Friday, November 3rd
like nothing else
Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Hank Roberts (cello), Aurora Nealand (accordion, voice, clarinet), live, New York, 11/1/23
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Thursday, November 2nd
timeless
The other night, driving to Kankakee to see a client in jail, I couldn’t have asked for better company.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Quintet for Clarinet and Strings; Quatuor Ébène with Damien Bachmann (clarinet), live, France (Wissembourg), 2018
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Saturday, October 28th
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Ken Vandermark (tenor saxophone, clarinet) and Marta Warelis (piano), live, France (Montreuil), 6/22/23
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Saturday, September 23rd
like nothing else
Anthony Davis (1951-), You Have the Right to Remain Silent (2007); Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Louis Langrée, cond.) with Anthony McGill (clarinet), Earl Howard (Kurzweil synthesizer), live, Cincinnati, 2020
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Tuesday, July 25th
sounds of Chicago
Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble (DL, vocals, electronics; Dana Hall, drums; Arif Smith, percussion; Angel Bat Dawid, clarinet, vocals; Ben Lamar Gay, cornet; Monique Golding, vocals; Tremaine Parker, vocals; Erica Rene, vocals), “The Body Is Electric” (D. Locks), live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 2021
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Friday, June 2nd
sounds of Amsterdam
Michael Moore Universe Quartet (MM, alto saxophone, clarinet; Guillermo Celano, guitar; Omer Govreen, bass; Onno Govaert, drums), live (first set: 15:00; second set: 1:32:00), Amsterdam (Bimhuis), yesterday
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Thursday, April 13th
How about something quiet, delicate, beautiful?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Extended Circular Music No. 8 (2014): Klaus Lang (organ); Ranjevš & Óbasz (Jakub Švejnar, percussion; Štefan Szabó, electric guitar); Prague Quiet Music Collective (Anna Paulová, clarinet, bass clarinet; Milan Jakeš, violin; Luan Gonçalves, bass; Ian Mikyska, string and wind instruments), live, Prague, 2022
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Tuesday, March 21st
Complex? Yes. But its complexity is matched by its clarity. It breathes.
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), Composition for Twelve Instruments (1948, rev. 1954): Ensemble conducted by Ralph Shapey (1921-2002), 1962
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Friday, March 17th
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Constellation.
Dave Douglas (trumpet) and Elan Mehler (piano) with Dominique Eade (vocals), John Gunther (reeds), et al: “If There Are Mountains” (D. Douglas with words by Santoka Taneda [1882-1950], translated from the Japanese by John Stevens: “If there are mountains, I look at the mountains; / On rainy days I listen to the rain. / Spring, summer, autumn, winter. / Tomorrow too will be good. / Tonight too will be good.”), studio, 2020
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Wednesday, January 18th
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton (1945-, reeds, compositions), et al., live (performance begins at 3:25), Amsterdam, 2015
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921
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