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Thursday, March 28th

Most saxophonists play with their mouths and fingers.

Not this guy—he uses his whole body.

Mats Gustafsson, baritone saxophone, live, Romania (Bucharest), 2010

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Sunday afternoon, at an art gallery on Chicago’s west side (Corbett vs. Dempsey), I heard Gustafsson, who lives in Sweden, perform with the Chicago-based reed player Ken Vandermark. One-word review: mesmerizing.

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musical thoughts

Sometimes discaholism is taken to its most further borders when the “holy 4″ is fulfilled:

When a vinyl has the holy 4 qualities: great music, great title, great rarity and an AMAZING cover and design!!!

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‘one piece of vinyl per day keeps the doctor away’

—Mats Gustafsson, Discaholic Corner

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Wednesday, March 27th

What I love about the ’net is that sometimes, like yesterday, when I happened upon this, you find yourself being lifted out of your seat by something you didn’t even know existed two minutes ago.

Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, alto saxophone) & Samir Chatterjee (tabla), “Interstellar Duo #3,” live, New York, 2009

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The more I read, the less I understand.

—Charles Simic, “Serving Time” (New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012)

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Sunday, March 24th

They sounded so good last Sunday—let’s hear some more.

Pastor B. L. Blade with Daniel Lanois (guitar, vocals), Brian Blade (drums), et al.
“The Maker” (D. Lanois), excerpt (“Oh, river rise from your sleep.”)

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random thoughts

How strange it seems sometimes, like the other day in the shower, to have hands and feet.

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Saturday, March 23rd

sui generis

Quintron and Miss Pussycat, “Freedom,” New Orleans
Too Thirsty For Love, 2008

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Language is finite and formal; reality is infinite and formless. Order is comic; chaos is tragic.

—John Updike, Assorted Prose (1965)

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Wednesday, March 20th

two takes

It’s spring!

“Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” (T. Wolf & F. Landesman)

Betty Carter (1929-1998), Inside Betty Carter, 1964

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Bob Dorough (1923-), Right On My Way Home, 1997

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spring rain—
the uneaten ducks
are quacking

—Kobayashi Issa, 1813 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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Tuesday, March 19th

keep on dancing

How many steps separate the club and the church?

Theo Parrish, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2011
Cajmere, “Brighter Days”

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Wash up in the sound if you want to . . .

Theo inviting folks to the gig:

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Monday, March 18th

From Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport to Miles Davis Hall in Montreux.

Black Dub (Daniel Lanois, guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals; Brian Blade, drums; Trixie Whitley, guitar, keyboards, vocals; Jim Wilson, bass, vocals), Montreux, Switzerland, 2011

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Set list (courtesy of YouTube):

1) Intro
2) Surely
3) I Believe In You
4) Steel
5) The Collection Of Marie Claire
6) Silverado
7) The Messenger
8) I’d Rather Go Blind
9) Ring The Alarm