only rock ‘n’ roll
Norah Jones (vocals, keyboard) with Brian Blade (drums), Sasha Dobson (vocals), Gus Seyffert (bass, vocals), live, New York, published 1/28/22
“I’ve Got a Feeling” (Lennon–McCartney)
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“Let It Be” (Lennon–McCartney)
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Chicago
Little Criss and the Righteous Singers, “I’ll Go,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1972
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sounds of Colombia
Kombilesa Mí, live (“I Tando Pa Palenge,” “I A Piyá Bó,” “Kumo Kusa Tá,” “Los Peinados,” “Asina Gue,” “Ma Nduse,” “Ata Uto Begá”), published yesterday
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last night, Oak Park, Ill.
what’s new
Jake Xerxes Fussell (vocals, guitar) with Libby Rodenbough (violin, harmonium, vocals) and Casey Toll (bass), live (“The River St. Johns,” “Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?”, “Breast of Glass”), Pittsboro, North Carolina, published 1/25/22
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alone
Rebecca Saunders (1967-), White (2016); Ensemble Musikfabrik (Marco Blaauw, trumpet), Cologne (Germany), published 1/17/22
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basement jukebox
Sonny Boy Williamson (AKA Aleck [or Alex] “Rice” Miller, 1912[?]-1965), “Nine Below Zero” (S. B. Williamson), 1951
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reading table
Drooping
in this upside-down world,
a bamboo in the snow.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Tom Lowenstein
sounds of New York
Steve Swell (trombone), Dave Sewelson (baritone saxophone), Michael Vatcher (drums), live, New York, 1/20/22
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sounds of Amsterdam
Jeff Kaiser (trumpet, laptop), Michael Moore (clarinets), Michael Vatcher (percussion), live, Amsterdam, 2009
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Barbara Kruger (1945-), fragment from the exhibit Thinking of You/ I Mean Me/ I Mean You
back to church
“Look away in the middle of the air,” live, Rock Hill, S.C. (Nazareath Baptist Church), 2003
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other day, Chicago
voices I miss
Von Freeman (1923-2012, MCOTD Hall of Fame), tenor saxophone
“Oleo” (S. Rollins) with Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone), Willie Pickens (piano), Dan Shapera (bass), Robert Shy (drums), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 1988
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With John Young (1922-2008, piano), et al., live (radio broadcast), late 1970s
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“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” (E. Maschwitz & M. Sherwin) with Jodie Christian (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), live, Harrisburg, Penn., 1994
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“I Can’t Get Started” (V. Duke, I. Gershwin), live, Belgium, 1992
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“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (R. Rodgers, L. Hart) with Mike Allemena (guitar), Matt Ferguson (bass), Michael Raynor (drums), live, Chicago (Mandel Hall, University of Chicago), 2011
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my back pages
On a cold, snowy night forty-five years ago, at a church thirty miles north of Chicago, my wife, Suzanne, and I were married. Von Freeman and pianist John Young (1922-2008) provided the music, playing before the ceremony, during (as Suzanne walked down the aisle), and after. All of what they played that night (“Over the Rainbow,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “More,” “In a Sentimental Mood,” “My Favorite Things,” “Song for My Father”) can be heard here (0:15-).
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