voices I miss
Sinead O’Connor (1966-2023) with Sly Dunbar (1952-2026, drums) and Robbie Shakespeare (1952-2021, bass), “Marcus Garvey” (S. O’Connor), live, Cleveland, 2005
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sounds of Chicago
One-word review: Wow!
DKV Trio (Hamid Drake [MCOTD Hall of Fame], drums; Kent Kessler, bass; Ken Vandermark, reeds), live, Chicago, 12/26/25
First Set
*****
Second Set
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my back pages
On a cold, snowy night forty-nine years ago, at a church thirty miles north of Chicago, my wife, Suzanne, and I were married. Tenor saxophonist Von Freeman (1923-2012, MCOTD Hall of Fame) and pianist John Young (1922-2008) provided the music, playing before the ceremony (“Over the Rainbow,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “More”); during (Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood” [unaccompanied saxophone], as Suzanne walked down the aisle), and after (“My Favorite Things,” “Song for My Father”). All of what they played that night can be heard here (0:14-).
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what’s new
Khruangbin, live, Seattle, published 1/20/26 (rec. 11/19/25)
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timeless
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Norway (University of Oslo), 12/10/64
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what’s new
John Cage (1912-1992), In a Landscape (1948); Thomas Kotcheff (piano), Bryan Curt Costors (electronics), published 1/15/26
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alone
Chris Corsano (drums, etc.), live, Netherlands (The Hague), 2022
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alone
Reiko Füting, “passage: time (copy)”; Miranda Cuckson (violin), 2025
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sounds of Croatia
Roj Osa featuring Rob Mazurek (cornet, voice, etc.), live, Croatia (Zagreb [Vintage Industrial Bar]), 2024
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What a thrill it is to bump into a performance, as I did last night, that you didn’t even know existed, and to find yourself immersed so deeply, so wholeheartedly, from the first moment to the last, that when it ends you have no choice but to begin—again.
Sandy Denny (1947-1978 [voice, guitar]), “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (S. Denny), live, BBC Radio Broadcast (John Peel Sessions), 1973
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