Bernstein’s lyricism restrains like Beckett; the phrase comes early and the feeling keeps going.
open.spotify.com/track/5T1mK…
Americans believe mobility is always possible; class consciousness requires accepting your position as fixed, permanent. the system sells us mobility, and failure becomes our responsibility.
what would give us back the ability to imagine that something could replace capitalism?
this list misses the scope of jazz; and where it’s experimented and grown since the early diversification covered in this list.
monumental works x evans, martino, metheny, herbie.
then there’s duke, getz, green, hargrove, kamasi, wes to also make arguments for.
we are here to care for the details.
New essay, some notes on what makes art great:
nabeelqu.co/what-makes-art-g…
maybe your baby, master blaster, tuesday heartbreak, i aint gonna stand for it, boogie on, love light in flight.
who needs agentic workflows when you’ve got jazz spotify.link/ydI5qS5FOXb
if you’re at a certain stage/growth velo and prioritize investing into a data warehouse full of events, hacking a headless crm to measure outcomes across lifecycle, create target lists, identify gtm/product trends, share content insights — could actually help you grow.. faster
you dreamed of empires was a slick read. breezy surrealism—it rolled like it was edited by Burroughs. elegant themes.

















