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Saturday, October 24th

tonight in Chicago

They’ll be playing at the University of Chicago.

Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet (WLS, trumpet; Anthony Davis, piano; John Lindberg, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums; with Jesse Gilbert, video artist), “Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 381 Days” (W. L. Smith), live, Spain (San Sebastian), 2014

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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), A Red Plum Branch against the Summer Moon
c. mid-1840s

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2015

Friday, October 16th

two takes

St. Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre), “Real Blues” (sampling Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “You Caused My Heart to Weep”), 2015

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Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982), “You Caused My Heart to Weep”

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Wednesday, October 14th

3ⁿ

DKV Trio (Hamid Drake, drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, baritone saxophone), live, Austria (Nickelsdorf), 2013

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road to the World Series

This may be the goose-bump capital of the world right now.

—Cubs radio announcer Pat Hughes, Wrigley Field, yesterday

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Monday, October 12th

3ⁿ

Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Lucian Ban (piano), “Irreverence” (L. Ban), live (recording session), Germany (Cologne), 2013

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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Thursday, October 8th

Some music you listen to—some you inhabit.

John Luther Adams (1953-), Red Arc/Blue Veil (2001); Kirsten Volness (piano), Nick Gleason (percussion), live (studio performance), New York, 2014

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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road to the World Series

[W]hen we’re playing these games that are very meaningful in September and October, I want them to go out there and play the game as though it were March 15, June 15, August 15 and then hopefully October 15. Don’t ever change the way you play the game.

—Cubs manager Joe Maddon (last November)

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Monday, October 5th

Once I enter this world, I never want to leave.

Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Philip Guston (1984); Either/OR (Richard Carrick, piano/celesta; Margaret Lancaster, flutes; David Shively, percussion), live, Philadelphia, 2015

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Sunday, October 4th

never enough

Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945), “Motherless Children Have a Hard Time” (record mislabeled “Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time”), 1927

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random sights

yesterday, Bellwood, Ill. (MOMS Garden [Mothers of Murdered Sons])

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Friday, October 2nd

tonight in Chicago

These guys will be playing at Constellation.

The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone and tenor saxophones; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live, London, 2010

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reading table

You ask: what is life? That’s like asking: what is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot, and that’s all there is to know.

—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), letter to wife Olga Knipper-Chekhova, April 20, 1904 (translated from Russian by Cathy Popkin [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])