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Friday, 9/28/12

two takes

How To Dress Well (Tom Krell), “Cold Nites”

Live in the Boiler Room, 2012

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Recording (Total Loss), 2012

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lagniappe

reading table

Autumn
the sky huge and clear
the marsh miles from farms and houses

overjoyed by the cranes
standing around the sandbars

the mountains above the clouds in the distance

this water
utterly still
in the dusk

the white moon overhead

I let my boat drift free tonight
I can’t go home.

—Wang Wei (701-61), “Floating on a Marsh” (trans. from Chinese by David Young [Five T’ang Poets, 1990])

Thursday, 9/27/12

love it or hate it

Bill Orcutt (guitar), Chris Corsano (drums), live, Wind Gap, Pa., 9/3/12

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More?

Wednesday, 9/26/12

street music: Bangalore (India)

Four drummers, 2010

Tuesday, 9/25/12

bloodlines

Ravi Coltrane (JC’s son), tenor saxophone; Matt Garrison, bass (son of Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison); Nikki Glaspie, drums; live (Le Poisson Rouge), New York, 1/7/12

Saturday, 9/22/12

Questlove (:10-) & Tony Allen (1:25-), live, Paris, 2011

What a contrast. Questlove, focusing on power and momentum, pushes the beat. Tony lies behind it, skips ahead, lies back again, favoring suppleness and elasticity.

Thursday, 9/20/12

shhhh . . .

Joe McPhee, “Old Eyes” (for Ornette Coleman), live, New York, 2009

Tuesday, 9/18/12

Kaija Saariaho, Fall (1991, from the ballet Maa); Nuiko Wadden (harp), Ryan Streber (electronics); Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.), 2010

One of the joys of having grown children is going out with them to hear live music, as I did the other night, meeting my older son Alex after work at a Chicago art gallery (Corbett vs. Dempsey) for a solo performance by this harpist.

Monday, 9/17/12

street music: London

Dave Crowe, beatbox, 2011

Wednesday, 9/12/12

earthy (horns) + ethereal (vibes) = enthralling

Peter Brötzmann (saxophones, tarogato) and Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone), live, New York (Le Poisson Rouge), 9/5/12

Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Tonight these guys will be at the Hideout, a little club on Chicago’s near northwest side, which is where I’ll be too.

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lagniappe

reading table

Four trees – upon a solitary Acre –
Without Design
Or Order, or Apparent Action –
Maintain –

The Sun – upon a Morning meets them –
The Wind –
No nearer Neighbor – have they –
But God –

The Acre gives them – Place –
They – Him – Attention of Passer by –
Of Shadow, or of Squirrel, haply –
Or Boy –

What Deed is Theirs unto the General Nature –
What Plan
They severally – retard – or further –
Unknown –

—Emily Dickinson

Tuesday, 9/11/12

Her stuff, I’ve found, can be habit-forming.

Grimes, live (studio performance), 2012

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reading table

washing my laundry
with my clothes on . . .
summer rain

—Kobayashi Issa, 1821 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)