RIP Casey Benjamin, one of the original members of the Robert Glasper Experiment. He was 46

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RIP Chick Corea

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To me, the funniest tweet ever written. (Not sure if the community welcomes jokes. If not, I apologize)

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Music room in Dave Brubeck’s Connecticut home.

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Keep honking

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Happy Dave Brubeck Day!

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What is the most “jazz” thing ever?

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Fresh Bill Evans Tattoo

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This album was so far ahead of its time

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Veep repping some late Mingus

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Happy Birthday to Sonny Rollins who is 92 years old today!

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LEGO have just confirmed that this fan made jazz quartet will be made in to a real lego set!

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One of the coolest pic I’ve ever seen!😎🎺

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John Coltrane mural in Hamlet, NC by Scott Nurkin

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“What’s happ’nin, man?”

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This photo of Thelonious Monk and me was taken March of 1966, I was 18. It was shot by the baroness Nica de Koenswater in the kitchen of the Village Vanguard which served as the green room for the musicians. My favorite song by Monk is Evidence, what's yours? Kareem Abdul- Jabbar

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My friend spotted this bumper sticker on her way to work.

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I drew this while listening to jazz.

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Kenny G meeting Miles Davis. .... Thoughts?

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Dizzy Gillespie signs an autograph for a very chic, very tiny fan.

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An incredible color picture of my hero, John Coltrane.

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Herbie Hancock liked my Witch Hunt transcription!

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Tokio Aoyama's new mural in Osaka, made in memory of Pharoah Sanders

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Bought my first Jazz album today for my 16th birthday!

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This funny and depressing still from Simpsons 😅

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I'm getting so fucked up tonight

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81 year old Herbie destroying in Chicago last night.

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Miles Davis and Bill Evans cooking up a masterpiece, Kind of Blue. Spring 1959.

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I made an oil painting of John Coltrane so I thought I would share it here

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Cheap But Good Advice from Chick Corea RIP

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John Coltrane Last Performance at Newport July 2, 1966. John Coltrane and Jimmy Garrison. Photo © Gai Terrell/Redferns

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Happy 80th birthday Herbie Hancock! A living legend!

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Grant Green

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Never too young to discover Miles Davis. How old were you when you first started being a jazz fan?

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Finally learning to appreciate jazz after 30 years as a punker. I may be a noob, but I'm loving this album!

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I wanna know your hot takes!

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Just Sun Ra chilling in the parking lot after a trip to Saturn

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Visiting late FIL with my wife, and I realize he shares the cemetery with a legend. Definitely returning to pay my respects when we visit.

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“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

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Couldn’t have asked for a better gift

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My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. Sonny Rollins (photo by Andrea Palmucci, 2012)

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On December 9th, 1964 John Coltrane recorded his most successful album ‚A Love Supreme‘

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Keanu Reeves is listening to Bill Evans Trio

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Coltrane pic I drew

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Charles Mingus - cat toilet trainer

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You may be cool, but you'll never be Herbie Hancock flying a keyboard-driven space ship on his way to the Moon cool.

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Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player. Esperanza Spalding

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On March 30th, 1970, Miles Davis released ‘Bitches Brew’.

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Portrait of Bill Evans by me,

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My friends from school won't get. So I shared with you guys🥹

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Ms. Greco had a long romantic relationship with Miles Davis, whom she met in Paris in 1949. Sartre reportedly once asked Miles Davis why he and Ms. Greco were not married. According to Ms. Greco, Mr. Davis replied, “I love her too much to make her unhappy.” – New York Times, Sept. 23, 2020

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They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched - Louis Armstrong, 1965

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Duke Ellington watching Ella Fitzgerald performing 🙂

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I colorized this cool old photo of Coltrane, just because.

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I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music. Sade Adu

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On March 30th, 1970, Miles Davis released 'Bitches Brew'.

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Thelonious Monk

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John Coltrane in a Single Line, by Me, Ink on paper, 2021

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Going through my WS phase.

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Thelonious Monk Drawn in one Single Continuous Line, Ink on paper. 14 x 17 inches

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A rare photograph of hat wearing no jazz musician whatsoever, ca. 1959

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I love Herbie Hancock's fusion album covers so much 😭😭😭

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” - Monk

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Pianist and composer Bill Evans died on this day, in 1980. (aged 51)

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“Yeah, I pledge allegiance, to the United States of America... I pledge an allegiance to see that someday they will live up to their promises, to the victims that they call citizens...” ― Charles Mingus

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Thoughts?

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RIP master. Your music will live forever

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Saw the black and white pic of Coltrane here yesterday and decided to try adding colors. How'd I do?

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painting I made of Esperanza Spalding. Are you familiar with her music?

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Spinning one of my favorites tonight – original 1958 pressing of “Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”

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'Kind of Blue' was released on August 17th, 1959. Miles Davis' gift to music. How influential is the album 63 years later?

