this week in Chicago
He will be playing, Saturday night, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Miguel Zenón (1976-, alto saxophone, composition), “Navegando (Las Estrellas Nos Guían)” (feat. Los Pleneros De La Cresta), live (studio), published 8/26/22
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Jaimie Branch (1983-2022, trumpet) with Ben LaMar Gay (cornet) and Josh Berman (cornet), live, Chicago (Experimental Sound Studio), 2016
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this week in Chicago
They will be playing, Thursday night, at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid (HT, 1944-, MCOTD Hall of Fame [flute, alto saxophone, compositions]), Liberty Ellman [guitar], Jose Davila [tuba, trombone], Christopher Hoffman [cello], Elliot Humberto Kavee [drums]), live, Washington, D.C., 2013
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Henry Threadgill, interview, 2021
passings
Jaimie Branch, trumpeter, composer, singer, bandleader, June 17, 1983–August 22, 2022
Live (with Lester St. Louis [cello], Jason Ajemian [bass], Chad Taylor [drums]), Zurich, Switzerland, 2020
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
timeless
Fats Waller (1904-1943, piano, vocals), “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (F. E. Ahlert, J. Young), 1935
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sounds of New York
Kris Davis Trio (KD, 1980-, piano, compositions; William Parker, 1952-, bass; Jeff “Tain” Watts, 1960-, drums), live, New York, 2019
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the stars I can see and those I will never see / will not ever again be in the same places / as they are at this moment
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we are all here together without knowing it / flying at a speed beyond thinking
—W.S. Merwin (1927-2019), from “One October Night” (Garden Time, 2016)
what’s new
Micah Thomas (1997-, piano), Zoh Amba (2000-, tenor saxophone), Immanuel Wilkins, (1998-, alto saxophone), Billy Drummond (1959-, drums), live, New York (The Stone), 8/11/22
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like nobody else
Sun Ra (1914-1993, Fender Rhodes electric piano), live (“Love in Outer Space,” “Haverford Impromptu #1,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” “St. Louis Blues,” “Space is the Place / Over the Rainbow,” “Haverford Impromptu #2”), followed by Walt Dickerson (1928-2008, vibraphone), Haverford College (Pennsylvania), 1980
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James Brandon Lewis Trio (JBL [1983-, tenor saxophone, composition], et al.), “Raise Up Off Me,” live, New York, 3/9/22
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I’m not lonely
because I have secrets;I’m lonely because words
can’t bring the past
into the present(which amounts to the same thing)
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Pretty Little” (Conjure, 2020)
what’s new
James Brandon Lewis (1983-, tenor saxophone, composition), “Fear Not” (feat. The Messthetics), published 7/26/22
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