Tuesday, June 30th
alone
Ben Goldberg (1959-, clarinet), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 5/31/20
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
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Month: June, 2020
2020
Monday, June 29th
Judging from the sounds I hear outside my door in the morning, birds don’t seem to have gotten the memo.
John Luther Adams (1953-), songbirdsongs (1974-80); Callithumpian Consort (Stephen Drury, dir.), 2012
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Monadnock Building)
2020
Sunday, June 28th
basement jukebox
Sensational Nightingales (featuring Julius Cheeks), “Pressing On,” 1950s
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lagniappe
art beat: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/6/20
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), The Migration Series (1940-1941), panel 14
2020
Saturday, June 27th
like nobody else
Charmaine Lee (voice), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 4/17/20
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lagniappe
art beat: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/6/20
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 1A, 1948 (detail)
2020
Friday, June 26th
voices I miss
Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), “Move On Up” (C. Mayfield), live, London, 1988
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Thursday, June 25th
This I could listen to all day.
Generations Quartet: Billy Hart (1940-, percussion, lower left), Bob Moses (1948-, percussion, upper left), Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion, upper right), Marcelo Perez (1997-, percussion, lower right), live, Boston, 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Wednesday, June 24th
another take
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor (K. 457); Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000, piano), live, Germany (Munich), 1991
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
My old village lies
far beyond what we can see,
but there the lark is singing—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Tuesday, June 23rd
alone
Aruan Ortiz (1973-, piano), live, 6/11/20
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lagniappe
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
Pure white plum blossoms
slowly begin to turn
the color of dawn—Yosa Buson (1716-1784), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Monday, June 22nd
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor (K. 457); Micah McLaurin (1994-, piano), live, Philadelphia, 2015
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
In seasonal rain
along a nameless river
fear too has no name—Yosa Buson (1716-1784), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Sunday, June 21st
shout!
“He Looked Beyond My Faults” (United House of Prayer band), live, c. 2011
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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