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Ira

@thejazzsoul.bsky.social

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Curating Jazz Music from the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s
•Literary Fiction•Photography-Art
"Jazz has always been the music of protest, equality, and inclusion"
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#JazzSky #Music #BookSky #ArtLover #Photography #BlueCrew #Resist

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Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social · 1d

Billie Holiday

"Blue Moon"

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#Jazz #JazzSky #Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying

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Pete Calandra

@petecalandra.bsky.social

Sunday morning prayer. #stunday #nowplaying #musicsky #musiciansky #piano #composer #onlybeautifulthings

December 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM

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Derek

@thomsirveaux.bsky.social

I can't get started.
No, really. I have zero desire to move or do anything.

#jazzsky

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I Can't Get Started

YouTube video by Lester Young - Topic

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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Rina

@rina2012.bsky.social

The English edition is called "For 28 Days".

A story that makes us ask ourselves: Who am I? And what kind of person do I want to be?
It's not an easy book to read; it makes you feel sad and angry, but it is incredibly intense.
It really got me thinking.
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#BlueBrewBooks #books

Warsaw, 1942. The 16-year old Mira smuggles food in order to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto. When she discovers that the entire Ghetto population is to be deported to concentration camps and murdered there, she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She comes into contact with a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, as it turns out, can hold out longer against the SS than anyone had thought. Much longer. For 28 days. During these 28 days, Mira has to decide where her heart belongs. To Amos, who wants to take as many Nazis into the grave with him as he can? Or to Daniel, who wants to help the orphans in the bunkers? 28 days in which Mira experiences moments of great humanity, betrayal, suffering and happiness. What kind of human being do you want to be?

December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Rina

@rina2012.bsky.social

Happy Sunday and a wonderful 2nd Advent to everyone who celebrates it 🫶

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7

#BNWMacro #ClassicMono #Stunday #MacroMonday #closeup #photography #flowers #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #scape #photohour #bloomscrolling #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

The picture shows a willowherb (Epilobium angustifolium) in winter. The twisted, dried capsules shown are the plant's seed heads. It looks very abstract. The background is blurred (bokeh).

December 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM

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Aleesia

@aleesia27.bsky.social

Cloudy days make the sunshine sweeter.

#Scape #BlueSkyArtShow #sky #clouds

A large cloud hovering over the Thompson River in the Interior of British Columbia. The sky is blue and there are snow capped mountains in the distance. There’s a mirror image on the water beside the sandy beach.

December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM

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𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘

@pierpaolo.bsky.social

December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM

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Glen Dunlap

@glendunlap.bsky.social

Another #sunset shot tonight from 4000 feet above Santa Barbara. #LaCumbrePeak #Photography #SantaBarbara

Sunset with streaky clouds over the Pacific Ocean

December 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM

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Glen Dunlap

@glendunlap.bsky.social

The Moon earlier tonight from #SantaBarbara. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography

December 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Schiff: "I think that all of these strikes are unlawful. They are a form of extrajudicial killing. These boats are not invading the US in an armed assault ... the fact the administration may put a group of organizations on a list doesn't confer on a president the ability to kill them at sea."

December 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Patsy Cline

@chompie97.bsky.social

Tufted Airplant
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#FlowerReport
#Bloomscrolling

December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Nicole

@nb23.bsky.social

#stunday #orangesun

morning sun shining through light fog and trees, rocks peeking through fall rust-colored leaves

December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM

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Jenna Constantine PhD

@kaplanikids.bsky.social

December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM

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Ira

@thejazzsoul.bsky.social

Billie Holiday

"Blue Moon"

youtu.be/y4bZu56EylA?...
#Jazz #JazzSky #Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying

December 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬

@filosia.bsky.social

✨ SUPER SUNDAY PARTY ✨

If only we could get THAT 👇🏼 in writing. He'd be gone quicker than toilet paper in 2020 💩 🤷🏼‍♀️

Good morning 🌞

If we keep connecting, supporting each other & get #StrongerTogether, we WILL overcome this together! 💙🫂

Drop a 💬 and 👣 each other!

🤚🏼 for my tonight's SP?

#resist 👊🏼

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Trump: We never had a president hosting the awards. If I cannot beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, I don't think I should be president.

December 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Bob

@tamarphotography.bsky.social

Hank Mobley, a real musician's musician with a glorious tone from his tenor. He inspired me to learn to play:-). Sadly like so many jazzers died in poverty and homelessness. Mainly because of ethnicity.

@thejazzsoul.bsky.social

#jazz #music

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Recado Bossa Nova (Remastered 2005/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

YouTube video by Hank Mobley - Topic

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December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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Pete Calandra

@petecalandra.bsky.social

Views from Brooklyn last Friday. #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #photography #brooklyn #newyorkcity #eastcoastkin

Early evening View from Dumbo of the Manhattan Bridge. Between 2 stanchions you can see the Empire State Building in Manhattan. The street is cobblestone and there are people milling about.

Early evening view of a bridge tower on the Brooklyn Bridge. The tower is illuminated with a white light. On the left is the facade of an old warehouse that had been repurposed into a food court. There are arch shaped windows that are illuminated from the inside with some having string lights. There are some tourists milling about the walkway.

Early evening view of the Brooklyn Bridge park in front of the repurposed warehouse in the previous photo. There are people on the walkway. Some are taking photos/videos on their phones. Part of the Manhattan Bridge is in the background.

View north in late afternoon from under the Manhattan Bridge. A bit of a stanchion is visible on the right. Looking across the East River, you can see apartment buildings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a view of the Williamsburg Bridge and beyond. The sky is a deep blue with some blue clouds that transitions into a pinkish glow higher up.

December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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Pete Calandra

@petecalandra.bsky.social

Went to the Shirt Factory on Sunday in the city of Kingston NY to hear the CMS Creative Improvisors Orchestra and the great Joe Lovano was in attendance and sat in, from the audience on a few pieces. So great. #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #musicsky #jazz #nowplaying