tonight in Chicago
This drummer—one of my all-time favorites—will be playing at Constellation with this crack quartet.
William Parker Quartet (WP, bass; Hamid Drake, drums; Rob Brown, alto saxophone; Lewis Barnes, trumpet), live, 2013
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
two takes
St. Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre), “Real Blues” (sampling Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “You Caused My Heart to Weep”), 2015
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Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982), “You Caused My Heart to Weep”
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Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009
#1
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#2
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lagniappe
reading table
This World is not conclusion.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #373 (Franklin)
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DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Austria (Nickelsdorf), 2013
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road to the World Series
This may be the goose-bump capital of the world right now.
—Cubs radio announcer Pat Hughes, Wrigley Field, yesterday
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Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), live, New York, 2015*
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lagniappe
random sights
other evening, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
01:54 Geese
08:16 Break Stuff
13:24 Mystery Woman
20:28 Libra
26:18 Break Stuff (Reprise)
30:55 Starlings
35:46 Chorale
41:13 Work
50:22 Our Lives
58:58 Hood
1:11:00 Taking Flight
1:24:19 Countdown
1:31:22 Becoming
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Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Lucian Ban (piano), “Irreverence” (L. Ban), live (recording session), Germany (Cologne), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
old school
The Angel Voices, “Tell the Angels,” “Walking and Talking with Jesus,” 1953
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road to the World Series
‘I like numbers like anyone else,’ [Don] Zimmer once told me. ‘I like the gut and the unexpected even better.’
tonight in Chicago
These folks will be playing at Curtiss Hall.
Christopher Fisher-Lochhead (1984-), Dig Absolutely (2010); Spektral Quartet, live, Evanston, Ill., 2011
only rock ‘n’ roll
Foxygen, live, Paris, 2014
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road to the World Series
It’s not a complicated issue. The more basic we can become in our approach, the more successful we’ll become.
Some music you listen to—some you inhabit.
John Luther Adams (1953-), Red Arc/Blue Veil (2001); Kirsten Volness (piano), Nick Gleason (percussion), live (studio performance), New York, 2014
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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road to the World Series
[W]hen we’re playing these games that are very meaningful in September and October, I want them to go out there and play the game as though it were March 15, June 15, August 15 and then hopefully October 15. Don’t ever change the way you play the game.
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