Monday, May 6th
soundtrack to a dream
Why not begin the week with something new?
Christopher Trapani (1980-), Writing Against Time (2014); Yarn/Wire, live, New York, 2014
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2019
Saturday, May 4th
what’s new
Nilüfer Yanya, “Baby Blu,” 4/11/19
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Columbus Park, Chicago (goslings huddled behind the mother)
2019
Friday, May 3rd
tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Corbett v. Dempsey.
Ken Vandermark (reeds) and Nate Wooley (trumpet), live, Copenhagen, 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
Forever – is composed of Nows –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 690 (Franklin)
2019
Wednesday, April 24th
more
William Basinski (1958-), Vivian & Ondine, 2009
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2019
Tuesday, April 22nd
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton ZIM Sextet (AB, 1945-, reeds, composition; Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet, flugelhorn, trombone; Ingrid Laubrock, reeds; Tomeka Reid, cello; Shelley Burgon, harp; Jacqueline Kerrod, harp; Dan Peck, tuba), live, Germany (Moers), 2017
2019
Friday, April 19th
what’s new
Georgia Anne Muldrow, “Overdrive,” “Flowers” (with Dudley Perkins), “Ciao,” live (studio), Washington, D.C., 4/8/19
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Thursday, April 18th
what’s new
William Basinski (1958-), On Time out of Time, 3/8/19
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lagniappe
reading table
today too
looking at the same mountain . . .
spring rain—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Wednesday, April 17
what’s new
Joanna Mattrey (viola, stroh violin), live, New York, 4/8/19
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lagniappe
reading table
I made my way to the sofa, where I battled against cancer once more by lying there staring straight ahead. I had such great resistance to thought that I didn’t even worry.
—Colm Toibin, “‘It’s curable,’ he said,” London Review of Books, 4/18/19
2019
Saturday, April 13th
sounds of Ecuador and all over
Nicola Cruz, live (The Lot Radio), New York, 2018
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lagniappe
reading table
along the mountain road
somehow it tugs at my heart—
a wild violet—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
2019
Friday, April 12th
sounds of New York
Lake Street Dive, “Musta Been Something,” live, New York (Retrofret Vintage Guitars, Brooklyn), 2018
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lagniappe
reading table
it is spring!
a hill without a name
in thin haze—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
