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Tuesday, June 2nd

sounds of Mali

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba, “Siran Fen,” 2015

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lagniappe

reading table

my rice field too
song by song
is planted

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

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The Beatles (Comiskey Park). The Who (Kinetic Playground). The Velvet Underground (Kinetic Playground). The MC5 (Lincoln Park). Bob Marley (Quiet Knight). The list goes on and on. My musical life is unimaginable without the experiences I’ve had with my brother Don, who turns 65 today. Happy Birthday!

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2015

Sunday, May 31st

testify!

Anointed Brown Sisters, “Hold On,” live, LaFayette, Alabama (Mt. Sellers Baptist Church), 2011

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lagniappe

random thoughts

Each day I know less.

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2015

Friday, May 29th

only rock ‘n’ roll

The Oblivians, live, Bartlett, Tenn., 1996

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2015

Friday, May 15th

passings

B.B. King, singer, guitarist, September 16, 1925-May 14, 2015

“The Thrill Is Gone” (R. Hawkins, R. Darnell), live

Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), 1974

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Montreux Jazz Festival, 1993

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2015

Tuesday, May 12th

sounds of Amsterdam

More of the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra.*

Live, Chicago (Elastic Arts), 5/3/15

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lagniappe

art beat

Bruce Davidson (1933-), Palisades, New Jersey, 1958

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*Ab Baars, tenor saxophone; Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone; Michael Moore, alto saxophone; Thomas Heberer, trumpet; Walter Wierbos, trombone; Tristan Honsiger, cello; Mary Oliver, violin; Ernst Glerum, bass; Han Bennink, drums; with guest Guus Janssen (piano).

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2015

Saturday, May 9th

tonight in Chicago

These guys will be at Constellation, as will I.

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil (TB, alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega, clarinet, bass clarinet; Matt Mitchell, piano; Ches Smith, drums, vibes, conga), “Lost in Redding,” live, Buenos Aires, 2015

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art beat

Bruce Davidson (1933-), Palisades, New Jersey, 1958

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2015

Monday, May 4th

sounds of Amsterdam

It’s a wonderful life—sometimes, anyway. This weekend, in Chicago, I got to hear these folks twice: Saturday night all together (Constellation), Sunday in a series of (mostly) duos and trios (Elastic Arts).

Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra*

“Lavoro” (S. Bergin, borrowing from “Moten Swing”), live, Oakland, Ca., 2013

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“East of the Sun, West of the Moon” (Brooks Bowman), recording (East of the Sun), 2014

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2015

Friday, May 1st

only rock ‘n’ roll

The Ex, “That’s Not a Virus,” live, France (Annecy), 2015

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art beat

William Klein (1928-), 4 Heads, New York, 1955

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2015

Thursday, April 30th

tonight in Chicago

These folks—three reed players and a cellist from Chicago, along with a drummer from Norway—will be playing (and recording a live album) at a performing-arts center on the city’s northwest side (Elastic Arts).

Dave Rempis (saxophones), Keefe Jackson (reeds), Jason Stein (bass clarinet), Tomeka Reid (cello), Tollef Østvang (drums), live, Lafayette, Ind., 4/25/15