music clip of the day

sounds of Chicago

Tonight these guys, who play all over the world, will be at a little club on the city’s northwest side, the Hideout, as will I.

DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, reeds), live, Italy (Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival), 2008

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Joy—no one gives me more than Hamid Drake.

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lagniappe

reading table

God keep me from ever completing anything.

—Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick