Tuesday, February 11th
How about something different?
Clara Iannotta (1983-), Limun (2011); International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), live, New York, 2016
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2020
Thursday, February 6th
sounds of Austin
Terry Allen, “Bottom of the World” (T. Allen), live (studio), Austin, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2020
Wednesday, February 5th
sounds of Chicago and Wuppertal (Germany)
Peter Brötzmann (1941-, saxophone) and Hamid Drake (1955-, MCOTD Hall of Fame, drums), live, Chicago (Hideout)
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lagniappe
random sights
other morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2020
Tuesday, February 4th
alone
Sigurd Hole (bass), “Eg veit I himmelrik ei borg” (“I Know a Castle in Heaven” [Norwegian folk song]), live (studio), New York, 1/31/20
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
In a Station of the Metro
by Ezra Pound (1885-1972)The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough.
2020
Friday, January 31st
Why not end the week (and month) with a trip to a Mediterranean island?
Black Coffee (DJ), live, Ibiza, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Thursday, January 30th
sounds of Nairobi
Coco Em (DJ), live, Nairobi, 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Wednesday, January 29th
what’s new
Max Richter (1966-, compositions, piano, keyboard) with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic director; Ben Russell, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; Isabel Hagen, viola; Claire Bryant, cello), “On the Nature of Daylight,” “Vladimir’s Blues,” “Infra 5,” live, Washington, D.C., 1/22/20
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
I’m very interested in the idea of a piece of music being a place to think.
—Max Richter
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Monday, January 27th
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Julia Hülsmann Quartet (Julia Hülsmann, piano; Uli Kempendorff, tenor saxophone; Marc Muellbauer, bass; Heinrich Köbberling, drums), “This Is Not America” (D. Bowie), live (studio), 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Wednesday, January 22nd
voices I miss
Von Freeman (1923-2012), tenor saxophonist, MCOTD Hall of Fame
“Oleo” (S. Rollins) with Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone), Willie Pickens (piano), Dan Shapera (bass), Robert Shy (drums), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 1988
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With John Young (1922-2008, piano), et al., live (radio broadcast), late 1970s
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“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” (E. Maschwitz & M. Sherwin) with Jodie Christian (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums), live, Harrisburg, Penn., 1994
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“I Can’t Get Started” (V. Duke, I. Gershwin), live, Belgium, 1992
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“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (R. Rodgers, L. Hart) with Mike Allemena (guitar), Matt Ferguson (bass), Michael Raynor (drums), live, Chicago (Mandel Hall, University of Chicago), 2011
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lagniappe
my back pages
On this night forty-three years ago, at a church thirty miles north of Chicago, my wife, Suzanne, and I were married. Outside it was cold and snowy; inside Von Freeman was playing, with pianist John Young. All of what they played that night, before, during, and after the ceremony, can be heard here (0:15-) (before: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “More”; during [as Suzanne walked down the aisle]: “In a Sentimental Mood”; after: “My Favorite Things,” “Song for My Father”).
2020
Tuesday, January 21st
more
Agnes Obel, playing and talking (begins at 2:05; “Won’t You Call Me,” 3:00; “Island of Doom,” 13:55; “Broken Sleep,” 25:35), New York, 1/14/20
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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