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Friday, October 2nd

tonight in Chicago

These guys will be playing at Constellation.

The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone and tenor saxophones; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live, London, 2010

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reading table

You ask: what is life? That’s like asking: what is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot, and that’s all there is to know.

—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), letter to wife Olga Knipper-Chekhova, April 20, 1904 (translated from Russian by Cathy Popkin [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])

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Thursday, September 24th

drum fest
day four

Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), William Parker (bass), Hamid Drake (drums), live, New York, 2014

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

Imagine living in a drumless world.

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Monday, September 21st

drum fest
day one

Gebhard Ullmann (tenor saxophone), Steve Swell (trombone), Hilliard Greene (bass), Barry Altschul (drums), “Planet Hopping on a Thursday Afternoon” (S. Swell), live, Germany (Bernbeuren), 2010

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Tuesday, September 15th

never enough

Miles Davis (1926-1991), live, England (Isle of Wight Festival), 1970*

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lagniappe

random thoughts

What would it be like to live in a world where the sky was always the same?

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*With Gary Bartz, saxophones; Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, keyboards; Airto Moreira, percussion; Dave Holland, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums.

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Monday, September 14th

sounds of Zimbabwe

This I could listen to all day.

Thomas Mapfumo, “Chikonzero”
Live (studio performance), Eugene, Oregon, 2015

MVP? That’s easy—guitarist Gilbert Zvamaida. In his hands melody (or “lead”) and rhythm are one.

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the beat goes on

2,100 posts—and counting.

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Wednesday, September 2nd

tenor fest
day three

Sonny Rollins Trio (with Henry Grimes, bass; Joe Harris, drums), “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” (E. K. “Duke” Ellington), live, Sweden, 1959

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reading table

frogs sing, roosters sing
the east
turns light

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue

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Tuesday, September 1st

tenor fest
day two

Von Freeman (MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, New Apartment Lounge, Chicago

2010

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2008

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Von Freeman, who was considered one of the finest tenor saxophonists in jazz but attained wide fame only late in life, died on Aug. 11 in Chicago. He was 88.

—New York Times obituary, 8/18/12

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reading table

A wounded Deer – leaps highest –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #181 (Franklin)

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Monday, August 31st

tenor fest
day one

Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), “Blues Up and Down” (G. Ammons, S. Stitt), live, Denmark, 1967*

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reading table

Withered grass,
under piling
heat waves.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto

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*With Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass; Albert “Tootie” Heath, drums.

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Thursday, August 27th

tonight in Chicago

These folks will be at Constellation.

Tomeka Reid (cello) with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Jason Roebke (bass), and Tomas Fujiwara (drums), “Glass Light,” live, Chicago, 2014

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And these guys will be Elastic.

Dave Rempis (saxophone), Joshua Abrams (bass), Avreeayl Ra (drums), live, Chicago, 2013

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radio

Celebrating the birthdays of saxophonists Lester Young (August 27, 1909) and Charlie Parker (August 29, 1920), WKCR-FM (Columbia University) is featuring their music all day today (Young), all day tomorrow (Young and Parker), all day Saturday (Parker), and into Sunday morning (Parker).