Sunday, April 14th
testify!
Lee Williams (1942-2017) and the Spiritual QC’s, “Can’t Run,” live, Memphis
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random sights
yesterday, Kankakee, Ill. (by the local jail)
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Month: April, 2019
2019
Saturday, April 13th
sounds of Ecuador and all over
Nicola Cruz, live (The Lot Radio), New York, 2018
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reading table
along the mountain road
somehow it tugs at my heart—
a wild violet—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
2019
Friday, April 12th
sounds of New York
Lake Street Dive, “Musta Been Something,” live, New York (Retrofret Vintage Guitars, Brooklyn), 2018
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it is spring!
a hill without a name
in thin haze—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
2019
Thursday, April 11th
Only in Minnesota do drums go with snow.
Dave King and JT Bates, live, South St. Paul, Minn., 12/15/18
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random sights
mid-February, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Wednesday, April 10th
sounds of New York
Lily Maase and the Suite Unraveling (LM, guitar, compositions; Jeff Tobias, tenor saxophone, keyboards; Nick Millevoi, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums; with guests Val Jeanty, electronics, and Chelsea Baratz, tenor saxophone), live, New York (The Stone), 3/12/19
“Made to Be Broken”
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“Life at Stylus Point”
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yesterday, Chicago
2019
Tuesday, April 9th
sounds of New York
Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Graham Haynes (trumpet), Brandon Ross (guitar), Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty, electronics, percussion, turntables), live (studio), New York, 2018
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yesterday, Chicago
2019
Monday, April 8th
Why not start the week with a trip to Haiti?
Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty), live (studio), Haiti (Le Studio, Port-au-Prince), 2018
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musical thoughts
Sounds shape reality.
—Val Jeanty
2019
Sunday, April 7th
sounds of Chicago
Carrie Robinson, “Power to Live Right,” live, Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1965
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random sights
yesterday, Forest Park, Ill.
2019
Saturday, April 6th
another take
Here’s the original.
The Jaynetts, “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (L. Stevens & Z. Sanders, or A. Spector), 1963 (Billboard Hot 100, #2)
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as if it just spotted
a star
the pheasant cries—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Friday, April 5th
voices I miss
Tim Buckley (1947-1975), “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (Z. Sanders & L. Stevens, or A. Spector; T. Buckley), live, c. 1973
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We dream – it is good we are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from #584 (Franklin)
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