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Tyshawn Sorey Double Trio (TS, composition, conducting, drums; Cory Smythe, piano; Chris Tordini, bass; Fung Chern Hwei, violin; Kyle Amburst, viola; Rubin Kodheli, cello), “The Inner Spectrum of Variables” (T. Sorey), live, Ojai, Calif., 2017
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art beat
other day, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
Nicolas de Jesus (1960-), La ofrenda (The Offering), 2009 (Día de Muertos: A Spiritual Legacy, through December 9th)
Here’s more of the only drummer-composer-trombonist-pianist-professor-MacArthur-“genius”-grant-recipient I know.
Tyshawn Sorey (drums) and Vijay Iyer (piano), live (studio), New York, 2017
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
More sounds of Europe.
Enno Poppe (1969-), Fleisch (2017); Ensemble Nikel, live, Austria (Bludenz), 2017
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
spellbinding
Tyshawn Sorey Trio (TS, compositions, drums [2017 MacArthur Fellow]), Cory Smythe (piano), Chris Tordini (bass), live, New York, 2015
This I could listen to—I could lose myself in—for a long, long time.
They’re playing Thursday night at the University of Chicago.
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random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
more
Jeff Rosenstock, live, Chicago, 2017
passings
Tony Joe White, singer, songwriter, guitar player, harmonica player, July 23, 1943-October 24, 2018
“Rainy Night in Georgia” (T. J. White), live (TV show), London, 2013
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Live, Australia (Sydney), 2008
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Cicely Berry, Royal Shakespeare Company’s voice director, May 17, 1926-October 15, 2018
The Working Shakespeare/Muscularity of Language: Voice and Rhythm (excerpt), 2004
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random sights
other day, outside Chicago (Prairie Path)
only rock ‘n’ roll
Jeff Rosenstock, live (studio), Seattle, 8/20/18
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random thoughts
This life: how precious; how precarious; how preposterous.
like nobody else
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, etc. [1935-1977]) and the Vibration Society (Dick Griffin, trombone; Ron Burton, piano; Vernon Martin, bass; Jerome Cooper, drums; Joe Texidor, percussion), live, Paris, 1970
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
All the people at the controls are opportunists or gangsters. The sweetness of reason died out of our public life with FDR. There doesn’t even seem to be a normal intelligence at work in the affairs of the nation.
—Tennessee Williams, letter to publisher James Laughlin, April 9, 1947
voices I miss
Junior Wells (vocals, harmonica [1934-1998]) with Otis Rush (guitar [1935-2018]), Jack Myers (bass [c. 1937-2011]), Fred Below (drums [1926-1988]), “Hoodoo Man Blues,” live, Berlin, 1966
what’s new
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK (FV, vocals, compositions; Joe Morris, guitar; Sam Newsome, soprano saxophone; Reggie Nicholson, drums), live, New York, 10/13/18
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reading table
I can’t tell you – but you feel it –
Nor can you tell me –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 164 (Franklin)
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