Friday, October 14th
more sounds of Niger (and all over)
Mdou Moctar, live (“Takoba,” “Ya Habibti,” “Chismiten,” “Afrique Victime”), Port Townsend, Washington, 8/26/22
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2022
timeless
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), Composition for 12 instruments (1948, rev. 1954; Ralph Shapey [1921-2002], cond.)
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2022
Monday, October 10th
like nothing else
“Old Man Dancing” (Carla Bley, 1936-): Chet Doxas (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Carla Bley (piano), Karen Mantler (keyboard), Steve Swallow (bass), 2020
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
This is the point in prefaces where I customarily say something nice about my wife. This time, however, I can’t think of anything that even comes anywhere near doing her justice. Her name is Susan Patek Booth.
Berkeley, California
May 3, 1997—Stephen Booth (1933-2020), from Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson’s Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night (1998)
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radio
Today, Thelonious Monk’s birthday, it’s all Monk, all day at WKCR (Columbia University).
2022
Saturday, October 8th
timeless
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Crippled Symmetry (1983); Ives Ensemble (Rik Andriessen, flute, bass flute; Arnold Marinissen, vibraphone, glockenspiel; John Snijders, piano, celesta), live, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2008
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yesterday, Chicago
2022
Friday, October 7th
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil & Ginger Mane, “Зозуля,” published today
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yesterday, Chicago
2022
Tuesday, October 4th
alone (another take)
Lukas Ligeti (1965-), “Thinking Songs” (2015); Ji Hye Jung (marimba), 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Monday, October 3rd
voices I miss (more)
Steve Lacy (1934-2004, soprano saxophone) & Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), “Prospectus” (S. Lacy), live, Paris (?), 2002
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lagniappe
reading table
This road—
no one goes down it,
autumn evening.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass)
2022
Saturday, October 1st
How about a trip to a Mediterranean island?
Black Coffee (DJ), live, Ibiza, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Wednesday, September 28th
sounds of Japan
Ko Ishikawa (sho), Kohsetsu Imanishi (koto), Peter Evans (trumpet), live, Yugawara, Japan, 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2022
Tuesday, September 27th
sounds of Niger (and all over)
Mdou Moctar, “Chismiten,” live, Port Townsend, Washington, 8/26/22
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
