Wednesday, September 30th
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Arthur Russell (1951-1992, vocals, cello), “This Is How We Walk on the Moon” (A. Russell), 1980s
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Month: September, 2020
2020
Tuesday, September 29th
sounds of London
Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden, 1977-, musician/producer/dj), London, 2016
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2020
Monday, September 28th
timeless
Miles Davis Quintet (MD, 1926-1991, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, 1933-, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, 1940-, piano; Ron Carter, 1937-, bass; Tony Williams, 1945-1997, drums) , live, Italy (Milan), 1964
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musical thoughts
Herbie Hancock: “the best thing that Miles ever said to me.”
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Sunday, September 27th
testify!
B.T.U. Specials, “God’s Got a Blessing for You”
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other day, Chicago
2020
Saturday, September 26th
Enter this sound-world; you won’t want to leave.
Jean-Guihen Queyras (1967-, cello), live (Ahmet Adnan Saygun [1907-1991], Partita for solo cello, op. 31; Benjamin Britten [1913-1976] Cello Suite No. 3, op. 87; Zoltán Kodály [1882-1967] Sonata for solo cello, op. 8),performance begins at 4:50, London, 9/24/20
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Friday, September 25th
what’s new
Anderson .Paak (feat. Rick Ross), “Cut Em In,” 9/23/20
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other day, outside Chicago
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What makes anyone draw one line and then add another? How does the second affect the first and determine the character of a third or fourth?
—Peter Schjeldahl, “Lineage: French drawings from the nineteenth century,” New Yorker, 9/14/20
2020
Thursday, September 24th
sounds of London
Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), live (“Source,” “Pace,” “Boundless Beings”), London, 9/16/20
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yesterday, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
2020
Wednesday, September 23rd
alone
Sometimes the right music, heard at the right time, can change the entire trajectory of your day, as happened late yesterday afternoon when I stumbled upon this.
Chris Abrahams (1961-, piano), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 8/29/20
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We liken ourselves—
our bodies, frail and vagrant—
to floating clouds.
And all along, in the end,
that is what we shall become.—Fujiwara no Kintō (966-1041), translated from Japanese by Steven D. Carter
2020
Tuesday, September 22nd
passings
Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, singer, songwriter, December 8, 1942–September 11, 2020
The Maytals (later Toots and the Maytals), “Pressure Drop” (F. Hibbert), 1970 (original recording)
It’s a song about revenge, but in the form of karma: If you do bad things to innocent people, then bad things will happen to you. The title was a phrase I used to say. If someone done me wrong, rather than fight them like a warrior, I’d say: “The pressure’s going to drop on you.”
—Toots Hibbert, The Guardian, 9/6/16
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Monday, September 21st
Last night, driving in Chicago with the windows down, I had this track, recorded thirty years ago, on repeat.
Arthur Russell (1951-1992, vocals, cello, keyboards) with Jennifer Warnes (1947-, vocals), “That’s Us/Wild Combination” (A. Russell), late 1980s
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