alone
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
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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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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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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random sights
other day, Chicago
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Blind Willie Johnson, “God Moves on the Water,” 1929
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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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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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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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reading table
We’re all in this apart.
—David Ferry (1924-2023), from “Found Single-Line Poems” (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, 2012)
what’s new
This I could listen to all day.
Joel Ross Quartet (JR, vibraphone; Tyler Bullock, piano; Luca Alemanno, bass; Jeremy Dutton, drums), live, Italy (Perugia), 7/7/26 (published 8/24/26)
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other day, Oak Park, Illinois
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame) & The Gospel Harmonettes, Still Holding On (1999)
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