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Miles Davis, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Ron Carter

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Practice Makes Perfect

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A little girl named Nina Simone

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Miles Davis leans on his Ferrari 275 GTB at his home in New York City, October 1969, Photo by © Baron Wolman

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I'm buying a time machine on amazon and going back to November 14, 1952

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I got to meet wycliffe gordon! (Sorry for the picture taking i was in a rush)

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I'd drive my car out toward Malibu, park it on the side of the road, and go down to the beach to practice. I invited Ornette to come with me and we'd play, just the two of us standing in the sand, putting our sound out over the ocean.” Sonny Rollins 2007

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I’ve been listening to this album at night every day for the last week. I’m a very anxious person, but this has such a soothing effect on me, I can’t even explain. I’ll be forever grateful to everyone involved in the creation of this masterpiece. Is there any album that makes you feel like this too?

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One of the greatest live jazz lineups ever?

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“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.” — Esperanza Spalding

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The most badass album cover in music history. Bet you can't name something else that'll top this.

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Jazz band, me, oil - just sharing.

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What Jazz song have you had on repeat lately?

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Cool as the other side of the pillow ..... Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Freddie Hubbard 1978

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Miles Davis at 8 years old

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Herbie Hancock and Joni Mitchell

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One of my drawings of jazz musicians!

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In my opinion one of the coolest pics ever taken.

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Happy 90th Birthday to the living legend, the Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins

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My Coltrane LPs

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Thelonious Monk

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It's 1969 .... You can only go 1 night, choose....

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Al Di Meola .... Just a Dad trying to impress his 7 year old

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The great Esperanza Spalding

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LEGO Jazz Quartet making a nice addition to my shelf

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Thoughts on this album? As far as modern jazz goes this a masterpiece

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Louis Armstrong passed away 50 years ago this morning

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No confusion, no illusion - it's fusion! Mclaughlin, Corea, Santana, Hancock ....

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One of the hardest photos in “jazz” history

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Cleverly artistic photo of a Miles Davis performance at the Village Vanguard. - photo by Dennis Stock, New York, 1958

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Mingus voluntarily checked himself into the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital in the late 1950's for symptoms of mental disorder (see comments) photo by Burt Goldblatt

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One of the most overlooked jazz albums that you should check out.

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Anyone loves this album?

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Can we PLEASE get more modern albums like this. This album HITS

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Happy Birthday, Sade! 🌹•.*•*.•* 🎉 Sade, byname of Helen Folasade Adu, (born January 16, 1959, Ibadan, Nigeria), Nigerian-born British singer known for her sophisticated blend of soul, funk, jazz, and Afro-Cuban rhythms.

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Esperanza Spalding

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Joe Gardner briefly paying tribute to Monk in Disney's Soul

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Who is on the cover of Thundercat’s album “Drunk”?

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Happy Birthday Bill Evans. You would have turned 91 today.

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Haha, yeah I really like that Charlie Brown album it's good Christmas music

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Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt and Cab Calloway in solidarity! (1957)

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11 billion trillion years

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Thelonious Monk and his family in their apartment's kitchen in New York City in 1963.

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Charles Mingus recorded The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady on this day 60 years ago

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To me, this is very boring music—most of it. It has nothing happening. Nothing is sticking. They’re playing music perfectly with wonderful intonation and technique, but it’s dangerous for jazz itself - Joe Zawinul on Wynton Marsalis and the revival of traditional jazz

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to be fair Pharoah Sanders does make me want to do the pot

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On September 23rd, 1926, Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, NC. Coltrane is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.

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Evans's struggle with drugs ... the longest suicide in history.

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Thoughts on Frank Zappa?

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Now My All My Heroes Can Look At Me While I Disappoint Them

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John Coltrane

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“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.” Miles Davis - photo by Lee Friedlander, 1969

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Martin Luther King, Jr. on the importance of jazz music.

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’’This is the worst planet I’ve ever been on.’’ Sun Ra

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Rest In Peace Bill Withers.

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The program for a jazz performance at the White House in 1978

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We can all agree. This guy’s a fucking legend

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Who going 👀👀👀

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It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing. Esperanza Spalding

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Happy birthday to me 🎹 🎷

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Thoughts on this album, i think is really underrated, it's such a great album tbh, so cinematic.

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Saw the great Kamasi Washington last night at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR.

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All, I am stoked for the weekend

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Herbie Hancock

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Weather Report

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Wrapped!

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Recommended to me by a guy at the bar last night and holy shit!

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oooh baby special delivery came today

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A gathering of greats in Harlem (1958)

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Nina Simone, pen and watercolour (A5), by me!

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Happy Birthday to Herbie Hancock!!

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Grant Mother$#@&ing Green

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I've been playing with Mara Schneider all week...words can't describe her genius!!!

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Dizzy Gillespie taking a break from tennis to smoke a cigar and half listen to a cocktail-drinking Joe Pass.

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Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson (1955)

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Miles Davis

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Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet and signs the side of a fans head. Nice, France,1961 .. It's crazy how the fan, because of his haircut, looks more like a punk enthusiast time traveling from the future. Anyone knows more details about this encounter ?

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A legends grave

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