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@kaiawrites best tweet I've ever gotten 4/9/14 THANK U! 👌👍👏🙂 "@kaiawrites I love when @TheMichaelShore geeks out about music @BlackGirlNerd"

Happy day-late birthday #YomoToro, King of Cuatro, master of Puerto Rican jibaro music. The title of this YouTube clip is no joke: the guy in the red hat is KILLER...& a lefty, like Jimi & Dick Dale! Thank you @verna_gillis for hipping me to Yomo! youtube.com/watch?v=8Yx9pq…

Happy birthday to tenor sax great #PlasJohnson. You've heard him a zillion times on hit after hit, whether you know it or not. "Iconic" gets tossed around too much but Plas fits the bill. To wit: youtube.com/watch?v=lp6z3s…

One more day-late birthday shoutout to the great #YomoToro, master of Puerto Rican "jibaro" ("hillbilly") music who also did his electrifying thing in urban salsa (at 2:45 here). I hear Yoruba juju master #KingSunnyAde in Yomo's cuatro too. Makes sense! youtube.com/watch?v=Vfz9te…

One last birthday salute to undersung jazz-drum great #CharliPersip. Dig his rudimentally commanding LEAD DRUMS especially around 4:30 after the brass solos. Real 3D chess with a churchy groove from the great Johnny Griffin's classic "Big Soul Band" LP. youtube.com/watch?v=19rVYc…

Another birthday shoutout to jazz drum great #CharliPersip, as authoritative in light-speed bop with Olympian company as he was in grooving gutbucket soul jazz (see my last post)... youtube.com/watch?v=oDZyTB…

Happy birthday #CharliPersip, unsung jazz-drum hero who wrote the funny, fabulous book "How NOT to Play Drums." Here in the primo soul-jazz form that my man #BillBruford has acknowledged as an early inspiration: youtube.com/watch?v=hikyHq…

Happy birthday #JohnnyHodges. #Bird & #Trane swooned over that luscious alto tone & singular pre-Ayler wide vibrato. #MarshallAllen twisted it sardonically & intergalactically. But it all goes back to the #Duke stalwart who stuns here from jump: youtube.com/watch?v=_Kaymf…

Happy birthday trumpet giant #JonFaddis. Great friend of @ArmstrongHouse a block from where his mentor #DizzyGillespie lived, and where I've been privileged to groan at his puns. That's master fluegelhornist Clark Terry looking on in wonder stage left. youtube.com/watch?v=cMDQBt…

Happy birthday #SteveLacy, jazz's greatest soprano sax specialist since Sidney Bechet and composer of delightfully distinctive, quirky, raised-eyebrow tunes. This one's from my fave LP of his with the dream rhythm team of Ronnie Boykins and Dennis Charles: youtube.com/watch?v=NVZyjG…

One more birthday shoutout to @george_clinton who once said "#SunRa? That boy's out to lunch alright -- same place I eat at." Greatest. Quote. EVER. Here's a classic that seals that particular Mothership Connection... youtube.com/watch?v=FsIqDx…

Oh yes a WHOLE lotta rhythm goin' round! Happy birthday @george_clinton and thank u and the whole #ParliaFunkadelicMentThang for turnin' this mutha out like no one else... youtube.com/watch?v=od-5gC…

Happy birthday @george_clinton & thank u for the vision that's enabled us to dance our way out of our constrictions. Feet can't fail us now when THIS is playing! youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZww…

Happy birthday #StanleyRalphRoss who wrote THIS (I've made a living in TV writing for 4 decades, trust me IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER). He was also known to work under the pseudonym "Sue Donem." Godlike [the equally unforgettable music is by Charles Fox]... youtube.com/watch?v=Vv368y…

One more birthday shoutout to #PlasJohnson, sax star of countless #BeachBoys/#WreckingCrew smash hits & sessions by everyone from #DrJohn to #MariaMuldaur. Killer yakety sax & on this track, in #Pres/#Getz mode on genius LP by another great, #VicMizzy: youtube.com/watch?v=WrIfbG…

I just asked "who else but #SunRa & #JuneTyson" ("Walkin' on the Moon") to mark 56 years since #Apollo11's "one small step for man"...Here's who else: #GilScottHeron! youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_…

In honor of today's 56th anniversary of #Apollo11's "one small step for man" on the moon...who else but #SunRa and #JuneTyson! youtube.com/watch?v=zJIJ72…

First #MonarchButterfly of the season has alighted on our butterfly bush - one day earlier than last year. My joy at sighting this #EndangeredSpecies is tempered by the timing, likeky influenced by global warming.

Happy birthday Brazilian guitar great #BolaSete ("7 ball," the only black ball in snooker). The whole "At the Monterey Jazz Festival" LP is legendary magic, especially "Black Orpheus Medley" with percussion wizard #PaulinhoDaCosta's all-time drum feature youtube.com/watch?v=oApgVN…

One more birthday shoutout to the great #PhillyJoeJones. Miles' favorite drummer, with Miles in the First Great Quintet, living up to this album's title with typical fire and style: youtube.com/watch?v=-Hpczb…

Happy birthday #PhillyJoeJones, all-time great jazz drummer. Best known as part of #Miles' first Great Quintet w/#Trane in the 50s. Typically brilliant here as namesake on a sadly overlooked date with undersung hard-luck hard-bop demigod Elmo Hope: youtube.com/watch?v=W1Mz3T…