globaljazzqueen

Intentions are everything. Remembering @johncoltrane on his 98th Birthday Anniversary. “One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations." - John Coltrane #jazz #AmericanTreasure #MondayThoughts

"I hink playing the saxophone is what I'm supposed to be doing on this planet...It's the best way I know that I can make the largest number of people happy+get for myself the largest amount of happiness."-JOE HENDERSON opens my show tonight @wbgo #jazz #radio (Pic w/Kenny Dorham)

I’m your newest fan heard you on my deck with my expression of my vintage boom box

Buoyant, accessible and executed with advanced musicianship, "Over Easy" from new album 'Simpatico' exemplifies what Jazz Funk Soul is about> somethingelsereviews.com/2025/07/18/jaz… From @ShanachieEnt @globaljazzqueen

"I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream...Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth."- @CharlesLloydSax - who helps to close out my show tonight @wbgo. (Pic w/ @harland_eric ) #jazz

"One of my satisfactions in life is being able to take different harmonies and put them together with real feelings; to improvise and reach the stars."- FREDDIE HUBBARD now @WBGO (Pic: w/Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw + Jimmy Owens) #jazz #radio

It’s a constant struggle while we’re here+we have to fight the good fight. We have to keep fighting as long as we’re alive...it’s a struggle. But it’s a good struggle…The good fight is where you do unto others..that good old Golden Rule."-@sonnyrollins now @wbgo #jazz #radio

“I don’t really think you can teach anybody to sing #Jazz. Jazz for me is about living. It’s about experiencing things. It’s a feeling.”- ANDY BEY now @WBGO #radio

"The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart." - Abbey Lincoln - ahead with Max Roach now @WBGO #jazz #radio

"I want to tell you a story, I want the song to have legs, I want it to mean something to you ten years from now. It's kind of like acting...I can close my eyes and go where that song goes. And visualize and really see that, you know, I love it."- NANCY WILSON. #Jazz

Four for the score tonight @wbgo... #jazz #radio #SaturdayEveningJazz

“There are two important days or moments in one’s existence. One is being born + the other is knowing why." -@Wayne_Shorter We hear the why tonight @wbgo. So many stories in this beautiful music called. #jazz. Join me 6pm EST+please bring someone U love. Jazz is best shared!

Good evening one and all. Be the light in these times. 📸: Attila Kleb

"Quit talking about somebody+listen for the good that everybody is doing. Because everybody can see bad if you want to, but look for good+try to give good." - JAMES MOODY - now @WBGO (Pic: W/Dizzy and Ben Webster) #jazz #radio

"I was born to be a musician. I started playing at three years old. And more so, I feel that I was born to be a #jazz artist.” - @chuchovaldes now @wbgo. (Pic with dad Bebo)

"...The only way the system is going to change is if the musicians themselves disregard what’s expected of them and start creating music that reflects their uniqueness, not just as musicians but as human beings.” - @WoodyShaw - now @wbgo #jazz #radio

“#Jazz is feeling. It’s fire and ice. It’s you. I want the people in the audience to feel and see the picture I’m trying to paint. I want to be in touch with you and get inside of you.” - Shirley Horn now @WBGO

“I generally think if somebody plays enough that your own personality is going to come through if you're really trying to approach music creatively." - MICHAEL BRECKER Brecker's beautiful and generous spirit coming through @wbgo now. Gone but never forgotten. #jazz #radio

"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."- RAY CHARLES - driving the bus now @WBGO #Jazz #Soul #Radio

"I want to bring something beautiful into the world. I also want to use music to question things...to use it in a way that can make an impact in some way, make a shift in someone’s consciousness when they hear it."-@lmoh000 - now @WBGO #jazz #radio

"Music should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise." - BILL EVANS now @WBGO (Pic: Evans w/Miles, Cannonball & Trane) #jazz #radio