Here’s wishing Mr. Dizzy Gillespie a very happy 104th birthday. Let’s celebrate by listening to one of the jazz standards written by him and Frank Paparelli, from his 1955 compilation album Groovin’ High Blue ‘n Boogie!
Get an early start on your Halloween shopping with this picture of Blossom in her “Pluto The Cat Girl” Costume on Redbubble. (it’s a reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s The Black Cat that both Kate and Blossom misremembered as “Plato” at the time. )
Get your swag here.
A very happy one hundred and first birthday to Mr. Charlie Parker!
Let’s celebrate by listening to “Just Friends” From his Charlie Parker with Strings album!
Here is my initial design for Mimi-Chan. The main was that the mysterious hacker, Brian sent Fran and Olive to meet, turned out to be a perky gothic lolita type.
After going through a handful of Lolita fashion pages, this is what I came up with. Her face is based on Perona from One Piece. (I confess I have mixed feelings about that after the fact.
We’re wishing Mr. Louis Armstrong a very happy 120th birthday!
Let’s celebrate by listening to him jam with the one and only Ella Fitzgerald with “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from “Let’s Do It: The Best of the Verve Years.
This is Louis showing exactly what you can do with a trumpet. If I have one complaint, it’s that his band distracts from his solo.
A very happy 95th birthday to Mr. Miles Davis!
Let’s celebrate by listening to the fist song of his second album, A Young Man With a Horn, Dear Old Stockholm!
