Sunday, September 20th
sounds of Chicago
The Caravans (feat. Cassietta George), “I’m Ready to Serve the Lord” (C. George), live (TV Gospel Time), Chicago, early 1960s
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
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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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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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Sunday, September 13th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Blind Willie Johnson, “God Moves on the Water,” 1929
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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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Sunday, September 6th
testify!
Echoes of Zion, “A Charge to Keep I Have” (Charles Wesley [1707-88], lyrics),
c. 1960
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Saturday, September 5th
alone
Mark Turner (1965-, tenor saxophone), live, Italy (Perugia), 7/6/26 (published 8/24/26)
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We’re all in this apart.
—David Ferry (1924-2023), from “Found Single-Line Poems” (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, 2012)
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Thursday, September 3rd
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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Sunday, August 30th
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002, MCOTD Hall of Fame) & The Gospel Harmonettes, Still Holding On (1999)
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Thursday, August 27th
sounds of Romania
Lucian Ban (piano) & Mat Maneri (viola), “My Husband / Poor Is My Heart” (Transylvanian folk songs from the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of the early 20th Century), live, Bucharest (Romanian Anthenaeum, 1888), 2025
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