serendipity
This I bumped into the other night.
Ivan Petrovich Larionov (1830-1889), “Kalinka”; Tanya Kalmanovitch (violin) and Ted Reichman (accordion), live, Boston (Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory), 2010
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other day, Chicago
what’s new
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, composition) & Spektral Quartet, from Yo Soy La Tradición, 2018
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
Saturday in Chicago
They’re playing, with bassist William Parker and drummer Bobby Kapp, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Ivo Perelman (tenor saxophone) & Matthew Shipp (piano), live, New York, 2013
Sunday in Chicago
They’re playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB, trumpet, compositions; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Ajemian, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), live, Toronto, 2017
“theme 1,” “. . . meanwhile,” “theme 2”
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“theme nothing”
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Chicago
Ben LaMar Gay (vocals, cornet, composition), “Muhal,” 2018
what’s new
Erykah Badu, live (“Rimshot,” “Green Eyes”), Washington, D.C., 8/15/18
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other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
this weekend in Chicago
Saturday night he’s playing at Constellation.
Craig Taborn, piano
Live, Macedonia (Skopje), 2015
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Live (playing and talking), Belgium (Antwerp), 2016
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Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Cloud Trio (2009); Chartreuse (Myra Hinrichs, violin; Carrie Frey, viola; Helen Newby, cello), live, Los Angeles, 2016
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Walking in Mountains in the Rain
by Wang Wei, 699-759 (translated from Chinese by David Young,
Five T’ang Poets, 1990)In this quick cloudburst
air thickens, the sky comes downdark mountains
flashes of lightningout at sea new clouds
have just started to form
and this small brook I straddle
is a river in flood somewhererags and blankets of mist
hang on these slopes and cliffsthen the clouds open and vanish
rain patters off
and moonlight silvers
that whole reach of river
foothills to oceanand even from this black mountain
I can hear boatmen singing.
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Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Light and Matter (2014); Longleash (Pala Garcia, violin; John Popham, cello; Renate Rohlfing, piano), live, New York, 2017
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Dust is the only secret.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 166 (Franklin)
1+1=?
Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), Marilyn Crispell (piano), live, Baltimore, 2015
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It takes a bit of life experience to realize that our choice is merely between making fools of ourselves either intentionally or unintentionally.
—Brother David Steindl-Rast, The Way of Silence
