what’s new
Jan Blomqvist, live, Burning Man Festival, Nevada, 9/5/26
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lagniappe
found words
L is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and represents a voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound.
—Google AI’s response to iPhone’s unsought search for the letter “l”
what’s new
Laurie Anderson (voice, electronics), “Dirty Boulevard” (L. Reed), live, New York (Brooklyn Bridge Park), 9/19/26
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Monadnock Building [1893])
If someone were to say that no instrument is more beautiful, more deeply expressive, than the cello, I wouldn’t argue.
Alban Gerhardt (cello), live, London (Wigmore Hall), 2014: Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major; Zoltan Kodály, Solosonata op. 8
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Cassietta George), “I’m Ready to Serve the Lord” (C. George), live (TV Gospel Time), Chicago, early 1960s
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
timeless
Josef Hofmann (1876-1957, piano), live, 1938; Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major (“Waldstein”)
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lagniappe
reading table
You lie in our bed as if an orchard were over us.
You are what’s fallen from those fatal boughs.
Where will we go when they send us away from here?—David Ferry (1924-2023), “In Memory of Anne Ferry” (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations [2012], dedication)
what’s new
Q-Tip & MC Lyte, “The Return,” ft. Mos Def, 9/12/26
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Blind Willie Johnson, “God Moves on the Water,” 1929
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
sounds of New York
John Zorn, Masada (JZ, trumpet, composition; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums), live, New York (Tonic), 1999)
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
testify!
Echoes of Zion, “A Charge to Keep I Have” (Charles Wesley [1707-88], lyrics),
c. 1960
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
alone
Mark Turner (1965-, tenor saxophone), live, Italy (Perugia), 7/6/26 (published 8/24/26)
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lagniappe
reading table
We’re all in this apart.
—David Ferry (1924-2023), from “Found Single-Line Poems” (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, 2012)
