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Melodies & Masterpieces

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The place to be on X for all music lovers. Educational/Fan Account. Contact me at: [email protected]

Aretha Franklin at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles (1979)

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Thelonious Monk on the cover of Time Magazine

SVG__Collection's tweet image. Thelonious Monk on the cover of Time Magazine

What’s your all-time favorite disco track?


Herbie Hancock - “I Thought It Was You”


Fun fact: “Higher Ground” was recorded in one take. Stevie said in an interview: “I played the drums, the bass on the Moog with my left hand, the clavinet with my right hand, and I sang at the same time. Everything was done live.”


Duke Ellington shaped a musical world the rest of us are still walking through.


Happy birthday to Jaco Pastorius, born on this day in 1951! A bass revolutionary from Florida whose fretless lightning and harmonic genius turned Weather Report’s Heavy Weather and his solo Jaco Pastorius (1976) into eternal masterpieces, forever changing what the bass could be.


“Axis: Bold as Love” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience was released on this day in 1967.

SVG__Collection's tweet image. “Axis: Bold as Love” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience was released on this day in 1967.

Happy birthday to John Densmore, born on this day in 1944! The heartbeat of The Doors whose jazz-trained, thunderous drums drove “Light My Fire,” “Break On Through,” and “The End,” fusing primal power with psychedelic precision and earning a permanent place in rock’s pantheon…


“Satin Doll” by Bobbi Humphrey was released on this day in 1974.

SVG__Collection's tweet image. “Satin Doll” by Bobbi Humphrey was released on this day in 1974.

“Tender Moments” by McCoy Tyner was released on this day in 1967.

SVG__Collection's tweet image. “Tender Moments” by McCoy Tyner was released on this day in 1967.

“Planet Rock” by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force was released on this day in 1986.

SVG__Collection's tweet image. “Planet Rock” by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force was released on this day in 1986.

Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan

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“Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.” — Sade Adu

SVG__Collection's tweet image. “Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.”

— Sade Adu

The Pointer Sisters — “Jump (For My Love)”


What’s your go-to slow jam?


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