Wednesday, December 9th
sounds of New York
Marc Ribot (guitar), Jay Rodriguez (tenor saxophone, flute), Nick Dunston (bass), Chad Taylor (drums), live New York, 2019
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2020
Friday, November 20th
what’s new
Adrianne Lenker (vocals, guitar, songs), live (“zombie girl,” “two reverse,” “dragon eyes,” “anything,” “ingydar”), published 11/18/20
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Saturday, November 14th
sounds of Chicago
Brokeback trio (Douglas McCombs [Fender Bass VI], James Elkington [pedal steel guitar, keyboard], Areif Sless-Kitain [drums, percussion]), with video by Kim Alpert, live (performance begins at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), yesterday
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Wednesday, November 11th
two takes
“Crepuscule with Nellie” (T. Monk)
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), live, Baltimore, 11/6/20
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Thelonious Monk (piano), live, Paris, 1969
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Friday, November 6th
sounds of Mexico
Son Rompe Pera, live (“Proteus,” “FOS,”” Reina de Cumbias,” “Ay David!,” “El Palo Poste”), Mexico City, published 10/17/20
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All I want
is not to befirst on one side,
then the other,but to conjure
a streamof sounds and images
for which I am notresponsible.
and maneuver within it—mouth and tail
one thought.—Rae Armantrout, from “Conjure” (Conjure, 2020)
2020
Tuesday, November 3rd
alone
Jeff Parker (guitar, electronics), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 10/4/20
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Friday, October 30th
sounds of Chicago
Dustin Laurenzi’s Natural Language (DL, tenor saxophone; Jeff Swanson, guitar; Mike Harmon, bass; Charles Rumback, drums), live, Chicago (Constellation), 10/10/20
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Sunday, October 18th
timeless
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “God Don’t Never Change,” 1929
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Saturday, October 17th
what’s new
William Parker Trio (WP, bass; Ava Mendoza, guitar; Gerald Cleaver, drums), live (performance begins at 3:10), New York (live-streamed by Skopje Jazz Festival, North Macedonia), 10/15/20
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Now is the time to experiment, and there is no choice but to experiment.
—Gustavo Dudamel (1981-), Music & Artistic Director, Los Angeles Philharmonic (quoted in Alex Ross, “The L.A. Philharmonic’s Emotional Return to an Empty Hollywood Bowl,” New Yorker, 9/28/20)
2020
Saturday, September 5th
soundtrack to a dream I’d love to have
Jon Hassell (1937-, trumpet), “Sketches of the Mediterranean” (with Paolo Fresu, trumpet, flugelhorn; Rick Cox, guitar; Kheir-Eddine M’Kachiche, violin; Peter Freeman, bass), live, France (Junas), 2013
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a knotwood-eating bug
likes what it likes . . .
evening dew—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
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