jazz

Master Prince, streaming lawsuits and admiring art + this day in history w/Earth Day and our song of the day by The Range on your Morning Monarchy for April 22, 2016.

Saving church, laying hands and good luck sacrifice + this day in history w/Saudi oil and our song of the day by Polica on your Morning Monarchy for March 3, 2016.

Marcus Roberts is a jazz pianist and composer. And he's blind. He is self-taught but went to the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, where Ray Charles also studied (much earlier). Wynton Marsalis, with whom he toured, called him the "greatest American musician most people have never heard of." Ryan Lizza, writing for the New Yorker this week, broke the news that Roberts, who is also an eloquent teacher, has written songs about four of the presidential candidates, in an effort to show that art has a place in politics.