Monday, August 27th
sounds of Chicago
Ben LaMar Gay (vocals, cornet, composition), “Muhal,” 2018
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hard-to-peg
2018
Thursday, August 23rd
what’s new
Erykah Badu, live (“Rimshot,” “Green Eyes”), Washington, D.C., 8/15/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
2018
Wednesday, August 22nd
this weekend in Chicago
Saturday night he’s playing at Constellation.
Craig Taborn, piano
Live, Macedonia (Skopje), 2015
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Live (playing and talking), Belgium (Antwerp), 2016
2018
Monday, August 20th
more
Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Cloud Trio (2009); Chartreuse (Myra Hinrichs, violin; Carrie Frey, viola; Helen Newby, cello), live, Los Angeles, 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
Walking in Mountains in the Rain
by Wang Wei, 699-759 (translated from Chinese by David Young,
Five T’ang Poets, 1990)In this quick cloudburst
air thickens, the sky comes downdark mountains
flashes of lightningout at sea new clouds
have just started to form
and this small brook I straddle
is a river in flood somewhererags and blankets of mist
hang on these slopes and cliffsthen the clouds open and vanish
rain patters off
and moonlight silvers
that whole reach of river
foothills to oceanand even from this black mountain
I can hear boatmen singing.
2018
Saturday, August 18th
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Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Light and Matter (2014); Longleash (Pala Garcia, violin; John Popham, cello; Renate Rohlfing, piano), live, New York, 2017
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lagniappe
reading table
Dust is the only secret.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 166 (Franklin)
2018
Thursday, August 16th
1+1=?
Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), Marilyn Crispell (piano), live, Baltimore, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
It takes a bit of life experience to realize that our choice is merely between making fools of ourselves either intentionally or unintentionally.
—Brother David Steindl-Rast, The Way of Silence
2018
Wednesday, August 15th
like nobody else
Tony Allen (drums), “Wolf Eats Wolf,” 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Tuesday, August 14th
what’s new
John Luther Adams (1953-), In the Name of the Earth (2018), live (excerpt), New York (Cathedral of St. John the Divine), 8/11/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
2018
Monday, August 13th
sounds of all over
Vijay Iyer (piano), Rudresh Mahanthappa (alto saxophone), Aruna Sairam (vocals), Zakir Hussain (tabla), live, Ojai, Calif., 2017 (performance begins at 16:00)
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Saturday, August 11th
voices I miss
Sun Ra Arkestra (Sun Ra [aka Herman Blount, 1914-1993], keyboards, compositions, vocals), TV show (Night Music), “Face the Music,” “Space Is the Place,” 1989
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Here’s another take on “Space Is the Place,” which I bumped into the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it’s playing, continuously, through August 19th.
Space Is the Place (A March for Sun Ra), directed by Cauleen Smith, featuring the Rich South High School marching band, Chicago (Chinatown Square), 2011
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 