voices I miss
Prince & The Band,* “Footprints” (Wayne Shorter), live, East Rutherford, New Jersey (soundcheck), 2004
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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*Prince (guitar), John Blackwell (drums), Rhonda Smith (bass), Mike Scott (guitar), Renato Neto (keyboards), Chance Howard (keyboards), Greg Boyer (trombone), Maceo Parker (saxophone), Candy Dulfer (saxophone).
what’s new
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor, soprano saxophones) with Brandon Seabrook (electric guitar), Shawn Lovato (bass), Tom Rainey (drums), DoYeon Kim (25-String Gayageum), “Atomic Breath” (I. Laubrock), published today
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today, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
Marc Ribot Quartet (MR, guitar; Chad Taylor, drums; Briggan Krauss, alto saxophone; Sebastian Steinberg, bass), “Ghost of Sleep” (M. Ribot), published today
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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
what’s new
Brìghde Chaimbeul (Scottish smallpipes, vocals), Shahzad Ismaily (synths), “a bhò a bhò,” “a dhuine dhuine dhuine,” “She Went Astray,” “Pìobaireachd Nan Eun,” “Bog an Lochan,” live, Washington, D.C., published yesterday
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other day, Lake Superior (Copper Harbor, Michigan)
To improvise is to play with your ears.
Hamid Drake (1955-, drums; MCOTD Hall of Fame) & Tanja Feichtmair (1972-, alto saxophone), live, Austria (Nickelsdorf), 7/26/26
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yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
what’s new
Jan Blomqvist, live, Burning Man Festival, Nevada, 9/5/26
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found words
L is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and represents a voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound.
—Google AI’s response to iPhone’s unsought search for the letter “l”
what’s new
Laurie Anderson (voice, electronics), “Dirty Boulevard” (L. Reed), live, New York (Brooklyn Bridge Park), 9/19/26
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other day, Chicago (Monadnock Building [1893])
sounds of New York
John Zorn, Masada (JZ, trumpet, composition; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums), live, New York (Tonic), 1999)
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yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
alone
Mark Turner (1965-, tenor saxophone), live, Italy (Perugia), 7/6/26 (published 8/24/26)
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reading table
We’re all in this apart.
—David Ferry (1924-2023), from “Found Single-Line Poems” (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, 2012)
sounds of Romania
Lucian Ban (piano) & Mat Maneri (viola), “My Husband / Poor Is My Heart” (Transylvanian folk songs from the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of the early 20th Century), live, Bucharest (Romanian Anthenaeum, 1888), 2025
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yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois
