Saturday, July 29th
sounds of São Paulo
Laurent Garnier (French DJ), live (Na Manteiga Radio), São Paulo, 2021
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: France
2023
Saturday, June 24th
passings
Peter Brötzmann, saxophonist, clarinetist, March 6, 1941–June 22, 2013
With his quartet (PB [reeds], Alexander Von Schlippenbach [piano], Peter Kowald [bass], Paul Lovens [drums]), live, Poland (Warsaw), 1974
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With Last Exit (PB [reeds], Sonny Sharrock [guitar], Bill Laswell [6-string bass], Ronald Shannon Jackson [drums, voice]), live, Germany (Frankfurt), 1994
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With Chicago Tentet (PB [saxophones], Ken Vandermark [saxophones], Joe McPhee [saxophones], Roland Ramanan [trumpet], Toshinori Kondo [trumpet], Jeb Bishop [trombone], Fred Longberg-Holm [cello], Kent Kessler [bass], Michael Zerang [drums], Paal Nilssen-Love [drums]), live, France (Le Mans), 2004
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other day, Chicago (Alexander Calder [1898-1976], Flamingo [1973], detail)
2023
Saturday, May 27th
timeless
Art Blakey & The New Jazzmen (AB, drums; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Nathan Davis, tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano; Reggie Workman, bass), “Crisis” (F. Hubbard), live, Paris, 1965
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yesterday, outside Chicago
2023
Monday, January 23rd
like nothing else
DJ Spooky (AKA Paul D. Miller: turntables, electronics, interview) + Matthew Shipp Trio (MS, piano, interview; William Parker, bass; Guillermo Brown, drums), live, France (Seine-Saint-Denis), 2003
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Thursday, December 8th
alone
Antoine Tamestit (1979-, viola), Paris, 5/16/20: Max Reger (1873-1916), Solo Suite No. 1 in G-minor (1915)
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reading table
You would want to be an awful fool not to know that we only bloom once.
—writer Colm Toibin (1955-) quoting writer John McGahern (1934-2006), from a conversation shortly before his death (London Review of Books, 1/27/22)
2022
Thursday, September 29th
voices I miss
Steve Lacy (1934-2004, soprano saxophone), “‘Round Midnight'” (T. Monk), live, Paris (?), c. 1988
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill
2022
Tuesday, May 17th
timeless
Lee Konitz (1927-2020, alto saxophone), Bill Evans (1929-1980, piano [25:33-]), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (1946-2005, bass), Alan Dawson (1929-1996, drums), live (“What’s New,” “All the Things You Are,” “Detour Ahead,” “My Melancholy Baby”), Paris, 1965
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Sunday, April 24th
timeless
Clara Ward Singers (feat. Vermettya Royster), “Travelin’ Shoes,” live, France (Antibes), 1962
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2022
Thursday, April 14th
more
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982, piano) with Philly Joe Jones (1923-1985, drums), et al., “Nutty,” (T. Monk) live, Paris, 1969
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, February 8th
like nobody else
John Zorn’s Acoustic Masada (JZ, 1953-, alto saxophone, compositions; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums), live, Vienne (France), 2006
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