Wednesday, December 9th
sounds of New York
Marc Ribot (guitar), Jay Rodriguez (tenor saxophone, flute), Nick Dunston (bass), Chad Taylor (drums), live New York, 2019
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2020
Monday, December 7th
Need a break from bleakness?
Why not begin the week with something exuberant?
“A Night in Tunisia” (D. Gillespie); Emmet Cohen Trio (EC, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums) featuring Bruce Harris (trumpet) and Patrick Bartley (alto saxophone), live, published 10/25/20
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2020
Friday, November 27th
what’s new
How strange, and surprising, this word seems today—”fun.”
Emmet Cohen Trio (EC, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums) featuring Cyrille Aimée (vocals), “La Vie En Rose” (E. Piaf, et al.), live, published 11/6/20
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In cherry blossom
shadows, no one, really, is
a stranger now.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Wednesday, November 18th
sounds of New York
Seraphic Light (Daniel Carter, trumpet, saxophone; Matthew Shipp, piano; William Parker, bass), live (dedicated to visual artist Marilyn Sontag, Carter’s longtime partner), New York, 2018
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Saturday, November 14th
sounds of Chicago
Brokeback trio (Douglas McCombs [Fender Bass VI], James Elkington [pedal steel guitar, keyboard], Areif Sless-Kitain [drums, percussion]), with video by Kim Alpert, live (performance begins at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), yesterday
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Friday, November 6th
sounds of Mexico
Son Rompe Pera, live (“Proteus,” “FOS,”” Reina de Cumbias,” “Ay David!,” “El Palo Poste”), Mexico City, published 10/17/20
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All I want
is not to befirst on one side,
then the other,but to conjure
a streamof sounds and images
for which I am notresponsible.
and maneuver within it—mouth and tail
one thought.—Rae Armantrout, from “Conjure” (Conjure, 2020)
2020
Monday, November 2nd
Hop on this train; you won’t want to get off.
Steve Coleman and Five Elements (Steve Coleman, alto saxophone; Jen Shyu, vocals; Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet; Tim Albright, trombone; Reggie Washington, bass; Tyshawn Sorey, drums), live (performance begins at 2:10), France (Amiens), 2005
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gathering dewdrops—
each one
the life of a daughter—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2020
Friday, October 30th
sounds of Chicago
Dustin Laurenzi’s Natural Language (DL, tenor saxophone; Jeff Swanson, guitar; Mike Harmon, bass; Charles Rumback, drums), live, Chicago (Constellation), 10/10/20
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Thursday, October 29th
timeless
Charles Mingus Sextet (CM, 1922-1979, bass; Eric Dolphy, 1928-1964, alto saxophone; Clifford Jordan, 1931-1993, tenor saxophone; Johnny Coles, 1925-1987, trumpet; Jaki Byard, 1922-1999, piano; Dannie Richmond, 1931-1988, drums), “So Long Eric” (C. Mingus), live, Norway (Oslo), 1964
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Wednesday, October 28th
sounds of Chicago
Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Mars Williams, saxophones, etc.; Jim Baker, piano, etc.; Brian Sandstrom, bass, etc.; Steve Hunt, drums, percussion), live (performance begins at 5:50), Chicago (Constellation), 10/24/20
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