Sandro Janßen (@sandrojanssen)

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day and an awesome start to an exciting new week. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album artwork for Cool Struttin’ by Sonny Clark, featuring a black-and-white street scene with a woman’s legs in high heels walking across a sidewalk, overlaid with bold yellow and white album text.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 16d

Album artwork for Zac Brown Band’s ‘Welcome Home’ showing ornate vintage-style typography on a dark, decorative patterned background, with the song ‘My Old Man’ displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 17d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Sunday. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Sonny Criss’s This Is Criss! displayed in a music player, with a portrait of the saxophonist standing against a light stone wall and the track “Black Coffee” shown below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 18d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Saturday. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins, featuring a blue silhouette of a saxophonist holding a tenor saxophone with the track “St. Thomas” displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 19d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a wonderful day and a beauteous weekend. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Stan Getz’s Quartets, showing a sepia-toned photo of the saxophonist playing tenor saxophone against a dark background, with the track “Crazy Chords” by Stan Getz displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 20d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album artwork for John Coltrane’s Soultrane with a minimalist blue-and-white cover, a close-up blue-tinted photo of Coltrane playing saxophone, and the track “Russian Lullaby” displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 21d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Boss Tenor by Gene Ammons, featuring a sepia-toned portrait of the saxophonist resting beside his tenor saxophone, with “Close Your Eyes” displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 22d

“There was a romance to that analog era, an ardency, an otherness that is missing in the post-Empire digital age where everything has ultimately come to feel disposable.” — Bret Easton Ellis

Black-and-white photo of a person in sunglasses sitting on a wire bench beside a pool, holding up a sheet of paper, with a typewriter on their lap and loose pages nearby.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 22d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album artwork for “Stompin’ At The Savoy” showing a red-tinted close-up of an upright piano’s internal mechanism and keyboard, with the text “Red Garland’s Piano” and artist credits for Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 23d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day and an awesome start to an exciting new week. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album artwork for Oz Noy’s “Twisted Blues Volume 2” with large black “OZ NOY” lettering on a pale green background, a small black-and-white photo of the guitarist playing, and the track “Cissy Strut” displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 24d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Sunday. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album art for Hank Mobley’s Soul Station, featuring a teal-tinted photo of the saxophonist holding a tenor saxophone, with the track “This I Dig of You” displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 25d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Saturday. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

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Album cover for Wild Is the Wind by Shirley Horn, featuring a black-and-white close-up portrait of the singer with the album title in red at the top.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 26d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a wonderful day and a beauteous weekend. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another modern masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Welcome to the Hills by Yussef Dayes Trio, featuring a drum kit engulfed in flames against a black background.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 27d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, featuring the musician holding a saxophone against a red background, with the track “Peace” displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 28d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album artwork for Idris Muhammad’s Turn This Mutha Out, featuring a red-tinted close-up portrait of a person wearing aviator sunglasses, with the track title “Crap Apple” and artist name displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 28d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· 29d

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day and an awesome start to an exciting new week. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Dexter Gordon’s Go, featuring oversized orange and black lettering, a small blue-tinted photo of the saxophonist, and Blue Note branding.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 12

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Sunday. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Midnight in Paris featuring a man walking along a Paris riverside beneath a swirling, Van Gogh–inspired starry sky, with the song title Bistro Fada by Stephane Wrembel displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 11

Album cover of Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones displayed on a music player screen, with the song “Just Another Sucker on the Vine” shown below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 11

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous Saturday. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album artwork for Lee Morgan’s Cornbread, featuring a red background, bold black typography framing a photo of the jazz trumpeter holding his instrument, with the track title “Ceora” and artist name shown below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 10

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a wonderful day and a beauteous weekend. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 9

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert, featuring a black-and-white photo of the pianist leaning over a piano with minimalist white design and the track title displayed below.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 6

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day and an awesome start to an exciting new week. Enjoy life! We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

$Album cover for Ahmad Jamal's _Crystal_, featuring a reflective glass pyramid with rainbow light refractions on a black background; the currently playing track is "Swahililand."$

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 6

Ciao, dear Brenda! 🥰 Good morning, Bluesky! #BreakfastCrew Wishing you all a beauteous day and an awesome start to an exciting new week. Enjoy life! Monday I’ll have Friday on my mind … 😉

Black-and-white album cover for "Friday on My Mind" by The Easybeats, featuring a close-up group portrait of the five band members with the song title in large bold text at the top.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 5

“We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski

A man in a light gray blazer walks past a bright red corner storefront while several people stand on the sidewalk beneath a “DON’T WALK” crosswalk signal in an urban street scene.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 5

Today, I have to disappoint the jazz fans. I am visiting my son in Berlin. Today, it’s good old punk rock.

Album cover for the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. A bright yellow background features large black text reading “NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS” and smaller black text reading “HERE’S THE.” A bold pink diagonal banner across the lower half contains the band’s name, “Sex Pistols,” in large yellow letters. The image has a bold, high-contrast punk aesthetic.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 2

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock, shown in a music player with the song “Watermelon Man” selected.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 1

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. We are currently listening to another masterpiece. #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily

Album cover for Herbie Hancock's My Point of View, featuring a minimalist black grand piano silhouette with Hancock peeking over it against a textured beige background, with bold stacked text listing the musicians and highlighting "Blind Man, Blind Man."

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jul 1

“You don’t know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues, until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose.” — Chet Baker

Black-and-white close-up portrait of Chet Baker looking down with a thoughtful, serious expression.

Sandro Janßen@sandrojanssen· Jun 30

Hi, Bluesky! Hi, Blue Jazz Family! I hope you are all doing great. Wishing you all a beauteous day. Enjoy life. I am currently visiting my oldest daughter. We are listening to another masterpiece. Warm greetings from Bologna … #Jazz #JazzSky #NowPlaying #BlueJazzFamily