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2022

Thursday, October 6th

timeless

This clip, which I bumped into the other day, may be the best I have ever seen of an artist whose music means as much to me as anyone’s.

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano, compositions) with Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Butch Warren (b), Frankie Dunlop (drums), live (TV show: “Evidence,” “Blue Monk,” Just a Gigolo” [L. Casucci, J. Brammer, I. Caesar], “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues,” “Epistrophy”), Tokyo (Japan), 1963

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2022

Friday, September 30th

like nobody else

Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet, 1941-2010) & His Magic Band, “I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby” (D. Van Vliet), live, TV show (Beat-Club), Germany (Bremen), 1972

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2022

Saturday, September 24th

sounds of Buenos Aires

Juana Molina, live (performance begins at 5:15), Buenos Aires (Argentina), 9/23/22

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2022

Wednesday, September 21st

sounds of New York

Heart Trio (William Parker [1952-], kora; Cooper-Moore [1946-], homemade instruments; Hamid Drake [1955-, MCOTD Hall of Fame], percussion), live, New York, 6/22/22

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2022

Monday, September 19th

sounds of New York

Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), Gerald Cleaver (drums), live, New York, 9/16/22

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William Klein (1926-2022), Dance in Brooklyn, 1955

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2022

Saturday, September 17th

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Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB [1983-2022, trumpet, voice, percussion, composition] with Lester St. Louis [cello, voice, percussion], Jason Ajemian [bass], Chad Taylor [drums, mbira, voice]), “Prayer for Amerikka,” live, New York, 2021

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William Klein (1926-2022), 3 Kids + Harmonica, New York, 1955

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2022

Monday, September 12th

sounds of San Francisco

Charles Lloyd Quartet (CL [1938-], tenor saxophone, flute, compositions; Keith Jarrett [1945-], piano, soprano saxophone; Ron McClure [1941-], bass; Jack DeJohnette [1942-], drums), live (TV show), San Francisco, 1968

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2022

Saturday, September 10th

3n

Paul Lytton (1947-, drums), Ken Vandermark (1964-, reeds), Nate Wooley (1974-, trumpet), live, Rochester, New York, 4/20/22

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2022

Thursday, September 8th

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Camila Nebbia (tenor saxophone), Michael Formanek (bass), Vinny Sperrazza (drums), live, New York (Downtown Music Gallery), 8/28/22

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reading table

Life is not made for meetings;
like stars at opposite ends of the sky we move.

—Tu Fu (aka Du Fu, 712-770), from “Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement,” translated from the Chinese by Burton Watson (The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, 1984)

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2022

Wednesday, August 31st

this week in Chicago

He will be playing, Saturday night, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Miguel Zenón (1976-, alto saxophone, composition), “Navegando (Las Estrellas Nos Guían)” (feat. Los Pleneros De La Cresta), live (studio), published 8/26/22

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