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2016

Friday, October 7th

sounds of ecstasy

Savina Yannatou & Miquel Gil with Primavera En Salonico & Orquestra Àrab De Barcelona, “Ballo Sardo” (Sardinian Dance), “Cavall D’Aràbia” (M. Gil, Plàcid Rosaleny), live, 2006


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A listener, Michael Falconer, emailed a link to this clip, along with a prediction that proved to be spot-on: “I think you will really like this.” Send me something wonderful and—who knows?—you, too, may be immortalized.

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Bruce Davidson (1933-), Palisades, New Jersey, 1958

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2016

Thursday, October 6th

more

Kris Davis & Craig Taborn, live, Washington, D.C., 10/3/16


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musical thoughts

Musicians wrestle everywhere –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #229 (Franklin)

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2016

Wednesday, October 5th

tonight in Chicago

They’ll be playing, together, at Constellation.

Kris Davis & Craig Taborn, “Fox Fire” (Duopoly), 2016

 

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musical thoughts

Is not all music, even the most niggardly, beautiful to the person who loves the very being and existence of music?

—Robert Walser (1878-1956), “The Walk” (translated from German by Christopher Middleton and Susan Bernofsky)

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2016

Friday, September 30

sounds of Mali and South Africa

Twelve strings, two voices—that’s it.

Habib Koite (Mali; lead vocals, guitar), Vusi Mahlasela (South Africa; vocals, guitar), “Africa,” live (studio performance), Seattle, 2016

 

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Deep autumn—
my neighbor,
how does he live, I wonder?

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass

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2016

Thursday, September 29th

what’s new

Wadada Leo Smith,* “New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718” (W.L. Smith), excerpt (America’s National Parks, out 10/14/16)


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Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 143 (Franklin), excerpt

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*WLS, trumpet; Anthony Davis, piano; Ashley Walters, cello; John Lindberg, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums.

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2016

Tuesday, September 27th

alone

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Klavierstück V
Maurizio Pollini (1942-), live, Paris, 2002


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The morning glory!
this too cannot be
my friend.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Aitken

 

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2016

Monday, September 26th

A prediction I made in 2011—she’d be a big star someday—seems to have come true: this has over 8 million views.

Nneka, “Walking,” live, Berlin, 2015


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autumn rain
he’s just like me . . .
the snail

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2016

Saturday, September 24th

tonight in Chicago

These folks, along with lots of others, will be performing at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Supreme Love, “Resolution” (J. Coltrane), live, Chicago, 2015


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Amir Elsaffar Two Rivers Ensemble, live, Germany (Bremen), 2016

 

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art beat: other day, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Our Town, 1995 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)

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2016

Friday, September 23rd

How strange it seems, still, that he should be dead.

Prince with Mavis Staples, et al., live, England (King’s Cross), 1993


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art beat: yesterday, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Kerry James Marshall (1955-), Slow Dance, 1992-93 (Kerry James Marshall, Mastry, through 9/25/16)

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2016

Thursday, September 22nd

sounds of New York

As funky as it is abstract, as abstract as it is funky—like life itself.

Farmers by Nature (Craig Taborn, piano; William Parker, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums), live, Paris, 2011


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art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)

Stuart Davis (1892-1964), Landscape with Garage Lights, 1931-32 (Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, through 9/25/16)

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