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Friday, 3/9/12

Happy (82nd) Birthday, Ornette!

Ornette Coleman Quartet with guests Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone), James Blood Ulmer (guitar), Charlie Haden (bass), live, Netherlands (North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam), 2010

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Part 4

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Part 5

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radio

WKCR-FM (Columbia University): all Ornette, all day.

Thursday, 3/8/12

John Cage, Two (1987)

Live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2009
Dante Boon (piano), Rutger van Otterloo (soprano saxophone)

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Recording, 1991 (hat Art)
Marianne Schroeder (piano), Eberhard Blum (flute)

More? Here. And here.

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musical thoughts

Every something is an echo of nothing.

—John Cage, Silence (1961)