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Eugene Holley, Jr.

@holleywoodswingin

A jazz-centric reporter, liner note writer and essayist focusing on the arts, sciences and humanities, who currently contributes to Publishers Weekly, Down Beat magazine and Sound & The Mainstream on Substack.

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Amazon Music presents: Thundercat feat. WILLOW - ThunderWave
Amazon Music presents: Thundercat feat. WILLOW - ThunderWave YouTube video by Thundercat

Willow (Wil Smith’s daughter) and Thundercat. Your thoughts?
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10.03.2026 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Celebrating Women’s History Month.

06.03.2026 12:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Celebrating Women’s History Month!

03.03.2026 12:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Celebrating Women’s History Month!

01.03.2026 13:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I wrote the liner notes!

27.02.2026 15:51 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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“One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
Happy Birthday W.E.B.Du Bois

24.02.2026 01:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The DIY Cosmic Cover Art of Sun Ra In case his musical legacy wasn’t enough, free and spiritual jazz pioneer Sun Ra was also a visual artist, which is the subject of the new book 'Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s ...

There ‘s a PBS documentary on Sun Ra debuting tonight. Checkout this piece I wrote for Publishers Weekly a book of Sun Ra album cover art:

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

20.02.2026 21:45 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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R.I.P. Rev. Jackson

17.02.2026 13:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friday The 13th by Thelonious Monk from 'Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins'
Friday The 13th by Thelonious Monk from 'Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins' YouTube video by Thelonious Monk

Monk!

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13.02.2026 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please join us, as we put my brother to rest.

05.02.2026 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My oldest brother, my Big Brother, John W. Armstrong, III, passed away over the weekend. My niece wrote this nice tribute to him. I will write something shortly, and share more information about memorial services.

03.02.2026 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today is the birthday of Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese historian, linguist, and anthropologist, who claimed that Africans had been to the New World centuries before Columbus arrived there in 1492.

26.01.2026 12:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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HBD, MLK!

15.01.2026 12:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tune in to WEAA 88.9FM from 12-1PM today for my interview with Robert Shahid on his Masterclass program. I’ll be discussing the music of Bill Evans and my liner notes for the new box set of recordings by the Bill Evans Trio. Listen Live at www.weaa.org

12.01.2026 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sound and the Mainstream (@eugeneholleyjr1) Restocking today in honor of Donald Fagen’s birthday!

Today is Donald Fagen’s birthday! substack.com/@eugeneholle...

10.01.2026 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide.” Happy Birthday, Zora Neale Hurston.

07.01.2026 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“He’s not the First South Asian mayor of New York. He’s the first African mayor of New York, of South Asian descent….”  Mahmood Mamdani, father of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani

04.01.2026 15:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Birthday, Marpessa Dawn!

03.01.2026 15:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the Mayor of New York on a Quran owned by the legendary Afro-Puerto Rican scholar, Arturo Schomburg. Read more about him from a short profile I wrote some time ago. #Mamdani #Schomburgh

02.01.2026 10:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year!

01.01.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MY TOP JAZZ (ADJACENT) RECORDINGS OF 2025 By Eugene Holley, Jr.

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30.12.2025 11:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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65!

22.12.2025 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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16.12.2025 21:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great piece! I worked at Sam Goody’s too!

16.12.2025 08:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Eugene Holley Jr. on the Bill Evans Trio | The Tonearm From his first encounter with 'Explorations' to writing liner notes for 'Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings,' the jazz historian discusses how Evans, LaFaro, and Motian transform...

I had the privilege and pleasure of being interviewed by Bill Kopp of The Tonearm about my liner notes for the just released Bill Evans Trio box set, reissued by Craft Recordings: www.thetonearm.com/friction-int...

09.12.2025 19:08 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Birthday, Matthew Shipp! Reposting my 2017 Down Beat Q&A with my Delaware homeboy, Matthew Shipp.

Happy Birthday, Matthew Shipp!
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07.12.2025 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sound and the Mainstream (@eugeneholleyjr1) Today is D.C. based poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller’s birthday. I’m reposting my 8 Bars piece I did on him a few years ago.

Posting on Ethelbert Miller’s Birthday:
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20.11.2025 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FYI for Jazz journalists, scholars and writers: 2026 marks the centennial birthdays of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Randy Weston.

16.11.2025 13:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy Birthday, Ellis Marsalis.

14.11.2025 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just finished an amazing interview with Bill Kopp of Tone Arm about the music of Bill Evans, specifically the forthcoming box set, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings of the Bill Evans Trio (I wrote the liner notes).

11.11.2025 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0