Wednesday, December 27th
voices I miss
Steve Lacy (1934-2004), “Blues for Aida,” live, France (Avignon), 1982
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Berkeley, Calif.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2017
Tuesday, December 26th
tonight in the Bay Area
They’ll be playing in Albany (Ivy Room), and I’ll be listening.
Peter Apfelbaum & Sparkler
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, flying from Chicago to Oakland
2017
Saturday, December 16th
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Hear In Now (Mazz Swift, violin; Tomeka Reid, cello; Silvia Bolognesi, bass), “Requiem for Charlie Haden” (S. Bolognesi), live, Italy (Basilica di San Silvestro, Trieste), 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Which is more important: what we listen to—or how?
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2017
Wednesday, December 13th
more
Joe Morris (guitar) and Daniel Levin (cello), live, New York, 12/8/17
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2017
Tuesday, December 12th
sounds of New York
Daniel Levin (cello) and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (bass), live, New York, 2015
2017
Friday, December 8th
more
Moses Sumney, live, Washington, D.C., 11/29/17
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lagniappe
reading table
Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter (459A, Thomas H. Johnson, ed.)
2017
Wednesday, December 6th
Think you’ve heard it all?
How about a septet with six string players and a drummer?
Tomeka Reid Septet,* “Tokens” (T. Reid), New York, 2017
*TR, cello, composition; Christopher Hoffman, cello; Mazz Swift, violin; Sarah Bernstein, violin; Jason Kao Hwang, viola; Adam Hopkins, bass; Tomas Fujiwara, drums, percussion.
2017
Tuesday, December 5th
more
Miles Davis (with John Scofield, guitar; Darryl Jones, bass, et al.), live, Tokyo, 1985
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago)
Howard Finster, 1916-2001
2017
Monday, December 4th
more
Miles Davis (with John Scofield, guitar; Darryl Jones, bass, et al.), live, Montreal, 1985
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lagniappe
reading table
“Living here is like a joke without a punch line.”
—Bulgarian bar owner, quoted in New York Times Book Review, 12/3/17, review of Border: Journey to the Edge of Europe
2017
Saturday, December 2nd
two takes
“Feeling Good” (A. Newley, L. Bricusse)
Lauryn Hill (feat. Kamasi Washington, tenor saxophone), live, Italy (Lucca), 2017
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Nina Simone (1933-2003), 1965
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