Morning Prayer...

youtu.be/bPAC6zt_1ZM?si…

'Giant Steps' recorded May 4th and 5th, 1959.

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'Compose+perform your music free of egotism+with a conscious desire to gratify the listener…Think of yourself as a channel through which the Divine strives to uplift mankind..Become aware of the good that you can do through your talents.'- HORACE SILVER-ahead WBGO
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Going for a spin soon @wbgo with Sonny Stitt...

'We all have our own way of playing. U can’t tell somebody how to live, how to play, or how to feel….I’m going to have a free mind. How are U going to play if you can’t be free?' - Sonny Stitt

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'You see, after all these years, the piano and I have really become friends. I can truthfully say I have a friend there. It's like an arm or a leg, part of me. I can use it for almost total expression.'- McCoy Tyner expresses something beautiful ahead WBGO
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“My favorite thing is trying to find the right notes to get to the next level, that’s my favorite thing.”
- Happy Birthday Ron Carter

Hearing you play is one of our favorite things too. Keep Swingin'! Wishing you an abundance of Blessings today, tomorrow + beyond!

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'Everything comes from within with me. That's how I do it. I don’t know about somebody else, some other person. But that's how I do it. It has to come from the inside.' - PHAROAH SANDERS

Now @wbgo...

Take me to the alley
Take me to the afflicted ones
Take me to the lonely ones that
Somehow lost their ways
Let me hear me say
I am your friend
Come to my table
Rest here in my garden
You will have a pardon

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We head to Carnegie Hall for Billie Holiday live in 1956. Here's a photo of Billie backstage at Carnegie Hall in 1948.

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“I was always on a path. I never could understand the disharmony in the world or how people couldn't get along with each other...Spiritual life is what it's about. We're spirits on the human journey and the sooner we wake up the better it will be.” - Charles Lloyd

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'What I’ve learned is that everybody is equal until they have played the wrong changes+then they are not so equal. My job is to make that wrong stuff sound great +I’m not too shabby at that.”–Ron Carter

Sir Carter about to bless the airwaves @wbgo
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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Every #Saturdaynight @wbgo we let the music our guide on my PASSPORT feature @wbgo. Tonight we journey to #Gambia for music from Foday Musa Suso (w/Herbie Hancock) and Sona Jobarteh. Grab your passport + buckle up!

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Ahmad Jamal, Herlin Riley, Reginald Veal +
Manolo Badrena bless this #Saturdaynight @wbgo...

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My show @wbgo opens tonight 6pm EST w/ Paquito D’Rivera + a classic from Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo + Gil Fuller. Paquito once said, “I always want to learn more and I like to play with people of different nationalities who understand that music is music.”

(Pic: w/Dizzy)

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“I think music...should be very high+above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.”-Sonny Rollins

Amen! Join me tonight 6pmEST @wbgo as we come together in the name of #jazz

(Pic: Max, Sonny, Miles)

Two high school seniors solved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com

#SaturdayFlashback (2007)

1 of my best days in radio...with Ron Carter+@wbgo J&R Music World for a live performance/interview. The epitome of swing, style, sophistication+generosity.

Happy Birthday Ron Carter! May the universe continue to bless U like U have blessed us.

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Morning Prayer...

Happy Birthday to the one & only Ron Carter!

'My favorite thing is trying to find the right notes to get to the next level, that’s my favorite thing.”-Ron Carter

Listening to U in that pursuit is 1 of our favorite things!

youtube.com/watch?v=IipNwf…

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Like Art Blakey's band Betty Carter's bands were like a university unto itself. Her trios were always the best! Betty goes in w/John Hicks,Curtis Lundy+the #Jazz Maniac Kenny Washington @wbgo.Betty's legacy lives on w/Jason Moran+ #Jazz The Kennedy Center. May kicks off Jazz Ahead workshops!

About to bless the airwaves @wbgo...

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“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” - John Coltrane

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