what’s new
The Pedrito Martinez Group (PM, percussion, lead vocals; Sebastian Natal, electric bass, vocals; Jhair Sala, percussion, vocals; Issac Delgado Jr., keyboards, vocals), “Tuvé Una Revelación,” live, Washington, D.C., 2/20/19
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Oak Park, Ill, this morning
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March!
sounds of New York
Louie Vega (DJ), live, New York, 12/18/18
what’s new
More from this new album.
Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone, percussion), “One Time In,” published 2/11/19 (Trio Tapestry with Marilyn Crispell [piano], Carmen Castaldi [drums], 2019)
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Emily Dickinson, writing to her cousins (Louise and Frances Norcross) after the death of their father, closes with this (letter #278, poem #528 [Franklin], 1863):
Let Emily sing for you because she cannot pray.
‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so –
‘Tis Living – hurts us more –
But Dying – is a different way –
A kind behind the Door –The Southern Custom – of the Bird –
That ere the Frosts are due –
Accepts a better Latitude –
We – are the Birds – that stay.The Shiverers round Farmer’s doors –
For whose reluctant Crumb –
We stipulate – till pitying Snows
Persuade our Feathers Home
Why not start the week with a trip to Paris?
Lianne La Havas, “No Room for Doubt” (L. La Havas), live, Paris, 2011
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
three takes
“Hello Stranger” (B. Lewis)
Julia Holter
Live (soundcheck), 2013
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Recording, 2013
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Barbara Lewis, 1963 (The Dells, background vocals; recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago; Billboard R&B #1, Pop #3)
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Winter solitude—
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)
next week in Chicago
She’s playing Thursday at Thalia Hall.
Julia Holter, live (studio), Seattle, 2013
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There was nobody as good as her when I was making music back in the day. If Julia Holter had existed in the 1970s she would be a goddess.
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
Feel like floating?
Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon, 1985 (Jonathan Jolly, video, 2014)
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Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill)
what’s new
Sun of Goldfinger (David Torn, electric guitar, live-looping, electronics; Tim Berne, alto saxophone; Ches Smith, drums, electronics); video, 2/6/19; album, 3/1/19
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sounds of Iceland
Bára Gísladóttir (acoustic bass) & Skúli Sverrisson (electric bass), live, Iceland (Reykjavik), 11/6/18
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more
Tim Buckley (1947-1975) with Lee Underwood (guitar), Carter C.C. Collins (percussion), “Sing a Song for You” (T. Buckley), live, Amsterdam (Dutch TV), 1968
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