Why not start the week with something small, quiet, beautiful?
Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), “Solar” (P. Brennan), live (studio), New York, 2018
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yesterday, Chicago
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Only thing
the thief left behind—
moon in my window.—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi
timeless
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “God Don’t Never Change” (W. Johnson), 1929
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Midnight frost—
I’d borrow
the scarecrow’s shirt.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
never enough
Micro-review: !
Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Ferruccio Busoni); Hélène Grimaud (piano), live, Berlin, 2001
(Note: After posting this clip, I found that it cannot be viewed here; however, it can be at YouTube.)
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what’s new
Lous and the Yakuza, live, Paris, published 1/27/2021
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The problem with being alone is that one never is: you’ve always got yourself to contend with.
—Alex Clark, Times Literary Supplement (“A singular traveller: Patricia Highsmith at 100”), 1/22/21
alone
Kim Kashkashian (viola), “In memoriam Blum Tamás” by György Kurtág (from Signs, Games, and Messages for solo viola [1998-2005]), live, Germany (Hamburg), 2020
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The world? Moonlit
drops shaken
from the crane’s bill.—Dogen (1200-1253), translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk with the assistance of Noboru Fujiwara
alone
Brad Mehldau (piano), live, Amsterdam, 12/3/20*
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*Program:
Excerpts from the album Suite: April 2020:
I. waking up
II. stepping outside
III. keeping distance
IV. stopping, listening: hearing
V. remembering before all this
Satellite (J. Coltrane)
Here’s That Rainy Day ( J. Van Heusen, J. Burke)
passings
SOPHIE, musician, producer, singer, songwriter, September 17, 1986–January 30, 2021
“Immaterial” (S. Exeon), 2018
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Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
John Cage (1912-1992), In a Landscape (1948); Stephen Drury (piano), 1994
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No one home.
Fallen pine needles
scattered at the door.—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi
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