Friday, July 17th
like nobody else
James Booker (piano, voice [1939-1983]), “True” (D. Albert, L. Cottrell), live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 1978
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Thursday, July 16th
Last night, after entering this sound world, I didn’t want to leave.
Christian Wolff (1934-), Mountain Messengers (for piano and orchestra, 2020), live (Nicolas Hodges, piano; Basel Sinfonietta [Ilan Volkov, conductor]), Switzerland (Basel), 1/24/21 (world premiere)
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Saturday, July 11th
like nobody else
John Zorn, New Masada Quartet (JZ, alto saxophone, compositions; Julian Lage, guitar; Jorge Roeder, bass; Kenny Wollesen, drums), live, Poland (Poznan), 6/1/26
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Friday, July 10th
like nothing else
Miles Davis (with Pete Cosey, electric guitar, percussion [early AACM member]; Dave Liebman, soprano saxophone; Michael Henderson, bass; Reggie Lucas, electric guitar; Al Foster, drums; James Mtume, congas, percussion, rhythm box, water drum), live (“Turnaroundphrase,” “Tune in 5,” “Ife,” “Right Off [Jack Johnson Theme],” “Funk,” “Calypso Frelimo”), Vienna, 1973
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Wednesday, June 24th
sounds of Zagreb
Laurent Garnier (French DJ, 1966-), live, Zagreb (Croatia), 2026
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Saturday, June 20th
what’s new: sounds of Chicago (in Amsterdam)
Mike Reed’s The Separatist Party (Mike Reed drums/percussion; Rob Frye tenor saxophone/flute/percussion; Ben LaMar Gay cornet/flugelhorn/percussion; Cooper Crain guitar/synthesizer; Dan Quinlivan synthesizer; Marvin Tate vocals), live, Amsterdam, 6/18/26 (performance begins at 18:00)
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Thursday, June 18th
what’s new
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone [MCOTD Hall of Fame]), Vijay Iyer (piano), Dafnis Prieto (drums), “I Wanted a Map” (V. Iyer), published 6/17/26
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Tuesday, June 16th
passings
James Blood Ulmer, guitarist, singer, February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026
With Amin Ali (bass), Cornell Rochester (drums), live, Berlin, 1981
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With Don Cherry (1936-1995, pocket trumpet), Rashied Ali (1933-2009, drums), New York, published 2008
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Wednesday, June 10th
Sometimes, like last night, you bump into something, unexpectedly, that makes this unrelentingly chaotic world seem, if only briefly, a bit less uninhabitable.
Prince, “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers), live, Paisley Park (outside Minneapolis), 2002 (published 1/3/26)
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Monday, June 8th
like nobody else
Laurie Anderson (voice, violin, compositions), live, Paris, 2025
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