Friday, October 5th
what’s new
Many do a lot with a lot, few so much with so little.
Juana Molina, “Sin Dones,” live, Barcelona, 9/14/18
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2018
Thursday, October 4th
like nobody else
James Booker (piano, vocals [1939-1983]), live, France (Nice), 1978
2018
Wednesday, October 3rd
what’s new
One-word review: Wow!
Ingrid Laubrock (tenor saxophone), Brandon Lopez (bass), Francisco Mela (drums), live, New York, 9/30/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Elmhurst, Ill. (Prairie Path)
2018
Tuesday, October 2nd
more
Jürg Frey (1953-), Klavierstück Arrangement Nr. 1-3 (1991); Keiko Shichijo (piano), live, c. 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
On a journey, ill:
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields.—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Yoel Hoffmann; Japanese Death Poems, Yoel Hoffmann, ed.)
2018
Monday, October 1st
Need a break from the incessant noise?
Jürg Frey (1953-), Canones Incerti (2010), Jürg Frey (clarinet), et al., live
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lagniappe
baseball
Baseball is such a perfect game in some ways that it takes 162 to decide nothing.
—Cubs manager Joe Maddon on the Cubs/Brewers tie
2018
Wednesday, September 26th
sounds of Chicago
Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017), piano, “Young at Heart” (Young at Heart/Wise in Time, 1974)
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lagniappe
reading table
I’m finite – I cant see –
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This timid life of Evidence
Keeps pleading – “I don’t know” –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 725 (Franklin)
2018
Tuesday, September 25th
more
John Cage (1912-1992), Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano (1946-48), excerpts; James Tenney (piano), live, West Hollywood, Calif., 2002
#1
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#2
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lagniappe
random sights
last month, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Monday, September 24th
otherworldly
This I could listen to all day.
John Cage (1912-1992), Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos (1944-45); Seba Ali (piano) and Jacqueline Ching-Ling (piano), live, Stony Brook, N.Y., 2015
2018
Saturday, September 22nd
more
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, composition) and Spektral Quartet, “Viejo” (Yo Soy La Tradición), 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Thursday, September 20th
alone
Matthew Shipp (piano), live, New York, 9/13/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
