Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
John Luther Adams (1953-), The Farthest Place (2001); Robin Lorentz (violin), Amy Knoles (vibraphone, marimba), Bryan Pezzone (piano), Barry Newton (bass), 2002
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timeless
Bud Powell (1924-1966, piano) with Curly (aka Curley) Russell (bass), Max Roach (drums), “Un Poco Loco” (B. Powell), 1951
In the late 1980s, the renowned literary and cultural critic Harold Bloom included “Un Poco Loco” in his list of the most “sublime” works of twentieth-century American art (from his introduction to Modern Critical Interpretations: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow).
—Wikipedia
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sounds of New York
Suffering from an excess of joy?
If so, you might want to pass on this.
Emmet Cohen Trio (EC, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums) with guests Joe Farnsworth (drums), Julius Rodriguez (piano), Mathis Picard (piano), live (tribute to pianist Cedar Walton [1934-2013]), New York, last night
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Larry Gray (bass), live (improvisations), Chicago, 2020
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timeless
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), “I Have a Dream,” Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
only rock ‘n’ roll
METZ, live (“Blind Youth Industrial Park,” “No Ceiling,” “Hail Taxi,” “Framed By The Comet’s Tail,” “A Boat To Drown In”), Toronto, 12/14/20
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How about starting the week with a trio that’s tight as a drumhead?
Greg Ward (alto saxophone), Dennis Carroll (bass), Greg Artry (drums), live (performing as Carroll/Artry/Ward), Chicago (Constellation), Saturday night (Note: The video feed on this livestream froze intermittently, but that didn’t affect the sound.)
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sounds of New York
When the world is making no sense, what a relief to hear a new language.
Tony Malaby (saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums), live, New York, 2015
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Why not begin the week with sounds, unheralded in their time, that have proven timeless?
Jazz Composers Collective* plays Herbie Nichols (1919-1963), live, New York, 2019
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*Frank Kimbrough (piano), Ron Horton (trumpet), Michael Blake (tenor saxophone), Ben Allison (bass), Michael Sarin (drums).
sounds of Chicago
Saturday I posted the first of these two (wonderful) performances; here’s the second.
Mars Williams presents: An Ayler Xmas Vol. 4 (Night 2) (Mars Williams, tenor saxophone, toy instruments; Josh Berman, cornet; Jim Baker, piano, viola, ARP synthesizer; Krzysztof Pabian, bass; Brian Sandstrom, bass, guitar, trumpet; Steve Hunt, drums; Peter Maunu, violin), live (performance begins at 5:15), Chicago (Constellation), 12/19/20
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reading table
An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.I heard
in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.—Anna Swir (1909-1984), “Priceless Gifts” (translated from Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan)
sounds of New Orleans
The Meters (with Lowell George, slide guitar), “Just Kissed My Baby” (Z. Modeliste, A. Neville, L. Nocentelli, G. Porter Jr.), 1974
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