Saturday, October 3rd
two minutes of sonic bliss
Sticks McGhee (1918-1961), “Meet You in the Morning,” 1953
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
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Saturday, September 26th
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”
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Thursday, September 24th
what’s new
Laurie Anderson (voice, electronics), “Dirty Boulevard” (L. Reed), live, New York (Brooklyn Bridge Park), 9/19/26
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Monadnock Building [1893])
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Tuesday, September 22nd
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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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
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Sunday, September 20th
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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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Illinois
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Saturday, September 19th
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)
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Thursday, September 17th
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
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Sunday, September 13th
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)
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Saturday, September 12th
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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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
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Sunday, September 6th
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
