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J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #September6, 1877: #HBD #BuddyBolden! #KingBolden #JazzRoyalty #Cornetists #CornetPlayers #Bandleaders #Jass #Jazz #NewOrleans #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIXr...

Buddy Bolden's Blues (I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say)

YouTube video by Jelly Roll Morton - Topic

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September 6, 2026 at 1:02 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

( #JCKaelin here: This is the song that made me a life-long #Pops fan! )
#OTD #TDIH #August4, 1901: #HBD #LouisArmstrong! #Satchmo #Satch #NewOrleans #Composers #Singers #ScatSingers #Jazz #Trumpeters #Cornetists #Music #Virtuosos #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gXm...

Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds)

YouTube video by Atticus Jazz

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August 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM

Johannes T. Evans

@johannestevans.co.uk

but my favourite thing about that is that like. he's in loads of adverts for this one cornet

used and recommended by the monk himself! get this cornet, boys!

a newspaper clipping of GC Coloneus sitting on a chair and posed with his cornet in his lap. the text reads Used and REcommended by Coloneus - GC (Monk) Coloneus is one of the leading cornetists of the Pacific Coast - recogised as an authority on all questions pertaining to the cornet. Mr Coloneus uses exclusively and gives his unqualified indorsement (sic) to the Conn Victor New Wonder Cornet, from George J. Birkel Company

July 19, 2026 at 8:07 PM

Payton M

@paytonm.bsky.social

Here’s an example of how we needlessly gender things, and how the gender we prescribe to things changes over time.
This is an excerpt from an editorial from 1903, arguing that women are physically incapable of playing wind instruments and have no place in music professional ensemble performance.

But here a line should be drawn in the orchestra. Nature never intended the fair sex to become cornetists, trombonists, and players of wind instruments. In the first place they are not strong enough to play them as well as men; they lack the lip and lung power to hold notes which deficiency makes them always play out of tune. One discordant musician might not be noticed in an orchestra, but if you have several women members of a whole band composed of them, the playing verges on the excruciating. Another point against them is that women cannot possibly play brass instruments and look pretty, and why should they spoil their good looks? . . .

Do I think our theaters will eventually employ women musicians? No, most emphatically to that question. In the first place, very few musical directors would want them because women cannot be depended upon for rehearsing and the hard work demanded of musicians. Woman, lovely woman, is always to be admired, except when she is playing in an orchestra. She is certainly not in her own sphere, and any leader will find this out after he has had a few quarrels and instances of feminine disagreements.

July 14, 2026 at 6:55 PM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

( #JCKaelin here: This is the song that made me a life-long #Pops fan! )
#OTD #TDIH #July4, 1900: #HBD #LouisArmstrong! #Satchmo #Satch #NewOrleans #Composers #Singers #ScatSingers #Jazz #Trumpeters #Cornetists #Music #Virtuosos #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gXm...

Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds)

YouTube video by Atticus Jazz

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July 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM

Steve Tallantyre

@tallantyre.bsky.social

Possible issue is that the quality & fit of most men's formalwear has plummeted in recent decades. A bespoke or even made-to-measure suit/DJ is as comfortable as a comfy thing but who can afford them these days? Probably not cornetists, yet even my coalminer granddads got their suits from a tailor.

July 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM

Fucking Every Word

@everyword.bsky.social

fucking cornetists

June 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #April4, 1939: #HBD #HughMasekela! #FatherOfSouthAfricanJazz #SouthAfricanBlacks #Trumpeters #Flugelhornists #Cornetists #Singers #Composers #Jazz #Pop #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqa-...

Soweto Blues

YouTube video by Hugh Masekela - Topic

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April 4, 2026 at 12:07 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #April4, 1939: #HBD #HughMasekela! #FatherOfSouthAfricanJazz #SouthAfricanBlacks #Trumpeters #Flugelhornists #Cornetists #Singers #Composers #Jazz #Pop #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUe0...

Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)

YouTube video by Hugh Masekela - Topic

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April 4, 2026 at 12:07 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #April4, 1939: #HBD #HughMasekela! #FatherOfSouthAfricanJazz #SouthAfricanBlacks #Trumpeters #Flugelhornists #Cornetists #Singers #Composers #Jazz #Pop #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfEJ...

Hugh Masekela on "To Tell the Truth" (December 28, 1964)

YouTube video by rrgomes

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April 4, 2026 at 12:06 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #April4, 1939: #HBD #HughMasekela! #FatherOfSouthAfricanJazz #SouthAfricanBlacks #Trumpeters #Flugelhornists #Cornetists #Singers #Composers #Jazz #Pop #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5S...

Riot

YouTube video by Hugh Masekela - Topic

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April 4, 2026 at 12:06 AM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #April4, 1939: #HBD #HughMasekela! #FatherOfSouthAfricanJazz #SouthAfricanBlacks #Trumpeters #Flugelhornists #Cornetists #Singers #Composers #Jazz #Pop #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_V3...

Grazing In The Grass

YouTube video by Hugh Masekela - Topic

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April 4, 2026 at 12:05 AM

jeffweedneato.bsky.social

@jeffweedneato.bsky.social

The late, great Louis ‘Kid Shots’ Madison was born on this date in 1899! youtu.be/d5ntrdAGFDE?...

New Orleans Cornetists : Louis ''Kid Shots'' Madison with O. T. J. O. in 1925.

YouTube video by carlo simonettic

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February 20, 2026 at 2:30 AM

Adraj

@adraj.bsky.social

Tak to „C“ tam může znamenat leccos, třeba "clarinetists", "clavichordists", "cornetists"... 😃

February 5, 2026 at 9:20 PM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #January23, 2018: #RIP: #HughMasekela #TrumpetPlayers #Cornetists #Singers #Composers #SouthAfricanJazz #JazzSky #MusicSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXZ...

Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass (1968)

YouTube video by mleroy

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January 22, 2026 at 11:34 PM

J.C. Kælin

@jckaelin.bsky.social

#OTD #TDIH #January2, 2000: #BOTD: #HBD #NatAdderley! #CornetPlayers #Cornetists #Trumpeters #TrumpetPlayers #Jazz #JazzMusicians #AmericanMusic #Music #MusicSky #JazzSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rmX...

Nat Adderley Work Song

YouTube video by Mike Trumpet

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January 1, 2026 at 11:47 PM

Dan Carkner

@alte.klezmor.im

I love the naturalization-petition guarantors in klezmer research. it's often someone interesting. "Oh, he knew that guy?" or "Wow 2 cornetists being guarantors for a cornetist." Seems like it was either a family friend, regular colleague, or American-born bandleader if they knew one.

December 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM