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2024

Tuesday, January 2nd

sounds of Chicago

A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield (“We’re A Winner,” “Little Child Runnin’ Wild,” “Beautiful Brother of Mine,” “We the People,” “Keep On Keeping On,” “Superfly,” “Freddie’s Dead,” “Now You’re Gone,” “The Other Side of Town,” “The Makings Of You,” “So In Love,” “Move On Up” [all C. Mayfield]): WDR Big Band and WDR Funkhausorchester (Vince Mendoza, arranger/conductor) with Ledisi (vocals), Bilal (vocals), et al., live, Germany (Cologne), 9/30/23

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2023

Tuesday, November 14th

what’s new

Bill Frisell Trio (BF, guitar; Thomas Morgan, bass; Rudy Royston, drums), live, Germany (Leverkusener), 11/9/23

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2023

Thursday, August 24th

alone

John Cage (1912-1992), The Perilous Night (1944) for prepared piano; Benjamin Kobler (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 3/14/22

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2023

Saturday, August 19th

timeless

John Lee Hooker (1917–2001), “Serves Me Right to Suffer” (J. L. Hooker), live (TV show), Germany (Cologne), 1968

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2023

Monday, August 14th

alone

Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Last Pieces for piano (1959); Benjamin Kobler (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 3/14/22

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2023

Wednesday, August 2nd

timeless

Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Pieces for orchestra (Op. 10, 1911-13): NDR Symphony Orchestra (now NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra) with Günter Wand (1912-2002, cond.), live, Berlin, 1985

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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)

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2023

Monday, April 3rd

sound . . . by . . . sound . . . by . . .

AMM (Eddie Prévost, percussion; Keith Rowe, electric guitar, electronics; John Tilbury, piano), live, Berlin, 2019

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The old pond—
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass)

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2022

Thursday, December 29th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major, 3rd Movt. (Largo): Christian Tetzlaff (1966-, violin), Berlin, 2013

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It’s good now and then
to go out snow-viewing
until I tumble

—Matsuo Basho (1644-94), from “The Knapsack Notebook” (translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill)

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2022

Tuesday, December 27th

like nothing else

Susan Alcorn Quintet (SA, pedal steel guitar; Eddie Kwon, violin; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Michael Formanek, bass; Ryan Sawyer, drums), “Night in Gdansk” (S. Alcorn), live, Berlin (Berlin Jazz Festival), 11/4/21

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