Saturday, August 12th
serendipity
Bumped into this last night, happily.
Taraf De Haidouks, playing Balkan gypsy folk music, 2012
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2023
Tuesday, August 8th
passings
Tristan Honsinger, cellist, etc., October 23, 1949–August 5, 2023
With Schuichi Chino (piano), live, Italy (Trieste), 4/7/23
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With Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), live (performance begins at 19:30), Amsterdam, 2021
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With Jaimie Branch (1983-2022, trumpet), Herb Robertson (trumpet, etc.), Kresten Osgood (drums, etc.), live, Copenhagen, 2018
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With Cecil Taylor Quintet (CT, piano; Harri Sjostrom, soprano saxophone; TH, cello; Thurman Barker, marimba, percussion; Paul Lovens, drums), live, Germany (Hamburg), 1995
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Monday, August 7th
what’s new
Meshell Ndegeocello, “Georgia Ave” (M. Ndegeocello), live (studio), published 7/24/23
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last night, Chicago
2023
Saturday, August 5th
sounds of Chicago
Edward Wilkerson (1953-, tenor saxophone, clarinet, didgeridoo) and Joe Morris (1955-, guitar), live, Chicago (Experimental Sound Studio garden), 7/23/23
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Saturday, July 29th
sounds of São Paulo
Laurent Garnier (French DJ), live (Na Manteiga Radio), São Paulo, 2021
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Tuesday, July 25th
sounds of Chicago
Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble (DL, vocals, electronics; Dana Hall, drums; Arif Smith, percussion; Angel Bat Dawid, clarinet, vocals; Ben Lamar Gay, cornet; Monique Golding, vocals; Tremaine Parker, vocals; Erica Rene, vocals), “The Body Is Electric” (D. Locks), live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 2021
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other day, Chicago (Lurie Garden)
2023
Saturday, July 22nd
passings
Tony Bennett, singer, August 3, 1926–July 21, 2023
With Bill Evans (1929–1980, piano), “Lucky to Be Me,” “My Foolish Heart,” “When in Rome,” “We’ll Catch up Some Other Time,” “A Child Is Born,” “Make Someone Happy,” “Together Again,” 1976
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2023
Friday, July 21st
what’s new
Tamikrest, live (studio), Seattle, published yesterday
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago (Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape, through 9/4/23)
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), A Woman Walking in a Garden (1887), detail
2023
Wednesday, July 19th
sounds of New York
Bumped into this last night: enthralled from the first note.
Cory Smythe (1977-, piano) & eddy kwon (1989-, violin), live, New York (Target Margin, Brooklyn), 12/9/22
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yesterday, Chicago
2023
Monday, July 17th
Why not begin the week with something quiet, delicate, spacious?
Magnus Granberg (1974-), “Holde Träume, Kehret Wieder!” (Sweet Dreams, Come Back!): Nattens Inbrott quartet (MG, piano, et al.), live, Stockholm, 2021
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