

Going back a whopping 98 years, here’s the ever-lovely Annette Hanshaw - Under The Moon (10” 78 rpm, 1927).

Super fun vintage clip of folks dancing & just being happy…because we can all use a little extra happy in our lives these days!

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Great Old 1930's Song
YouTube video by Terry C
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November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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This is fantastic 👍😎

Linger A While With - Tierra Buena Jazz Band (2004)

Formed in Coventry in 1958, the Tierra Buena Jazz Band is still going today!

Marvellous stuff!

#NowPlaying #Jazz #UKjazz #TradJazz
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November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Harold Burrage - You Eat Too Much (1956)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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NOVEMBER 26TH
HAPPY BIRTHDAY “KANSAS CITY FRANK" MELROSE!
(November 26, 1907 – September 1, 1941)

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#StridePiano #November26 #November26th #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm #TinPanAlley #HotJazz #ClassicJazz #Music #JAZZ
NOVEMBER 26TH
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK MELROSE!
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November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Easing into the day with…

The Ruby Braff / George Barnes Quartet - To Fred Astaire With Love (1975)

Absolutely magical 👍😎

#NowPlaying #Jazz #Vinyl
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November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Kenny Wheeler with the Anthony Braxton Quartet at Montreux, 1975. Photo by Harry Monty
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM