like nobody else
Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet, 1941-2010) & His Magic Band, “I’m Gonna Booglarize You, Baby” (D. Van Vliet), live, TV show (Beat-Club), Germany (Bremen), 1972
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random sights
other day, Chicago
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ricercar a 6 (from The Musical Offering), arranged for chamber orchestra by Anton Webern (1883-1945); Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orcestra (Antonello Manacorda, cond.), live, Frankfurt (Germany), 2015
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), L’Estaque with Red Roofs (1883-85), detail (Cezanne—The Artist’s Artist, through 9/5/22)
like nothing else
Henry Threadgill’s Society Situation Dance Band (HT, 1944-, MCOTD Hall of Fame, compositions, direction; Leroy Jenkins, violin; Frank Lacy, trombone; Bob Stewart, tuba; Abdul Wadud, cello; Brandon Ross, guitar; Pheeroan akLaff, drums, et al.), live, Germany (Hamburg), 1988
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timeless
The Harmonizing Four, “We’re Crossing Over,” live, Germany, 1966
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sounds (and sights) of Berlin
Two brothers: four hands.
Mind Against (Alessandro and Federico Fognini, DJs), live, Berlin, 2020
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
what’s new
Ensemble Musikfabrik (Marco Blaauw, trumpet, curator; Benjamin Kobler, piano), live, Cologne (Germany), yesterday: John Cage, The Perilous Night (1944) for prepared piano; Rebecca Saunders, Blaauw (2004) for double bell trumpet; Rebecca Saunders, Unsaid (2019) for piano; Rebecca Saunders, White (2015, rev. 2016) for double bell trumpet; Morton Feldman, Last Pieces (1959) for piano; Alvin Singleton, Vous Compra (2001) for trumpet and piano
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Spare, lyrical, introspective—what better way to end the week?
Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-, piano), live (“Blue Bolero,” “Signal on the Hill,” “Once Upon a Midnight”), Germany (Chiemgau), published 3/9/22
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my back pages
In the digital age, nothing, it seems, ever disappears, including, for instance, a review of his trio that I wrote, for the Chicago Reader, in 1995.
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random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
sounds of Berlin
Stephan Bodzin (DJ), live, Berlin, 2015
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A sound-world like no other.
Enno Poppe (1969-), Prozession (2015/20); Ensemble Musikfabrik (Enno Poppe, cond.), live, Leipzig (Germany), 11/22/20
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Jamaica
Burning Spear, live, Hamburg (Germany), 1981
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