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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2015
Saturday, September 19th
voices I miss
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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lagniappe
art beat
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago (Maxwell Street), 1967
2015
Friday, September 18th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Battles, “The Yabba,” live, New York, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
And this brief Drama in the flesh –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #279 (Franklin)
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
2015
Monday, September 7th
tonight in Chicago
This guy will be at the Experimental Sound Studio.
Paal Nilssen-Love, drums, live, Japan (Chiba), 2010
2015
Sunday, September 6th
What an inspired way to begin an album.
Donald Edwards (drums, with sampled voices), “American Drum Call to Mama,” Evolution of an Influenced Mind, 2014
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lagniappe
found words
Vegetable Lover’s Guide to Berlin
—cover of Saveur (October issue)
2015
Wednesday, September 2nd
tenor fest
day three
Sonny Rollins Trio (with Henry Grimes, bass; Joe Harris, drums), “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” (E. K. “Duke” Ellington), live, Sweden, 1959
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lagniappe
reading table
frogs sing, roosters sing
the east
turns light—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2015
Tuesday, September 1st
tenor fest
day two
Von Freeman (MCOTD Hall of Fame), live, New Apartment Lounge, Chicago
2010
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2008
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Von Freeman, who was considered one of the finest tenor saxophonists in jazz but attained wide fame only late in life, died on Aug. 11 in Chicago. He was 88.
—New York Times obituary, 8/18/12
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lagniappe
reading table
A wounded Deer – leaps highest –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #181 (Franklin)
2015
Monday, August 31st
tenor fest
day one
Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), “Blues Up and Down” (G. Ammons, S. Stitt), live, Denmark, 1967*
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lagniappe
reading table
Withered grass,
under piling
heat waves.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
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*With Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bass; Albert “Tootie” Heath, drums.
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