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2014

Thursday, February 27th

sounds of Chicago

Klang (James Falzone, clarinet; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone; Jason Roebke, bass; Tim Daisy, drums), live (studio performance), 2009


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art beat: the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago

Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Untitled (Purple, White, and Red), 1953

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This painting and I have been getting together, several times a year, for decades. Admittedly, our relationship is rather one-sided. But, if anything, its indifference to me only deepens my feelings for it.

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2014

Tuesday, February 25th

old stuff

Kansas City Six (Buck Clayton, trumpet; Lester Young, clarinet; Eddie Durham, electric guitar; Freddie Green, rhythm guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums), “Pagin’ the Devil,” 1938

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in blossoming trees
suddenly he’s hidden . . .
my son

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

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2013

Saturday, December 14th

two takes

This is, to these ears, exhilarating.

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil,* “Cornered (Duck)”

Live, New York (The Stone), 5/8/13


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Live, Washington, D.C (Atlas Performing Arts Center), 10/9/13


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musical thoughts

Music should be no more complex than it needs to be. And no matter how complicated it may actually be, it should never seem that way to the listener. If it does, immediacy has deteriorated into abstraction.

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*TB, alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega, bass clarinet, clarinet; Matt Mitchell, piano; Ches Smith, percussion.

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2013

Tuesday, October 22nd

two takes

“I Thought About You” (J. Van Heusen & J. Mercer)

Jeanne Lee (vocals) with Mal Waldron (piano), et al.
Live, France (Marciac), 2000

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Mildred Bailey (vocals) with Benny Goodman (clarinet), et al.
Recording, 1939


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art beat

Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)

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2013

Wednesday, October 2nd

love it or hate it

Anthony Braxton 12+1tet, Composition 355, live, Italy (Venice), 2012


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Anthony, a MacArthur “genius” award winner (1994) and professor at Wesleyan University, talks about this and that:


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musical thoughts

Music can take us places we’ve never been before, if we’re willing to listen to sounds we’ve never heard before.

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2013

Thursday, May 9th

Some instruments just seem made for each other.

Ned Rothenberg (clarinet), Mivos Quartet, Clarinet Quintet (N. Rothenberg), excerpt, live, Ann Arbor, 2011


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Let there be physical suddenness.

—Michael McClure

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random thoughts

This morning, before sunrise, when I was out walking my son Luke’s dog, Roscoe, he stopped to inspect each blade of grass, carefully.

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2013

Tuesday, April 30th

one thing after

another after another 

after another after another after . . . 

John Cage (1912-1992), Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958); Variable Geometry (Jean-Phillippe Calvin, director), live, London, 2011

A performance like this can go wrong in so many ways. This one, to these ears, works wonderfully. Momentum, tautness, immediacy—it has them all.

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musical thoughts

Everything we do is music.

—John Cage

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2013

Thursday, April 4th

Feel like floating?

Steve Reich (1936-), Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76)
eighth blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, et al., live, Chicago, 2011

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2013

Wednesday, March 27th

What I love about the ’net is that sometimes, like yesterday, when I happened upon this, you find yourself being lifted out of your seat by something you didn’t even know existed two minutes ago.

Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, alto saxophone) & Samir Chatterjee (tabla), “Interstellar Duo #3,” live, New York, 2009

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The more I read, the less I understand.

—Charles Simic, “Serving Time” (New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012)

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2013

Tuesday, 1/8/13

With just one horn, there’s a lot of space for the other players—the so-called “rhythm section”—to fill, which these guys do as well as anyone I’ve heard in a long time.

David Murray’s Black Saint Quartet (DM, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Lafayette Gilchrist, piano; Jaribu Shahid, bass; Hamid Drake, drums), live, Berlin, 2007

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