Thursday, November 1st
what’s new
Aruan Ortiz (piano), Melanie Dyer (viola), Michael Attias (alto saxophone), live, New York, 10/8/18
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Month: October, 2018
2018
Wednesday, October 31st
What a relief, in a world crazy noisy, to be able to inhabit this sound-world, if only briefly.
Philip Glass (1937-), “Mad Rush” (P. Glass, 1979), live, Montreal, 2015
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Tuesday, October 30th
more
Arvo Pärt (1935-), Fratres (1977); Stéphane Tétreault (cello), Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano), live (studio), Montreal, 2015
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yesterday, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
2018
Monday, October 29th
Why not begin the week with something slow and simple, something quiet?
Arvo Pärt (1935-), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978); Leonhard Roczek (cello), Herbert Schuch (piano), live, Austria (Salzburg), 2014
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Sunday, October 28th
back to church
“Read God’s Letter All Night Long,” Mt. Ramah Primitive Baptist Association, Beauty Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Thomaston, Ga., 2010
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July 28, 2018, off the Maine coast
2018
Saturday, October 27th
passings
Tony Joe White, singer, songwriter, guitar player, harmonica player, July 23, 1943-October 24, 2018
“Rainy Night in Georgia” (T. J. White), live (TV show), London, 2013
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Live, Australia (Sydney), 2008
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Cicely Berry, Royal Shakespeare Company’s voice director, May 17, 1926-October 15, 2018
The Working Shakespeare/Muscularity of Language: Voice and Rhythm (excerpt), 2004
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other day, outside Chicago (Prairie Path)
2018
Friday, October 26th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Jeff Rosenstock, live (studio), Seattle, 8/20/18
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random thoughts
This life: how precious; how precarious; how preposterous.
2018
Thursday, October 25th
basement jukebox
Little Ann (aka Ann Bridgeforth [1945-2003]), “Deep Shadows, rec. 1967
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yesterday, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)
2018
Wednesday, October 24th
like nobody else
This world is not my home . . .
—Sun Ra (1914-1993)
Sun Ra Arkestra (SR [keyboards, vocals], John Gilmore [tenor saxophone, clarinet, vocals], et al.), live, Spain (San Sebastian), 1985
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Appalled: by all the dead: Henry brooded.
—John Berryman (1914-1972 [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), from Dream Song 21
2018
Tuesday, October 23rd
like nobody else
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, etc. [1935-1977]) and the Vibration Society (Dick Griffin, trombone; Ron Burton, piano; Vernon Martin, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums; Joe Texidor, percussion), live, Paris, 1970
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All the people at the controls are opportunists or gangsters. The sweetness of reason died out of our public life with FDR. There doesn’t even seem to be a normal intelligence at work in the affairs of the nation.
—Tennessee Williams, letter to publisher James Laughlin, April 9, 1947
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