Land of the Rising Sun

(Biafra: … resilient, resourceful, transformative, freedom)

(John Coltrane Quintet – featuring Eric Dolphy, “Spiritual” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, soprano saxaphone; Dolphy, bass clarinet; McCoy Tyner, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, at The Village Vanguard, New York, US, 3 November 1961])

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe latest books on the Igbo genocide and Biafra are The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)

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Land of the Rising Sun

(Biafra: … resilient, transformative, inextinguishable)

(John Coltrane Quintet – featuring Eric Dolphy, “Spiritual” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, soprano saxaphone; Dolphy, bass clarinet; McCoy Tyner, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, at The Village Vanguard, New York, US, 3 November 1961])

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128th anniversary of the patenting of William B Purvis’s fountain pen

William Purvis (Philadelphia, US) patents his fountain pen invention, 7 January 1890, and reflects, quite perceptibly: “[T]he object of my invention is to provide a simple, durable and inexpensive construction of the fountain pen adapted to general use and which may be carried in the pocket”

(Ornette Coleman Quartet, “RPDD” {or “Relation of the poet to day dreaming”} [personnel: Coleman, alto saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; Scott LaFaro, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; recorded: Atlantic Records, New York, US, 31 January 1961])

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Land of the Rising Sun

(Biafra: … resilient, transformative, inextinguishable)

(John Coltrane Quintet – featuring Eric Dolphy, “Spiritual” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, soprano saxaphone; Dolphy, bass clarinet; McCoy Tyner, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, at The Village Vanguard, New York, US, 3 November 1961])

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“The majesty of the blues”

Venus Williams and Serena Williams, Australian Open tennis championship, Melbourne, Australia, Saturday 28 January 2017

(The sisters’ frame: ...competition is at once rigorous and transformative and without rancour)

(Wynton Marsalis Sextet, “The majesty of the blues” [personnel: Marsalis, trumpet; Wess Anderson, alto saxophone; Todd Williams, tenor saxophone; Marcus Roberts, piano; Reginald Veal, bass; Herlin Riley, drums; recorded: Columbian Records, New York, US, 27-28 October 1988])

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“The majesty of the blues”

Venus Williams and Serena Williams, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows, New York, US, Wednesday 9 September 2015, o304 BST

(The sisters’ frame: Competition is at once rigorous and transformative and without rancour)

(Wynton Marsalis Sextet, “The majesty of the blues” [personnel: Marsalis, trumpet; Wess Anderson, alto saxophone; Todd Williams, tenor saxophone; Marcus Roberts, piano; Reginald Veal, bass; Herlin Riley, drums; recorded: Columbian Records, New York, US, 27-28 October 1988])

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