Wednesday, January 1st
sounds of Paris, Havana, and all over
Cami Layé Okún (DJ), live, Paris, 2019
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2019
Saturday, December 28th
sounds of outside and inside
This I could listen to all day.
Cool Maritime (AKA Sean Hellfritsch), from Sharing Waves, 2018
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The bush warbler
in a grove of bamboo sprouts
sings of growing old—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Friday, December 27th
what’s new
Los Lobos, “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?”, “Llegó Navidad,” “Christmas and You,” “It’s Christmas Time in Texas,” live, Washington, D.C., 12/18/19
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Along my journey
through this temporal world, people
new-year-house-cleaning—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Monday, December 23rd
Why not begin the week with something that will take you somewhere you haven’t been before?
Philippe Manoury (1952-), Melencolia (third string quartet), 2012; Arditti Quartet
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2019
Wednesday, December 18th
sounds of New York
Lei Liang (1972-), Ascension (for brass quintet and percussion, 2008); Andy Kozar (trumpet), Gareth Flowers (trumpet), David Byrd-Marrow (horn), William Lang (trombone), Dan Peck (tuba), Russell Greenberg (percussion), live, New York, 2016
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other day, Chicago
2019
Saturday, December 14th
sounds of Ecuador and all over
Nicola Cruz (DJ), live, Argentina (Iguazú Falls), published 12/12/19
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We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship,
although it meant the end of travel.—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “The Imaginary Iceberg”
2019
Tuesday, December 10th
two takes
“I Try” (M. Gray, J. Ruzumna, J. Lim, D. Wilder)
J Dilla (1974-2006), remix, 2006
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Macy Gray, 1999
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Threshold
by Rachel Hadas (1948-, Questions in the Vestibule)
The in-between is queasy,
but all is in between.
Midsummer green? Monotonous
when everything is green.
The sea? A glittering question
if everything is sea.
This vestibule? Unsettling.
I teeter first one way
and then the other. In
or out? I am a fool
to be so caught off balance.
All is vestibule.
2019
Monday, December 9th
sounds to get lost in
Jessica Pavone String Ensemble (JP, viola, composition; Joanna Matrey, viola; Erica Dicker, violin; Angela Morris, violin), “Hurtle and Flow,” published 9/4/19
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yesterday morning, I-80 rest stop, Iowa (near Grinnell)
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big rainbig mooncicada in the pine—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
2019
Saturday, December 7th
mesmerizing
If I could move like this, I’d never stand still.
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (1976-), live, Stockholm, 2013
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Topography displays no favorites; North’s as near as West.
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “The Map”
2019
Thursday, December 5th
serendipity
Last night I bumped into these tracks, by a duo based in Beirut, on the radio (Bodega Pop Live with Gary Sullivan [WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio Stream]). One-word review: Wow!
Two or the Dragon, “Prelude for the Triumphant Man,” 2017
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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