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2022

Friday, September 9th

basement jukebox: sounds of Chicago

J. B. Lenoir (1929-1967), “Mama Talk to Your Daughter,” 1955

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Magic Sam (aka Samuel Maghett, 1937-1969), “All Your Love,” 1957

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Otis Rush (1934-2018), “All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” 1958

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Junior Wells (1934-1998), “Little by Little,” 1960

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Buddy Guy (1936-), “First Time I Met the Blues,” 1960

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Sonny Boy Williamson II (aka Alex [or Aleck] Miller, 1912-1965), “Help Me,” 1963

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Fenton Robinson (1935-1997), “Somebody (Loan Me a Dime),” 1967

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2022

Friday, September 2nd

what’s new

Fantastic Negrito (aka Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz), “Virginia Soil” (X. Dphrepaulezz), live (studio), published 8/26/22

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reading table

My Teacher once said to me,
—become one with the knot itself
til it dissolves away.

—Gary Snyder (1930-), from “Four Changes” (Collected Poems, 2022)

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2022

Tuesday, August 30th

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Jaimie Branch (1983-2022, trumpet) with Ben LaMar Gay (cornet) and Josh Berman (cornet), live, Chicago (Experimental Sound Studio), 2016

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2022

Sunday, August 28th

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Mavis Staples (1939-) and Levon Helm (1940-2012), “You Got to Move” (rec. 2011, Woodstock, N.Y.), published 2022

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other day, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)

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2022

Thursday, August 25th

timeless

Fats Waller (1904-1943, piano, vocals), “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (F. E. Ahlert, J. Young), 1935

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2022

Tuesday, August 23rd

string festival
day two

Tomeka Reid Ensemble (TR, 1977- [cello, composition], Fred Lonberg-Holm [cello], Mazz Swift [violin], Jason Hwang [viola], et al.), “Tokens,” live, Chicago (Hyde Park Jazz Festival), 2015

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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2022

Sunday, August 21st

sounds of Chicago

Delois Barrett Campbell (1926-2011, voice) with sister Rhodessa Barrett Porter (voice), Robert Wooten (organ), Charles Pike (piano), “I’ll Rise Again” (aka “Rise Again”), live, Chicago (Operation Push), late 1970s-80s

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2022

Friday, August 12th

summer in the city

Japanese Breakfast and Jeff Tweedy, “Jesus, Etc.” (J. Tweedy), live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/22

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2022

Friday, July 29th

summer in the city

Low, live (“White Horses,” “I Can Wait,” “All Night,” “Disappearing,” “Hey,” “Days Like These,” “More,” “The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off),” “Canada”), Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/22

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2022

Monday, June 13th

never enough

Yesterday afternoon, feeling in a bit of a funk before visiting a client in jail, I stumbled upon this and within moments, it seemed, the air began to lighten.

Miles Davis Quintet (MD [1926-1991], trumpet; Wayne Shorter [1933-], tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock [1940-], piano; Ron Carter [1937-], bass; Tony Williams [1945-1997], drums), live, Stockholm (Sweden), 1967

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