Monday, October 31st
sounds of Chicago
Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement with Theaster Gates and the Black Monks, live (performance begins at 21:00), Chicago, 10/29/22
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: October, 2022
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Sunday, October 30th
back to church
Shelly Davis Jr., “Stand By Me” (C.A. Tindley, 1905), live, Alabama (Elba), 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Saturday, October 29th
sounds of New York
Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpet, piccolo trumpet; Joel Ross, vibraphone; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Michael Shekwoaga Ode, drums), “Body and Soul” (1930; J. Green, et al.), live, New York (Sisters, Brooklyn), 8/25/22
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’.—George Oppen (1908-84), from “Of Being Numerous”
2022
Friday, October 28th
what’s new—and old
Andrew Bird (feat. Phoebe Bridgers), “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886), published yesterday
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lagniappe
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Monday, October 24th
what’s new
The Crossing, live, Washington, D.C., published today: Shara Nova (1974-), from “Titration” (“Turn Ya Head,” “Safety in Peril or Calm,” “I’m So Mad I Could Spit Nails,” “Pulses”), 2022
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reading table
In the small beauty of the forest
The wild deer bedding down—
That they are there!—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Psalm”
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(Taking a break—back in a while.)
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Sunday, October 23rd
turn your radio on
Spirit of Memphis Radio Show, WDIA (Memphis), late 1940s/early 1950s
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Saturday, October 22nd
basement jukebox
Phil Pratt & Ken Boothe, “Sweet Song for My Baby,” 1968
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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Friday, October 21st
sounds of Peru
Susana Baca, “Negra Presuntuosa,” live (studio), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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Thursday, October 20th
sounds of Leeds
NikNak (DJ/Turntablist), live (We Out Here Festival), Leeds (England), 2021
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lagniappe
reading table
the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Of Being Numerous”
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Wednesday, October 19th
alone
Kim Kashkashian (viola), live, Cambridge, Mass., 2018, playing György Kurtág (1926-)
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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