what’s new: sounds of Chicago (in Amsterdam)
Mike Reed’s The Separatist Party (Mike Reed drums/percussion; Rob Frye tenor saxophone/flute/percussion; Ben LaMar Gay cornet/flugelhorn/percussion; Cooper Crain guitar/synthesizer; Dan Quinlivan synthesizer; Marvin Tate vocals), live, Amsterdam, 6/18/26 (performance begins at 18:00)
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other day, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), Vijay Iyer (piano), Dafnis Prieto (drums), “I Wanted a Map” (V. Iyer), published 6/17/26
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passings
James Blood Ulmer, guitarist, singer, February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026
With Amin Ali (bass), Cornell Rochester (drums), live, Berlin, 1981
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With Don Cherry (1936-1995, pocket trumpet), Rashied Ali (1933-2009, drums), New York, published 2008
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sounds of Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson Southernaires, “With My Whole Heart,” live, Jackson, Mississippi (Jackson State University), c. 1994
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Sometimes, like last night, you bump into something, unexpectedly, that makes this unrelentingly chaotic world seem, if only briefly, a bit less uninhabitable.
Prince, “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers), live, Paisley Park (outside Minneapolis), 2002 (published 1/3/26)
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like nobody else
Laurie Anderson (voice, violin, compositions), live, Paris, 2025
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sounds of Chicago
Fellowship Baptist Church Choir (feat. Loretta Oliver, 1933-), “He Took My Sins Away,” 1999 and 2023
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what’s new
Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, live (“The Music Never Stopped,” “You Asked, I Came,” “Midnight Marauders,” “I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But Time,” “Insane”), Washington, D.C., published 5/15/26
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basement jukebox
Rev. H.L. Parker and the First Baptist Choir of Pratt City, Alabama, “All I Own” (A. Bradford), 1966
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Jeff Parker ETA IVtet (Jeff Parker, electric guitar with electronics; Jay Bellerose, drums and percussion; Anna Butterss, bass; Josh Johnson, alto saxophone with electronics), live, Los Angeles, 2025 (published yesterday)
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