Thursday, April 11th
Only in Minnesota do drums go with snow.
Dave King and JT Bates, live, South St. Paul, Minn., 12/15/18
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lagniappe
random sights
mid-February, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2019
Tuesday, April 9th
sounds of New York
Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Graham Haynes (trumpet), Brandon Ross (guitar), Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty, electronics, percussion, turntables), live (studio), New York, 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2019
Monday, April 8th
Why not start the week with a trip to Haiti?
Val-Inc (AKA Val Jeanty), live (studio), Haiti (Le Studio, Port-au-Prince), 2018
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Sounds shape reality.
—Val Jeanty
2019
Saturday, April 6th
another take
Here’s the original.
The Jaynetts, “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (L. Stevens & Z. Sanders, or A. Spector), 1963 (Billboard Hot 100, #2)
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lagniappe
reading table
as if it just spotted
a star
the pheasant cries—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Friday, April 5th
voices I miss
Tim Buckley (1947-1975), “Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses” (Z. Sanders & L. Stevens, or A. Spector; T. Buckley), live, c. 1973
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lagniappe
reading table
We dream – it is good we are dreaming –
It would hurt us – were we awake –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from #584 (Franklin)
2019
Monday, April 1st
3 x 2 x X = ?
Tomas Fujiwara (drums, composition) with Gerald Cleaver (drums), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Ralph Alessi (trumpet), “Blueberry Eyes,” live (studio), New Haven, Conn., 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Forest Park, Ill.
2019
Saturday, March 30th
off the hook
The Armed, “Witness” (The Armed), 2018 (Only Love)
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lagniappe
reading table
What I was thinking was get my own shoes off and a quick wash and into bed. Tomorrow is a brand-new day. Except literally it was not. It was the exact same day as here and now. It was Friday morning and would be Friday dinnertime when I arose Sir Frederick, arise ye and walk the plank ere doom befall ye.
Man, what a life.
—James Kelman (1946-), “talking about my wife” (If it is your life)
2019
Thursday, March 28th
sounds of Chicago
John Cage, Solo for flute, from Concert for Piano (1958); Eric Lamb, flute (International Contemporary Ensemble), Chicago, 2012
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Music is theater for the ear. Take this performance. The phrasing, the interplay between sound and silence—this unfolds like something by Beckett.
2019
Tuesday, March 26th
sounds of Chicago
George Lewis (1952-), String Quartet No. 1.5, “Experiments in Living” (2016); Spektral Quartet, live, New York, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Monday, March 25th
sounds of Chicago
Jürg Frey (1953-), more or less normal, a.pe.ri.od.ic, live, Chicago, 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
