There are all kinds of gospel.
“I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” (S. O’Connor), Bettye LaVette, live, New York, 2012
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Here’s the original recording.
Sinead O’Connor, 1990
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Good night, because we must!
How intricate the Dust!—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 97 (Franklin; excerpt)
another take
John Prine (with Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlisle), “Summer’s End” (J. Prine), live (TV show), 4/12/18
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Charles Neville, saxophonist, December 28, 1938-April 26, 2018
Neville Brothers, “Yellow Moon,” live, New Orleans, 1991
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More?
Here’s the whole set.
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voices I miss
Prince, “Nothing Compares 2 U” (P. Nelson), published 4/19/18 (recorded 1984)
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How many bands have not one but two MacArthur-certified “geniuses”?
Vijay Iyer Sextet (Vijay Iyer, keyboards, compositions [2013 MacArthur Fellow]; Tyshawn Sorey, drums [2017 MacArthur Fellow]; Stephan Crump, bass; Steve Lehman, alto saxophone; Graham Haynes, cornet and flugelhorn; Mark Shim, tenor saxophone), live, Ojai, Calif., 2017
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Bob Dorough, singer, songwriter, piano player, December 12, 1923-April 23, 2018
“Devil May Care” (B. Dorough, T. Kirk), live (studio), New York, 2015
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“Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right” (W. Johnson)
Ry Cooder, live (studio), 4/18/18 (published)
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Blind Willie Johnson (with Willie B. Harris), 4/20/1930 (recorded)
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what’s new
Four Tet (aka Kieren Hebden), live, New York, 3/23/18
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serendipity
Last night I bumped into these guys via a live webcast from Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. As here, their performance had what a friend calls “gather.”
Aram Shelton (alto saxophone), Håkon Berre (drums), live, Copenhagen, 2017
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cherry blossoms—
to my lowly sleeve
they cling—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
what’s new
Dafnis Prieto Big Band (DP [drums, compositions], Peter Apfelbaum [saxophones, melodica], et al.), Back to the Sunset (with guests Henry Threadgill [alto saxophone; MCOTD Hall of Fame], Steve Coleman [alto saxophone], Brian Lynch [trumpet]), released 4/6/18
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