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Friday, October 2nd

tonight in Chicago

These guys will be playing at Constellation.

The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone and tenor saxophones; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live, London, 2010

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You ask: what is life? That’s like asking: what is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot, and that’s all there is to know.

—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), letter to wife Olga Knipper-Chekhova, April 20, 1904 (translated from Russian by Cathy Popkin [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])

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Thursday, September 24th

drum fest
day four

Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), William Parker (bass), Hamid Drake (drums), live, New York, 2014

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musical thoughts

Imagine living in a drumless world.

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Wednesday, September 23rd

drum fest
day three

Perhaps the greatest drummer ever.

—Brian Eno

Tony Allen—three takes.

Recording studio, 2009

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Paris, 2015

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Istanbul, 2015

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opening the window
I see the butterfly off . . .
into the field

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

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Tuesday, September 22nd

drum fest
day two

Donald Edwards, live, Israel (Tel Aviv)

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musical thoughts

Listening to drums makes it easier to believe: maybe things will be all right after all.

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Monday, September 21st

drum fest
day one

Gebhard Ullmann (tenor saxophone), Steve Swell (trombone), Hilliard Greene (bass), Barry Altschul (drums), “Planet Hopping on a Thursday Afternoon” (S. Swell), live, Germany (Bernbeuren), 2010

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Lester Bowie’s New York Organ Ensemble (LB [1941-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame], trumpet; Frank Lacy, trombone; James Carter, tenor saxophone; Spencer Barefield, guitar; Kathy Farmer, organ; Famoudou Don Moye, drums), live, Spain (Madrid), 1992

Time for just one?

Try “Somewhere” (L. Bernstein, S. Sondheim), 11:45-.

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art beat

Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967

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2015

Friday, September 18th

only rock ‘n’ roll

Battles, “The Yabba,” live, New York, 2015

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And this brief Drama in the flesh –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #279 (Franklin)

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2015

Thursday, September 17th

tonight in Chicago

These guys are playing at Constellation.

São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics; Mauricio Takara, percussion, cavaquinho, electronics; Guilherme Granado, keyboards, electronics, vocals), live, Italy (Pisa), 2012