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Month: September, 2015

Monday, September 7th

tonight in Chicago

This guy will be at the Experimental Sound Studio.

Paal Nilssen-Love, drums, live, Japan (Chiba), 2010

Sunday, September 6th

What an inspired way to begin an album.

Donald Edwards (drums, with sampled voices), “American Drum Call to Mama,” Evolution of an Influenced Mind, 2014


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lagniappe

found words

Vegetable Lover’s Guide to Berlin

—cover of Saveur (October issue)

Saturday, September 5th

Today, our sixth anniversary, we revisit our first post.

One left Cuba after the revolution, the other stayed. Here they play together: pianists—father and son—Bebo and Chucho Valdes.

Friday, September 4th

sounds of summer

Bon Iver, live, Eau Claire, Wis. (Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival), 7/18/15

Thursday, September 3rd

tonight in Chicago

These folks will be playing in Millennium Park, headlining the first night of the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9,* live, France (Clermont-Ferrand), 2014


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art beat

Lee Friedlander (1934-), New Orleans, late 1950s

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*Henry Butler (piano, vocals), Steven Bernstein (trumpet), et al.

Wednesday, September 2nd

tenor fest
day three

Sonny Rollins Trio (with Henry Grimes, bass; Joe Harris, drums), “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” (E. K. “Duke” Ellington), live, Sweden, 1959

 

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lagniappe

reading table

frogs sing, roosters sing
the east
turns light

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue

Tuesday, September 1st

tenor fest
day two

Von Freeman (MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, New Apartment Lounge, Chicago

2010


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2008


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Von Freeman, who was considered one of the finest tenor saxophonists in jazz but attained wide fame only late in life, died on Aug. 11 in Chicago. He was 88.

New York Times obituary, 8/18/12

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lagniappe

reading table

A wounded Deer – leaps highest –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #181 (Franklin)