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Monday, 10/29/12

Miles

Miles Davis Group,* live, Germany (Berlin), 1971

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lagniappe

art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)

Allen Ruppersberg, No Time Left To Start Again/The B and D of R’n’R (through 1/6/13)**

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*With Gary Bartz, saxophones; Keith Jarrett, keyboards; Michael Henderson, bass; Leon Chancler, drums; Don Alias & James Mtume, percussion.

**“B and D”=birth and death.

Sunday, 10/28/12

Nearly forty years have passed since I first heard him; still I can’t get enough.

Vernard Johnson, “Amazing Grace,” live, Memphis, 1988

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lagniappe

reading table

Life tears us apart, but through those wounds, if we have tended them, love may enter us.

—Christian Wiman, “Mortify Our Wolves,” The American Scholar, Autumn, 2012