Wednesday, March 23rd
sounds of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Konono No. 1, “Mama Na Bana,” live, Belgium (Spa), 2012
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2022
Tuesday, March 22nd
spring: another take
Sun Ra Arkestra (SR, 1914-1993, piano, composition; June Tyson, vocals; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone, et al.), “Springtime Again,” live, Rome, 1980
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lagniappe
reading table
Thus spring begins: old
stupidities repeated,
new errors invented.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
2022
Friday, March 18th
sounds of Ukraine
Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (composition, trumpet), “Double Quartet No. 9,” live (studio), Ukraine, 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, March 15th
what’s new
Ensemble Musikfabrik (Marco Blaauw, trumpet, curator; Benjamin Kobler, piano), live, Cologne (Germany), yesterday: John Cage, The Perilous Night (1944) for prepared piano; Rebecca Saunders, Blaauw (2004) for double bell trumpet; Rebecca Saunders, Unsaid (2019) for piano; Rebecca Saunders, White (2015, rev. 2016) for double bell trumpet; Morton Feldman, Last Pieces (1959) for piano; Alvin Singleton, Vous Compra (2001) for trumpet and piano
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Monday, March 14th
sounds of Ecuador
Nicola Cruz (DJ), live (3:34-8:24: sound drops), Mexico (Tulum), 2016
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2022
Friday, March 11th
Spare, lyrical, introspective—what better way to end the week?
Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-, piano), live (“Blue Bolero,” “Signal on the Hill,” “Once Upon a Midnight”), Germany (Chiemgau), published 3/9/22
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lagniappe
my back pages
In the digital age, nothing, it seems, ever disappears, including, for instance, a review of his trio that I wrote, for the Chicago Reader, in 1995.
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random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2022
Wednesday, March 9th
what’s new
Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio (JKH, compositions, violin, viola; Ken Filiano, bass; Andrew Drury, drums), live, New York, 3/1/22
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, March 8th
like nobody else
In a world of too much—news, suffering, noise—he offers a small, quiet space to inhabit.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For John Cage (1982); Jesse Mills (violin), Rieko Aizawa (piano), live, New York (Bargemusic, Brooklyn), 7/30/21
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Friday, March 4th
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona (1991-), “Open,” 2018
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lagniappe
reading table
Any fence maintains the other / side is “without form.”
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “As We’re Told”
2022
Wednesday, March 2nd
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York, 2/22/22 (published yesterday)
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), detail from Interchanged (1955)
