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Month: October, 2020

Wednesday, October 21st

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Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums), “Evidence” (T. Monk), live, Japan, 1963

 

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Tuesday, October 20th

what’s new

Kris Davis (piano), Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), live (performance begins at 3:50), New York (live-streamed by Skopje Jazz Festival, North Macedonia), 10/17/20

 

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Monday, October 19th

alone

Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), “Magic Square” (P. Brennan), published 10/16/20

 

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Sunday, October 18th

timeless

Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “God Don’t Never Change,” 1929

 

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Saturday, October 17th

what’s new

William Parker Trio (WP, bass; Ava Mendoza, guitar; Gerald Cleaver, drums), live (performance begins at 3:10), New York (live-streamed by Skopje Jazz Festival, North Macedonia), 10/15/20

 

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other day, Chicago

*****

reading table

Now is the time to experiment, and there is no choice but to experiment.

—Gustavo Dudamel (1981-), Music & Artistic Director, Los Angeles Philharmonic (quoted in Alex Ross, “The L.A. Philharmonic’s Emotional Return to an Empty Hollywood Bowl,” New Yorker, 9/28/20)

Friday, October 16th

two takes

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), “Well You Needn’t”

Thelonious Monk Quartet (TM, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; Larry Gales, bass; Ben Riley, drums), live, 1965

 

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Kenny Barron Quintet (KB, piano; Riley Mulherkar, trumpet; Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone; Kiyoshi Kitagawa, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums), live, Ukraine (Lviv), 2019

 

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Thursday, October 15th

This I could listen to all day.

John Luther Adams (1953-), songbirdsongs (1974-80), excerpt (Mvt. V, Mourning Dove); Sandbox Percussion (marimba) with Jessica Sindell, Martha Aarons, Zack Patten, John Luther Adams (ocarinas); live, Montana (Fishtail), 2018

 

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other day, Chicago

Wednesday, October 14th

alone

Kayhan Kalhor (1963-, setar), live, Tehran, 5/21/20

 

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other day, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path, Bellwood, Ill.)

Tuesday, October 13th

alone

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), Un Adieu (1978); Marianne Schroeder (1949-, piano), 1992

 

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Monday, October 12th

Why not begin the week with two minutes of genius?

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano), “Epistrophy” (T. Monk), live (excerpt)

 

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