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Feel like making love — to your ears?
This is the album version of #BobJames’ #FeelLikeMakingLove, which may be the best song and arrangement ever.
Listen on #Spotify
This is the album version of #BobJames’ #FeelLikeMakingLove, which may be the best song and arrangement ever.
Listen on #Spotify
#BobJames started playing the piano at age 4.
In 1962, his band entered the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, where the judges included #HenryMancini and #QuincyJones.
Jones signed James to an album deal with Mercury Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_James…
In 1962, his band entered the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, where the judges included #HenryMancini and #QuincyJones.
Jones signed James to an album deal with Mercury Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_James…
It’s mystical.
I’ll never get enough of this song — #FeelLikeMakingLove
#BobJamesQuartet "Feel Like Making Love" Live at Java Jazz Festival 2010
#BobJames created the famous Angela (the theme from #Taxi)
I’ll never get enough of this song — #FeelLikeMakingLove
#BobJamesQuartet "Feel Like Making Love" Live at Java Jazz Festival 2010
#BobJames created the famous Angela (the theme from #Taxi)
This is a #Pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on planet. Found across India naturally & un-harmful but millions are hunted & trafficked across Asia & Africa. All eight species of them are under threat for their use in medicines. There is no proof that they spread #Covid19. 
They are Ant eaters & important part of ecosystem. Indian pangolin is found across India & now endangered. Everywhere they are on their last leg. Scales are used in traditional medicines mistakenly for ailments & reducing impotency. Huge market in China & SE Asia. Both AP images.
How Europe Raped Africa
The Berlin conference of 1884 is where European colonising nations basically carved up Africa. Historians refer to it as “the scramble for Africa”.
#Africa #Europe #WhiteSupremacy
The Berlin conference of 1884 is where European colonising nations basically carved up Africa. Historians refer to it as “the scramble for Africa”.
#Africa #Europe #WhiteSupremacy
The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, #France, #Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, #Russia, #Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), #Turkey, and the United States of #America.
The Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in #Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
