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AUDIO: Bilal with The Roots & Robert Glasper - Everything In It's Right Place > Sometimes 5/19/06 Radio City Music Hall soundcloud.com/rlbayers/bilal… #Bilal #TheRoots #RobertGlasper #EverythingInItsRightPlace

AUDIO: Oteil Burbridge - America The Beautiful 6/29/02 Deer Creek soundcloud.com/rlbayers/oteil… #OteilBurbridge #DeerCreek #AmericaTheBeautiful @OteilBurbridge

Hermeto Pascoal 5/5/00 New Orleans, LA @ Snug Harbor - special song dedicted to the Mississippi River soundcloud.com/rlbayers/herme… #HermetosDaydream #HermetoPascoal #RIPHermeto #Hermeto

AUDIO: Milton Nascimento & Wayne Shorter - Ponta de Areia (June 26, 1990, Avery Fisher Hall, NYC) soundcloud.com/rlbayers/milto… #MiltonNascimento #WayneShorter #PontadeAreia

RIP Hermeto Pascoal - Gaio da roseira (1976 rehearsal - 4th run) soundcloud.com/rlbayers/herme… #HermetoPascoal #RIPHermetoPascoal bit.ly/HERMETO

BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: A Nocturnal Rage Report From NOLA Jazz Fest 2025 [B.Getz on L4LM] bit.ly/NOLA-JF25

AUDIO: Will Bernard's Blue Plate Special 5/3/25 New Orleans, LA @ d.b.a. archive.org/details/wbt202… with Kirk Joseph, Joe Dyson & Wil Blades

AUDIO: DTF: Adam Deitch, Ari Teitel & Sam Fribush 4/27/25 New Orleans, LA @ Maple Leaf Bar archive.org/details/AdamDe… @SamFribush @AriTeitelMusic #AdamDeitch

AUDIO: TYCOON - April 24, 2025 - The Rabbit Hole, New Orleans soundcloud.com/rlbayers/tycoo…

Defend the Internet Archive chng.it/CK8cNK6N via @Change

AUDIO: Antipop Consortium 3/28/25 Big Ears Festival archive.org/details/antipo… #BigEars #BigEarsFestival #BigEarsFest2025 @kingbritt #Blacktronika #Hprizm #Beans #AntipopConsortium

A Great Day in Hip Hop Harlem on September 29, 1998, 177 hip hop artists, producers and anyone having to do with the genre came together in one photo. It was photographed by the legendary Gordon Parks as tribute to Art Kane’s 1958 “A Great Day in Harlem” shot.

Hip Hop’s homage to A Great Day In Harlem, 1958. A Great Day in Harlem 📸: #ArtKane A Great Day in Hip Hop 📸: Gordon Parks

Veteran hip-hop journalist/filmmaker @nelsongeorge has just launched the crowd funding campaign for A Great Day in Hip-Hop documentary. See the trailer and check out the perks below. ⤵️ A GREAT DAY IN HIP HOP THE FILM on @indiegogo igg.me/p/3250247/twtr

AUDIO: Butcher Brown 4/4/25 Brooklyn Bowl with Nigel Hall subbing for DJ Harrison archive.org/details/butche… @butcherBRWN @nigelhall76 @tenn1sh2 @CoreyFonville @MorganBurrs #Tennishu #NigelHall #ButcherBrown

AUDIO: Cymande - 2025-02-19 - Getting It Back (Minneapolis, Varsity Theater) soundcloud.com/rlbayers/cyman… #CymandeLive #GettingItBack #Renascence #RenascenceTour #CymandeRenascence #Cymande

SIGN THE PETITION: Induct Clyde Stubblefield into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame change.org/p/induct-clyde… #ClydeStubblefield

AUDIO: Meshell Ndegeocello - Josh Johnson sax solo > ASR 10/21/24 Salt Shed, Chicago, IL soundcloud.com/rlbayers/meshe… #MeshellNdegeocello #ASR #SaltShedChicago #TheSaltShed #JoshJohnson #JoshuaJohnson #NewBlueSun #NewBlueSunTour

AUDIO: The Roots 3/15/25 Blue Note NYC (early set) - DYWM?! 30th Anniversary Celebration soundcloud.com/rlbayers/the-r… #TheRoots #DoYouWantMore #TheRootsLive #TheRootsDoYouWantMore