like nobody else
Roscoe Mitchell (1940-, composition, sopranino saxophone) with James Fei (electronics), Thomas Bruckner (voice), Ostravská Banda, “Distant Radio Transmission,” 2019
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like nobody else
Henry Threadgill (1944-, Pulitzer Prize Winner [Music, 2016], MCOTD Hall of Fame), Sixfivetwo (2018); Mivos Quartet, live, Vienna, 7/1/21
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what’s new
Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Jose Davila (tuba), Tom Rainey (drums), live, New York, last night
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voices I miss
Here, three weeks before dying from lung cancer, he’s bursting with life.
Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007, violin), live (Dewey Redman Memorial), New York, 2/4/07
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Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
like nobody else
John Zorn’s Acoustic Masada (JZ, 1953-, alto saxophone, compositions; Dave Douglas, trumpet; Greg Cohen, bass; Joey Baron, drums), live, Vienne (France), 2006
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Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) and Mary Halvorson (guitar), live (performance begins at 14:30), Amsterdam, 2/3/22
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what’s new
Kiran Ahluwalia, live (“Dil,” “Rabba Ru,” “We Sinful Women”), Toronto, published 1/29/22
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sounds of Colombia
Kombilesa Mí, live (“I Tando Pa Palenge,” “I A Piyá Bó,” “Kumo Kusa Tá,” “Los Peinados,” “Asina Gue,” “Ma Nduse,” “Ata Uto Begá”), published yesterday
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what’s new
Jake Xerxes Fussell (vocals, guitar) with Libby Rodenbough (violin, harmonium, vocals) and Casey Toll (bass), live (“The River St. Johns,” “Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?”, “Breast of Glass”), Pittsboro, North Carolina, published 1/25/22
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alone
Rebecca Saunders (1967-), White (2016); Ensemble Musikfabrik (Marco Blaauw, trumpet), Cologne (Germany), published 1/17/22
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