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2024

Friday, August 9th

what’s new

What you need, right now, whether you know it or not.

Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding, live (“Cais” [Milton Nascimento]; “Outubro” [Milton Nascimento]; “Saci,” feat. Guinga [Guinga, Paulo César Pinheiro]; “Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair (Conversando No Bar),” feat. Maria Gadú [Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant]; “When You Dream,” feat. Maria Gadú [Wayne Shorter, Edgy Lee]), Rio de Janeiro, published 8/7/24

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random sights

other day, outside Chicago

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2024

Thursday, August 1st

sounds of Chicago

Muhal Richard Abrams Sextet (MRA [1930-2017], keyboards; Henry Threadgill, reeds [1944-, MCOTD Hall of Fame]; Kalaparusha [Maurice McIntyre], reeds [1936-2013]; Wallace McMillan, reeds [1941-]; Reggie Willis, bass; Steve McCall, drums [1933-1989]), live, Berlin, 1973

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random sights

other day, Chicago

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2024

Saturday, July 20th

what’s new

Sylvie Courvoisier (piano, compositions), Chimaera, with Christian Fennesz (guitar, electronics), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), Kenny Wollesen (vibraphone, drums), Drew Gress (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), live, Amsterdam, 7/13/24

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago

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2024

Friday, July 12th

sounds of Chicago

Fred Moten (voice, words)/Brandon Lopez (bass), live, Chicago, 6/5/24

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reading table

Cut down, yes
But rooted still
What stumps compress
No axe can kill

—Samuel Menashe (1925-2011), from “Survival”

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2024

Wednesday, July 10th

sounds of New York

Being & Becoming (Peter Evans, trumpet; Joel Ross, vibraphone, electronics; Nick Jozwiak, bass, electronics; Michael Shekwoaga Ode, drums), “My Sorrow Is Luminous” (Yanka Dyagileva, 1966-1991), live, New York, 2023

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reading table

A Word that breathes distinctly
Has not the power to die

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 1651 (Franklin)

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2024

Saturday, June 15th

timeless

Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022, tenor saxophone), Lonnie Liston Smith (1940-, piano), Norris “Sirone” Jones (1940-2009, bass), Majib (aka Najeed) Shabazz (drums), live, France (Antibes), 1968

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2024

Monday, May 27th

what’s new

Denver Butson (words, voice) with Mat Maneri’s ASH Quartet (MM, viola; Lucian Ban, piano; Brandon Lopez, bass; Randy Peterson, drums), live, New York (Bar Bayeux, Brooklyn), 3/27/24

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random sights

other day, Chicago

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2024

Monday, April 22nd

Happy (102nd) Birthday, Charles!

Charles Mingus Sextet (CM, 4/22/1922–1/5/1979, bass, compositions; Eric Dolphy, 1928-1964, alto saxophone; Clifford Jordan, 1931-1993, tenor saxophone; Johnny Coles, 1925-1987, trumpet; Jaki Byard, 1922-1999, piano; Dannie Richmond, 1931-1988, drums), live, Belgium,* Norway,** Sweden,*** 1964

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radio

All Mingus, all day: WKCR-FM (Columbia University).

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* “So Long Eric,” “Peggy’s Blue Skylight,” “Meditations on Integration”

** “So Long Eric,” “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk,” “Parkeriana,” “Take The ‘A’ Train”

*** “So Long Eric” (performance and rehearsal), “Meditations on Integration” (performance and rehearsal)

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2024

Monday, April 8th

sounds of New York

These two sets, live-streamed last night, are very different. The first is wonderful. The second? One of the best things I’ve heard in a long time.

First Set: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone, electronics) & Adam O’Farrill (trumpet, electronics) Duo, 10:00-

Second Set: Patricia Brennan’s SeVeN (Patricia Brennan, vibraphone, electronics; Adam O’Farrill, trumpet, electronics; Jon Irabagon, alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone; Mark Shim, tenor saxophone; Kim Cass, bass; Dan Weiss, drums; Mauricio Herrera, percussion), 1:14:00-

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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2024

Saturday, April 6th

joy, n. a source of keen pleasure or delight. E.g., listening to singer Eddie Jefferson.

Eddie Jefferson (1918-1979), live (with Richie Cole, alto saxophone; John Campbell, piano; Kelly Sill, bass; Joel Spencer, drums), Chicago (Jazz Showcase), 5/6/79 (days later, he was dead, shot outside a Detroit jazz club)

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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), Mont Sainte-Victoire (detail)

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