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2016

Thursday, January 7th

passings

Paul Bley, pianist, November 10, 1932-January 3, 2016

Live, 1970s?


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With Charlie Haden (bass), live, New York, 2000


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With John Gilmore (tenor saxophone), Gary Peacock (bass), Paul Motian (drums; or Billy Elgart, side 2, tracks 2-3), Turning Point, rec. 1964/1968

Side 1


Side 2

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Live, Norway (Oslo), 2008

 

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I held a Jewel in my fingers –
And went to sleep –
The day was warm, and winds were prosy—
I said ”Twill keep” –

I woke – and chid my honest fingers,
The Gem was gone –
And now, an Amethyst remembrance
Is all I own –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #261 (Franklin)

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2016

Wednesday, January 6th

sounds of Nigeria

Wizkid, “Ojuelegba,” 2014 (audio) – 2015 (video)


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Remix featuring Drake and Skepta, 2015

 

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2016

Tuesday, January 5th

sounds of Cameroon

Jovi, “Zélé,” 2015


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Maybe you go looking for one thing and find another.

—Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Don Quixote (translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman; internal quotation marks omitted)

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2016

Monday, January 4th

more sounds of Kinshasa*

Mbongwana Star, “Malukayi” (feat. Konono No. 1), 2015


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*Democratic Republic of Congo.

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2016

Sunday, January 3rd

Aretha’s daddy

One of these days, the cloud will be lifted . . .

—Rev. C. L. Franklin

Rev. C. L. Franklin, live, Detroit


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The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that ships are sometimes wrecked.

—Simone Weil (1909-1943), “The Love of God and Affliction” (translated from French by Richard Rees)

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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the beat goes on

2,200 posts—and counting.

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2016

Saturday, January 2nd

sounds of Chicago and Switzerland

Need a jolt?

Easel (Christoph Erb, tenor saxophone [Switzerland]; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello, electronics [Chicago]; Michael Zerang, drums [Chicago]), live, Moscow, 2015


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musical thoughts

Note to self: Listen, always, as if it was the first time—and the last.

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random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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2015

Tuesday, December 29th

This guy takes me places no one else does.

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil (TB, alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega, clarinet; Matt Mitchell, piano; Ches Smith, drums, vibraphone), “Small World in a Small Town” (T. Berne), live, Brazil (Sao Paulo), 2015


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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955

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2015

Monday, December 28th

Close your eyes . . .

John Luther Adams (1953-), . . . and bells remembered . . . (2005)
Callithumpian Consort, 2011

 

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aware of the sun
setting, the butterfly
flits away

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

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2015

Saturday, December 26th

sounds of Kinshasa*

Mbongwana Star, “Kala,” 2015


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musical thoughts

Birds, plants, music—one of the most astonishing things about this most astonishing world is its variousness.

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*Democratic Republic of Congo.

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2015

Thursday, December 24th

Feel like floating?

Steve Reich (1936-), Six Marimbas (1986); Undergraduate Recital (Colin Van de Reep, Noam Bierstone, Sandro Valiante, Mark Morton, Ben Reimer, Ben Duinker), McGill University, Montreal, 2011


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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

—Simone Weil (1909-1943; quoted at Orange Crate Art)

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