VA Virginia Schenck

Grateful for another year around the sun! That’s something to sing about! 🙌🏽✨

Amina Claudine Myers - b. 1942 - piano – 3/21 Tiger Okoshi - b. 1950 - trumpet – 3/21 Farnell Newton – b. 1977 – trumpet – 3/21 Virginia Schenck – b. 1960 – vocals – 3/21 Harold Ashby – b. 1925 – saxophone – 3/21 Sir Charles Thompson – b. 1918 – piano – 3/21 Ed Soph – b. 1945 – drums – 3/21 Otis Spann - b. 1930 - piano – 3/21 Solomon Burke - b. 1940 - vocals – 3/21 Leonid Utyosov – b. 1895 – vocals – 3/21 Hank D’Amico – b. clarinet – 3/21 Santo Pecora – b. 1902 – trombone – 3/21

“My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.” — Charles Mingus

@BoddieMuse Brandee!

Ben Boddie On Jazz #309 on All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/snorre-kirk-ry… Streaming on demand with Snorre Kirk, Ryan Keberle, Mike Freeman ZonaVibe, Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen, Bob Schlesinger, Brandee Younger, Neff Irizarry, Lauren Scales, Emma Smith, Allan Harris, and more.

@BoddieMuse It’s a big birth day!

Abbey Lincoln - b. 1930 - vocals – 8/6 Charlie Haden - b. 1937 - bass – 8/6 Regina Carter - b. 1966 - violin – 8/6 Ravi Coltrane - b. 1965 - sax – 8/6 Buddy Collette - b. 1921 - sax – 8/6 Dorothy Ashby - b. 1932 - harp – 8/6 Hendrik Meurkens - b. 1957 - harmonica – 8/6

Jazz at All Saints’ announces 2025-26 season artsatl.org/jazz-at-all-sa…

@BoddieMuse Leon!

Ben Boddie On Jazz #294 on All About Jazz allaboutjazz.com/jonah-david-le… Streaming on demand with today’s music by Jonah David, Leon Anderson, Russ Spiegel, Nnenna Freelon, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Shuffle Demons, Kevin Fort, Renegade Queens, Jeremy Pelt, The Empress, Artemis, & more.

Amina Claudine Myers - b. 1942 - piano – 3/21 Tiger Okoshi - b. 1950 - trumpet – 3/21 Farnell Newton – b. 1977 – trumpet – 3/21 Virginia Schenck – b. 1960 – vocals – 3/21 Harold Ashby – b. 1925 – sax – 3/21 Ed Soph – b. 1945 – drums – 3/21 Otis Spann - b. 1930 - piano – 3/21

@BoddieMuse An epic voice. Forever love!

Happy Birthday Joe Williams! NEA Jazz Master allaboutjazz.com/musicians/joe-…

@BoddieMuse Cassandra! ✨

Happy Birthday Cassandra Wilson! NEA Jazz Master allaboutjazz.com/musicians/cass…

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?” - Martin Luther King, JR.

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@BoddieMuse One of the best!!

Happy Birthday Dinah Washington! allaboutjazz.com/musicians/dina…

Today, I’m joining the @RecordingAcad to empower the voices behind the music and fight for the rights of music creators everywhere. Join me and @GRAMMYAdvocacy in urging Congress to #SupportMusic: grm.my/3zXJO9Y #GRAMMYsOnTheHill

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton

As we head in to a holy week for so many ~ Ramadan, Passover, Easter ~ I keep looking up and marvel at the heavens we see... #theheavensarehere #singthis

Celebrated a birthday this week. Thank you @BoddieMuse ! 🙌🏼✨

@BoddieMuse Great Etta James photo!

Antonio Carlos Jobim - b. 1927 - piano – 01/25 Benny Golson - b. 1929 - sax, tenor – 01/25 Etta James - b. 1938 - vocalist – 01/25 D.D. Jackson - b. 1967 - piano – 01/25 Lloyd Ellis - b. 1920 - guitar – 01/25 Paul Murphy - b. 1949 - drums – 01/25

Thoughtful Thursday ~ “The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity.” - Willa Cather #willacather #freevoice #wildthing @iona2018

Honored to have been a judge in the 1st round of Jazz Vocals. Congrats ATL! Atlanta debuts the national Jazz Music Awards show Saturday at Cobb Energy - ARTS ATL artsatl.org/atlanta-debuts…