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This combination of voices—alto saxophone, cello, accordion—I could listen to all day.
Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Hank Roberts (cello), Aurora Nealand (accordion, etc.), live, Austria (Wels), 11/26/24
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
like nobody else
Happy (79th) birthday, Anthony!
Anthony Braxton (6/4/1945-, reeds, composition) with Dan Peck (tuba), Taylor Ho Bynum (brass), Tomeka Reid (cello), Jacqui Kerrod (harp), Shelly Burgon (harp), Adam Matlock (accordion, aerophones), “Composition No. 409,” live, New Haven, Conn., 2017
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radio
Today, celebrating his birthday, WKCR (Columbia University) is featuring his music from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (ET).
like nothing else
Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Hank Roberts (cello), Aurora Nealand (accordion, voice, clarinet), live, New York, 11/1/23
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton (1945-, reeds, composition) with Dan Peck (tuba), Taylor Ho Bynum (brass), Tomeka Reid (cello), Jacqui Kerrod (harp), Shelly Burgon (harp), Adam Matlock (accordion, aerophones), “Composition No. 409,” live, New Haven (Connecticut), 2017
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Austin
Terry Allen, “Bottom of the World” (T. Allen), live (studio), Austin, 2013
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random sights
other day, Chicago
serendipity
This I bumped into last night, happily.
Clara Iannotta (1983-), 3 sur 5 (2012-2013); Continuum Contemporary Music, live, Toronto, 2018
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Tarkovsky Quartet (François Couturier, piano; Anja Lechner, cello; Jean-Marc Larché, soprano saxophone; Jean-Louis Matinier, accordion), “Nuit blanche,” 2017
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reading table
I prefer winter . . . when you feel the bone structure of the landscape . . . . Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
—painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Times Literary Supplement, 11/23/18
serendipity
This I bumped into the other night.
Ivan Petrovich Larionov (1830-1889), “Kalinka”; Tanya Kalmanovitch (violin) and Ted Reichman (accordion), live, Boston (Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory), 2010
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other day, Chicago
“The Past” (composition for film, accordion, soprano saxophone/electronics), Molly Jones (composition, soprano saxophone, electronics), Borey Shinn (accordion), Irvine, Calif., 2016
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musical thoughts
In the future multimedia performances will be so common that the term “multimedia” will fall out of use.
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ireland
Seamus Begley (accordion, vocals) & Tim Edey (guitar), “Maidin Luan Cinches,” “Tomáisín a’ Rí,” live, Ireland (Donegal), 2010
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random sights
other day, Ireland (outside Dingle)
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